Just another example of why we need a conservative party after November 2012. The republicans can’t even tell who their enemies are. Conservatives for Cthulhu know who the enemy is.

Tumelty forgot her Preparation H.

Cain was not as effective as some people are suggesting.  He didn’t have good answers to the the legitimate critiques of the 9-9-9 plan.  But I definitely haven’t written him off yet. 

Perry staunched the bleeding, and Gingrich continues to impress.  Content-wise Santorum was excellent, but he comes across as a petulant jerk.

As for the rest?  Who cares, they all suck in varying ways.

Why wasn’t this televised over any of the major media outlets? I guess you might call that question rhetorical, and here’s the answer.

The media and political elites have collectively decided Romney is going to be the nominee. Therefore, why give anybody else a chance to disrupt their game plan?

I’ve almost decided on Gingrich. I don’t think he’d take any crap from the Democrats, I don’t really like 9-9-9, Santorum is just too stiff, Romney no, Huntsman no, Paul no, Johnson no. Bachmann is my second choice.

So how’s about a Gingrich-Bachmann ticket?

But….correct me if I’m wrong….I’m under the impression that Cain’s plan does not include any “prebates.” I’ll admit that prebates could be a work-around for some of the problems I’m raising, but they also seem to raise a whole other set of problems.

I think I summed it up here:

@brianhenchey

This debate changed absolutely nothing other than we know that BloombergTV absolutely sucks. #EconDebate #GOPdebate

http://twitter.com/BrianHenchey

PS.  The viewing options were listed here:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/debates/about/watch.html

I would respect the GOP candidate who challenged the questioners for being biased, refused to answer an unfair question, and questioned why liberals always get to do GOP debates.  Barack Obama and the Democrats would never ever ever agree to GOP questioners.  Not ever.  Well maybe Huntsman, but that’s my point.   

Scozzafava. 

No. 

But I am starting to think we might get stuck with Obama again. 

I’ve almost decided on Gingrich. I don’t think he’d take any crap from the Democrats

Where were you when he was Speaker? He was all right for the first year or so, but then he got seduced.

Send him back to D.C. with a four-year contract and he’ll be re-seduced before he even takes office. NJNBHN.

That is correct, Joe.

The 9-9-9 plan provides a tax cut for taxpayers and a very modest increase for non-taxpayers.

I think the best strategy for Cain is to deflect the question if he is asked about Seniors (transition to the broader theme of the 9-9-9 plan)  during the Primaries and then open the plan up to minor modification during the General election.

I do not have problem with Seniors paying 9% on new purchases.  Their effective rate would not be 9% given that they could avoid that tax buying used goods.  It is a very modest tax, and a responsible one given how out of control things have gotten.  Additionally, if those Seniors are relying on Social Security, then their monies are already coming from the government so the taxation of the spending of those dollars is a wash as SS benefits would simply compensate for that tax.

I also believe it is time to cut down the field.  Paul, Huntsman, Bachmann, and Santorum serve no further purpose being there.  They are obviously not going to catch on.   It just takes time from the potential nominees (and Gingrich, who I’d leave in due to his serious contributions to the debates and the fact he’s at least slowly rising in polls).

Cain is done. His 9% National Sales Tax is stupid. The 9-9-9 Plan is a piece of garbage and Santorum was right to smack him down. Santorum and Newt are the best of the declared candidates. I wish Palin would reconsider. Cain will never get my support. He defended Greenspan and lied to Ron Paul on the Fed.

 Linked here:
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2011/10/im-getting-root-canal-hooray.html
I’m pissed that it wasn’t on TV where everyone could watch. My computer balks at streaming video.

Santorum comes across as too negative and uptight. There’s probably nothing he can do about that, its just who he is, but the country is looking for somebody that can offer than hope, and that’s why Cain is doing so well.  Perry is careening towards rock bottom for a different reason. He comes across as a country bumpkin, and the country is looking for somebody that can say shit without having a mouthful of it. That’s why I’m starting to like the Gingrich. He’s upbeat and positive about the way he tells the Democrats and the MSM to kiss his ass, and yet tells them so firmly and in no uncertain terms. He also points out things, and I mean really important shit, that nobody else even touches, such as the old Bolshevik networks in the nation’s universities and how that whole rotten system needs to be reformed. Plus, he has the depth and breath of experience nobody up there has. Plus, he’s positive and optimistic about what needs to be done and where he wants to take the country.

Granted, he’s got some things he needs to work out, explain, and make up for. The Dede Scozzafava endorsement for one, the brief fling with Pelosi over the AGCC thing for another, over which he definitely needs to issue a very sternly worded, no-holds-barred reversal.

But let’s face it, he’s got one great big thing going in his favor that almost makes up and then some for all his fault. And that is he can legitimately claim, at at minimum as much credit for the “Clinton economy” as Clinton can. He  ought to be more forceful about taking the credit for that, because it stands in marked contrast to what’s going on now.

Regarding the whole sales tax thing, gentlemen: if it were to pass, the black market would thrive.  I don’t think it proper that we penalize people for consuming.  The best tax is a straight-up, no chaser, flat tax where every adult is taxed the same amount [not percentage], like a membership fee.

Ahh…an appearance by a Ron Paul bot.

News flash! Your crazy leader will never be President or even influence the debate.

They pay sales tax now, most places.  As far as CA goes, as a resident, a 20% sales tax might be the goad needed to get these peons off their asses and voting for real change in this state.

The worse, the better!

Sometimes that’s what it takes.  Think what would have happened if Stacy’s grumpy cousin got elected.  Would there have been a TEA Party?  Would serious discussion of repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments be ongoing?