Herman Cain won’t make an Iowa endorsement
If you remember your ancient Republican history – about four weeks ago – you’ll remember that Herman Cain, as he bowed out of the race, strongly hinted that he would make an endorsement in the presidential contest.
But we haven’t heard much from Cain since, and the plains of Iowa loom.
Several times during Cain’s final rough patch, Newt Gingrich spoke up for his Atlanta comrade-in-arms. Each cited a friendship that stretched back decades. They even staged that love fest in Houston for Texan tea partyists.
But also remember that Cain endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the 2008 campaign.
By way of straightening things out, my AJC colleague Jeremy Redmon shot an e-mail to Mark Block, who remains Cain’s chief of staff.
Replied Block:
There are no plans currently to endorse any of the candidates. Keep in touch.
You’re on your own, Newt.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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133 comments Add your comment
Junior Samples
December 29th, 2011
2:17 pm
first? I am so honored.
Jeff H.
December 29th, 2011
2:24 pm
Besides, there are women out there to grope!
Mark
December 29th, 2011
2:29 pm
Jim,
It really doesn’t matter anyway. Cain’s endorsement is now completely irrelevant.
Buck Hayek
December 29th, 2011
2:30 pm
Herb Cain wants a job so he won’t endorse until the winner is obvious.
Secretary of Defense?
I am still laughing.
Road Scholar
December 29th, 2011
2:30 pm
I guess he agrees that there isn’t a good one to endorse!
Darvoset Spending
December 29th, 2011
2:33 pm
The countdown until Cain is a relegated to being guest host for Boortz again begins now.
Ah, the rise and fall of America’s favorite Uncle Tom is almost complete.
abelincon
December 29th, 2011
2:39 pm
I thought he would have to go home and meet with his wife, before any endorsement is made.
Mark
December 29th, 2011
2:41 pm
@ Buck Hayek
December 29th, 2011
2:30 pm
LOL! Now that does sound hilarious!
mehlman rings twice
December 29th, 2011
2:45 pm
Herman should be the next 65+ year old man to sign a pledge to be faithful to his wife.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
2:49 pm
Many politicians only endorse and jump on a bandwagon when they see a clear winner – it might get them an appointment if who they endorse wins. Wait too long, though – the potential cherry jobs have already been allocated to stronger loyalists.
Cain and Newt are long time friends, but both have been toast since the beginning. Too much personal baggage, too little money and organization. Still looks like Romney.
I wonder if there will be any more politicized predictions from this blogger about redistricting and ILLEGAL immigration legislation.
Tom
December 29th, 2011
2:52 pm
Meanwhile, Ron Paul gets endorsed by “renowned pastor, theologian, and prolific author Rev. Phillip G. Kayser, Ph.D.”
The Ron Paul campaign proudly touted this endorsement on their website…..until the internets started buzzing with the links showing that this “pastor” also openly advocates having homosexuals put to death.
The endorsement was then ’scrubbed’ from the Paul campaign’s website.
td
December 29th, 2011
3:10 pm
Dang Jim another irrelevant story when we could be discussing the importance of the Obama justice approval of the redistricting lines. Really having a hard time trying to figure out the train of thought on what is a relevant story for Georgia.
findog
December 29th, 2011
3:33 pm
Herman will endorse the President
Even his wife was going to vot for him
southerngurl
December 29th, 2011
3:35 pm
@Darvoset Spending
You got it right. Uncle Tom is rather appropriate in addition his obvious lack of intellect. Good riddance. Go away fly! Are you still there? Bye, Hasta LaVista Hermie, Later!!!!
td
December 29th, 2011
3:40 pm
One day I hope everyone becomes a conservative fanatic just like me.
findog
December 29th, 2011
3:51 pm
td, it is everyone’s dream that everyone else will eventuially find their views superior and accepted
I even agree with some of yours
happy new year
Come on Man
December 29th, 2011
3:53 pm
Herman aint gonna give any of his black following a reason to vote white. It doesn’t matter who he likes or endorses really. The 20-30 year old crowd will decide the election again. I predict 4 more years of Obama. They are still drinking the “Change” cool-aide.
td
December 29th, 2011
3:56 pm
findog
December 29th, 2011
3:51 pm
Thank you for the Happy new year, although the person you were thanking stole my id.
Plezbelieveit
December 29th, 2011
4:18 pm
Herman Cain should still be running. He is really good at “helping” folks in their time of need. I am soo glad to see someone willing to “help” someone and be modest about it at the same time. Go on Herman with your bad self!!
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
4:19 pm
Come on Man
December 29th, 2011
3:53 pm
Herman aint gonna give any of his black following a reason to vote white. It doesn’t matter who he likes or endorses really. The 20-30 year old crowd will decide the election again. I predict 4 more years of Obama. They are still drinking the “Change” cool-aide.
If you’re going to use the expression “Kool-Aid”, which is so played-out it is devoid of meaning, then at least spell it right.
Registered Independent
December 29th, 2011
4:21 pm
Who really cares; what a waste of energy to even print this!
Chief Media Urologist
December 29th, 2011
4:27 pm
Who is Herman Cain?
findog
December 29th, 2011
4:31 pm
td, didn’t sound like you but I hope you and LMS both have a good new year
Cap Pistol
December 29th, 2011
5:01 pm
No attention should have been paid to the cain cretin. Now that gingrick has also sunk, borezt will have to scramble to pimp for rumney, the morom flip-flopper.
Michael H. Smith
December 29th, 2011
5:10 pm
Nothing interesting here. Maybe next year.
Dumb and Dumber
December 29th, 2011
5:13 pm
Um — Mr. “Registered Independent” — this is a blog, its not printed. No trees were killed, as if you’d care. If you don’t think its worth reading, why bother to post at all?
Maybe you and “Centrist” should get together and boycott this blog since you both have such animus towards Jim Galloway.
We’d all miss you both…not.
PR
December 29th, 2011
5:27 pm
Cani should endorse Newt…after all they both like to run the women.
Double
December 29th, 2011
5:29 pm
Now we are a net oil exporting nation.Obama must be the messiah
Marcia
December 29th, 2011
5:36 pm
HC ( uncle Tom) remarks or any perceived endorsement has about as much substance as 2 week old moose scat.
Double
December 29th, 2011
5:55 pm
should read petroleum products,fuels.Thanks to Obama
Demontria
December 29th, 2011
6:00 pm
Yeah if we never again hear a single peep out of the Hermanator it’ll be too soon. What a piece of human dreck, he tried to con us and almost pulled it off.
And he gets to hang on the millions of $ of campaign contributions.
Pay attention to what I'm saying than how I'm saying it
December 29th, 2011
6:11 pm
If Herman Cain does not endorse anyone, don’t blame him blame YOURSELF.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
6:17 pm
@ Double – Calling Obama the messiah because we had a technical accounting gimmick net petroleum export status is deception of the highest level. First, it includes REFINED oil which came from Canadian oil sands – not our actual production. Note that the Obama administration is resisting much greater use of the Canadian oil sands via the Keystone pipeline construction. Second, much of the increased U.S. oil and natural gas production is coming from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and Montana and the Eagle Ford one in Texas via fracking which the Obama administration is doing its best to inhibit. Third, the decreased U.S. demand from Obama’s recession has made a large difference. Finally, using actual statistics – the U.S. is importing a smaller share — 49% in 2010, down from 60% in 2005 — of the oil it uses. We are far from energy independent.
Pay attention to what I'm saying than how I'm saying it
December 29th, 2011
6:19 pm
@Demontria December 29th, 2011 6:00 pm – “he tried to con us and almost pulled it off.”
**********************************************
Speak for yourself.
Some of us were not fooled by that f**l.
tim
December 29th, 2011
6:34 pm
Can Herman endorse someone and then come back and say :it never happened”???
A loser endorsing a loser..
Last Man Standing
December 29th, 2011
6:37 pm
findog:
Thanks, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to you! You know that I can’t leave it at that, don’t you? I MUST make a prediction!
LSU!
td
December 29th, 2011
6:40 pm
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
6:17 pm
Excellent debunking of the Obama myth about oil production. I have been looking for some evidence for a while to either prove or disprove the myth and could not find any information. I knew it had to be a myth but was looking for the evidence since gas prices were $1:83 the day Bush left office and it is now over $3:00 per gallon.
td
December 29th, 2011
6:43 pm
findog
December 29th, 2011
4:31 pm
td, didn’t sound like you but I hope you and LMS both have a good new year
Hope you have a good healthy new year as well.
tdm
December 29th, 2011
7:08 pm
love cherry picking on gas price….look at 6 year prices
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
MrLiberty
December 29th, 2011
7:11 pm
Why ruin someone’s chances by endorcing them? Ron Paul is already picking up most of Cain’s supporters along with Bachmann’s. Since Cain was just another big government status quo guy, he might as well endorce Romney or Gingrich as they are all just like 3 peas in a pod (neocon pod people kind of pod).
Ron Paul 2012.
Look before I leap...
December 29th, 2011
7:18 pm
@Centrist 6:17P
” Third, the decreased U.S. demand from Obama’s recession has made a large difference. ”
Your bias is showing yet again sir. The recession started Dec of 2007. That would make it Bush’s recession. There are many things you can lay at Obama’s feet, but the recession ain’t one of them.
dmcnya
December 29th, 2011
7:37 pm
wow the conseratives candidates really sucks newt left his wife on her hospital bed cain cheater at his old age i like it obama hands down thanks u guys this again will be easy for us its amazing our president gets no cooperation from the other side a good educated man with great family and half white but that little bit of black gives him no respect haters
td
December 29th, 2011
7:38 pm
Look before I leap…
December 29th, 2011
7:18 pm
@Centrist 6:17P
” Third, the decreased U.S. demand from Obama’s recession has made a large difference. ”
Your bias is showing yet again sir. The recession started Dec of 2007. That would make it Bush’s recession. There are many things you can lay at Obama’s feet, but the recession ain’t one of them
And that recession would be over now except for the Obama policies has made it longer so this is now the Obama recession.
sheepdawg
December 29th, 2011
7:48 pm
As if it would matter anyway…….
Producer
December 29th, 2011
8:12 pm
No one cares what “Sperman” thinks and nobody wants or is even seeking his blessing! He’s political road kill.
Look before I leap...
December 29th, 2011
8:18 pm
@td 7:38
“And that recession would be over now except for the Obama policies has made it longer so this is now the Obama recession.”
The recession ended June 2009.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of your hate.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
8:36 pm
Again, liberals use deceptive definitions in a weak attempt to avoid our current economic mess. Here is how things have changed under Obama: http://sadhillnews.com/2011/12/28/obamas-change-stats-one-chart-to-rule-them-all
Last Man Standing
December 29th, 2011
8:50 pm
I’m sure happy about the recession being over! Things were getting tight there for a while what with the increase in food and fuel prices. Sears and K-Mart are so happy about the end of the recession that they are closing stores, in celebration I’m sure. Unemployment is getting better, if you believe the White House figures!
Happy days are here again!
Yeah, RIGHT!
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
6:17 pm
…Obama’s recession…
Troll harder.
Double
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Keystone pipeline hold up is enviromental.Fracking is also causing fresh water pollution.TD, Obama has to be the Messiah to take on all Bush created wars,accumulated debts and save our nation.Miracle has to be divine.Now if we add Hillary as vp=landslide.
td
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
8:36 pm
I am sure the libs on hear will say your link is all lies or blame all the numbers on Bush. They can not face the reality that Obama is the worst President (Passing Carter) that this country has had.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
Just a heads up, Centrist is another one of TD’s alt accounts.
td
December 29th, 2011
8:56 pm
Double
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Dang I could not even get my prediction typed fast enough before you were on here blaming the condiditon of the country on Bush. When do you think it would become Obama’s economy? When it really improves instead of the current spin from the WH?
td
December 29th, 2011
8:56 pm
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
Wrong again Billy.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Please do not reply to TD unless you’re telling him not to post.
Thank you.
td
December 29th, 2011
9:00 pm
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Please do not reply to TD unless you’re telling him not to post.
Thank you.
Have you not figured out by now that no one listens to you.
TOUCH DOWN!!!!! DAWGS score another one.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
9:01 pm
If you’re thinking about replying to TD, just remember: NO
FlagFlyer
December 29th, 2011
9:04 pm
Reading the comments here, does that make Steve Bloom’s article more relevant?
FlagFlyer
December 29th, 2011
9:06 pm
If these comments are his journalism students assignment, fail!
Double
December 29th, 2011
9:21 pm
What happend to the Cain train?Guess they won’t run on mold and refrigerant.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:28 pm
@ Darvoset spending – It is hard to believe that there are actually some non-liberals (other than td) who post on this leftist AJC blog site. There are a few.
I am not very conservative (pro-choice, atheist, and support increased taxes on income above a $ million), and usually vote for Libertarians. The only GOP presidential candidate I could possibly support would be Romney – a true thoughtful executive.
Jack
December 29th, 2011
9:33 pm
Looks like Romney gonna be the man.
Double
December 29th, 2011
9:40 pm
Sintrist TD, ain’t no use you voting.Just be wasting your vote.With Hillary done deal. with/without Ga. Ps. done deal don’t mean crooked deal.Need to splain that to you,fore you confuse it.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:45 pm
“A person who is addicted to Darvocet will be preoccupied with obtaining the drug. You may notice a change in their spending.” – http://darvocetaddiction.net/darvocet-addiction-symptoms/
Wonder if you can be addicted to liberalism as well.
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:49 pm
Herman won’t make an endorsement?
Well that will probably bring the proceedings to a halt.
At least while the Iowa caucaussers (is that a word) stop to ask ‘Who’s Herman Cain’?
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:51 pm
Centrist (of something somewhere that is obviously missing a center)
Well, GA has certainly shown it is possible to be addicted to post-dixiecrat-republican incompetence.
And it ain’t likely to improve.
td
December 29th, 2011
9:57 pm
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:51 pm
Isn’t past your bedtime my friend? I never see you on this late.
td
December 29th, 2011
10:00 pm
I’m afraid to post with my real name because I’ll get fired.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
10:01 pm
My other name is td so I can have faux discussions with myself.
honested
December 29th, 2011
10:09 pm
Darvoset spending, Double and I do threesome daisy chains together. It’s fun being liberally minded.
Big Hat
December 29th, 2011
10:30 pm
Herman is not an “Uncle Tom.” That’s an insult to white America’s favorite in-laws, Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima.
Hot Dog
December 29th, 2011
11:13 pm
Pimp Daddy Cain was too busy running women, especially White Women to make a run for the presidency seriously. His only interest was to be a liar and serial adulterer like his pal Newt, the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Newt is still signing pledges that tramp stamp #4 is not waiting in the wings after the Iowa primaries. We all know that Newt is just waiting to dump tramp stamp #3 so he can continue the same pattern of behavior…CHASING WOMEN!
As for HERMMIE, can you just imagine an Old B**T**D like Pimp Daddy Cain at 66 still trying to run women? No wonder Gloria supported President Obama. The thought made her sick to her stomach learning that her husband was out trying to pick up WHITE WOMEN.
GOODBY HERMMIE AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
Oldman
December 29th, 2011
11:38 pm
Herman is going to do whatever helps Herman. He could care less about anything else. He’s the Sanford Bishop of the Republican Party.
Darvoset spending
December 30th, 2011
12:34 am
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:45 pm
Wonder if you can be addicted to liberalism as well.
I doubt it. I used to be one of you, so I know all your tricks and how you think–which is to say “slowly”
Darvoset spending
December 30th, 2011
12:36 am
honested
December 29th, 2011
10:09 pm
Darvoset spending, Double and I do threesome daisy chains together. It’s fun being liberally minded.
lol
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:29 am
TD student of newt.can understand you being tops in his class.Was you daisy chaining for his entertainment?Apple for the teacher?
BitterEXdemocrackkk
December 30th, 2011
6:41 am
Strive to be smarter than the EVIL, corrupt, and criminal democrackkks WANT you to BE!
Ron Paul 2012! He’s the ONLY one with no credibility issues!
http://www.RonPaul2012.com
Thanks Mr.Cain for have the good sense NOT to endorse at this time. If you endorse Romney later, then you will be the traitor.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
6:51 am
I guess Herman is back at the house living off his capital gains tax cuts.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
7:02 am
80% of America say that Republicans are doing a lousy job, while 50% are not satisfied with Obama. If you are among the 20% who are satisfied with Republicans and dissatisfied with Obama, just admit that you are truly in the minority.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
7:22 am
Cain should endorse the only religious-hawkish-conservative…Rick Santorum. When it comes to Dixiecrats, the only thing Romney has going for him is that he is supposedly electable.
honested
December 30th, 2011
7:50 am
Attack Dog,
Bring that home to GA.
How many people (other than dirt scratchers and polluters) are happy with the job our strangle hold republicans have been doing since 2003 and are still doing today?
Do people intentionally vote for the least competent?
nelsonh
December 30th, 2011
7:51 am
The other candidates were not looking for his endorsement. They are not looking for my endorsement. I will give it none the less. I endorse Mitt Romney. Has a record of success, business and politics. I am leaning towards joining the Mormon community myself. The healthy lifestyle and fresh air. A new day where honesty and integrity and forthrightness reign supreme.
Lib in Cobb
December 30th, 2011
8:55 am
The only candidate I can think of who would appreciate the endorsement of a lying, cheating, christian hypocrite would be Newt.
Lib in Cobb
December 30th, 2011
8:57 am
nelsonh: The Mormon church also has a very long history of racism. Would jesus want this?
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
9:08 am
It sad that these republican teaparty on this blog is trying to blame president Obama for everything that Bush have done wrong.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
9:18 am
President Obama going to win 4 more years. Look at these republican candidates look like clowns on tv. I bet Ron Paul going to run as a 3rd party candidates.
tiredofIT
December 30th, 2011
9:33 am
After watching the numerous debates, I have lost a lot of respect for my hardcore republican friends.
Honky for Herman
December 30th, 2011
9:35 am
SO let me get this straight.. If one makes racist remarks about the great community organizer, B HUSSEIN Obama, then that is the lowest of the low; the person should be charged with a “hate crime” and then go through sensitivity training. But if one makes vile, racist remarks regarding a conservative black, it’s all OK, huh? Only to the “tolerant”, “open-minded”, “inclusive” liberal bums could this be perfectly fine. Hypocrites. Can’t wait for GOP control of House and Senate. Even if BHO gets re-elected, neither he nor the libs will be able to do any more damage to our great Republic.
Honky for Herman
December 30th, 2011
9:41 am
“Independent Voter”- Which actually means liberal Democrat who hasn’t come out of the closet, in what year, will you bed-wetters stop blaming Bush for all of Man’s ills? 20/30? 20/40? Tell me, moron.
Frederick Douglass
December 30th, 2011
10:03 am
GOP mantra: Let’s get that N-word out of the White House, we’ll figure out what to do next after that’s done. Regardless of what Honky for Herman and others say, that’s the plan in a nutshell.
Look before I leap...
December 30th, 2011
10:06 am
BitterEXdemocrackkk
December 30th, 2011
6:41 am
Strive to be smarter than the EVIL, corrupt, and criminal democrackkks WANT you to BE!
Ron Paul 2012! He’s the ONLY one with no credibility issues!
No credibility issues? Seriously? The man wants to give Israel back to the Palestenians, does not believe that Iran becoming a nuclear power is a problem. He thinks of Martin Luther King Day as “Hate Whitey Day”, believes the 1993 WTC bombing was an Israeli operation and thinks the US Government is planning to build a secret 10 lane NAFTA superhighway connecting Mexico the US and Canada which will lead to a North American Union elimination the US as a soveriegn nation.
Ron Paul is a paranoid, conspiracy hunting whack-job.
If you want Obama out of the WH in 2012, Ron Paul is NOT the answer. The Dems will eat him for lunch.
yellowdog
December 30th, 2011
10:22 am
whatever!
Slip
December 30th, 2011
10:23 am
On the day before inauguration in 2009, “This the toughest foreign policy in-box that any president has faced in 55 years,” said Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “We are in a deep hole on a whole lot of issues where he’s going to have to climb out of before he can even start to achieve.”
Immediate crises such as the violence in Gaza, first-term priorities such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, long-term endeavors such as the American relationship with China and Russia, and epochal concerns such as globalization and global warming.
ADD to this foreign policy morass, a national economy less than three months from near total calamity, that foundered for six months into this President’s term. He took heat for GM, for too much stimulus, for not enough stimulus and endured the constant underground racial banter.
The economy is still rocky and will be regardless of who is President because the failure of the banking system has not been repaired and that rests at the feet of Congress. Credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations. Learn about these things first before you blame the President
Frederick Douglass
December 30th, 2011
10:35 am
Slip @ 10:23
Do you actually think crazed loonies care about facts as they were on the ground from day one for Obama? The only thing that matters is childish name calling, false accusations, and inbred prejudice.
cartoon
December 30th, 2011
10:37 am
Cain’s endorsement is not welcome by any candidate. They’ve told him to stfu. And he did.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
10:55 am
The republican congress approval is 12% so that tell why american would not put them back in office. That why the republican trying there best to take voter act away from people of color.
The republican dont have a chance winning the white house or congress, senate.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
11:21 am
Racist people never win..
B. Thenet
December 30th, 2011
11:29 am
Nobody wants it
liberalefty
December 30th, 2011
12:06 pm
the minstrel ashow is finally ova
Double
December 30th, 2011
12:15 pm
Independent voter About 90 % of the elected in GA. are racist,by my estimation.
td
December 30th, 2011
12:58 pm
honested
December 30th, 2011
7:50 am
“Do people intentionally vote for the least competent?”
Any person that would punch the ballot for Obama in 2012 surely will be. He has proved his incompetence.
td
December 30th, 2011
1:09 pm
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
10:55 am
The republican congress approval is 12% so that tell why american would not put them back in office. That why the republican trying there best to take voter act away from people of color.
The republican dont have a chance winning the white house or congress, senate
Glad to see you are still with us. I prayed that the Lord would give you libs some sense over Christmas and turn you all away from the dark side of the force.
The approval rating is for all of Congress (both Republicans and Democrats) but when you poll district by district the majority of Americans state their Congressman is doing a great job. The House will stay in control of the Republicans (Even Pelosi knows it and is trying to find a way to retire). The Senate will go into Republican hands. It is still way to early to know if Obama will be re elected or not and Ron Paul will not run as a third party candidate because he wants is son (Senator Rand Paul) to have a chance to be President one day.
td
December 30th, 2011
1:11 pm
Double
December 30th, 2011
12:15 pm
Independent voter About 90 % of the elected in GA. are racist,by my estimation
Including Lewis, Scott and Johnson.
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:24 pm
TD you say you are atheist-then you say you pray-who do you pray?Ron Paul could be right about Israel the only claim they could make to the land would be adverse possesion.Would the Biblical deed be upheld by any court?Where did Israel come from?The old Jew got control then and continues control.Said 90%,not 100%.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Td you are a Idiot and the Georgia does not count for anything because the republican are driven this state into the ground. Td you must be dreaming because majority of american want new congress that why they turning against some of your republicans governor such as Scott Walker and the Florida governor.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
Ron Paul going to run as a libertarian if he lose the nonimee. The governor Johnson from New mexico is running as a libertarian which would split the votes. Donald Trump going to run as a independent candidate which will split the vote.
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:31 pm
TD I don’t know who your congressman be,but think he would be out buying property around the future reservoirs.Ga. will be land of pawns.
td
December 30th, 2011
1:40 pm
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:24 pm
That is Centrist that states he is an atheist. I was born, raised and have always been a Southern Baptist.
I am sorry but are not following your point about Israel. I will state this very clearly. The United States of America will never abandon Israel. As far as Ron Paul, he is a flake when it comes to foreign policy and will not get very far in the Republican nomination process.
A Johnson
December 30th, 2011
1:40 pm
Is Newt’s wife wearing a helmet?
td
December 30th, 2011
1:42 pm
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:31 pm
TD I don’t know who your congressman be
It was Gingrey but since redistricting it is now going to be Graves. Both have done a great job in Congress and I will continue to support and vote for them.
td
December 30th, 2011
1:45 pm
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
Ron Paul and Gary Johnson can not both be on the ballot as the Libertarian candidate. Trump is not going to run for anything. If Ron Paul ran(he will not) then he would pull as many Dem votes from Obama as he would from the Republican nominee. A great deal of Paul supporters now are the same young college kids that supported and voted for Obama 3 years ago.
A Johnson
December 30th, 2011
1:51 pm
No one wants elderly Ron Paul for President. Ron Paul at time looks like doesn’t know where he is.
td
December 30th, 2011
1:52 pm
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Do you not read my friend? There is only one house member in Georgia (both Dem and Republican) that may lose his job and he is a Democrat. The rest (both Dem and Republican) will win in landslides. Plus Georgia will send one additional Republican to Congress due to us getting a new member of the house in redistricting. It is the same throughout the rest of the nation be it in Democratic states or Republican states. Everyone hates Congress but they love their own congressman.
Would some of you more politically astute libs please tell Independent that this is the truth?
A Johnson
December 30th, 2011
1:53 pm
The Republican candidates look like clowns everyday now. The debates were hilarious.
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
TD continue to support Graves.If he should find anymore run down motels he could cut you in on the DEAL.Least he could let you clean up mess.IN other words you are part christian,part atheist.Can’t have two masters.You will love one hate other.
td
December 30th, 2011
2:04 pm
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
“IN other words you are part christian,part atheist.Can’t have two masters”
What in the heck are you talking about?
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
2:11 pm
Td you so full of it, Ron Paul will not get any democrat votes and you know that. Who cares what going on in Georgia because everyone know this is a racist state.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
2:14 pm
Td you dont have a life, she stay on here 24 hr bashing president Obama and the democrat. What have Boehner, Cantor, Mcconnell done for Georgia or the rest of this country. Td trust me president Obama will be elected 4 more years and the dem will control the house and senate.
Mitzymy
December 30th, 2011
2:30 pm
Herman Cain was not planning on being president. He just wanted people to know who he was. He had achieved all of that success and no one knew him. We did not know that he was the CEO of Godfathers Pizza, and that he was a motivational speaker. Now we know, and he is out of a race that he was not qualified for. It was painful to watch him try to answer the questions they were asking him on tv. He had to look up in the ceiling, move a bottle of water, look at his advisors, and cross his legs, before he could give any kind of answer. He is home with his wife with whom I know will never let him off the hook for having a 13 year relationship with a fellow Georgia woman.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
All these republican candidates have issues in the past. None of them are presidential material.
President Obama will win by landslide. I heard some of the republican Iowa voters are undecided because they dont have any good candidates.
td
December 30th, 2011
2:52 pm
Ind. voter:
Here is a former Obama supporter that is supporting Paul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5lq6UX3DMI
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:08 pm
td, your point on individual congressional approval proves you and President Lincoln correct
You can fool all of the people some of the time [individual approval]
You cannot fool all of the people all of the time [overall approval]
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:20 pm
Double,
Here is a good one for everyone. Georgia law has a 25-foot buffer on stream, 50-foot on trout stream, and 150-foot on all streams above drinking reservoirs.
Hall County and several others in the Piedmont region of Georgia have changed their codes to make it perennial streams on USGS quad sheet maps; but that is not what the law says.
Governor Deal is now obliterating thousands of acres of land for subdivision development; and even placing industrial [jobs] development in jeopardy.
What say thee?
td
December 30th, 2011
3:22 pm
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:08 pm
That is a true statement but I think it goes a little deeper. I think the middle of the road people have shrunk to all time lows (probably no more than 20%) and now we have aligned ourselves at to dynamically opposed points of views. I am a conservative and think my Representative (Graves) is in Congress supporting the views I support. Now I am sure a Jon Lewis supporter would say that Graves is a horrible Congressman as I would say Lewis is not a good Representative.
As a result of our choices and our feeling of the other side, there are very few issues that Graves and Lewis can work together on and therefore we get nothing done in Congress. Neither side can compromise or there own voters will turn on them. Since nothing is getting done in Congress then both sides supporters say that Congress has a negative approval rating. I would bet if you had the pollsters dig into the reasons why voters do not approve of Congress as a whole then you would get about a 50/50 split with the left says Congress is not doing enough and the right saying they are doing to much.
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:28 pm
seven miles above the water intake, not an unlimited distance above reserviors
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:39 pm
td,
I voted for the Gainesville dentist [Hawkins?] four times against Graves. Representative Graves spammed us all before his last two election runs with free Franking Privileged mail. Sent four pieces of the same drivel to my home with me and the misses formal and nickname’s, before the primary and six –including to people who had not lived at our address for ten years, for the runoff. Talk about abuse of the federal treasury…
Now in Hall we have got a talk show queen running and I hope the Chaplin wins, there is no use in even a Medal of Honor winner who would be a Democrat even trying to run in the new [old] ninth.
td
December 30th, 2011
3:46 pm
findog
December 30th, 2011
3:39 pm
I was considering voting for Barr before he dropped out but the former Paulding commission chairman is not a viable option (since I helped vote him out of office). I usually vote for the non incumbent in the primary just to send a message. I live in a 80% Republican district and no Dem needs to and probably will not even consider running.
donkey for sale
December 30th, 2011
4:06 pm
This entire state is in a 80% Republican district!
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
4:51 pm
This state is 80% racist..Td you are a idiot..President Obama will win without Georgia so who cares what you republican say in GA.
Hillbilly D
December 30th, 2011
5:17 pm
Other than political operatives and news writers, does anybody pay any attention to endorsements?
BIg Hat
December 30th, 2011
5:40 pm
…And just which one of Mitt’s wives will be First Lady? Will there be a Second Lady? …Third? …Fourth? Would they rotate out or just have a first come / first serve doctrine? So many questions, so little time.
Last Man Standing
December 30th, 2011
6:30 pm
It amazes me that the press and the Obamazombies question Romney’s religion, but have nothing to say about Obama being a muslim.
Frederick Douglass
December 30th, 2011
6:40 pm
LMS
Obama’s not a muslim, and you’d be questioning Romney’s religion too if you weren’t so hell bent on replacing Obama with a white guy……………any white guy.