Why the Cain Train will (sadly) be derailed eventually.

[Torie]

jmfcst old chap, you do know that nobody has bothered to attack Cain yet don't you? And his little plans (well "plans" gives his little skeletal outlines too much credit; maybe marquee headline jingles would be more accurate at the moment) are ludicrous, and easily shredded. But I don't think Mittens will need to go through that exercise.  Maybe he can induce Santorum or one of the attack dogs to do it for him if that proves necessary.

And some folks are chatting about Mittens putting Cain on the ticket, which is equally ludicrous. I say all of this as one who very much likes Cain personally. He's a sweetheart!  

[Torie]

jmfcst old chap, you do know that nobody has bothered to attack Cain yet don't you? And his little plans are ludicrous, and easily shredded. But I don't think Mittens will need to go through that exercise.  Maybe he can induce Santorum or one of the attacks dogs to do it for him if that proves necessary.

Generally agree, but Santorum's attacks (feisty, vicious, only reaches a wide audience at debates) probably aren't what will do Cain in. Cain is cool and quick on his feet. He's capable of deflecting Santorum and swiftly and deftly calling him out for being a jerk, probably to an audience ovation.

Ya, Rick can throw a hard punch, but he can't dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee like Mohammed Ali could, and it does take a considerable degree of skill to put away such a truly decent human being, with such a compelling bio, and a lot of personal courage. It needs to be done more in sorrow than in anger. Myabe Huntsman can do it, but he really can't throw a punch at all very well. Hmmm.  Mittens who oh who can you use?

[Torie]

jmfcst old chap, you do know that nobody has bothered to attack Cain yet don't you? And his little plans (well "plans" gives his little skeletal outlines too much credit; maybe marquee headline jingles would be more accurate at the moment) are ludicrous, and easily shredded.

than do the forum a favor and start a thread examining the 9-9-9 plan...we would all be interested in hearing arguments both for and against it

You want me to do Cain's research for him, eh? 

[Torie]

Ah you just got to love those extrapolated straight lines!  And the beauty of it is that you can do regression analyses yourself these days right on excel, and don't need to manually crank the data like I had to before rocks cooled in an advanced statistics class in Business School.  Cool!  

I won't bother getting into the politics of it right now. That would be overkill.

Oh come to think of it, what is really so special, is that the extrapolated straight lines just happen to end up at 999, right where God wants them!  It's seamless baby.  It kind of reminds me of the way "scientists" used to stuff jellybeans into human brain skulls to "prove" that blacks had smaller brains. Yes, you guessed it, the beans were stuffed tighter into white skulls, so there were more beans in them!  It is called "massaging" the data in the trade, sort of the way the Dems did in AZ with their little partisan baselines numbers as they just totally punched the Pubbies into a bloody pulp in the just completed swivving the Dems did on top of the Pubs in the AZ CD redistricting game.

[Torie]

Ah you just got to love those extrapolated straight lines!  

I understand what you are saying, but Mitt Romney has no message, it's like listening to a seashell...there's nothing there but white noise (pardon the pun), plus he has a past that doesnt sit well with conservative, both fiscal and social.  He's campaign for 5 years and can't break 25%.  And he lacks a bio involving 6 years in a POW camp to cover up his lack of message and his flipflops.

In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it is more likely that the race comes down to Cain vs Newt than Romney vs AnyoneElse.

Romney is in trouble, because right about now people are going to start really tuning in and listening, and Romney doesnt have a message to sell....and with the economy probably entering a new recession, people are going to be looking for a candidate with a plan.

Newt and Cain have a plan, Romney doesn't...no one is going to be able to coast to the 2012 GOP nomination - he/she has to have a sellable message.

Read your Bible some more jmfcst.  You no doubt will find the texts that will help you a bit more with some of this. I'm confident of it!   jk

[Torie]

Oh come to think of it, what is really so special, is that the extrapolated straight lines just happen to end up at 999, right where God wants them!  It's seamless baby.  

what?  what does God have to do with 999?  if you're attempting to say Cain is trying to sell his 999 plan to Christians based on some Godly principle, then you're picking up a subliminal message that is flying right over the head of jmfcst.

It's the tithing thing jmfcst, which is a decile concept, to wit a 10, which is one integer above a 9. As I said, you need to read your Bible some more on this. And you need to do it now! 

[Torie]

Being rich is a sign from God that He loves you, and  are going to heaven silly. (Yes, I know, I am the exception that proves the rule, because I am going to reside myself right next to Mark Twain.) You need to read your Bible too! 

[Torie]

It's the tithing thing jmfcst, which is a decile concept, to wit a 10, which is one integer above a 9. As I said, you need to read your Bible some more on this. And you need to do it now!  

I am a tither, and then some, and I don't see any connection because two of those 9's are directed at me (9% payroll tax + 9% sales tax)...so that is 18% and I'm assuming that's still before SS taxes....so, no I don't see any connection with tithing and 999, other than it is proportional (flat).

God does not want you to sum the 9's jmfcst.  That is just so wrong!  Each 9 stands on its own, and therefore it is God's will displayed in a trifecta form - sort of like the trinity concept. Read the chapter in the Bible called "Numbers."  It's right there!  

[Torie]

Being rich is a sign from God that He loves you, and  are going to heaven silly. (Yes, I know, I am the exception that proves the rule, because I am going to reside myself right next to Mark Twain.) You need to read your Bible too!  

God does not want you to sum the 9's jmfcst.  That is just so wrong!  Each 9 stands on its own, and therefore it is God's will displayed in a trifecta form - sort of like the trinity concept. Read the chapter in the Bible called "Numbers."  It's right there!  

it's interesting that Cain has brought out this side of your personality.  I would expect this sort of reaction to 999 from a 99er, not a lawyer.

I have multiple personalities jmfcst.  Yes, you need to go to a psychology text to get where you need to go on that one.  The Bible is great, but there is a bit that it left out for some reason. And 99'er (what is that?), is 50 points better than a 49'er, which gets right back to my point about Croesus and God. All the dots connect jmfcst.

[Torie]

I am amused and touched to see that my late night/early morning rant has started such a spirited debate!

Did you learn anything?