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

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2. He doesn't have the money or organization to compete with Romney.

a win in Iowa solves this problem

It didn't for Huckabee.

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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.

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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 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?

I actually think that Cain's ascendancy is good for Romney. It's against Romneys interests for anyone to attack Cain yet.

Will others try? Maybe. Deflating Cain is a necessity for some of them. But I doubt that any can do it effectively.

Maybe Huntsman could attack from the left on Cain's remarks apropos Muslims, but I doubt that many voters would care, and Cain seems to have successfully walked back on his earlier remarks anyway.

Gingrich might be capable of the sorrowful act. His prickliness is an interesting contrast with Cain's affability. But he's avoided attacking Republicans since the Paul Ryan gaffe.

I'm not sure that Paul has it in him, but he might be able to gain some traction by criticizing Cain for his relatively moderate position on the Fed.

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

He already did! It's just "simple regression analysis":

“I had some of the best economists in this country help me to develop this plan. You know, my background is mathematics. It was a simple regression analysis. We took the government data and looked at how much tax revenue from personal income tax, how much tax revenue came from corporate tax, how much revenue came from capital gains tax, how much revenue from the death tax. We added them all up, and you do a simple regression analysis and say in order to reduce this much on corporate income, personal income and national sales tax, what should that number be if we equally break up those three buckets. It was a simple regression analysis.” [emphasis added]

(The quote is from a TV appearance, by the way, not his website.)

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Video here.

And let's not forget this.

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Well, his credentials are:

- a ex CEO of a pizza chain.

And that's all.

It would be kind of stupid to vote for such a person in the worst recession since 1930, but who knows? He is a Republican and loves America and jesus and stuff.

Hey, I don't think that Cain is qualified, but that's not the only thing that he's done. The guy has decades of executive experience in business, and he's served on a number of corporate boards, and he was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

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business,

Yes, because being the POTUS is just like business.

Is that your idea of a witty retort? Quoting a single word and making an inane statement that has almost nothing to do with what I said?

I don't like being taken out of context.

It's a mad world.

That's insane troll logic.