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If at first you don’t succeed…skip the rest of the GOP debates!
That seemed to be Rick Perry’s plan earlier this week. After numerous lackluster performances – credited for putting him behind Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in recent polls – the Texas governor’s campaign wasn’t committing to any more dates.
Now, they’ve changed their tune.
We’ll look at each debate and make an appropriate decision.”
If debates are Perry’s weakness, will he be able to win against an orator like President Obama?
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The Perfect Conservative: Herman Cain or Jesus Christ?
by Usonian 
2012 Candiate Profile, News
We’ve been writing a lot about Herman Cain lately, since he’s pulled ahead of Romney in the polls. As such, we’ve officially arrived at the point in the race when the conversation turns to things the candidates wish they’d never said or written.
One such regrettable comment could be Mr. Cain’s Christmas message from 2010.
Along with the standard season’s greetings, Cain included such gems as:
He helped the poor without one government program. He healed the sick without a government health care system. He feed the hungry without food stamps.
NPR points out that, sure, the modern welfare state didn’t arrive until almost two thousand years after Jesus, but we shouldn’t let that get in the way of an argument that one RedState commenter said: “reeks of political opportunism more than piety.”
Other commentators are scratching their heads over this excerpt from Cain’s speech:
He didn’t have a lawyer, nor did He care about who judged Him.
His judge was a higher power.The liberal court found Him guilty of false offences and sentenced Him to death, all because He changed the hearts and minds of men with an army of 12.
Any ideas about what made it a “liberal” court?
At any rate, we’re not sure what good is accomplished by fighting over what Jesus’s party affiliation would be today–apart from misguided political support and totally cool religious revivals, of course.
But, if we’re playing that game… we’ll play devil’s advocate, so to speak, and quote a classic from Mark’s gospel:
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is[b] to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
So what do you think–was Jesus Christ “the perfect conservative”? Was Cain just spreading Christmas cheer? Or was he perhaps spreading something else?
From Pepperoni Pizza to possible President?
That’s what Republican businessman Herman Cain would like to do.
Cain, who has never held an elected office, has been taking on the GOP political class and doing far better than anyone expected.
While he did once serve a term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, he’s best known as the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. The rest of the GOP lineup includes four governors, one former senator, and three members of the House of Representatives (including one former speaker).
Cain, much like former Governors Gary Johnson and Jon Huntsman, was not a household name before campaign season began. And yet, he won the recent straw poll in Orlando. Big time.
National Review, a conservative magazine, was quick to observe that past winners of this straw poll have gone on to clinch the GOP nomination.
But Why is Herman Cain doing so well? How is it possible that the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza trounced both former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Governor Rick Perry?
Is it his casual Muslim-bashing? For example,
“I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.”
Maybe it’s his “9-9-9″ economic plan, which sounds an awful lot like a carryover from his pizza days, and about which one observer remarked,
“Everything he’s talking about is if you just provide tax cuts to rich people we will all fare well… But hasn’t that been the theme for 30 years and doesn’t everybody agree that the middle class does not fare well? This is a triumph of amnesia.”
Who is Herman Cain? Plain-talking outsider? Defender against the imposition of Sharia law on American soil? Presidential material?
