For Obama to be reelected the Republic must have already fallen. If he is reelected having the house and senate won’t matter. Those elected will start looking to their and their families survival. They’ll get a minimal heads up that the economy is going to burn down to the ground. Of course by then we’ll already be in the hills or the streets.

McCain wouldn’t have scared us into action as Obama has. Long run better for us or at least a draw. The left is now toast even if they win in the short run “other peoples money is gone”. Just imagine if there hadn’t been a crash and McCain had won. We’d have the same immigration fight as in 06 and 07 because some pubs just wouldn’t buck a Republican president.
Do you think Mike Lee would be in the senate or Ohio would have a Republican Governor? I seriously doubt NC would have a both house republican majority for the first time in one hundred years. Just imagine if there had been no crash or recession and Obama won. Or say a 2014 mild recession under a McCain presidency and Obama won then. Imagine how much damage he could do if the economy weren’t in the toilet and most weren’t paying attention.

 We tend to think Obama has come to destroy us and to be sure he would if he could. He thinks he was sent to lead the Bolsheviks to their promised land. Rather consider the possibility he was sent here to destroy the left.

For what it is worth….I would like to see Gingrich get the nomination. He is a brilliant man with a load of ideas and the experience to work in Washington. 

Why you’re welcome Steve. Ain’t it cool how I cleverly insinuated myself into the Perry campaign and and manipulated him into making a complete idiot of himself in the debates? The poor chump never knew what hit him. Mwahahahahaaaaaaaaa

I think Cain would be magnificent against Obama.  It would be awesome to watch. 

It wouldn’t be the first time Cain beat a cancer.

As I wrote the other day “Perry needs to fend off the others while whittling down Romney. All the other candidates are competing with Perry for some element of their own natural constituencies.”

He’s not going to knock Mitt out in a debate. Romney’s had his sights on this for five years and he’s got money, even if he drops to 3rd or 4Th he’ll hang in there. Perry can’t defend his right and go after the guy on his left a the same time. Trying to take out Mitt while Santorum and Bachmann give him the business got him that quiet spoken Gentleman in his spot. To be fair to Cain Perry’s done himself much harm. Bachmann hurt him a little with the gardasil thing, not as much as she hurt herself. Going all dreamy acty on us hurt Perry even more, perhaps fatally.

Team Mittens might figure that, in the absence of Perry (or Palin), he’ll own the voters who pay very little attention to the race until five days before the primary. For that reason, they probably aren’t that worried about this straw poll.

Also, Team Mittens is probably not YET worried about Cain, but Cain has plenty of time to build name recognition, etc.    

It depends on the state. The electoral college system allows individual voters in non-battleground states a modest amount of leeway for conscience.

Stacy threw his vote away in a state that was going for Obama regardless.  And Stacy was wrong for doing that.

No he wasn’t. If the state was going for Obama regardless, why should Stacy throw his vote away to support a ticket he didn’t believe in?

It’s different in a state that’s “in play,” but even then nobody is “wrong” for voting according to their own conscience. It’s just that in a battleground state the consequence of letting the worst ticket win would — and should — weigh on the voter’s conscience too.

But that’s an unusual case in most elections — especially those in which there is simply no best ticket, only a least bad ticket.

Wow; Perry says we got no heart now a cainiac says we got no souls. Well by God you’ll not get my liver. (not that you’d want it)

It was a valid poll, because it showed his favorability in most states stunk to high heaven. It showed a lot of things, for example that Obama was more than likely destined to lose Indiana and North Carolina, and probably Virginia, three states he had pulled away from the GOP camp the last time. It also showed that his favorability was down in Connecticut and, believe it or not, Oregon, to down below fifty percent. So Georgia is not that much of a stretch when you factor in the large black population there, and especially in the Atlanta metro area.

Or, in the immortal words of Howard Dean-

HEEEEE-YAAAWWWW!!

If you don’t love Palin you have no liver!

Now is the time to have our last stand with the Left if we hope to avoid the break-up of The United States, if we hope to avoid violence.  Therefore, Romney must never get the nomination and, if he does, we must not support him.  This is our last chance.  President Romney would only encourage the GOP Establishment in the House and Senate — they must be overthrown and the only way to do that is with the help of a conservative in The White House.

Dude! Wtf is wrong with you guys??? Cain worked for the fed reserve! We dont want more of the same shit! We dont need more kissing ass of bankers! Vote Ron Paul, not this Fed knucklehead!

Shelli  and PaganTemple are absolutely right that we can’t stay home or not vote if our preferred candidate isn’t the nominee.  That’s about the only way the Donks can see to get BHO re-elected ’cause his record sure isn’t going to do that for him.  And if he gets another four years of “fundamental transformation” we are completely toast.

That said, government isn’t business and it doesn’t and won’t work the same way.  You’re right that business people get to work and do what needs to be done.  But the reason they do is that if they don’t, their competitors will eat their lunch and the company will shut down.  Government isn’t like that – it has no competition and never goes out of business no matter how poorly it performs.  Also, being president isn’t like being the boss (or king).  In our system, the president can’t just give orders and make things happen but needs to work with Congress and with or sometimes around the bureaucracy to get things done.  I do think business experience is valuable for a president but we need to understand that government is a different environment and will require some different skills.