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Jennifer Rubin asks good questions about Cain’s relevant political/presidential job skills, here. To be fair to Cain, the underlying Washington Post story on which Rubin bases much of her latest post isn’t a very thorough one; indeed, it’s rather a weak effort and seems like a hit piece struggling to qualify as news. On the other hand, Rubin’s points about how some executive skills do not translate to other executive skills is a good one — and it by now is almost incontrovertible that Cain’s campaign organization is a mess. If conservatives want to beat Barack Obama and his $800 million or even $1 billion campaign, they darn well better make sure their candidate can actually put together a coherent political organization and run an effective ground game as well as air war. Cain’s previous foray into politics was an embarrassing 20-plus point loss in a Republican primary in Georgia, which doesn’t offer much promise. A general election presidential campaign is no time for on-the-job training. Let’s all hope he steps up his game, soon.
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CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 3:30PM
So, you're seeing that the "serious charges" of sexual harassment aren't sticking so you (and the rest of the Establishment) are moving on.
The questions may be valid, but they're being asked right as Cain is building money-collecting momentum and the smears aren't sticking.
What a co-inky-dink.
irmaladuce| 11.4.11 @ 3:31PM
no, no, no. The GOP doesn't have to worry about any of this because Barack Obama is dumb and bad at politics.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 11.4.11 @ 3:38PM
I think Cain is the perfect candidate in a day and age when people are tired of polished liars.
CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 3:54PM
People complain that he's not running the "right" kind of campaign.
Like those run by career politicians, in other words. The type of people who have been in charge all these years. Whose methods have been SO good for the country.
Trinacria| 11.4.11 @ 4:52PM
No - like those who know that China already has nuclear weapons or has heard of the concept of "right of return" or knows that there's no "f" in "with"....
He's a charming, eminently likable chap; unfortunately, neither quality is a critical prerequisite for the job he's seeking. Given the choice between a great guy with no experience and an asshole who will croak terrorists and keep the government's hand out of my pocket, well, the choice ain't all that difficult...
CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 5:19PM
For cryin' out loud.
So who's your choice, then?
BillyTheConservativeOldGoat| 11.4.11 @ 5:24PM
Number one criteria: someone who can win. Number two criteria: someone with a good economic plan. Cain loses on both. Also on criteria three, four and five, but whose counting.
W| 11.4.11 @ 5:45PM
Trinicaria, sorry I put your name as sender instead of sendee, long day.
Trinacria| 11.4.11 @ 6:19PM
No worries, brother... I've been there.
Occam's Tool| 11.4.11 @ 11:01PM
Santorum, perhaps? Maybe Gingrich?
Trinicaria| 11.4.11 @ 5:44PM
I'm with you, vote for the asshole, but which one?
Do you remember what Washington said crossing the Delaware?
Trinacria| 11.4.11 @ 6:17PM
I don't know yet; there's still more vetting that must take place.
By the way, to be clear, I'm not necessarily suggesting that the other candidates are assholes; my point is that if given the choice between an unqualified nice guy and a qualified asshole, I'll take the jerk every time. We're never going to have a beer together, he isn't going to babysit my kids, and I'm not looking for a new BFF - so, frankly, I don't really care if he's a prick as long as he can competently execute the duties of the office. Would I like him to be someone with a personality my kids can admire (ala Reagan)? Sure, it'd be nice, but it's far more important to me that my kids actually have an opportunity to succeed without the crushing burden of debt that's being heaped upon them or the prospect of living under the tyranny of socialism...(besides, the last thing I want is for my kids to view a politician as a role model!).
W| 11.4.11 @ 6:25PM
Agree completely.
GW said, Cazzo, fa freddo. heard it long time ago, heard today.
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 10:06PM
Is he really "likable"?
What I see is a guy without a clue about what it take to be a successful candidate let alone President trying to force himself on the party. What I see is a man who has failed to do the long and hard reading required to be able to speak coherently on a host of issues; what I see is a man who can't bother to prepare, yet constantly holds himself out as the beau ideal in executive leadership.
In short I see a fraud, and a pushy fraud at that.
I see ignorance writ large, hubris a country mile wide, I see a man who loves having somebody like Hannity and Levin slaver over him yet can't bring himself to do the solitary labour of preparing for the office that he seeks.
I see behavior more like that of an adolescent that an adult, more immaturity than maturity, more regard for his own ego than regard for the cause that he supposedly champions.
What I see I've got HUGE problems with.
But then again I'm Conservative, which means I've a developed 6th sense about frauds, about gimmicks and gimmickry.
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 10:11PM
Ever see Cain when asked about the many things about which he hasn't a clue?
Watch him while he tries to affect a knowledge he doesn't have.
Now ask yourself: "What is that, if not deceptive?"
ZipED| 11.4.11 @ 10:42PM
The comment was that we don't need more polished liars, and clearly Cain is not a polished liar. QED.
Bumr50| 11.4.11 @ 3:56PM
Wow.
Someone's getting awful pissy.
Lesser Weevil| 11.4.11 @ 4:01PM
So the auditorium remodel was over budget and he had friction with the board? Shocking stuff. If even part of this is true, he certainly doesn't belong in the race. Thanks for keeping us up to date, Quin.
Dai Alanye | 11.4.11 @ 4:22PM
Everyone agrees that Cain's organization leaves a lot to be desired, and that he's prone to fumbles and gaffes. But most also agree that the foregoing is less important than that his political instincts be sound.
The recent charges against him are so lacking in substance - indeed, so laughable - at this point that his critics are reduced to criticizing the process rather than the product. Nothing sticks because he seems to use the same brand of teflon Reagan did. Cain is far from perfect but his fans are convinced he's a real person rather than a poll-driven construct, and that's the way they want him.
Cain is not my first choice. It looks, though, as if he has the best chance of stopping Romney - the first step - and without question is far and away superior to Obama. Always assuming he doesn't have a Chappaquiddick-level incident in his background I expect him to beat Barack like a red-headed stepchild.
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 10:17PM
"[L]eaves a lot to be desired."
We're Conservatives and not much fond of euphemisms to veil what some are uncomfortable confronting.
His staff is a shambolic, sick joke. His Chief of Staff hurls around wild and baseless accusations to distract attention from their unprepared and poorly-informed candidate.
They have no ground game ready, no grass roots organization long in preparation.
His campaign mirrors the candidate, both are unready, both have failed to do the long work necessary for a serious campaign and candidacy, both have survived by gimmicks.
And the money won't shelter the unready, only make the candidate appear more fraudulent than he already is.
Go ask Howard Dean about the value of a vast war chest in sheltering an unready candidate from the storms that will surely hit any Presidential campaign.
And watching Cain's interaction with the media, he too is one set back away from his Howard Beal/Dean moment.
And any real Conservative would see that coming a good country mile off.
Dai Alanye | 11.5.11 @ 10:43AM
Dan's exaggeration is unnecessary. The difference between the characters of Cain and Howard Dean is Grand Canyon-sized but simple - Dean is a jackass, Cain isn't. If Cain ramains fairly cool he's safe, short of a large moral failing.
ECM | 11.4.11 @ 4:26PM
Jen Rubin is like most, establishment, figures: she believes we need to be ruled by some variation of Plato's philosopher kings, for our own good--if that sort of reasoning doesn't sound un-American, I'm pretty sure nothing does.
(And I'm not a Cain fan, but I find this sort of rationalizing by the 'elites' to be pathetic and risible.)
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 10:20PM
Concur, the elites are the very same that have led us into this mess.
But that doesn't mean in any way that Herman Cain is the answer to our problems, if anything, he's but symptomatic of how deep our problems are.
Many are oscillating wildly from candidate to candidate, all in a wild and frenzied quest to avoid settling for Romney.
I fully understand that, and to a significant extent share their dismay. But I'll not be a party to foisting anyone unready upon the party.
Cain is increasingly a sick joke.
Whereas before I listened to him with a level of bemusement, -------- no more. He's not nearly as competent as he deludes himself that he is. And he's too much of a head case to understand that about himself.
Oldefarte| 11.4.11 @ 5:03PM
If this is true of his OVERALL private business experience, then yes it becomes problematic; but his NRA days should be combined with that of his Federal Reserve and Godfather Pizza ones for an overall view. What's described is essentially Obama-like in which there is no desire to do the essense of the demands of the job. The presidency is an administrative position requiring the person to literally sit behind the desk in the oval office and to MAKE DECISIONS. Politicing is talking and partially spreading bullexcrement and has no relevance to the job of president. Reagan's greatest asset was his ability to MAKE DECISIONS in a macromanaging fashion, not in a micromanaging one. The presidency demands someone who assembles professionable advisors, gathers information from all of them and then makes the best informed decision for the country!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trinacria| 11.4.11 @ 6:34PM
Expertly stated, Flatulus Geriatricus. It's not the half-baked innuendos and rumors that are concerning, it's that the hamfisted and utterly amateurish response has proven to be further evidence of an inability to assemble a world class team of experienced and professional advisors, gather and assess facts and options, and act decisively to manage a crisis. How does anyone running for public office fail to take a full inventory of all possible blemishes and prepare a damage control plan a priori (has anyone that's ever been accused of sexual harrassment forgotten it????).
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 9:57PM
And remember too that Cain is the one when asked on issues he's not the foggiest about, resorts to saying he'll rely upon unnamed "experts."
Well if the experts in his campaign are in any way suggestive of the expertise he'll retain once in high office, God help us.
Another thing, and nobody has yet hit him on this, is that inasmuch as he hasn't a clue about various and sundry subjects, important to the success of a Presidency, his reliance upon supposed "experts" will make him a captive to accepted conventional opinion. Moreover, it will leave him vulnerable to accepting the last piece of advice from whatever "expert" has his ear. The experts are much like those at CIA we saw during the last 20 years, regurgitating accepted opinion, relying upon generalized opinion unchallenged by serious scrutiny. The "experts" in Washington are the very same who have led the country into this debacle, and have led us into an economic wilderness, have allowed Iran to kill Americans without response, have allowed Iran to close in on perfecting their own Manhattan Project. The "experts" are the one still paying for force structures in Europe while getting no help from them in the war on terror, have allowed the South Koreans to bribe the NK leadership while backbiting us.
They're the absolute last people we want having the ear of the President.
We don't need more of the crap we saw during the 12 years of the Bush Presidencies.
Oldefarte| 11.5.11 @ 2:35PM
Yea right, as the billboard showing Bush's picture on same proclaims, MISS ME YET? You GD right we [or the intelligent ones at least] do miss him, COMPARED TO THE SOCIALISTIC CREW OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ACORN STREET HUSTLERS that we now have in charge of this country. My G-D, the country is being literally driven into an economic and political ditch, and morons are still bringing up Bush? Grow a GD brains, please!
Les Nesman| 11.5.11 @ 11:20PM
Bush was terrible. Anyone that misses him is a partisan fool. It's time for a hard rain to was the Republicrats out.
Oldefarte| 11.6.11 @ 11:55AM
And anyone who is so imbicilic as to not be able to comprehend the advantage of have Bush as president as opposed to Obama is......ACTING STUPIDLY [which you obviously are]. Bush didn't enact WELFARECARE, NON-STIMULUS TO LABOR UNION GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, LABEL TAXPAYERS AS 'BILLIONAIRES/MILLIONAIRES', DIDN'T PROMOTE THE CURRENT WALL STREET PROTEST STREET THUGGERY, DIDN'T USE A CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPT TO SUE STATES OVER IMMIGRATION FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL PURPOSES, DIDN'T ALLOW GUNS/WEAPONS INTO THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS/TERRORISTS FOR PARTISANED POLITICAL PURPOSES, DIDN'T WITHOLD OIL DRILLING PERMITS TO KOWTOW TO THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS/TERRORISTS, ETC. Anyone who says differently is a stupid fool and should be one-wayed to a communist/socialist/terrorist country of their chosing at taxpayer expense!!!!!!!
Les Nesman| 11.6.11 @ 3:42PM
Your selective memory concerning the Bush presidency does not reflect my intelligence. It reflects yours. The vast majority of your criticisms of Obama apply to the Bush administration as well. Anyone supporting the current duopoly & expecting some kind of meaningful change simply hasn't been paying attention, a fool in so many words. You appear to support one half of the duopoly & so the label is apt.
Oldefarte| 11.8.11 @ 12:45PM
Your reply is 'stupidly' inaccurate. Anyone comparing Bush to Obama is either a flamin Democrat or an ignorant fool. No sensible person is/would applaud to totality of Bush's policies/administration, but he [nor any other Republican politician] is a SOCIALIST COMMUNITY ORGANIZER bent upon the total destruction of this nation, which is currently waht we're faced with. In the face of logical reasoned arguments, your blatant stubborness in this regard leaves one with the obvious conclusion that you're a Democrat sympathizer blogging from the Justice Dept at the bequest of your supremem commander and his elternal quest for perpetual election [as opposed to governing/administrating as the job of presidency requires of its office holder]. The misery and destruction that this nation is currently experiencing will only stop in November of next year, and hopefully American voter-citizens 'acting stupidly' like yourself will not have the dumb-and-dumber numbers that they had prior to November of 2008 again!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 11.5.11 @ 2:52PM
How is one supposed to respond and act decisively to a GD LIE? If true, then the voting public will effectively eliminate him; but the worthlessness of the MSM is a files circling excrement fashion is what bothers me. Where were these idiots with a pen/computer when a politician was fornicating on restaurant floors; when another was assembling a campaign party comprising married men and semi-teenage unmarried Boiler room staff and one ended up at the bottom of the water inside a grave-automobile; when a president was funneling prostitutes into the front and back of the white house; when another was just inches from the white house while using campaign funds to provide a lavish lifestyle for his baby-momma; etc? How many corporate tycoons and politicians in corporate America and the halls of Congress daily use their power/influence to garner sexual favors from staff members, while proclaiming a goody-twoshoes personae? What if the current several front runners in this race have skeletons in their personal closets not yet discovered by the inept MSM press? Did the current resident occupier of 1600 have his personal background completely uncovered and reported upon by the MSM and fellow political candidates in 2007-8 [and if so why is there such shock and outrage over his activities/policies/appointments? Is Cain comparable to these others in his supposedly outrageous behavior? Is his leading or near the top of the political polls among Republicans [even after this situation's discovery] an indication of his inept management style? Is say Santorium better organized and adept at organizational management than Cain and if so why is he at the bottom poll wise and why did he previously lose his Pennsylvania home race for congress??????????????????????
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 9:49PM
And to make decisions in the various fields that a President will be asked to make requires a certain bare minimum of familiarity, of understanding, ------ and that Cain demonstrably does not possess.
And it's way too late to expect him to come up to speed with something that should take a man years, YEARS worth of reading and deep reflection upon before he can be considered ready for high office.
Cain isn't ready to be a Senator let alone the Republican standard bearer.
And all of us really know it; it's just some are damned and determined not to so conclude because they can't handle it.
They need to man up.
Occam's Tool| 11.4.11 @ 11:06PM
Indeed. The key thing is that he should be handling the Gordian knot problems. But the presidency requires a lot of reading, as Truman remarked.
Probably our most solidly prepared and ready President was Polk. One term, expanded American soil, made America richer, fulfilled ALL Major campaign promises. He is a good model to emulate for our next one.
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.4.11 @ 5:33PM
Sorry, folks.
I'm still laughing my arse off with Governor Perry's New Hampshire speech. Check it out at youtube.
One thing that pithes me off...only the funny laugh lines can be heard. The rest of his speech...the serious parts...cannot be heard.
I have gone through over 20 different tapes of the speech on youtube...none allow you to hear the stubstantitive parts.
If someone finds a full cut of the speech that can be heard, please forward me the link.
Thank you
P4GJ| 11.4.11 @ 5:57PM
Just use the google ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhDhDRvHaGs
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 9:46PM
No Quin, let's all hope he goes away --------------- and fast!
The idea that a Presidential campaign is the time to come up to speed is a uniquely liberal idea. Conservatives understand that people have to be prepared, have to work hard at what they're doing to get good at it, that you can't just throw even a natural at baseball into the big leagues and expect immediate positive results.
Those still supporting Cain's campaign are expecting impossibilities, indulging in fantasies, excusing repeated idiocies, --------------- such people may be many things, --------------- but Conservative isn't one of 'em.
That's what liberals do, wax rhapsodic about various gimmickry and gimmick politicians. Conservatives, being Conservative, don't go throwing themselves before idols, let alone any would be political idol; they don't indulge in flights of fancy, especially about anyone who is untested.
Cain's campaign is more a burgeoning cult movement than it is a legitimate and serious political campaign.
CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 9:57PM
You're VERY vehmently anti-Cain. You're all over the place posting savage anti-Cain stuff.
I'm nowhere near as pro-Cain as you are anti-.
What's your beef, brother? Cain is a successful businessman who does things differently. We've had career politicians in Washington for a long time--fat lot of good it's done us.
Two of this century's best presidents, and some of the best ever, have not been politicians per se: Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan. All had political experience, but had major lives outside politics.
I've concluded you're a leftie troll masquerading as a conservative to spread hate and discontent.
Anthony M| 11.4.11 @ 10:33PM
Cain appears to be an affirmative action executive who rose just a little too quickly by saying and doing whatever his superiors wanted. For some reason that I cannot fathom, there appears to be a large contingent of Americans who feel they must have a minority as their leader whether he is qualified or not.
Oldefarte| 11.5.11 @ 3:00PM
I'm neither pro/anti Cain, but this excrement boils my water. Why is a successful minority candidate immediately attacked when he's contrary to the mold of the pack? Cain, West, Cosby etc tell the TRUTHand get nailed by the imbicilic Jacksons, Sharptons, Waters, Conyers, and every other pimp-political operative of their grouping? West's recent editorial in TAS's magazine should be read/re-read before one places their feet squarely in one's facial orafice!!!!!!!
Dan| 11.4.11 @ 10:25PM
I don't like frauds.
And it is fraudulent to try to press yourself in a Howard Dean fashion upon a party when you're not ready for the responsibilities that ensue.
I am convinced that a Cain candidacy is one surefire way of losing to that jerk Obama. Which means I view Cain as mortal threat to my country.
Obama must be removed, and this is no time for some unready egomaniac who loves to strut down the political catwalk, {in a way not much unlike that of Obama, who too was profoundly unready and poorly informed}.
Cain's got to go.
Oldefarte| 11.5.11 @ 3:04PM
A HAM SANDWICH could/should beat the current COMMUNITY ORGANIZER-IN-CHIEF, but of course if the American public had any credible brain matter, that Acorn lawyer would not be any where 1600 at present, would he [and therein lies the problem, not the supposedly inadequacies of Cain]????????????
Matt X| 11.5.11 @ 12:26AM
Rubin has no busines experience, she has no foreign policy expertise that I know of. she's just a woman given a platform at the Wapo, and I see little evidence she's even all that conservative outside not being Ron Paul on foreign policy...she's way too excited about Romney to qualify as a conservative, and I dno't understand why somebody at American Spectator would spend a lot of time on her stuff? Who cares, what's your opinion? If Rubin is setting the table on how we see things, we really are screwed.
Matt X| 11.5.11 @ 12:30AM
Why can't Cain beat Obama? I don't see how Obama is superior in any area vs Cain or any of our candidates. I think Cain's a lot more likaeable than Obama who may be the most aloof president we've had.
Lot of these Republican voters seem to almost worship Obama in a political sense. The guy has bowel movements like everybody else and if Americans are jacked up to vote for Obama unless we nominated the perfect candidate (Romney, of course), the country is so far left it doesn't matter anymore. If Americans like being unemployed, Obama's their guy. If not, they going to vote for the other guy because we got nothing to lose in giving another guy a shot.
Foxfier | 11.5.11 @ 1:07AM
Well, any chance she had of making me think she was in any way objective was lost with that "selling pizza" line. I didn't investigate very much and even *I* know that he wasn't an ad campaign.
Scott | 11.5.11 @ 3:13AM
During the 90′s. Political Correctness created a situation where sexual harassment suits became lottery tickets and it was abused as such!
This smear attack was going to come even if they had to make it all up. Better to get it over with now during the primary. No matter what the hurdle, Cain has jumped over it running. Cancer, tight campaign budget, low name recognition, the risk of putting a bold plan on the table, the abortion smear, lack of a major campaign machine, now this. The job of raising name recognition is done. Politico finished that for Cain. Now they can get on to other things. Even democrats and liberals are getting behind Cain.
They like that he is not a politician. I have been seeing it in the tweets and in the comments. Mr. Cain is on fire! Donations are through the roof. All polls done after Sunday show Cain still gaining momentum, not faltering.
martin j smith| 11.5.11 @ 7:57AM
Jennifer Rubin is an idiot. The lawyer for the alleged source making the alleged allegations has just let the cat out of the bag. They are willing to give NOTHING. You were duped. By what--your arrogance,stupidity and thus your failure to see what the LEFT really is all about. I do not know which is more dangerous fools like you or Obama.
Here is my logic from the get go: The source: Politico--A Socialist mouth piece( organ as in Pravda ). Second what a coincidence--Cain doing well competitive and a successful man--Black American no less. Three Obama is in campaign mode. At the bare minimum a bit of skepticism was in order right there. But, no--you guys hide in your cowardice and throw whoever is latest Socialist target under the bus. Fool. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One more point. Given what we have on this story--I do not think for me these Politicos or NYT are at all believeable at this story whatsoever not matter what they bring up. They lost all creds. Totally
PattyMor| 11.5.11 @ 9:15AM
Does anyone seriously think that GWB and Obama are foreign policy wizzards? GBW got us in an unnecessary war in Iraq and saw it through the surge to victory. Now Obummer is leaving which almost certainly will soon place Iraq in the "Iran"orbit.
Or there is Obummer little escapade into Libya which just flew an Al Queda flag over the central government building. The "Right to Protect" is nothing but a cover for the One World Government Movement ala George Soros and his gang.
So Cain doesn't know everything? Well he's at least smasrt enough to KNOW that he doesn't know everything. Contrast that to Obummer who thinks he knows everything and has made no mistakes in his term.
What I want is a competent, trustworthy person who knows how the private sector works and is willing to cut the government down to size so the private sector can flourish.
Who are you going to trust for four years? Romney the big government technocrat who inflicted Romneycare on his constitutents? No way, no how. Gringrich an 80% brilliant guy, but 20% unreliable. What was his bashing Ryan's plan as Right Wing Social Engineering, much less his global warming commercial with Miss Nancy.
Then its down to Rick Perry or Herman Cain. Perry does the duet with the illegal aliens and then tried to make you feel bad if you don't support it?
Cain has said something that is really important. He links energy independence with our foreign policy. If we can get our energy sector cooking (and providing great paying jobs) we can severly diminish the Middle East and Venezuela's influence in the world. It would cripple their ability to generate large sums of money which they use to fund Jihad. Might even topple a few despots.
Les Nesman| 11.5.11 @ 11:26PM
As I have said, the drill baby drill stuff is just a slogan. Attention, attention, there is no Lake Erie sized reservoir of liquid oil in Wyoming. That is oil shale. You can't produce much oil per day from oil shale. Tar sands are easier to work with & the Canadians will top out at 2 million BOPD production. You're being played. If you like driving we have to import oil.
Oldefarte| 11.6.11 @ 12:05PM
DBD is a slogan to those who THINK STUPIDLY. Those who 'like driving', having electricity, consumer products to purchase/acquire, traveling to work and having the ability to earn income, etc had better GET THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR ANAL CAVATIES. 2/3 of our desperately needed energy is acquired/imported for our foreign ENEMIES of Russia, the Middle East etc; and that's why you/me and everyone pay now $3.50/gallon, numbtesticles. If this country began producing every ounce of drillable oil available domestically, these foreign enemies become financially bankrupt [since their only financially exportable commodity is oil dummie]. We then get a twofer.....energy independence and elimination of foreign enemies. Got it now???????
Les Nesman| 11.6.11 @ 3:48PM
Once again you do not demonstrate where all this domestic oil is that is supposed to free us from importing over 10 million BOPD. You are quick with insults but are slow to respond to this key question. Before you respond, remember that shale oil will be expensive oil & will have a slow production rate using any existant technology. I am also keen to hear why we didn't have all of this new production you claim during the Republican control of the federal government 2000-06. I note the price oil doubled during this period. How do you explain this?
Oldefarte| 11.8.11 @ 1:12PM
Any oil company geologist will gladly inform you that there are numerous oil reserves offshore of the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama etc; but that same are not able to be produced due to ENVIRONMENTAL regulations/prohibitions [which have existed for my entire adult lifetime due to Democratic Party political concerns/policy legislations. If all of the oil reserves available domestically in this country were developed, the 60% of foreign oil that we're forced to import could be replaced by same. Also, the countries that we so import from are foreign enemies on a national security basis, and if we eliminated our purchases of their oil, their lost revenue from same would/could possibly financially bankrupt their governments [since all almost totally depend upon exporting of their oil in support of their governments]. We therefore get a twofer, cheaper domestically produced oil supplies plus financial destruction of our foreign enemies. The environmental restrictions that Democrats have historically installed upon this nation is a major reason why we now have 10% [realistically 20%+] unemployment, an exploding governmental defecit/debt, foreign governments' financing [with oil money] terrorists activities within their countries against us, etc. When you environmental wackos get your heads out of anal cavaties concerning this issue, maybe this country can begin to grow economically once again instead of being stagnated from welfarecare, labor union stimulus, federal governmental lawsuits against its states over immigration, and non-permitting of oil drilling offshore that creates well-paying jobs/employment and state tax revenues. Oh, and finally, if/when this country ever reaches a status of having a Republican president and majorities in both houses of congress, and is thereafter able to enact legislation to eliminate environmental restrictions on drilling [with any Democrat interference], then your falacy of Republican guilt over non-drilling will truly become inaccurate!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 11.8.11 @ 1:16PM
Shale oil through the fraction process is WHERE THE CANADIAN OIL THAT WE WILL IMPORT AND TRANSPORT VIA THE PIPELINE FROM CANADA TO TEXAS [its not traditionally drilled oil]!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clint| 11.6.11 @ 9:20AM
Reuters - Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The poll showed the percentage of Republicans who view Cain favorably dropped 9 percentage points, to 57 percent from 66 percent a week ago.
Wayne| 11.7.11 @ 10:02AM
How ignorant does one have to be to follow the polls after a media assault that only has innuendo and unsubstantiated allegations?
Wayne| 11.7.11 @ 10:00AM
Seems I remember John McCain's campaign being a mess, yet he got the nomination.