I'd like to address your statement that Perry supporters are becoming his worst enemy.
I began reading this thread about the SC poll. Within a few posts, I see a sarcastic message that shows Perry crashing in a series of "rocket explosion" pictures. Followed by several people cheering and laughing about it.
As a Perry supporter, that offended me and I reacted to it. Admittedly, with bad language, and the moderator removed my post.
Then you asked me why I wouldn't be happy if Romney won with Cain as his V.P.
Followed by Perry supporters are his worst enemy. I guess its ok to make sarcastic attacks on Perry's campaign, but his supporters should sit back and be quiet? And if we speak up in his defense, we're the mean ones?
Please.
“Then you asked me why I wouldn’t be happy if Romney won with Cain as his V.P. “
I was only wondering why it would be different than McCain/Palin. We were all pretty happy about that. It was a legitimate question.
Did I say that I’d be alright with it? Nope. Never. I was just wondering what we’d do if we found ourselves in such an unlikely quandary.
I was addressing an issue that Perry supporters continue to raise - over and over and over again - with a question of my own.
So now I ask you this, why do Perry supporters hate Cain so much?
As I see it, all of the vitriol came when Cain started surging. The main argument isn’t that Cain isn’t a true conservative or that he doesn’t embody conservative ideals...
It’s that they believe that only Perry can beat Romney. That he’s our only hope.
As Cain surges in the polls and begins to overtake Romney, why aren’t Perry supporters at least happy that Romney can still go down? Cain is doing at least as well as Perry did against Romney a month ago.
To answer your charge that Cain supporters are being mean about Perry:
The reason why Cain supporters are so mad is that Perry supporters have been a pain in the butt for almost two months now. I’ve been a FReeper for nearly 12 years and I’ve never been slammed as a RINO, a Paulbot, stupid, etc like I have when I tried to raise legitimate concerns about Perry. I live in Texas and this guy has been a personal thorn in my side for years.
You ask why we gloat? Well, your group has been viscous for months and many of us are getting sick of it. The few who actually were willing to discuss the issues with me in a rational way were actually scoring points in my mind and I was starting to look at Perry with an open mind. Not convinced, but not hating quite so hard. I was starting to see him as a lesser evil than Romney. (That was a big step for me)
But about three weeks ago, the nastiness, name-calling and word twisting started and I am now shut down. I have no reason to fight my own conscience to find a way to be alright with Perry.
I now have a candidate that agrees with 90% of my own values. I’m tired of being called names and attacked. I’m not listening any more, Perry-people.
I didn’t like Perry because of his stance on immigration. That was prior to the debates that have taken place. Until the debates I was open to changing my mind. However, it was clear to me, in the debates, that the community organizer Kenyan thug would chew him up and spit him out. I can assure you the candidate that Barry Soetoro would least like to debate is Herman Cain. That is his worst nightmare. Cain will go after the Kenyan and he knows it.
A debate with Romney would be useless. Barry and Mitt would just sit there and agree with each other, they are too much alike. It’s clear the GOP establishment has chosen Romney. The question is, will the people tell them to go to hell in the primaries or will they follow the party’s choice. They chose McCain for us and we all see how well that worked out. It gave us a halfrican, Marxist, Muzzie, Chicago community organizer, homo, thug.