Long live the TEA party rebellion!! NO MORE RINOS!! NO ROMNEY, NO WAY!!

The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party sprang up in spontaneous rebellion to big government's big spending, big taxing ways. TARP, the bailouts, the PORKULUS package and ObamaCare lit the fuse. TEA partiers support the constitution's limited government restrictions. TEA partiers are non-partisan, i.e., we oppose the big government, big spending, big taxing moves of both the major political parties.

This is an open rebellion against business as usual big spending, overreaching government! We demand a return to constitutionally limited government!!

The socialist/progressive Democrat party is our natural enemy and they understand that and attack us accordingly.

The big government RINO socialist/progressive wing of the Republican party is also our natural enemy and they attack us accordingly. They fear us, but they NEED us. They despise us, spit on us, call us right-wing extremists and hateful bigots, but beg us for our votes. They EXPECT us to bend over in the end and willingly accept their BIG GOVERNMENT candidates and programs without any real opposition.

Oh, they may try to sugar coat it a bit, and placate us here and there with some smooth talk, and toss us a bone from time-to-time with conservative head feints, but it's clear they have no intention of ever changing their evil progressive ways.

The progressive wing of the GOP does not really comprehend that the TEA party rebellion is aimed squarely at THEM!!

They believe that we have nowhere else to go and that fear of an Obama second term will compel us to vote for a Republican version of BIG GOVERNMENT, big spending, big taxing, constitution ignoring progressive liar of a candidate.

The TEA party rebellion is made up of tens of millions of liberty-loving, patriotic citizens who are totally fed up with corrupt, lying, two-faced, smooth-talking, big government socialists, corrupt crony capitalist bastard, progressives, Marxists, etc, and it makes no difference to us which party they belong to. And we're madder than hell and loaded for bear!!

TEA party hating elite establishment, Romney, Rove & Co., had best get used to it. Your any RINO but Obama gig is up!!

The TEA party is here to stay and we're NOT going to vote for your big government, TARP pushing, PORKULUS pushing, RomneyCare pushing, gun-grabbing, abortionist, gay-rights pushing, global warming advocating, mandate-loving, anti-Reagan, anti-liberty, socialist/progressive, flavor of the day RINO, the chief architect and advocate of ObamaCare, Mitt Romney!!

I see what you are saying. It could go either way, but duly noted.

While I am leaning toward Cain, I must keep in mind that the real power in DC is not in the office, but the staff, and there is an army of professional staffers there who keep the status quo going, term in and term out.

It isn't the candidates who will ultimately wield so much power as the little kingmakers behind the scenes who will have undue influence over any person in office who is not steadfast enough to resist. Poor staff leads to poor performance at any level.

Beltway Fever isn't just passed around the cloakroom, it is endemic, and the underlings are the carriers.

The RINOs are settled in and appear to be perfectly comfortable with this, many new faces succumb fairly quickly, but for a Conservative to be successful, they are going to have to be a quick study if they have no experience, a strong person to resist 'infection', and have a clear plan they can implement without being so rigid they fail according to their plan if it isn't working.

They also can't be afraid to fire someone if it is necessary.

While I think Cain has that, I can understand the 'once burned, twice shy' attitude, too.

It is still a long way to election day.

In defense of sanity, one of the reasons I am leaning toward Cain is that he has NOT played the race card.

His lack of looking at issues as being of color, but instead just as issues, has been to his credit.

It is a certain thing that were Cain to wave the card we've seen from Obama and his ilk, a lot of us would lose respect for someone who appears to have risen through the ranks on merit, colorblind merit, the kind that would have you pick their resume out of the pile and say "I want to talk to this guy."

I own a small business, and hiring practices can break you--or make you. One bad employee can wreck you when you're small, and the bigger it gets, the more that person can damage if they are higher up the ladder.

We aren't the consumers, clients, or subjects of Government, we're the employers.

We're looking for a CEO who will fill the management positions with people who can turn this Nation around, put it back on track, clean up the fiscal end, and have it functioning again under the rules which were adopted when it was formed, as amended--or push for the amendment of those rules to make it work better, more in step with the original idea.

We don't need someone who has divisive issues, and in all honesty, I don't think Herman Cain does--and I've been watching for signs, too.

I think we've had enough of the one-sided 'rule of law' going around under the present management, and it needs to go, not just have a second round.

Now, I recall the days when it was just as scandalous for a white boy to drink from the 'colored' water fountain as vice versa. When we were kids, all we knew is that we were thirsty.

If we're going to be a colorblind society, and while I think many good people have made progress, accepting the acceptable differences and focusing on the similarities (we all want better for ourselves and our children, and we just want a chance to show what we can do), we're especially going to be sensitive to the sort of crap this administration has made policy. Even one twinkle of that broken glass will have people having second thoughts about wading in that pool.

So far, Cain has avoided the issue, focusing on problems and attempting to postulate solutions.

I like that far better than others who generally either ignore problems, or create them.

Yes he is great on EPA/Drilling stuff and other things.

All anyone needs to do is look at the economies of states which embrace oil and gas exploration versus those who do not. North Dakota, Montana, Pennsylvania, Texas, with heavy spinoffs to Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana (oilfield tool amnufacturing, rigs, drilling companies, and a lot of home offices), and it is evident where a lot of jobs are coming from, and that those paychecks support yet more jobs.

It's a no-brainer, and it keeps more American money in America with every barrel of oil and MCF of gas.

That the EPA is a job wrecker, along with other environut dominated agencies is pretty easy to figure out, too.

We should be able to find this in all the candidates, even if we don't. Something has to get the economy going, short of another world war, and the energy sector is a great place to start.

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