Barbour: I’d vote for Cain if the primary was today
posted at 5:19 pm on October 13, 2011 by Tina Korbe
Chris Christie’s endorsement not surprisingly went to Mitt Romney, but another governor who was originally urged to join the 2012 presidential race says he’d vote for Herman Cain if the primary was today:
“He is likable. He does not give you the impression that he is full of himself, but rather that he is a straight-talkin’ person who, will tell you, he calls it like he sees them. He’s not trying to sugarcoat anything and at the same time he is not trying to be shrill and a chest-beater. He is a straight-talker, and I think that makes him very, very attractive to people,” Barbour said on the Laura Ingraham Show.
Barbour also said that Cain would not have trouble in a general election against President Obama, a critique of some conservatives who don’t believe the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO would be viable in a nationwide race.
“If this election is where it ought to be, and that is a referendum on how President Obama is doing, Republicans are going to win,” Barbour said. “If Herman Cain is our nominee against Barack Obama, I think he’ll sweep the south.”
Barbour is right on the money: If the GOP can’t beat President Obama in 2012, what does that say about Republicans? It’s one thing if he wins reelection because the recovery really does take off. It’s another if Democrats message their way to a win, if they succeed in placing the blame on “Tea Party Republicans.” With the politics this president plays, a true and robust recovery is improbable but his reelection unfortunately isn’t unless the GOP fields a candidate who can keep the focus squarely on the economy and not on his own vulnerabilities as a candidate. Cain just might be the guy to do it. He definitely has the confidence for it. He told Neal Boortz just the other day he thinks he could easily mop the floor with Obama in a debate.
“Neal, it would almost be no contest,” Cain said. “I can talk about every issue two levels deep. Whether you’re talking about the economy, job creation … I can even talk about foreign policy deeper than he can. Immigration. Every issue, Neal. … He’s never been a part of the black experience in America. I can talk about that.”
Clearly, he’s not afraid to throw down the gauntlet. Straight-talker, indeed.
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morning page 5!
tom daschle concerned on January 14, 2013 at 6:41 AM
spot on once again KJ….
pathway to destruction…
i think the morning joe crew wants the gop to be moderate, forget the conservatives too extreme and out of touch apparently….
cmsinaz on January 14, 2013 at 6:46 AM
cmsinaz on January 14, 2013 at 6:46 AM
Thank you!
Judging from yesterday’s thread about Republicans, Joe has some fellow travelers…still.
kingsjester on January 14, 2013 at 6:47 AM
Typo, Mr. Jester, if you can get in to fix it: “We are all immigrants in this land, expect for American Indians…”
Don’t know how easy it is to fix, but letting you know.
urban elitist on January 14, 2013 at 6:53 AM
*sigh*
cmsinaz on January 14, 2013 at 6:54 AM
urban elitist on January 14, 2013 at 6:53 AM
Taken care of. That happens every now and then.
kingsjester on January 14, 2013 at 6:57 AM
Don’t I know it. My posts are legendary for their typos (note the odd italicization in the post above).
urban elitist on January 14, 2013 at 7:03 AM
i’ll never forget sharptons reaction to mitt romney’s nomination. he was ecstatic.
hopefully we’ve learned. bold colors really do work.not pastels.
renalin on January 14, 2013 at 7:13 AM
Sorry OT. cmsinaz, ever been to the big sandy shoot? Just watched a video on liveleak, nice. Beats Knobbs Creek Ky hands down. IMHO.
D-fusit on January 14, 2013 at 7:20 AM
Lol Renalin
cmsinaz on January 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM
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Yeah, let’s prop up the importance of that savant Sharpton. He’s is so prominent. I’m sure he’s really worried about losing his African American base to conservative Republicans. Sure, that’s gonna happen. They should be concerned they’re only getting 96% of that demo.
And btw- Did Romney cave on taxing the rich ? No buddy, he held fast and hard on that one. Tax rates shall not be raised on the upper income brackets ! We can’t have that in this economy.
And as a result, lost a huge amount of votes, probably the election, protecting that absolute conservative position.
How’s that workin out for ya now?
FlaMurph on January 14, 2013 at 7:52 AM
D fuse…. sounds cool
cmsinaz on January 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM
Yup. Pathway to the Voting Booth pretty much sums up what is really happening.
Fallon on January 14, 2013 at 8:08 AM
Baloney. I just lost a long post linking to CNN. *Doh!* When will I learn?
Pretend that links back to a Fortune mag/CNN article.
If you get rid of the deductions and exemptions, you have raised taxes on “the rich.” Romney let Obama and the MSM define him. That caricature, true or not, lost. BTW~ Romney would say whatever he needed to get elected… Remember when the masked slipped and we first heard the words, Etch-a-Sketch? That was his own guy.
Romney really wanted to be president, or did he? Tadd (Skip? Biff?) said he didn’t. Romney it appears that Romney want to beat Republicans more than Democrats. Curious, huh?
Fallon on January 14, 2013 at 8:29 AM
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Sure, most voters going to the polls were debating the effectiveness of Simpson-Bowles.
The media defined Mitt as no higher taxes ( read tax rates ) for the rich. That’s because that was the position of the Republican candidate. The other guy……..?
Yes, winning, and with higher tax rates, anyway.
FlaMurph on January 14, 2013 at 8:39 AM
Most voters watched Obama on their favorite shows and continued to “like” him. Romney wouldn’t play that game, either.
And, we knew Romney (the tax and spend moderate that he is) would raise taxes on the rich, he just wasn’t bold enough to say it in a way the average voter would understand it. Those who understood were less enthusiastic to cast their votes for Romney. The choice, a real progressive or a fake conservative… What a country!
We lost because he was bold in the primaries and cowardly (except for the first debate) in the general.
I’m still not a believer in tyranny of the majority.
Fallon on January 14, 2013 at 8:57 AM
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The tyranny is not from the majority, rather from the socialists and their propagandist media who want a USSA. The majority believes what their TV tells them to believe, and the thoughts these propagandists put into their minds.I agree.
Starve the Beast.
That’s the battle, from here on out.
FlaMurph on January 14, 2013 at 9:09 AM
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