The Cain Train

The Cain Train is building up success after winning the Straw Poll in Florida. Businessman Herman Cain won 37 percent of the votes. That is 2,600 votes from Republicans that came from all over the nation to observe the GOP debate. Republican activists seek a candidate that is conservative on all issues but also has a history of this as well. They want a politician who will put up a good fight when debating Barack Obama. Herman Cain’s win has been perceived in many different ways and is in question if this momentum will last.

Cain’s win could be a sign that the other candidates are simply not pleasing the Republican body of America. Party activists have said that they don’t think he is strong enough to win the general election. They also added that his win was simply a “no confidence vote for the entire field”. Rick Perry who leads the polls was expected to win but didn’t after his performance in the last GOP debate. Activists say that Perry is not a “skilled or natural” debater and it is simply not his strong suit. Herman Cain delivered a speech prior to the straw poll that surely got their votes. In the past Republicans who have won the Florida straw poll such as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Robert J. Dole have gone on to the general election. Yet these same voters that backed Cain assured that he would not go any further.

Piers Morgan had Morgan Freeman on his show who had a lot to say about The Tea Party. He stated that the GOP’s only mission was to get Barack Obama out of the white house. Freeman feels that everyone running and their activists have a racist mind set. Herman Cain responded to these remarks saying that Freeman is not aware of what the Tea Party really is and fears the political movement that they bring forth. In essence Cain took his comments as a sign of intimidation rather than bashful towards him, his peers, and what they stand for.

Although Cain won the straw poll there are several things that might come back to hurt his campaign in the future. He made a controversial statement about social security calling it a “scam”. He has also had to apologize to Muslim Americans. Cain had suggested in the past that it was okay for communities to ban mosques. This controversy could possibly haunt him and his election. Cain is also not a prime candidate because of his low budget campaign and not having activists or presence in major cities.

Cain has yet to make a difference in the national poll. And as stated before only won the Florida straw poll because of the activists displease with the rest of the Tea Party’s inability to debate and answer questions in a perfected manner. This businessman from Georgia has created momentum for himself that may or may not lead him to the general election, yet it is clear that he will try.

The Great Debaters?

It's hard to decide what to focus on when it comes to the Republican GOP. The audience at their debate was controversial enough. What you can take away from the debate is that someone without health insurance and with cancer should not be abandoned to die and the death penalty is not something to clap about. Also, soldiers, regardless of sexual orientation, should not be booed. 

Ron Paul was asked a hypothetical question about a 30 year old dying of cancer without health insurance and if he should be helped.  They asked the congressman if he thought this man should die and people in the audience yelled yes. The audience also loudly clapped at Rick Perry’s state record of execution.  A gay soldier asked former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum if he would continue with the progress for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military.  The audience proceeded to boo him and no one assessed this wrongful action.

Congressman Ron Paul stirred the audience in a good manner evoking the 10^th Amendment that states that the federal government is limited only to the powers stated in the Constitution.  He stated an intention to veto every bill that violates or goes against the 10^th Amendment.  Ron Paul says that the federal government should have no authority to control the states schools, economy, or “what we do with our personal lives”.  He assures he would restore the system if elected President. 

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry clearly did their research calling each other out when it came to their perspectives on issues and how it differed in their books.  Romney said that Perry had stated that social security was unconstitutional and should be ended as a program.  On his website Rick Perry sets the record straight on his current views and how he simply feels that the system needs a change.

http://www.rickperry.org/news/setting-the-record-straight-on-fed-up/

Controversially on Mitt Romney’s website he claims that Rick Perry wants to “dismantle” Social Security.

http://mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2011/09/future-social-security

Rick Perry called out Mitt Romney on “Romney Care” stating that it was exactly what Obama Care was about.  Perry even went as far as saying that Romney changed his book later on to hide this fact.  Romney regained himself by speaking of candidates and how they improved their state but how he “will turn around the nation”.  The two feuded back and forth in a he said- he said manner. 

The GOP Debate was intriguing.  Perry and Romney called each other out in wrongfully portraying their thoughts on major issues. Their feud was intensified with questions of past and present stance on social security and health care reform.  The Tea Party had an audience that does not have respect for military equals simply because they are gay.  Their audience does not value equals and condoles horrible acts of death.  The controversy and inadequacy of the debate is enough to make one vote Democrat this 2012 elections. 

View The Polls for the 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html