[demkicker]

Cain is fresh,charismatic and grass roots conservative while Newt is a freaking genius with lots and lots of baggage. According to the Buckley rule it would have to be Cain/Gingrich.

I disagree. Everyone already knows Newt's baggage. Granted, the media will try to rehash his mistakes but everyone will be sick of the piling on and bringing up old news. After all, Newt doesn't have a blue dress hidden somewhere or it would have already been used to drag him through the mud.

[usconservative]

Everyone already knows Newt's baggage.

Correct. Everyone also knows Obama's baggage, and there simply isn't any valid comparison between the two. Obama's baggage includes:

- Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dorn the Weather Underground terrorists who held Obama's very first Fundraising campaign for the U.S. Senate in their home;

- Jeremia Wright, the "God Damn' America" Pastor who was like an "uncle" to Barack Obama for 22 years as Obama sat in his church week in and week out;

- ACORN, which Obama was a community organizer for helping them steal elections;

- As a "community activist" in Chicago Obama led the effort to due Banks, demanding they provide home mortgage loans to no-income/low income individuals who couldn't verify their income, and who's actions led to the housing bubble/burst that's caused untold financial damage in this country;

- No verifiable college records or grades from either Occidental or the ivy league school he attended;

- No legal opinions to review;

- A long, storied history of voting "Present" in the Illinois State Legislature as well as the U.S. Senate;

- Supports partial birth abortion, as demonstrated by his ONE VOTE in the Illinois State Legislature where he voted IN FAVOR of a bill allowing this heinous procedure up to the day a child was born;

- Solyndra;

- Obama's continued REFUSAL to allow America to drill our own oil or natural gas reserves;

- Obama's support for the EPA naming CO2 a "hazardous gas" and regulating industry and industry out of existence as a result;

- Fast 'n Furious, which has resulted in the deaths of American Border Patrol agents and dozens if not hundreds of Mexican national's on their own soil;

- Obama's complete incompetence in dealing with Iran, enabling them to develop nuclear weapons;

- Obama's complete incompetence in dealing with the economy, racking up more national debt from $9.2T when he first took office to $15T as of today);

- Government bailouts of Unions by seizing control of GM and Chrysler and illegally screwing bond and debt holders of these two companies out of their rights to recover debt in favor of the UAW;

- $850B in blown "stimulus" spending which hasn't created a single job and no one knows where all the money went;

- Dodd/Frank becoming law, which ultimately hurts CONSUMERS by further restricting credit and capital at a time when our economy desperately needs both to grow;

- I can go on, and on, and on.

Compared to this baggage, Newt's two "ugly" divorces seem pale by comparison. This "President" has been the worst EVER, supplanting even Jimmy "Liver Pills" Carter as #1 on the list.

Somewhere we all just know Jimmy Carter is smiling at the fact he's been replaced as Worst. President. Ever.

[Happy Rain]

Newt and Pelosi on the couch seeking unity on combating man caused global warming...

Heard of “optics” FRiend?

Newt is going nowhere without Cain—who has no such optic-AND BOTH HERMAN AND NEWT KNOW IT.

We need Newt to help Cain navigate the DC BS after his inauguration because of his Inside The Beltway experience.
Cain can take it from there and then we will be saved.

[COBOL2Java]

Everyone already knows Newt's baggage. Granted, the media will try to rehash his mistakes but everyone will be sick of the piling on and bringing up old news.

Interesting point: Politico's maneuver against Cain this week may have actually helped Newt. When they dig up this stuff, enough of the populace may respond "What?? This kind of mudslinging, again? Enough!"