I agree, TIS. I can't picture that, although it's not a bad strategy. He's still a relatively young man.

As I've said before, he's a bit abrasive, and while that may play well in the tristate area, I don't think it will nationally. He also has a quick temper, as he proved over his reaction to both the helicopter ride and the blizzard. He needs to learn how to curb that if he hopes to hold national office one day.

All kidding aside, he's too slovenly to appear "Presidential." I realize that's probably a terribly bigoted way for me to think, but I don't think I'm alone.

"Governor, back away from the Canolli."

He just held his news conference stating that he's not running.

I'm dying to see if after Christie is done saying he's not gonna run, if the media will report that "he left the door open." My God, there so hot for Christie.


TIS

One thing you have to say for President Obama, the way he walks, runs up and down the stairs of Air Force One, he at least LOOKS the part. Imagine juxtaposing those pictures with Christie heaving himself in and out of a chair??

Yes, I know that's mean, but sadly, it's true. It's not just appearance, it's health issues, too. He's obese, he has asthma, God knows what his heart's like.

If Christie ends up running and gets elected, thank God Air Force One is a Jumbo jet.

Washington (CNN) - A second national poll indicates a dramatic decline in voter support for Texas Gov. Rick Perry following a shaky debate performance and questions about his stance on social security and immigration.

According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey released Tuesday, 16% of likely Republican voters back Perry, a virtual tie with Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain. Both men trail former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who stands at 25%.
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Shocking. The GOP needs to realize that these extremists may garner some headlines in the beginning, but they're not going to win it for them. The only way to do it is with a moderate who will grab those voters left disappointed by President Obama.

My money is on a Romney-Rubo ticket. That would make it very hard for Obama to get a second term IMHO.

ABC News’ Polson Kanneth reports:

Sarah Palin will not run for president. She made the announcement in a letter to supporters Wednesday night.

Say it ain't so Sarah! Whatever will Tina Fey do?

For Palin to run for President would be too much like work.

I doubt most people took her seriously. Maybe her traveling clown show will be over. Unless she's hoping for another VP request. No, you'd have to be nuts.



TIS

She'll have her Fox gig, probably some speaking engagements, and gd forbid another book. She also may try to lay "kingmaker" at the GOP convention. She is not a serious contender to hold office...she could not even handle being governor of Alaska. She does better standing on the sidelines and sniping at people.

My wife is the most outspoken feminist I've ever met. So when she refers to Palin as a twat, you know it has some merit .

She's an empty suit. If she thought she had any chance at actually, you know, like winning, she would have grabbed the opportunity. She's become a punchline.

I like how the GOP front-runner was someone who once promsied to be "more pro-gay" than Ted Kennedy.

Just saying.

Sen. Scott Brown will be running against whoever of the Democratic candidates gets the nomination. One of the contenders for the candidacy is Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren. It seems that Brown posed nude for Cosmo decades ago to "pay for college tuition". When asked during a primary debate how she paid for college, Warren fired back that she kept her clothes on.

When asked for comment about the somewhat plain Warren keeping her clothes on, he simply replied, "Thank God."

I think it was stupid on his part, and as a woman, I guess I'm supposed to be insulted, but I'll admit that I laughed my ass off.

http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2011_1007case_clothed_brown_quip_hits_below_belt

I just saw that on Fox. He also said that topay for college he would do anything. Sell drugs, murder, prostitution? Hmm. What else did he do to pay for college?

I just choked on my drink when I read your post. Are you married to Susie Greene?

Reason #6 why I'm not a Republican, nor will be in the near future.

Rick Perry backer Robert Jeffress: Mitt Romney not a Christian



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65445.html#ixzz1a950htUU

By NBC's Carrie Dann

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul, a favorite of libertarian-leaning Republicans and young activists, has won another straw poll.

Paul received 37 percent of the vote in the Values Voter Summit straw poll Saturday at the annual gathering of conservative religious voters in Washington.

Last election, I saw many Ron Paul signs in my area. Go figure. I doubt he will win but he does have a following. Herman Cain is doing well also, at least according to these straw polls. Everyone says these polls don't mean a thing yet the media treats them like gospel.

The media also reminded us that at this point during the last Presidential cycle Hillary and Guiliani were in the lead. It definitely WILL be interesting, but I still say Romney will be the Right's candidate.

TIS

Cain leading in Iowa by 8 points.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/cain-leads-in-iowa.html

RR,

Was that a poll taken tonight (after debate)?




TIS

I liked Bachmann's jibe about turning Cain's 999 tax plan upside down to reveal it's a 666 plan.

Could it be? Cain's the anti-christ?

Don't be ridiculous.

That's the President.



If it was, Perry would have dropped several points. I wonder how many Texans are upset that he's clearly been the bitch of a yankee Mormon from Mass.? Perry was sinking, he knew he had to reclaim his prowless from that prick. He lost.

Nevermind it just came out today that Romney's healthcare team that helped orchestrated RomneyCare advised the Obama White House on ObamaCare. And Perry...zip. Nothing.Nothing. It's like Glass Joe K.O.'ing your ass out on PUNCH OUT.

The only thing I really took from that debate was this: The GOP doesn't know what it wants to be, and I wonder that if not for their absolute vicious hatred of their opponent, what would unite them except mythology-fueled, increasingly historic-inaccurate waxing on Reagan?

(Romney not really having an answer at all about Reagan's own contradictions compared to today's GOP orthodoxy is rather revealing. Reagan, success and failure, had to deal with reality. Apparently reality is now all in the mind.)

Mitt is the John Kerry of the GOP. He'll get the nomination, but no one is enthusiastic about him.

NBC News updated 10/12/2011 6:28:08 PM ET 2011-10-12T22:28:08

Fueled by Tea Party supporters, conservatives and high-interest GOP primary voters, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain now leads the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

And in yet another sign of how volatile the Republican race has been with less than three months until the first nominating contests, the onetime frontrunner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has plummeted to third place, dropping more than 20 percentage points since late August.

Cain checks in as the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent and Perry at 16 percent. After those three, it’s Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 11 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 8 percent, Bachmann at 5 percent and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 3 percent.

In the previous survey, conducted in late August, Perry led the field at 38 percent, Romney stood at 23 percent, while Cain was at only 5 percent.

Well from these debates I have gleaned the American Revlution was fought in the sixteenth century, the founding fathers ended slavery, and Cain's economic plan when turned upside down is the MArk of the Beast.