Plantation Boss Liberals’ Response Seems Less Than Pleased
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According to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released tonight, Herman Cain now leads the GOP field with a 27% share of the vote, with Governor Mitt Romney pulling second at 23% , and helmet headed Rick Perry falling from 38% last month in the same poll to 16% in this latest effort.
I would say that Perry turkey is cooked, and its time to move on to the only man with a computer science degree and an MBA in the field. A man with a plan (no matter how flawed) to limit the claims of the federal government on the capitalist incentive system that made this country great. A man who has worked his whole life — in every trade from digging ditches to running multimillion dollar revenue companies.
And maybe most important, Herman Cain is comfortable in his own skin — without having to repair to it as his designated aegis or truncheon. What a refreshing concept! Good luck Hermanator!
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And please, just stop with the Mitt Romney stuff already. He’s the establishment candidate in the best traditions of other past fatted calf candidates, like Bob Dole and John McCain. While I have great respect for Mitt’s operational background and vast business success, I cannot vote (in the primaries at least) for a guy who continues to back his moves in creating Romneycare, along with all the baggage attendant in that decision.
The voting public hungers for a conservative once again. Herman Cain is thus far the only conservative candidate with the personality, wits and contacts to win the long race to the White House.
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I did get rid of the bulk of my QLD today, as reported in The PPT, but did little else. I had a rather mammoth order in all day for rare metal play QRM, but to no avail. Luckily I already own a small horde of the name, but I was looking to add on a pullback today, to no avail. I believe it ended up over 14% for the day. I will continue my intense observations.
I continue to stalk select names in the rare earth (AVL) and precious metal field (SLW, AG, EXK, RGLD, ANV), even as this rally gets long in the tooth. In the meantime I am also selling down some winners. Not just QLD, but ARO and some other names that have gathered some moss.
Best to you all and to this blessed and still great country. May she choose wisely.
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Axleshaft said Mitt was most likely the target for Dems.<—another fail
9-9-9 is a starting point…need to tone that last 9 down to 4 or 5 as State tax will be added on and thats just too much for avg and lesser to handle at the register.
15% corporate is still a low rate…12- 13% better still
Agreed that 9-9-9 may be unworkable given current Constitutional restrictions.
One thing he’d have to make sure is that it couldn’t morph to 27-27-27 given a re-ascendance of Plastic Woman and Socialist Boy.
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still waiting on the UPS front?
It’s above the 200 day EMA for the first time in a while, but a little OB here… I will observe.
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Reasonable gentleman can disagree JIG (no Romney – hehe).
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Nice $QLD trade, I’ve been watching with respect, as I’m still in “lock in” mode (neither profit taken / cut loss).
Perry is head and shoulders the only one who will survive the nomination
I forgot to properly attribute the quote:
JakeGint says:
August 16, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Of course Mitt is a total Northeastern Republican RINO.
This is why the brain-washed Monsier Le Doctuer finds him acceptable. He’s a smidge better than McCain, politically, but way smarter and a good businessman.
I would hold my nose and vote for him, despite Obomneycare, (a feature, not a bug for Le Monsieur).
Perry is head and shoulders the only one who will survive the nomination, however.
So solly.
Could still be true, despite Perry’s multiple gaffes.
He’s raised an enormous amount of money, for instance, and we know how much that type of ammunition worked for a wholly empty vessel (no Soros) in his road to the Presidency.
Herminator will have his own sources of cash course, and will have access to more, given he brings the added bonus of prompting Plantation Liberal Massahs like you to start throwing N-bombs around to make sure that uppity feller knows “his place.”
Happy, happy, Joy, joy.
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Eventually, the GOP primary voters will realize that Cain isn’t serious about running for President.
That will bring them back to the Perry-or-Romney dilemma.
Wrap that skull tight. It’s gonna be a rough 13 months.
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“The pizza and rent are too damn high.”
Maybe 0Bama will take that guy on as his new Veep?
He’s gotta have twice the wattage of Plugs Biden.
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His ideas may not be perfect, but they are not convoluted. People who don’t put a lot of time into politics ( sorry to say your truly ) will be able to understand what he’s saying. Of course, Hitler had a similar appeal. However, thus far, I seem to like him.
Read Michael Lewis’s latest book Boomerang and you get to see how incompetent governments are.
No disrespect to the entertaining Mr. Lewis, but Gretchen Morgenson’s Reckless Endangerment is one of the most important books published on the corrupt marriage between Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and the U.S. Congress.
That Barney Frank and Chris Dodd got to write new regulations following that railroaded fiasco is akin to Bernie Madoff being given the reigns at the Federal Reserve.*
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*(He’d be a much better fit at Social Security!)
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Yeah, Dubya also had an MBA and look where that got us!
The worst thing Dubya “got us” was 0bama. Of course, it was Dodd-Frank-Pelosi-Reid that really engineered that.
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I’d say two wars, trillion$ wasted and Afgan “officials” carting duffle bags of our cash to Swiss bank accounts makes us pretty much “gotten”! All that money would pay for everything we’re all arguing over.
No, it wouldn’t. We’ve a $70+trillion unfunded liability that people don’t even want to talk about right now.
Dubya tried, and it lost him the Congress.
America does need to get out of the ME as soon as possible, but even more so, America need to grow up.
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The fact that Mitt is the “establishment candidate in the best traditions of other past fatted calf candidates, like Bob Dole and John McCain” is exactly why he will win the GOP nomination. That and the fact that he looks a lot like most GOP voters.
LOL. I wish I looked as good as Mitt, at any age.
Must be that clean living. But Mitt has three big problems:
1) Obomneycare — right now, the “field” has loosened up on him and trained its sites on Cain, but the fact is Obama consulted with Romney aides in designing Obamacare! Can you imagine THAT ad? Yikes.
2) Rush and Levin can’t stand him. This is consistent with those talkers’ liberty-first anti-RINO stances… they both hated McCain too, but a lot of folks say it was these two’s hostility that killed Guiliani’s bid. That said, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved like Romney (they are Establishment guys, of course).
3) The Mormon problem. There’s no getting around the fact that Christian social conservatives make up a large chunk of the GOP primary base. They are going to have a hard time swallowing a Friend of Moroni as their candidate. This is especially true when they’ve got Cain/Perry/Bachmann Turner Overdrive as alternatives. Even the Catholic Santorum is preferable in some circles.
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I agree entirely.. the establishment, career politicians will entirely preclude the use of logic in this nomination process. Cain should indeed be the nominee and would be an excellent choice to run against the incumbent.
Imagine someone leading the lower echelons out of the proverbial ‘poverty trap’ and environs of our convoluted welfare state. I do fear, however, that if nominated.. Romney and/or Perry usher in the way for four more years.
Putrid dogma.
care to elaborate , cretin?
Banal. Regurgitation. Machiavellian.
Naive. Incompetent. Sarcastic.
Let me no if you are intent on more oversight.
Until then, I’ll just have to look forward to your pejorative ad hominums, … (btw: are you old enough to vote?).
wt… “know” (l-3).
sigh…I’d spend the time to respond if you even knew what the words you use meant.. out of tense, out of context…Your pseudo-intellectual drivel is tiresome and nonsensical… although I guess I should marvel at your spelling ability :).. clueless little degenerate fuck lol.. alas…I guess I should give you a gold star for recognizing the tell-tale sign of an imbecile.. no/know.. Good to know redistributive taxes go to educating simpletons like you..
Got to love the 9-9-9 plan — 2 medium pizzas, 2 medium drinks $9.99
Did that problem move to your face?
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I really hope Cain burns Perry, and a candidate with minimal chance at this point like Paul cracks the joke “I think I read about this once, this is the part where God asks Cain where Perry went and Cain says “am I my brother’s keeper?”
(pause)…Oh, sorry, Mitt you might not have gotten that, that’s a passage from the Bible, you should read it sometime.
He would be able to rip on Romney, and Perry all in one swift move, half rip Cain for his name but at the same time appear friendly as if complimenting what a nice burn he made. Plus Paul is really too old to run in 2016 or to really care about what the effects will be.
More importantly it would be hilarious.
One problem — Cain was the Bible’s first murderer.
He may not wish to take on that weight for a jest.
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It wouldn’t be coordinated and Cain wouldn’t know about it, but if he comes up with some real witty remark that gets back at someone else in the debates, what better opportunity to say something like that if You’re Ron Paul. I know it would sort of burn Cain too, but not as much as the other two, and if Cain says any remark that shuts down any competitor with his wit, it would be a good out of nowhere indirect ad hoc attack on Cain but mostly on the others. People don’t vote because of ideas ultimately, it’s all about how you sound, and how bad you can make the other guy look. If someone wants a chance, they have to associate cain with a murder, Perry as someone who just got killed by said murderer dead in his tracks, Romney as a 7 wife door to door I’m a morman commercial. And appear as the White Knight Fighting against them all. It’s a cheap trick, but many americans fall for such cheap tricks, if you don’t believe me, talk to people in the ad agency. (i.e. 9-9-9)
Anyways, my point was I think at this point if you only have 11%, then it’s worth trying some kind of hail marry pass like that since it will be a good sound byte, and get a lot of attention both good and bad. If you’re younger than Paul though and plan to consider a run sometime in the future, you don’t want it to backfire because you risk never being seen as a viable candidate again. Ron Paul is older, and he’s getting to that “nothing to lose” point. This is probably the best chance he’s ever going to get, so he’s got to pull out all the hail marry passes and hope it works. Perry is in freefall and probably needs to just start agreeing with everyone hoping to be VP. Romney can still compete. Bachman can plan for 2016,2020, or perhaps a VP candidate,. Unless Cain decides to shock some people and really take away a lot of antiwar obama liberal votes and pick Paul, I don’t think Paul is going to be considered as a VP (especially after taking a few jabs at how Cain is a “insider”)
I mean, how else is Paul going to have a chance at winning… continue to eat Wheaties to stay alive and be there in 2016? I know things can change pretty quickly, but there will come a time when the pretenders that are hanging along just to be heard either should stand down, or pull out all the tricks.
Probably will be a repeat of last election though when Paul stayed until the end without pulling out any major stops.
The one issue I have is Cain, much like Obama, has no experience as a politician. Wouldn’t that be hypocritical and perhaps unwise to send a guy with minimal experience to people that are realizing it was a mistake to send an inexperienced man to the whitehouse?
Also, who do you think is the frontrunner to be Cain’s Veep? Romney, Bachman, Pawlenty, Christie, Paul, Perry? Huckabee?
“Experience as a politician” is overblown.
Remember, that was all of Obama’s experience, save for a bit of teaching cum-community organizing.
The “experience” necessary is in Executive Administration, which is why I believe only folks with Gubanatorial, Mayoral, Military (General or above), or CEO-level experience need apply for the job.
It’s just too damn complicated for an ingenue. Cain’s been involved in “politics” since at least his 1994 confrontation with Bill Clinton on health care. What appeals to me is his involvement with managing complex organizations.
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I actually like Romney as his Veep. Of course the ideal would be a Rubio or a Ryan, but that’s not happening.
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TRUMP 2012!!!
Hairpiece and shoulders above current POTUS.
As is my electronic dog, Scraps.
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Cain is the flavor of the week. Someone said that if you opened a box labeled “President” Mitt would step out. He looks like a president but nobody is clamoring to jump on his wagon and support him, so every week someone else gets fluffed up on the GOP side to see if there is any staying power. 2 months ago Jake was defending the retarded Michelle Bachman, last week it was all about Chris Christie, last month Rick Perry. Now its Cain.
Cain up.
Huntsman on deck
Paul in the hole.
Anybody but Mitt it seems.
Bottom line is Obama is going to hang the fact that the GOP will defend raising taxes on the super rich around their necks.
I “defend” Michelle Bachman for the same reason I defend Sarah Palin… because she’s vilified by statists who fear her.
That doesn’t mean I think she should be POTUS. Again, she’s got as much Exec Experience as 0bama.
Scratch her off the list, along with Sanctum Sanctorum and RuPaul.
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As for your other stuff, if you think “raising taxes” is going to fool anyone save the super-dumb, or Super-Marxist (maybe 20% of the population in total), you’re dreeaming.
Everyone with half a brain knows the Federal gov’t does not have a revenue problem, but a spending and liability problem.
The drug addict must be cut off… cold turkey.
Let the wealthy invest in the private sector, where their dollar will do far more good.
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Investing in the private sector….Is that where the wealthy invest? My brother inlaw works for a hedge fund and he’s been telling me for years that the serious money has been going to Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The “don’t tax the job creators” is nothing but a marketing slogan. Relax Jake, have a Coke and a smile.
I agree, there is a spending problem and liability problem. There’s also a revenue problem. The trillions of dollars of debt accumulating cannot be solved by cutting spending alone. Impossible. This country is in a death spiral. I’ve played penny stocks and know what a death spiral looks like. Issue more stock again and again to keep the ship afloat. Just like this country issues more debt.
This is your first introduction to the phrase “Capital is Mobile?”
Congratulations. Let me ask you a question… why is it do you think capital is looking overseas to invest?
Seriously, if you don’t study, you will never learn, and you will always come off looking like a glib asshat without much to offer.
Join the conversation. Try to understand why capital pools in the U.S. would invest in far riskier off-shore projects when Occum’s razor, not to mention typical risk aversion would naturally steer them to their own backyards.
Perhaps googling “regulator hiring boom,” or “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” or even “Dodd Frank Financial ‘Reform’.”
I’ve a number of other suggestions but maybe start there.
Capital is not stupid… it requires a return for its risk. And it will find that return in a free market, or go to ground in a un-free one. Either way, it flees statism.
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Capital has been going overseas for years because the BRICs are developing a middle class that will have purchasing power.
Millions of formerly poor Indians, Russians, Chinese, and Brazilians will soon have purchasing power thanks to rapidly developing economies that have recently embraced capitalism. Those countries also take up something like 25% of the earth’s surface and almost half of the population. It’s a huge developing new market that is attracting seed money.
To argue that money is heading there because of policies of a certain administration, Dodd Frank, or whatever is nonsense. It’s heading overseas because there’s opportunity to get in at the ground level.
You are not taking risk into account. Yes developing markets will always account for a share of global investment, but when markets are growing here — and there is robust economic growth, there will be more global investment here — in the safer, rule of law-oriented, pacific and democratic republic.
There’s no question that when there’s available return, capital will return here in a big way, just like it returns to the Treasury market in times of panic. This is where security and liquidity are in abundance.
You know how you give away your left leaning tendencies the most? You take no account of risk? This is the Achilles heel of the Liberal.
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999 is a rediculous concept and can be traced to a marketing ploy by a pizza chain. Plus Cain does not have the geo-political know-how needed in order to run the world, which is what the President does as a side job. Romney reminds me of some of the CEO’s I have met. He is even tempered, smart, capable and has a good grasp on the subject matter at hand.
Ridiculous spelling error, Colonel.
I’m not worried about Cain’s weaknesses, as they will be temporary at best. The man, who started out in computer sciences only to turn around the #2 food franchise operation in the world before going on to buyout and fix a floundering pizza chain, will not be without resources.
In that capacity, I will be more confident in his assimilation abilities than I’ve been in the last two POTUSes combined.
As for Mitt, I’ve ceded he’s a good businessman. Unfortunately, he’s also a confirmed statist.
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And Cain’s not a statist?
He is the ultimate establishment candidate, the Chairman’s stooge.
Your anonymous trolling asshat, ‘huh?’ seems to be absent today.
Odd, no?
I think he’s onto his third fifth of Woodford Reserve… being short, he’s designated today:
Black-out Thursday!
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Another reason to dislike Romney.
Stand down, asshat!
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An alternative to “9-9-9?”…
Maybe 15-15?
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Out on Twitter: I screw around having a few laughs while debaters debate.
I am listening
Cain sounds familiar…Cain’s Plan is not new in it’s entirety.
We ended up with G.S.T. (Goods and Services) or Gouge and screw as some called it. This tax was also designed to replace the “Hidden Manufacturing Taxes” consumers never saw/understood or reaped the savings from as advertised. Liberals ran a complete platform to abolish this tax if elected….never happened, 20+ years later another Conservative reduced (but not eliminated) this tax…point is?…it will never completely go away.
NOW?
We have H.S.T. (Harmonized) both Provincial and G.S.T added together…one tax 13%
Bachman was dead nuts on to the fear of this being another pipe-line of revenue increasing along the way.
Now Cain is saying some excise taxes will remain (hidden tax)…as time goes on there is a greater chance for this train to fall off the tracks
Here’s Rush’s third party opinion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ENuAQVZy8A
Right-wing members of the Harvard Law Review during Obama’s HLR presidency expose the radical prof-hugger. They were there. They will not be silenced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVs7BMA380M
Pleeeeese hide this until after the 2012 election. There have been enough killings already.