WASHINGTON -- The winners of Tuesday night's GOP debate: Herman Cain and President Obama.
With the devastating accuracy of a CIA drone, the Republican candidates zeroed in on their own party's chances with exchanges that played right into Democrats' hands on a series of issues, from immigration to taxes.
And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate.
Attempting to out-do each other in their antagonism to undocumented immigrants, the GOP candidates honed in on the toughest possible sanctions and military measures for 15 minutes before someone thought to mention that the party had respect for legal immigration -- and for the Hispanic community.
They missed chance after chance to discuss anything specific about how they would help create jobs -- the country's number one concern.
They mentioned cutting aid to Israel, which was exactly what Obama needed to help him shore up support among Jewish voters.
And they sparred for half an hour about Cain's tax plan, which would add a national sales tax and, according to Republicans themselves, be a regressive tax that would hit the poor hardest.
All of that is good news to a beleaguered Obama, whose reelection strategy relies on harnessing support from his base, attracting Hispanic voters and winning back independents who tend to eschew candidates with extreme positions.
Meanwhile, Cain outshone the two nominal frontrunners -- Perry and Romney -- by acting the role of statesman and never losing his cool. Now safely ensconced at or near the top of the polls, Cain is growing in confidence and command on the stage, even if the numbers of his tax plan don't add up.
Perry and Romney sniped at each other in a way that did neither of them any good. Newt Gingrich was his usual hectoring, lecturing self, vowing to win the presidency by challenging Obama to 21 hours of debates. Michele Bachmann, desperate to regain some momentum, practically shouted throughout the debate. Ron Paul was Ron Paul.
In this environment, Rick Santorum sounded almost mild and reasonable, which gives you an idea of what kind of a night it was -- for Barack Obama and Herman Cain.
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let go. Later I attended college at Los
Angeles State College.
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Paul raised most from active military, Romney tapped big banks
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – A recent independent analysis of candidates’ campaign contributions reveals an interesting disparity between the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign and frontrunner Mitt Romney’s campaign. Romney’s top supporters appear to be made up of big banks while, unsurprisingly, Paul’s top contributors were men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
“This fundraising analysis confirms Americans’ beliefs about Ron Paul and their suspicions about Mitt Romney. It is that Dr. Paul is extraordinarily popular and accepted by the everyman and by everyday heroes, while Romney relies almost exclusively on his big-business ties,” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.
According to the analysis, the top three organizations that employ Romney’s supporters are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, and Morgan Stanley. Reflecting his popularity with the everyman and our uniformed service men and women, the top three organizations that employ Dr. Paul’s supporters are the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy.
The study notes that the organizations themselves did not contribute. Rather, “the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families.” The analysis suggests, then, that the use of PACs, bundling, subsidiaries and the like was not a feature of Dr. Paul’s grassroots fundraising.
Outraises all other Republican candidates combined, outraises Obama
LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign raised more campaign donations from active military than all other presidential candidates—Republican or Democrat—including having raised more funds from this segment than all other GOP competitors combined, and more than incumbent President Barack Obama.
Dr. Paul, an Air Force veteran, raised more than $75,000 from active military in the third quarter. This comes after Dr. Paul out-raised all GOP candidates – including all GOPers combined, and President Obama singularly – in the second quarter of this year. Dr. Paul also outraised his GOP competitors in a head-to-head comparison during his 2008 run for the presidency.
This determination was arrived at using an independent campaign analysis of FEC filing data focusing on contributors who listed their occupation and employer when contributing.
“Ron Paul is the only candidate with a plan to end the growing number of unconstitutional undeclared wars, having an unclear connection to U.S. national security, end costly overseas nation-building that pays no friendship dividends, and stop subsidizing global security. Instead Dr. Paul will bring our troops home, secure our borders and lead the nation in practicing a traditional Republican noninterventionist foreign policy,”
“Let me also submit that Dr. Paul out-raising all candidates in military donations demonstrates that his ‘Plan to Restore America’ might sit well among voters who are active-military or veterans,”
Obama is just adding on more government…
Our problem is that we have too much government management of our healthcare…
If you want better competition and healthcare you should allow the American people to opt out of government healthcare…
When a government gets involved in an industry prices go up…
We need more competition in healthcare…
Let people have control over their own money…
Once again, it’s worth pointing out that all of these candidates are viciously attacking one other over each of their lackluster, big government records.
They all have them. Except one.
And that candidate continues to stand above the fray because there is nothing to attack.
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Do I understand correctly his 999 idea will boost taxes for the middle class and the poor and ease up on the rich? That sounds pure GOP, so maybe he will be the GOP's candidate.
Then it will be two blacks running for President, one a pizza guy and one a home beer-meister. They should team up, that sounds like a real American ticket everyone would love.
Of course it's all about salesmanship and they can say whatever they want and renege. We shouldn't allow that but our times change so fast, I think changing minds is necessary, don't you? I wouldn't want Big Muddy to say "go on" when it means making a bad mistake, would you?
They're useful in that they do give some info though not necessarily what they say so much as how they come on, their body language, what you take away from seeing them and if they don't sound right. I think people talking about the canidates one way and another is useful.
Of course it's all about salesmanship and they can say whatever they want and renege if elected. We shouldn't allow that carte blanche but our times change so fast, I think changing minds is necessary, don't you? I wouldn't want Big Muddy to say "go on" when it means making a serious mistake, would you?
There is NO evidence of that within the GOTP fantasy world. If it was then I expect that Congress and the Administration would have addressed the jobs issue at least 2 years ago considering everything went south in 2007-2008. Yes there was the stimulus package which helped a lot, however, it was simply too small given the scope of the economic collapse.
Since that point the GOTP in particular have gotten everything they wanted, with help of course, many policies such as the extended tax cuts were to create jobs.
The GOTP see the lack of jobs as the "personal responsibility" of those that do not have a job. The unemployed are simply, shirkers, slackers and those too lazy to start the next google.
The comments made by Mr. Cain and the ensuing cheers of the audience should have been a hint for everyone!
Teachers, policemen, infrastructure are really good direction for long term.
Right now we need more jobs in direction, which will create more jobs in USA despite globalization.
This jobs and directions must be a main priority for any candidate to win, without any doubt voters opinion in2012.
Time: Close to Halloween.
Conclussion: It is to early to make this kind of conclussion.