Herman Cain: Time is ripe for a third political party

Well, there is the Constitution Party-it sounds close to Herman’s vision.

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Obama needs to send Herman a bouquet of flowers.

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You don’t need a third party, Herman. You need to revamp the Republican Party and kick out its fringe elements.

I’m a liberal but I support having two parties since it gives a system of checks and balances. One party in control for too long will cause major corruption and stagnation.

It’s quite simple: Become socially liberal and center-right fiscally moderate. Easy as pie. Let the Dems be socially liberal and center-left fiscally moderate. Meet in the middle. Compromise.

Stop denying gay people the right to marry and support the repeal of DOMA. Stop trying to regulate women’s wombs. For the love of God, STOP with the anti-science, anti-intellectualism. Stop calling scientific theories like Evolution and the Big Bang straight from the pits of Hell. Stop with the pseudo-Christian Dominionsim. Embrace ecumenical stances in regards faiths not Christian, including Atheism. Stop assuming every black or brown person is a thug who collects a check. Stop assuming every white person is a hard-working upstanding member of society. STOP making it harder for minorities to vote along with everyone else. DO ridicule and ostracize any member of your party that does any of these things. Stop the neo-Con foreign policy approach where you want to just bomb everything that remotely disagrees with you.

Young people these days are consistently less religious, more pro-science, pro-gay rights, pro-woman and eco-friendly.

You want your party to be great again? Adopt a socially liberal, fiscally center-right moderate position and watch your ranks swell with young people and minorities.

If not, you can watch your party wither and die off.

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I said the same thing today in Wingfields blog. Especially after the amendment 1 battle, I find calling myself a republician very hard to do. We do need a third party!

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You Dems seem to forget that you have your own nuts like Allan Greyson getting re elected. Not to mention almost the entire CBC are communist.

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What’s a CBC?

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I’m thinking it might be time to unveil my political party…NBS…no bs!

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A third party built on the concept of Herman and Newt. What a Hoot!

hotlanta said it “”Herman Pain go somewhere” where some one cares..

Nothing wrong a little ETHICS and Common Sense won’t cure. To little too late for the GOP.

That’s ETHICS….GA repukes…

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CBC is the Congressional Black Caucus, and yeah td is parroting Allen West. How’d that work out, td, for Congressman West? Errr, former Congressmen West, ’scuse me.

Herman, God bless ya, I think you should go for it. Especially since your candidacy worked out so well.

A smart party would follow the advice of NoWingedAngel. But I don’t think the Republicans will do that…

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LOL! Libertarian here, have voted Libertarian majority for the last 20 years of my life, including Gary Johnson in this election. Herman, there are third parties out there, and if you had run as one of them, you wouldn’t be their candidate either, just like the Republicans didn’t choose you.
Republicans – you want some chance at winning? Drop the authoritarian attitudes and embrace freedom! Real freedom, including the freedom of people to choose what they want to do with their bodies (abortion, marijuana legalization, civil unions, freedom of and FROM religion, etc) and their money.
As long as the Republicans choose to be the party of do what I say when I say it and believe what I believe or hit the road, then they will lose. Drop the fake christian bs and speak to freedom and you will win, fight against peoples personal freedoms and you will lose, end of story!

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Herman – Sign me up. It has been 50 years since the Bible and morality was taken out of our public schools. So far those that deny Christ and God as the creator of this universe had taken us down the road to a place where we very well may no longer be a Christian Nation.

I pray that is not the truth. I also know we are not far from it. Our liberties are being eroded almost daily and this message may draw some interesting fire. We are constantly being told we cannot proselytize. Well I think I can and will ignore that. I will continue trying to convince folks to become “Christians” and explain what that is. I will try to convince folks to join whatever organization, I believe is working to preserve the American freedoms so dearly fought for by our founding fathers and the many soldiers, Christian policticians and Christian Pastors over the past 200 plus years.

I will continue to try to help folks understand just what the 4th estate should be and pray that it returns to the dominance it once had, when it actually sought the truth and gave the folks a standard to listen to and use to make sound decisions.

Sadly we now have a 4th estate that preaches political spin and seldom tries to give the people information to make a decision by. We have Progressives, Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, CINO’s and too many other organizations that have agenda’ s contrary to the principles this Nation was built on. Now they are not asking, they are demanding that we compromise our Principles. It is time to say no more compromising, our Principles are not negotiable. It is time to move back towards the Principles this Nation was founded on.

So Herman, let us know where to signup, but first let us know what PRINCIPLES this new party will stand on!

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Now Paul, you forgot the witch burnings

That being.said, a third party? Come on.

Our electoral rules basically prohibit that from happening…did any of you pay attention.in your poli-sci classes? Nevermind the fact that pandering to the Gingrich/Cain fringe is what cost the GOP a win.

Face it, America is not fascist.

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Herman who?

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Hell, if everybody Herman committed adultery with voted, he be president.

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God bless you, Mitch Farr. I’ve no idea what a 4th estate is, but everything else you said, I know to be true. I get so tired of hearing garbage from people saying that the Holy Bible is pro slavery, anti-gay, and pro-hate. When in actuality, the Bible HATED slavery, and still HATES slavery. God LOVES Gays–he just HATES lust, fornication, and adultery. Choosing the think “gay,” choosing to do “gay,” is hurtful to the human being who chooses it, and to whomsoever may be affected by it.

God said that men are to be with women and not men, and that women are to be with men and not women. God has NEVER EVER EVER said anything to deny me, nor anyone else happyness (sorry I don’t know the proper spelling for that word), freedom, or joy. In fact, EVERYTHING that God has said is for the exact opposite.

God LOVES MAN! PERIOD. He’s just like your mother or your father who spanked you or yelled at you or simply warned you NOT to touch the hot stove, or to run with scissors, or to play with matches, etc when you were a kid. Your parents or your caregiver didn’t tell you that to take away your freedom, your fun, or to make you sad–they told you that to keep you from pain that you could not foresee.

Just like a crossing guard may have to grab a little child to keep him/her from running into the street, or better example–just like a crossing guard holds up a sign that says “STOP” or “CAUTION” and he/she wears bright, cautionary clothing to prevent deaths and accidents and to prevent people from accidentally causing pain to others (and to themselves, from accidentally hitting a pedestrian with their vehicle for instance), God’s only begotten Son, Jesus, who IS the Messiah, who IS the Christ tells us the following in Matthew chapter 5, verses 27-32:

“27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

The above is unbelievable seeing how things are, and have been for me, my 30 something years on this earth, but I KNOW it’s the truth. It’s just unbelievable for me to fathom how natural, and not bad seeming the above things are (looking upon a woman to lust after her–or for me–a man & divorcing and remarrying).

But I have to say that it is true. God has made it clear to many TOO many times enough, that He will NOT tolerate me to lust, and not just sexual or sensual–but to even go into fantasy mode, mentally about marriage, a family, etc–because HE knows the end result–mentally for me, personally.

He also doesn’t tolerate other things that I’m sure are fine for others, but not-so-fine for me–because he KNOWS what the end result will be for me. He makes it clear there will be consequences for certain seemingly innocuous (and to many, possibly innocuous) things, so I can either check myself, and (seemingly) deny myself, or I can indulge and take the consequences a few days or a few hours later. I have the choice. I HATE God’s consequences, so I recently began praying to Him to help me and to “lift me up” so to speak when evil spirits start with their thought spinning.

What I mean by “when evil spirits start with their thought spinning” is this: you ever wonder why out of left field you start remembering something from A LONG TIME AGO for absolutely NO reason, and then you get angry about it all over again? Or when you’re just minding your business and out of nowhere you start thinking about xyz person, or zyx situation in the word and you get sad, or depressed by it temporarily? Or maybe you just for no good reason start thinking of someone you know, and how they should handle THEIR personal affairs differently, and you’re kinda pot-calling-the-kettling them, or you begin to “judge” them?

I’ve come to strongly believe that this is because we live in a spiritual world, and that even though we can’t see, or hear, or really sense anything, the devil’s workers are constantly trying to get us off task, or doing something that will render us useless, unproductive, or less productive (like being depressed or sad about a situation never helped the situation–like becoming sad about the rape of some kid, or some woman (or man) somewhere in the world, never actually helped that rape victim. Only actions can help them, praying to God on their behalf, providing physical things for them if you are able, or improving your personal lot in life, so that you can, in the future, be able to better help the rape victim–like changing the laws, or mobilizing citizens, or bringing awareness to the problem by making documentaries, or by studying to become a doctor, so that you can help heal the physical wounds for the rape victim, etc…. All of those are ways to actually ACT to help a rape victim, but becoming sad and depressed, and crying, and being rendered physically and mentally tired thinking about or being angry about what happened to a rape victim somewhere, won’t change anything for that rape victim, and won’t help them, in my opinion.

All of that said to just say that God’s word in the book of St. Matthew I can vouch for.

Man likes to change the times to say that what was once considered a “sin” is ok now. See how that has worked throughout time.

Do you really believe that if everyone from let’s say 1981 or 1980 or 1960 or 1970 had just followed those two things that Jesus Christ said–not to lust and not to remarry if you must divorce, do you think that more people would have been worse off for that?

I don’t understand the pain of divorce, but I’ve heard too many adults whose parents divorced as children sing (many singers) about the pain of their parents divorcing. I’ve heard too many adults–young and older talk about the pain of growing up without a father in the house, or never knowing their dad. I can’t understand these things–but I’ve heard them too many times to not accept that their real. I’ve met enough young women, and older men (black americans, which I am myself), who have expressed such anger in their heart–that they don’t seem aware of, strangely, when speaking on their own mothers having had multiple children, and not married a father, or having had multiple children by different fathers–even though the adult females ended up repeating history to an extent.

Also, I’ve heard TOO many times, and no of the pain left behind by the loved ones of those who have died from AIDS.

I’ve seen the pain, though I can’t understand it personally fully, of ADULTS who, as children were molested–and how that impacted their future (often time involving drugs, but not always).

Please just think to yourself–not by replying to me, nor getting angry, but please just genuinely, for the sake of the pain of others, just think, and consider my above question.

I’ll add one more example and tie it together and call it a wrap. But do think of all of the people who have been raped, think of all of the people who have been molested, do you think that had their oppressors not lusted, that those things would have happened, in every situation? People say rape is not about lust but about control, well, it’s still a lust being inacted–we know based on the physiology of the crime itself–there has to be some craving some unchecked, inordinate desire going on in the spirit, in the mind of the oppressor.

I’m just saying, I think, I KNOW that we’re better off following the Gospel of St. Matthew in the Holy Bible (you can even read it online for free–I won’t post a link to any sites, in case that’s not allowed here)–but if you have the time, the King James Version of the Holy Bible has Matthew as the first book of the New Testament. If you don’t have much time, just try reading Matthew chapter 4 verse 17 through to Matthew chapter 8 verse 17, or ask someone with decent eyes if they wouldn’t mind reading it for you–if you have vision impairment problems or have difficulty reading texts at all.

Much love, and no offense meant to any!

-Love, Jennifer White

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This Party already exists. It’s called the Libertarian Party. Fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Ronald Reagan was a Libertarian. We’ve been waiting for you. Welcome to the future.

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Below is my second post:
I almost forgot to say with the slavery, what was the “let my people go,” and the “parting of the Red Sea” for?

God hated slavery when the Africans in Egypt enslaved the Jews (though if you read the Old Testament prior to Exodus–it wasn’t always like that–the enslavement of the Jews by the Egyptians–they were very “cool” with each other–to speak in slang lol, how else would Joseph, one of Israel’s aka Jacob’s 12 sons have become the number 2 man in all of Egypt, being a Hebrew, had the Egyptians and the Jews not been “cool” with each other, lol, just threw that in. You can check that out in Genesis chapter 37-49 (Joseph becoming the number 2 man in Egypt, only Pharaoh was before him in all the land) and Exodus chapter 1 verses 1-12 (when the slavery was instituted).

But yeah, God is NOT pro slavery, he doesn’t even like for us to speak cruelty others, how in the world would he want us to beat, whip, and to treat each other as less than cattle?

You have to read a book before you say what’s in it, which is NOTHING like passing a bill before you know what’s in it (LOL ), but yeah, you also have to get to know someone before you can hate them, and even when it comes to hate God is AGAINST IT–His word from Jesus’s lips states this HARD saying:

“43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew chapter 5 verses 43-48)

But speaking on the Bible and Jim Crow, Jesus made it clear that we are ALL equal, and that NO man is above any other man. He wasn’t cool with us even so much as “judging” others or hypocrisy, or putting ANYONE above anyone–like how believers of Christ put the priests and the bishops and the pastors and their “first ladies” of the church above the people today:

“1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.” (Matthew chapter 7 verses 1-5)

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“1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:

3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” (Matthew chapter 23 verses 1-28)

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In closing, PLEASE don’t judge Christianity by what people who call themselves Christians do. I can profess all day on the Internet that I’m a prettier in the face and body than ANY and EVERY supermodel that has ever existed, and I can believe that all I want to, but if I post a picture of myself, I’m sure a lot of people would come to the realization that I believed, and proclaimed to be something that I was not

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So, Lib’s, in the last 4 years fuel is higher, employment is lower, debt is higher, then the stock market crashed on November 7 and every major company aborted their plans to expand and hire as a result.

You are so simply and utterly stupid that your let your fight for abortions and rectal penetrations blind you.

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So Herman’s theory is that there is a conspiracy against the Republican party by those blatantly against it. But if a 3rd party is formed with I guess other unhappy Republicans the blatant conspiracy will go away. Herman can you offer a few more details on how this name change will alleviate your paranoia?

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Why not? Under Obama we have nearly reached third world status, with Doctors without Borders caring for hurricane Sandy victims in NY, where some people have to walk miles to find food and are terrified to go out after dark.. Oh but Obama managed to get in a round of golf yesterday.

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Add a third party and you get what you have in the Israeli Knesset, coalitions of the various parties in order to achieve power. What a mess!

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What did the Cons learn from the last election? Nothing. Keep up the good work.

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What the Republicans need is a messenger that can convince the folks that voted for Dems that they really need to learn to think for themselves and to stop being led around by the Obama claus propaganda machine, hollywood and a bunch of no nothing, immoral folks on TV pretending to be journalist.

Open your mind folks. Can’t you see you were just used by the rich black man?

And the latinos, Obama claus stuck it in your face and told you he was using you as a pawn to reelect him and you still fell for it.

Wait until January middle class blacks when you open that paycheck and then give Obama claus a call and tell him thanks.

Actually, gonna feel good to know those that fell for Obama claus’ lies are paying more taxes.

But, you had to have your gay marriage, abortion and Jay z, or whatever his name is.
Enjoy the next 4 years of giving more to the government.

One last thing. You have no clue what’s coming with health care and what it’s gonna cost you personally.
You’ll really regret voting him back in then, but it’s too late. Have a good day. Have to go to work now to pay for an illegal’s something or another. But, I’m thinking about getting my EBT too.
I’m sure Obama claus will give it to me.

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Jennifer, you can believe whatever you like about the Bible, that’s your choice, but it’s certainly pro-slavery. There isn’t anyway around it. You can’t simply pick and chose the verses in the Bible that you like, and skip those you don’t. The old testament makes it very clear that slavery is only wrong if you own a Jewish male. Again and again the Old Testament makes it clear, it’s only wrong if you do it to a Jew.

http://rarebible.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/slavery-rules-in-exodus-and-leviticus/

Let’s be clear, it’s only wrong to enslave Jewish men, it’s fine to sell your daughter into slavery because she’s only property.

This is a property list, notice how a wife is property: (note how coveting is wrong, but it’s ok to own a manservant) Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s. ( I think that since the wife comes before the ox and the ass, she is more valuable)

Don’t forget that the Apostle Paul made it very clear that slaves should obey their masters. Was this because the Bible was against slavery?

The Bible is full of many lovely things, but also a slew of horrible things that are frequently a not so subtle message that it’s only sin if you do it against another Jew. It’s clearly wrong to steal or kill, the Ten Commandments couldn’t have been more clear about this, but then that same God tells the Jews to go into the Land of Canaan and kill all of the men, women and children and steal their land. Apparently it isn’t murder if you kill gentiles, even gentile children. Remember, God said they needed killing.

Also, if you’re going to follow the Bible, its clearly wrong for you, a women to be attempting to teach men. The Apostle Paul makes this very clear.

1 Timothy 2:12: I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

I’m not saying that I believe this, but if you’re a Bible believing Christian, you should. It’s in there, stop skipping the verses you don’t like.

As I said before, you’re entitled to believe anything you like, but stop trying to rewrite the Bible and stop trying to rewrite the history of our country. I love this country, but the facts are clear, everything wasn’t wonderful when Christianity was the dominant religion in this country. As with every other religion, its done some wonderful things, and its frequently been used to oppress others and justify the sins of the devout. I’m all for the passages that say we should love our neighbors, but that includes the Jews, gentiles, blacks, whites, gays and every other group among us. We’ve clearly struggled with this concept as a nation and Christianity has mostly been used to justify our inability to love our neighbor.

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The need for realignment of the Republican party is obvious. Let the honest, liberty-loving, patriotic conservatives regain the party worthy of Lincoln and Eisenhower by booting out the neo-Republican politicians of the former states of the Confederacy, and their sympathizers in the flyover states of the Midwest. Also, cast out the “religious right” who try to behave like God instead of like Christ.

The outcasts should be called “Dixiecrats”, in honor of their heritage of corruption and hypocrisy.

The Dixiecrats have FoxNews as their propaganda channel. Honest Republicans do not need to fear the unbiased truth and perspective of PBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NBCnews, the New York Times, and all other respectable media outlets in the world.

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Herman Cain is a fruitcake. But he’s right. Start a 3rd party and get all the current kooks to join.

That would clean up the Republican Party.

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Cain is the problem.

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Some folks will never learn. They will just continue to double down on the stupid………

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Hermie, nobody tarnishes the brand of the Republican party like Republicans. NOBODY. Until you accept that, a third party is not going to cure what ails ya.

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You bleeding-heart liberals are crowing now…. But once the socialist democrat party leads us into an economic morass that we can’t get out of, you’ll have no one to blame but yourselves. Oh, wait a minute- you’ll still be blaming George Bush.

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Bob’s right, lot of Republican governors. How’s that working for Georgia? First in bad things, last in good things. Ten years of the Con party rule has got you what?

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Mr. Cain, your wife didn’t make a big effort to support you. Why would you think hundreds of thousands of voters would do so?

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Democrats should encourage Cain, Gingrich, Bachmann, Santorum, and Perry to remain in the spotlight, and continue their association with the Republican Party. Write them, call them, contribute to them. Make them relevant to the media, so they will continue coverage of the clown parade through the next election cycle. And by all means, td/cc should continue to represent the Republican constituency with his interpretations of reality.

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The GOP is in need of a complete overhaul without Herman’s involvement. Cain will never be part of the main stream body politic again, he has shown us his true fiber. The GOP as a whole has lost touch with the American voter base, they have alienated nearly every demographic group in the country excluding “old white guys”. The extremists have made it so. No one was surprised that the Democrats had a good day on November 6th., except the GOP. How could the GOP possibly think you were going to win much of anything when you have pissed off, the African Americans, the women, the Latino population, the middle class, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the unions, the LGBT. Did I forget anyone? The GOP is completely out of touch with themselves and with the voters. The GOP had the lack of sense to elect Romney as their candidate, he was nothing more than the narrow best of a very bad lot. The GOP then compounded that bad choice with their choice of an extremist as the VP running mate. I remain undecided about who was the worst choice, Palin in 2008 or Ryan in 2012.

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Herman, the word is rife, not ripe

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So let me get this straight – the Republicans just got crushed nation-wide, and the only thing Herman Cain thinks was responsible for that was “the mainstream media machine that blatantly works to support this president and other liberals, and works, blatantly, to tarnish the brand of what the Republican party stands for”, and that the nation-wide crushing had nothing to do with what the Republican party ACTUALLY stands for??

HEY HERMAN – YOU NEED TO STOP WATCHING FAUX NEWS SO MUCH. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU.

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I’m very happy that Rodney Ho’s column mentioned all news FM 106.7. I never have to listen to WSB again for my news, traffic and weather. Thanks AJC!

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skip – 9:06

Georgia cons are easily led around by the nose. They believe anything their Republican betters tell them.

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I think Herman Cain is great, and I’m tired of of paying for liberals to sit on their lazy a$$es! This country would be much, much better off with Herman Cain in the white house than this baffoon we have in there today. Instead of meeting with a jobs councel, Obozo prefers to play golf!

By the way, I’m a middle aged white guy! It isn’t racial. Stop listening to morons like Sharpton and Jackson. They are getting rich, or have gotten rich, by perpetuating racism!

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BOTH parties have failed. The Dems are controlled by the far left and the Repubs by the far right. BOTH parties are big gub’ment fiscal liberals. BOTH parties are loyal to their party over loyalty to the USA and what is best for economic recovery of the USA. SICK OF PARTY LOYALISTS. A 3rd party must be USA LOYALISTS 1st and party 2nd. Time for a balanced budget amendment to the constitution and time for TERM LIMITS for Congress.

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we need the tea party aspects of taxed enough already and stop the spending madness–espeically the wasteful spending—most politicians when shown large amounts of wasteful spending simply say “well that’s a drop in the bucket to the deficit”—those “drops” building up over time is how we got the deficit–there isnothing wrong with the tea party—most are middle age taxpayers who are simply fed up–they don’t riot, tear up police cars and defecate on public property— the republican party needs to stay out of the bedroom and learn to respond quickly to attacks if it is to survive. you can’t let a sitting president attack you for 5 months and not respond—even when certain statements were blatant lies/misrepresentations– after the public hears them for 5 months without a response they begin to believe them. romney should have attacked obama full force as well which he did not—he was trying to run strictly on the economy (which should have been enough) but you need to fire up your base to get them out to vote —which he failed at— he got less voters out to vote than mccain which is pretty bad. still 3/4 of my friends criticize obama to high heavens but fail to go vote.

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I agree Jokerman – you guys need to offer the country a REAL conservative next time – Herman would do, or Gingrich, or Santorum. Or maybe Allen West?

Let’s see how that works for you – maybe you would win Utah, but that’s about it.

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we have jealous sick people in this country. Obama has ruined our nation and God only
knows what we are in store for now.
We will not have enough money to barely get by on and liberal taxes. Why does he not
get his salary cut to about half. He spent a whole year campaigning and accepting illegal
donations. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

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if GODS in charge why are conservative christians sooooooo angry?….lololololololo

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There already is a “third” political party…but it really is the First political party. The Constitution Party is the first party, Republican second and the Socialist Party is the third.

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Be careful, Herman, the purge may be for thee.

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@Sandra Moore

November 11th, 2012
11:08 am
we have jealous sick people in this country. Obama has ruined our nation and God only
knows what we are in store for now.
We will not have enough money to barely get by on and liberal taxes. Why does he not
get his salary cut to about half. He spent a whole year campaigning and accepting illegal
donations. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

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The CIVIL WAR is over.

The South WILL NEVER RISE AGAIN.

People who think like you HAVE GONE WITH THE WIND.

Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind…”

If you don’t like Obama…..LIVE THE UNITED STATES.

I WILL PAY FOR THE TICKET.

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Barrack Obama’s legacy will be that he was the first minority elected president twice with both the popular and Electoral College numbers. He worked to provide affordable health care for all Americans. He allowed the acceptance of gays in the military and started an immigration policy aimed at the youth.
I look forward to the next four years, watching him put the GOP run house on the spot to do what is right for the country and not just their own re-election campaigns fueled by hateful rhetoric.
Oh President OBAMA won FL…Too

GO PRESIDENT OBAMA!! FOUR MORE YEARS, YEAH

Unemployment is down because romnutt was busy!

Herman and Newts Legacy…keeping hookers (no offense Ladies) employed.

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@ Gone With the Wind:

If you are going to try and cast an insult, at least double check your spelling…”live” has a far different meaning than “leave.”

And for the record, nothing Sandra Moore said has anything to do with race. So, does your cultural epithet at her and the Civil War legitimize your ignorance or lacking of a proper education? I would hope you would exercise good judgement and save yourself the money for her ticket and maybe go down and see about enrolling in a local junior college.

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A third party is ideal. The Democrats and Republicans are allies. They extend favors to each. No third party has been strong enough to stand against the Democratic and Republican during this century.A third party will survive when citizens need favors that the Democrats or Republicans are not willing to fulfill.

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like someone said ‘if Herman would have kept his 9-9-9 in his pants he might be president now’

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Herman Cain is ill and in denial.

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gathering

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We have multiple political parties. The Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party.

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Marci Brown, you have an awful name.

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America was NEVER in any danger of a Herman Cain presidency, but it was fun seeing his head swell, like he actually thought he had à chance.

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How irrelevant are Herman Cain and Neal Boortz? Not to mention Rush Limbaugh? Yet WSB radio insists on airing these characters for many hours during the day. Is WSB irrelevant? Perhaps it is. In the Presidential election just passed, how many non-Republican votes were cast in Georgia and the Atlanta area? Somewhere around 45-46 percent. Does this not indicate that a great number of people, possibly potential listeners, are sick of this negative, unintelligent, biased, insignificant blather coming from Cain, Boortz, Limbaugh, et al?

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A third party to do what? Have a 3 way fight instead of the 2 parties that fight and can’t agree on anything.
We had a third party candidate but he was not given equal coverage or allowed in the debates.
What we need is to eliminate the 2 party system and have one UNITED PARTY. I’ll volunteer to be the first candidate. We need to make it easier for some one to run without having to be so rich.

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Justlogical…I agree no bank accounts in the Caymans, or Swiss banks. Term limits for senators and no more than 6 mounts to campaign.

Feel free to add to the list.

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Herman you were the best canidate for the republican nomination and I would have gladly supported you.The fact that you didnt get the nomination has nothing to do with party affiliation it was because you couldnt keep your thing in your pants.Then you insulted us by saying the woman was just a friend that you were helping with handouts(I guess they were ok since they werent government handouts huh?) A third party a fourth party nor a fitth party would nominate you with that kind of baggage.You had your chance Herman and you blew it..Keep your thing in your pants.

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GTJohn, You just embarassed a great Institute, unless that stands for Good Times…..

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@Not Blind

November 11th, 2012
5:55 pm
Mr. Cain needs to realize that the only way for a politician to survive poor judgement is to have the [D] by his name.

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Herman Cain, DUMMY

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Herman Cain is EATING A BIG OLD CROW PIZZA.

yum yum eat it up….Herman

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Please do it Herman. The Republican party desperately needs to get rid of you, Rush, Sean, Neil, Grover and the Tea Party. We will never win another national election until we can distance ourselves from these bullies, bigots, and lunitics. If the Tea Party had not nominated Akin, Mourdock, Miller, Machman, Ingle and O’Donald we would have a big majority in the Senate.

Please, please leave Herman and take your friends with you. It could save the Republican party.

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I am with you Herman. We do need a party that is first Socially conservative and then fiscally conservative. Social policy will always dictate fiscal policy, it is cause and effect and if you do not address the root cause then you will never be successful in correcting the problems with our economy.

It really is that simple…

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In addition to the Libertarians, the Greens, the Constitutionalists, et al., there already is a 3rd party that has emerged over the past several years. It’s called the Tea Party, and its original intent was to reign in the excesses of both political parties. However, it was hijacked by elements of the Republican Party to win the mid-terms in 2010,and it served its purpose. However, the far-right leaning elements of the Tea Party was antithetical to majority beliefs, and 2012 saw the gains reversed. Now the Tea Party has fractured the Republican Party, which was an unintended consequence. The GOP has a serious identity problem, and folks like Herman Cain are now trying to duck and run, whereas before they truly believed that Tea Party values were the equivalent of American values. Get gone Mr. Cain. Vote Tea Party or vote Republican. We aren’t setting up another party to suit your insane wishes.

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This review is from: Waking Up Blind – Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery (Hardcover)
As with any industry, there’s a place in American health care where big money and big ego cross paths. But in medicine, that intersection is often found in the body and mind of individual Americans.

A distinguished ophthalmologist and clinical professor at Emory, Tom Harbin provides the authoritative account of the rise and rise of Dwight Cavanagh. Performing eye surgeries in impressive numbers, Cavanagh made himself into a money machine for Emory. Not only did the institution receive reimbursement for the procedures; Cavanagh was also adept at winning grants. The whole department prospered. The University built state-of-the art facilities. Everybody seemed to win. Cavanagh was the ophthalmological equivalent of a rock star.

Except that whispers began to spread about whether the patients really needed all those operations. In one case, Cavanagh operated on the wrong eye, blinding a poor man who hadn’t clearly needed surgery in the first place. After too many operations on too many borderline patients, the hard-working, honest physicians alongside Cavanagh finally mustered the courage to question the rock star’s practices. Cynically, the Emory administration closed ranks, and it was the honest critics whose careers were stunted.
The following is by Horace Nalle.

Harbin tells this true story with a novelist’s pace and an insider’s authority. Waking Up Blind succeeds because it’s a gripping story told by an authoritative physician with a graceful and unobtrusive style. It’s also an engaging account of how Big Ego and Big Health Care can actually compromise patient outcomes. Arriving in the midst of the national health care debate, Waking Up Blind couldn’t be more timely.

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Well, there seems to be enough eight-balls, screwball and goofballs in the Republican Party to share with a new Third Party. I say, go for it Herm. Maybe they’ll sign on to your Nine-Nine-Nine Plan, but you’ve got to figure out how to explain it.

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I think the election was wrot with corruption.
Check each of my points; see what I am talking about.

These are my reasons for not trusting our (mis)representatives and most others to have given the U. S. A. an honest election in 2012, and how I would repair it.
1) TRUETHEVOTE.ORG has shown many video-ed cases of fraudulent voting and illegalities of individuals practicing fraud. (go to that website and watch the actual fraud)
2) Some not shown cases of fraud are; the union organizers (that’s what I think they are) bringing van loads of these organizers to voting places and showing them who to vote for as they are “interpreting” for them so they push the correct buttons.
3) Eric Shawn (of FOX news) did several prime time specials on these several (annual) shows.
4) Almost everywhere in America had cases of vote buttons changing from Romney/Ryan over to Obama/Biden to the point that some, who were thinking, had to push the button two and three times in order to get their choice.
5) In Philadelphia, Pa, the Black Panthers had the knowledge to become poll watchers and “doormen” for people of color, so they didn’t have to threaten/intimidate.

There were other things but I cannot remember them all.

How I think our system is broken;
As our Presidential Primaries were being held, we had cases of votes not being brought to collection areas in time for the tally. Many were not counted ‘till several days later; taking momentum from Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

Then there was the case of a bus driver to the R.N.C. driving around a parking lot until the vote for Pres. Was past; causing Rep Paul to miss out on the vote he should have made.

Then; during our R.N.C. there was a time when Mr Boehner called for a voice vote of the delegates for accepting the new rules proposed by ….someone (Illuminati?)

My changes:
Election costs: every person gets the same amount for primary; elections get same again or double it.
Any lying about candidates becomes a federal, state or municipal felony

National Voter Card/ drivers license or other nationally accepted similar to Drivers license.

Go backward to the early voting machines, and make them the law of the Constitution that they have to be the ones we use nationwide.
What does everyone think of that?

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A third party?

One woman is NOT enough for Herman?

Two women is NOT enough for Herman?

Now he wants a THIRD PARTY?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Party on Hermie

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@Richard Gregory

November 11th, 2012
8:47 pm
I think the election was wrot with corruption.
Check each of my points; see what I am talking about.

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CONS were trying to SUPPRESS THE VOTE.

CONS were the ONLY people who were CAUGHT CHEATING.

Remember Florida during the Bush/Gore campaign?

They TRIED IT AGAIN AND FAILED.

CONS are not as CONNING AS THEY THINK THEY ARE.

OBAMA WON INSPITE OF THE SUPPRESSION

DEAL WITH IT. OBAMA DID IT AGAIN.

HEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE

CONS ARE HYPOCRITES AND SO ARE YOU.

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Hey Sandra Moore….

November 11th, 2012
11:08 am

we have jealous sick people in this country. Obama has ruined our nation and God only
knows what we are in store for now.
We will not have enough money to barely get by on and liberal taxes. Why does he not
get his salary cut to about half. He spent a whole year campaigning and accepting illegal
donations. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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And you wonder why GEORGIA is at the bottom of the education ladder…It’s MORONS like you and your ILK that continue to drive this state into the abyss. When are you AND REDNECKS LIKE YOU, going to wake up and realize the fact that YOU LOST..NOW GET OVER IT! If you really want to do something to GET GEORGIA and the rest of the REDNECK STATES off the BOTTOM of the LADDER, TRY EDUCATION. IT WILL CURE IGNORANCE BUT NOT STUPID!

SO SPEAKS HOT DOG!

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Herman Cain needs a party at Chuck E. Cheese.

Obviously more than half of the country does not align themselves with the Republican party, so there are even less that want to align themselves with someone like Hermy.

Conservatives still don’t have a clue that no one wants to go back to the 1950’s. People nowadays have compassion for people from all walks of life, of different origins and background. People have become to understand that times changes and change is needed to adjust to the needs of the world. We are no longer isolated to one country. People and kids now have access to all types of cultures, races, and customs. They understand that there is something we can get from everywhere and we also understand that not everybody has been privileged to be born in a western civilized country. If we want to be the best country in the world we need to embrace those that want to positively contribute to our country.

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Herman, i did not realize that you may agree with the evangelical group who has helped destroy the Republican Party. yes, they can fund you but you will have zero chance of winning. Save the hassle and avoid going down this path as it goes no where except to causing “hate against others” to fester.

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