Or maybe, the software might prove helpful. Either way.
What you choose depends on how much you have invested in Romney or Perry, frankly. And I’m all about giving you choices.
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Aw hell, I am a machine, just way more fucking complex than the piddly toys I can make with my hands. My dick , now, that’s another story. I mean, after all, who decides whether the toy works or not?
Rick Perry was my first choice, and I still think that he’d make the best President, but his abilities as a candidate seem to be a bit lacking.
As for Herman Cain, it doesn’t even matter whether the allegations are true or not; he’s toast, and he’s the toast which fell off the table and, as always, lands buttered side down.
sdferr: Your wife/girlfriend decides whether it works.
I’d rather see Tim Roth analyze his microexpressions. That always works.
And you arrived at this judgment about Cain from face down on the floor with your lips chewing the linoleum?
Dana:
It’s too early to say who’s toast and who’s not. If Cain hunkers down and weathers it out—and it looks like he has every intention of doing so—he could come out smelling like a rose.
his abilities as a candidate seem to be a bit lacking
We’re hiring a president, not an after-dinner speaker. Stay focused.
Also, I’d like to remind people that “lack of experience” isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The typical retort is, “But what about Obama?”
Answer: Is Obama a bad president because he’s inexperienced or because he’s a left-wing radical?
Are you sure? Because the way we’re assessing the candidates indicates the other way around.
The response you’ll get is denial that he’s a left-wing radical.
Software? Fwwwt. DIEBOLD!
Also, I’d like to remind people that “lack of experience” isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The typical retort is, “But what about Obama?”
Answer: Is Obama a bad president because he’s inexperienced or because he’s a left-wing radical?
“Inexperienced at what” is all I care about. Obama isn’t a horrible president because he lacked political experience. He hadn’t done much of anything.
I am skeptical. If software could detect lies, then Skynet would have already launched Judgment Day after four minutes of scanning C-SPAN.
Cain is only toast if conservatives decide not to support him. That hasn’t happened.
Personally, I think we made a HUGE mistake pushing Bachmann aside. But certain conservatives really seem to have a problem with the wimmins.
Bachmann got rid of that one guy that was making her look too polished and phony. She could still stage a comeback during one of the other guys’ low points.
He hadn’t done much of anything.
But what he HAS done is terribly problematic, such as teach Alinsky to ACORN and funnel money into useless projects and marinate in faculty-lounge Marxism.
An inexperienced Marco Rubio, on the other hand, might make a few mistakes, but he’d never do this much damage.
Actually, I happen to think that Obama does lack political experience; did when he came onto the stage; did when he ran for office, and does to this day. But then, I happen to think politics is a far wider field of human endeavor than Barack Obama and his type think it. They think they have it bottled up in an ideological formula, like something to take down off a pharmacy shelf. I think that if they (or I, or anyone) would study and think about nothing but politics the rest of our lives we’d never reach that point. Why? Because politics is human stuff, and we don’t understand human stuff. Too complex.
Would you care to elaborate?
dicentra asked:
Yes.
Barack Obama is a bad President because he’s simply not up to the job. I was worried that he was a left-wing radical, but I no longer think that about him: as nearly as I can tell, he really doesn’t have a political and philosophical compass that points in any direction other than convenience. His policies are pretty much all over the map, including some policies that could have been pushed by former Vice President Cheney when it comes to foreign policy. The thing is: he can’t lead because he really doesn’t know where he’s going.
Combined with a lack of a governing philosophy is a thorough inability to manage people, coupled with poor judgement in picking good subordinates. The only really good selection he made was Rahm Emanuel, who’s gone now, because Mr Emanuel might have been a nasty, profane [enter slang term for the sphincter here], but he actually could get things done. Without Mr Emanuel, the Administration just doesn’t get policy done.
sdferr: I pulled up all the linoleum in our house a few years ago; we have the original fir flooring in one of those rooms, and laminate maple in the kitchen.
Still Dana, what’s your interest in dismissing Cain? Care to share?
Running voice stress analysis on politician’s speeches?
This guy’s headed for an early disappearance, sounds like to me.
Cain is simply too stupid. I mean, he didn’t even consider abortion exceptions before taking to the campaign trail? Plus, those suits.
And he keeps repeating 9-9-9 like a trained —OOPS! DON’T GO THERE!!!!!!
If only there were some sort of Grand Wizard that could make all those silly-ass unelectable * candidates drop out.
And maybe replace them with a real superstar candidate.
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* Electability based solely on their past experience at governing a liberal northeastern state.
For a salesman, I gotta say, psmith867 isn’t making good. But hey, maybe there are some suckers out there who’ll be happy to listen.
sdferr asked:
My support for Governor Perry was based on the fact that he is a successful governor, leading a state which shows us the way to economic improvement. I regret that he has proved to be such a lame candidate. It’s true enough that the things which make someone a good candidate do not necessarily mean a person has the tools to be a good President, as the incumbent has so painfully proved, and vice versa, but the fact is that we do judge the candidates on how good they are as candidates.
And in that regard, Mr Cain’s handling of this situation has not impressed me. I would hope that our nominee will demonstrate some real ability to actually run something, and Mr Cain, despite a very successful business background, hasn’t done so with his campaign.
But more, whether the accusations are true or not, they’ve stuck, and Mr Cain will never be able to prove that he was not sexually harassing these women. Even if it can’t be proved that he did, the smear sticks, and has stuck, and without quick resolution, would dog Mr Cain right up to election day if he were the nominee.
The toast is on the floor, buttered side down, and has been there long enough that the ants are crawling on it.
Nor will those women ever be able to prove that they were not sexually harassing Mr. Cain. Most sadly, though, I will never be able to prove that I am not queen of the space unicorns.
Campaigns can only be judged successful or unsuccessful in retrospect. Winning is the only test for judging is the campaign well run or not.
I’m still failing to perceive your interests Dana. But maybe that’s my fault.
Ace will now do his best to sell us on the idea that Romney is our only choice because he can win. Just like McCain.
I’m really looking forward to that day next year when Ace starts shaking his pom poms for Herman Cain.
How do you beat Obama?
You beat him with a Cain!
I well remember President McCain. I’m pissed off that there are various Republican Spokesweasels on Fox saying that “the voters will ‘come around'” about the Romney campaign. I guess we’re just supposed to shut up and take our medicine. Fer crissakes, romney is the guy who lost to McCain! Argh!
“Fer crissakes, romney is the guy who lost to McCain! Argh!”
With no small help from FoxNews employee Mike Huckabee, let us remember.
Mr Cain will never be able to prove that he was not sexually harassing these women.
I have trouble proving a negative myseslf, Dana.
I have to say, I love being told by people that Cain hasn’t run his campaign well, even as this erstwhile nobody whom Hugh Hewitt decreed shouldn’t be on the debate stage is at or in the lead in a number of polls.
I’d say somebody did something right. Just not conventionally.
Part of the reason I’m pestering Dana about his declaring Cain toast is simply that I’ve done the same thing, using the same words, with regard to Obama, though that was now some few months ago. And I meant it soothsayingly about Obama at the time, and believe it still. On the other hand, I also know I had many interests in doing so which I didn’t declare as such at the time, and again, still do.
Dana, prove you didn’t murder those hobos.
My endorsement of Perry is that he seems to realize that the best thing government can do for the economy is get the fuck out of the way and shrink itself. Everything else is gravy.
Why did you murder those hobos, Dana? Why?
@33 jg
Link
Tom Sowell on the real scandal circling the Cain story.
Were is Tim Roth when you need him?
That’s exactly the point I was making: he can’t prove a negative.
[…] have a chance to recover, but the calendar does not favor him __________________________ ¹ – Those are the words I used to describe Herman Cain as well. He’s in the sad position of having to prove a negative, that he didn’t harass those […]
FTFY.
That’s exactly the point I was making: he can’t prove a negative.
Well, Shee-IT. Might as well go down into the basement and breath the radon then.
Good luck getting another dumb as a post Texas shitheel* Governor elected President.
You and I both know he’s not stupid (off camera). But you can’t prove it, can you.
*no offense to Texans, or shitheels.
Ernst, I put up a comment a few months ago where I outlined a commercial comparing the economic numbers we had the last time we had a Texas governor as President with what the Copperheads have left us. I’d take those odds.
Yeah, but how you going to prove the dumb cowbody didn’t blow the hole thing up?
Ball-busting aside, I think it’s an argument against another term for SCOAMF. We’ll see who gets to argue it, and how persuasively they can make that argument.
I swear there was a w in front of “hole.” Should have left the profanity in place, I guess.
No, you see, these stupid fucking voters don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Have you seen how much money they’re giving the totally wrong guy?