Posted on 10/12/2011 12:37:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Businessman Herman Cain has risen to the top of a national poll of Republican primary voters, upending the GOP field yet again this cycle.
Cain has the support of 30 percent of Republicans in the Public Policy Polling survey, trailed by Mitt Romney at 22 percent, Newt Gingrich at 15 percent, and Rick Perry at 14 percent. Cain is also the second choice of 24 percent of those polled — the highest of any candidate.
In a two-person race, Romney would lead Perry 48-38, Cain would lead Romney 48-36, and Cain would destroy Perry 55-27.
The poll was conducted before last night's Washington Post-Bloomberg debate, in which Cain alienated some members of the tea party (his largest constituency) by saying he admired Alan Greenspan's leadership of the Federal Reserve.
PPP has a checkered history with polling — and this poll has a VERY large 4.5 percent margin of error — so don't read too much into this just yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
> The idea of Cain debating Obama and Gingrich debating Biden
> makes me want to throw a party. Can you imagine? They’d be
> LEGENDARY.
Except that when it comes to global warming, Newt and Biden are on the same page.
Somebody needs to cue up that TV ad of Newtie and Nancy Pelosi together on the loveseat telling us that global warming is our fault and that we should support [expensive boondoggle] programs to mitigate it.
Sounds like a particular Paulbot multiple retread to me.
The Establishment Republicans have decided to ram Romney down our throats, though. Even though we DESPISE him!
God help us.
Agree! And I might add that we were told on another thread yesterday that Cain’s “expertise” was delivering pizzas! These people are positively ignorant and disingenuous. At best.
I should have put the sarcasm tag on my post although I believed it was obvious....
So I will continue in that vein....
I heard from the left that he was an Uncle Tom....thank goodness he wasn’t one of those negroes....LOL
I love The Herminator!
Again, very well said. I do hope America is up to the challenge - but celebrating American principles has been replaced with America-bashing in many schools.
I remember some things my great and and uncle told me. They always seemed very demanding, and seemed to think I was somewhat “soft” and “frivolous.” As I grew, I did come to understand them more. And I certainly can appreciate their character and opinions today!
Sales tax works best with no exemptions at all. If you exempt food and gas, what happens is that this distorts the market in favor of both. Demand for food and gas is inelastic. Decreasing the price won’t have the concamitant increase in demand. Producers will shift to food and gas until there is an oversupply.
I like HC as a person...but not a fan of his “9-9-9” plan so far, (not enough detail here: http://www.hermancain.com/999plan ) He wants to move to the “Fair” Tax after 9-9-9, and I am definitely not a fan of that!!
Cain could move to Missouri or Newt could move to say California...ahhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaahaha
Newt is the MAN...would prefer a Newt/Cain ticket
Except that when it comes to global warming, Newt and Biden are on the same page.
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Unfortunately true.
But somehow I believe that Newt can be turned on this issue with something like this:
“The more I learn about this supposed consensus the more I’ve come to believe that the whole AGW theory is so full of holes that it would be more than foolish to use it as a basis for making expensive and risky policy decisions” .
Newt could sell that and just move on from there.
I pray that you are right.
I never listened to Chris "Crispy Creme" Christie in the first place!!!
Cain has a mile-long list of credentials, education that can be verified as opposed to Obama’s, and tons of high-level corporate experience.
And Obama’s experience was... hmmm... let me see. NOTHING. He never even ran a lemonade stand, and most likely never did an honest day’s work in his life.
Your ignorance is... actually quite shameful.
If elected, Cain will be one of the most accomplished men to ever assume the office of President. In my opinion, serving in the U.S. Congress or Senate is not good preparation to hold the office of U.S. President. I agree with the Founding Fathers that public office should be a temporary duty performed by a citizen, serving the people. Not made into a career in which you end up serving only yourself and your cronies. This is why we are dealing with so much corruption and this is why so many people are disgusted with politicians in general.
Whoo-hoo! The RINOS and DEMOCRATS can’t put Romney over the top!
“I agree with the Founding Fathers that public office should be a temporary duty performed by a citizen, serving the people. Not made into a career in which you end up serving only yourself and your cronies.”
Maybe term limits will be in our not-too-distant future. How great would THAT be?
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