Posted on 11/15/2011 7:43:28 PM PST by TBBT
This might be the ultimate Cain clip, just because his response is the perfect synthesis of his good and bad attributes. On the one hand, he’s not going to pander with a slick answer designed to reassure some reporter. He’s doing this the Cain way. If you don’t like his response, keep walking. On the other hand: What?
He clarified the Libya answer a few hours ago:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
“Don’t forget they crucified GW when he paused to digest that news he had just received in that classroom about the attacks on 9/11. So what Cain is doing is minor”
You can’t be serious to compare these two events.
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Mr. Cain???? is that you?????
So Herman had a little momentary brain freeze. Not a big deal. It happens to everyone.
Look; just tell us who you like, then we will understand.
krauthammer is a belt way elite. I wouldn’t vote for any one he recommended any more than I would have voted bobby kennedy.
Charles needs to just shut up and go away.
I have been following this conversation; so to you TBBT and to annieokie. My daddy taught me never to argue with idiots, they just drag you down to their level and will all ways beat you with experience.
Really..
A President is notified that the United States has been attacked versus a presidential candidate not being able to answer a question about Libya? How is that comparative?
I like Mr. Cain, but he had a bad moment.
Herman Cain needs to give a long, serious, well-prepared foreign policy speech — soon.
I don’t think it was that awful. This wasn’t a debate. It was a more casual roundtable conversational style press conference. He was right, too. Obama aided a bunch of rebels who will likely cause us more harm. I think Cain was maybe a little too comfortable with those reporters, and he wasn’t at his best at all.
I’m just a citizen, not part of any political campaign in my life.
God Bless you 5th, and thank you for your service to our nation.
IMHO...
My preference is Mr. Cain as he is the most conservative and the most outside-of-politics of the top 4 (Cain, Gingrich, Paul, Mittens).
Gingrich supporters here, like me, try to help out their candidate. I - like most conservatives, IMHO - would vote for Cain, Gingrich or Paul over Obama, so I don’t verbally thrash any of those three here, as they may wind up being the candidate that I want to win. Some of the Gingrich supporters here have gone negative on Cain; evidently they mistakenly believe that it is the way to help Gingrich.
Gingrich is a Washington insider - but at least he often comes across as a very hawkish, conservative one, even if he has negotiated at times in ways which can only elicit the response of placing one’s face in one’s palm. But we “deal with it”, because we have no illusions about Washington, DC; deals have to be made. The only concerns I have (like many conservatives do) with his career are all related to his being a big-time politician. There’s no doubt he would be wildly successful against Obama in debates. The downside for him versus Obama in the general election is that Dems have the parts of his political history that rattle some conservatives and other parts that rally the far left ballot box stuffing machine. Herman, on the other hand, is someone who the left has already proven that all they have to bring against him are false allegations.
I see it as simply a sign of the times; those Americans who pay the bills are about done with professional politicians and with lobbies. But there is no real way to get rid of them. All that can be done is the desperate act of electing outsiders to Congress and the Presidency, then getting all over them like white on rice once they’re in office.
Newt is about to start facing the onslaught from the left designed to knock him out of the primary, where Cain will continue to build support from here since the lies they threw at him just bounced off. Newt will have the boost that the Republican establishment will support him somewhat. When it comes down to Romney versus one of the other three in the next few months - all the support of all other candidates will coelsce around the survivor of all the non-Romneys. And Mittens will remain with the 22% who have supported him all along.
America is, I believe, desperate for outsiders at this time.
Exactly, Cain has solid judgement and that his major strength.
Nobody can deny Newt is great at debate, but that’s because he is a career politician, and as any good career politician is capable of talking crap and making it smell like bacon, I don’t give much credence to it.
The notion every candidate has a solid grasp over every issue is simply laughable.
He needs to improve but time is on his side and hopefully those millions of dollars are going into more than just buying votes.
If you recall both men were ridiculed and crucified for the delay they took in responding to their respective situations. In each case it was the lag in response that the media and others focused on
If you don’t see the difference...then there is no way to make you understand, imho.
But that is o.k. feel what you must.
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