Democratic Debate on Jan 17, 2016.

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What a contrast it is with the Republican debates! It was a pleasure to hear the Democrats talk about keeping America great. This is one of the greatest nations on the earth for the values it stands and the values her majority supports. The Republicans on the other hand talk about making America great, but put her down every time they open their mouth.  

I have to ask my Republican friends, whose party was built on great principles, where are the mainstream representatives of the Republicans?  It is not what the guys like Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson and their likes say, it is the evil silence of the mainstream Republicans that bothers me… and after 30 years, I quit being a Republican for that very same reason.

The Democratic conversation is about uniting the country, where as the Republicans were about dividing the country.

The Democrats are about uplifting America, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay for equal work to men or women, and let Americans have their liberty and go after the pursuit of their happiness with liberty and justice for all. The Republicans are opposed to these values.

The Democrats were talking about integrated societies with fair treatment of the different components of the society – Blacks, Hispanic, Muslims and others.

The Democrats want to hold those police officers accountable who are racist or do not follow the law, whereas the Republicans want to back the blue blindly.

The Democrats believe in keeping America healthy, and the responsibility of the state, whereas the Republicans do not care. That is, if you leave it completely to private sector and market place to determine, we go back to the pre-civil rights era.  Not acceptable.

The Democrats understand the climate change and its terrible consequences, the Republicans refuse to accept that the carbon emissions had polluted our air, and we had to fix that, so we can breathe.

The Democrats see the global warming and want to fix it, whereas the Republicans deny it. Not because they are not aware of it, but because they are bought out by the fossil fuel producers and owners.

I like Fox TV much better to watch the debates and sports; they keep their screens clean and active. NBC’s background music during the breaks was annoying to the point of me making the point. Fox Manages breaks much better.

We have to bust the power of Wall Street and the rich guys who buy the Senators Congressmen and Presidential Candidates to do what is in their interest.  Our Democracy is at risk, if we do not have our representative represent us and instead represent the men who throw bones at them.

Democrats support normalization of relations with Iran, one less tension to have, but Republicans don’t want that because, once again not because they don’t understand, but because Netanyahu and his lobby has bought them out.

No more boots on grounds, war is evil, where as Republicans are too eager to go destroy others and in the process destroy America.

What is needed is for the Good Republicans to speak up, and let their goodness prevail over the pettiness of the entire crew of Presidential candidates.

My notes about  the Republican Debate - http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2016/01/pathetic-republican-debate-on-1142016.html

Mike Ghouse, an independent
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Rick Perry embraces Muslims, a gutsy political first

Rick Perry embraces Muslims, a gutsy political first http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/

Abstracts from my upcoming article, pending publication

Addison, Texas – June 4, 2015 – It takes guts, a lot of guts for a Presidential candidate to embrace Muslims from the word go!  Perry has got that. Given the unabashed bigotry displayed by a number of Presidential candidates against Muslims, Rick Perry took the bold step in paving the way for inclusionary politics in the GOP.  This is a historic event in the annals of America’s evolution of pluralistic politics. Perry may turn the tide and knock out bigotry in other candidates minds, even if it is in their hearts. 

I hope to interview all the presidential candidates to see how pluralistic they are, and how much they really understand about the need to have a strongly woven social fabric for a safe, secure and prosperous America. We cannot have a candidate who is prejudiced towards fellow Americans.   

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What a joy it was to see two Muslims with Perry on the first 
day of announcement - Amir and Arman Rupani

A few minutes with Sean Hannity

After the event

Among the array of 2016 candidates, four will pass the initial test; Hilary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Rick Perry. 

I don’t know how many of the Presidential candidates we have to be forgiven for ‘they know not’ about fellow Americans.  In the 2012 run, the following candidates displayed their shameless bigotry towards Muslims and some of them have said they will not hire a Muslim in their administration, and they are;  Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Michelle Bachman. Carson, Huckabee, Santorum and Jindal will not even make it through the primaries, they are too biased to lead an America of different faiths, races and ethnicity - there is enough material to nail them, they may be good for a Hospital, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Louisiana respectively, but not for America. 

Sean Hannity was at the announcement for an exclusive interview with candidate Perry, and prior to that he asked me, if I was supporting Perry, I said, not yet, not until I talk to him about what kind of America he envisions, is he committed to a cohesive America?  Sean asked me what I mean by it.   I said it is an America where every American is given equal access to employment, entrepreneurship, and governance in his or her pursuit of happiness, and where no American has to live in apprehension or fear of the other. 

What is a cohesive America – please watch this 10 minutes trailer of a documentary coming up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMXsTo4VYh8

Full article is pending publication in Huffington post; your thoughtful comments will be included in the comments section of the blog http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/

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47 Backstabbers who are compromising on America's Security

Stabbing in the back of your own president will come to haunt the 47 Republican Senators who are working to derail the nuclear agreement that is being negotiated with Iran. They wrote to the enemy that President does not have the authority to negotiate peace, thus weakening America’s position in securing an agreement with Iran for the safety of Israel, America and the world.

Now the hopeless opportunist men like Bush and Scot walker are seeing this as a last ditch effort to gain any support they can from the reckless men from among GOP. There will always be a % of people who want war, who want to destroy others, and who cannot live in peace.

We the people are made up of Republicans, Democrats and Independents, extremists on the left and the right, and moderates. What do we need to do? The good people among us who want peace and stability around the world need to speak up, and perhaps raise our voices to let the Senators and hopeless men know that we rather have peace.

War brings destruction to the common American, not them. In each war we sacrifice nearly 5000 men and women, people lose jobs, homes and businesses get foreclosed with a shattered economy and piling up of budget deficit. At the end, we end the average American is the loser, and last was they were over 40 Million of us that endured it.

We don’t need to reduce ourselves to be animals who resolve their conflicts with their God given horns, fangs and paws, we need to be humans and resolve it through our God given ability to dialogue.

More coming up.

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Romney digs his own grave

Instead of figuring out how to get out of the labels, Romney digs in his heels and reaffirms that he is what people perceive him to be; a rich man for the rich by the rich.

Romney has gathered Bush people around him reaffirming his false belief that the Neoconism is good for America. Indeed, it was the Neocons who have screwed America badly with budget deficits, WMD’s and useless wars - The guys like Romney are all doing fine, it is the average American who is suffering; the one without a job, the one who has lost his home and the one who is losing his family members due to lack of insurance.

With Paul Ryan as his running mate, Romney has assured the Americans that he is Bush in Sheep’s clothing.

There is a huge Hispanic voter’s gap and Rubio was to give him a lift. Now Romney has effectively told the Hispanics, screw you, I can do without you.

It is not about rich or poor, it is a shame that Rich get to pay less than their proportionate share. Paying 14% of GAI is not right, while the average joe or mary pays 30%.

Romney is bombarded with his “don’t give a shit about poor” attitudes, with Paul Ryan, the man who wants to give a break to the rich, Romney has affirmed the belief that the average American does no matter to him.

He is on to a head on collision with Obama by not releasing his tax returns. He is no match for the communication skills of Obama - who is as good a communicator as Reagan and Clinton. Obama will laugh and throw Romney off the pedestal in the debates.

Picking Ryan is going into a self destruct operation.

I am a Republican, a moderate one, and hate to see an imbalance coming up in the house and senate. As an American I don’t like to see Democratic or Republican Party to have a monopoly in all the three branches of Government, it leads to bad and evil consequences, we need to preserve checks and balances.

We need to keep the simple majority of Democrats in the Senate, and slash the Republican majority in the house down to simple majority. Let the idiots fight it out, and bring the best for the Americans instead of slam dunking bills.

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Michelle Bachman’s ugly and John McCain heroic moment

I have not taken a political stand on the basis of party lines, nor do I intend to.  But I do take a stand against individuals who are messing up our nation.  

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman has proven herself to make the statements that have no basis in truth. There have been a number of interviews with her staff members and advisors, during the presidential run; she routinely embarrassed her staff with her thoughtless remarks.  I would not be surprised if her constituency dumps her in the next election bid out of embarrassment.

She shoots her mouth off again and says that the Muslim brotherhood is infiltrating into the white house. Decent folks and others have asked her to provide evidence, and she comes with up flimsy gossip material from Frank Gaffney, who is a successful businessman in convincing nincompoops like Bachman.  She comes up with names like Keith Ellison and Huma Abideen as the brotherhood link. Baloney!

Edward Rollins, her former chief of staff had to say this today, “I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachman’s outrageous and false charges against a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin reaches that threshold.
 

ABC  News reports “Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took to the Senate floor today to rip apart his fellow Republicans’ accusations and came to the defense of Abedin, whom he calls  a “fine and decent American,” after observing her work as both a long-time aide to Clinton while she was a Senator and as the Secretary of State.”  He powered it up further, “no one, “not least a member of Congress,” should launch such a “degrading attack against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are an ignorance of that hey stand for.”

I admire Senator McCain for having the courage to speak up, though I disagree with his hawkish foreign policy.  He took a stand for what is right, and against what was wrong.   We need more men and women like him in the Senate and the Congress. Congressman Keith Ellison must be admired as well for relentlessly pursuing to purge this nonsense by demanding facts, and not putting up with her non-sense.

The heroic McCain Moment

It takes one good man to change the course of history, and one bad one to worsen it, we have seen it.

The McCain Moment was one of the finest moments in history of the world. He must have listened to Martin Niemoller’s poem during Holocaust.  When he spoke up, there was a chance that he would be barked at and bulldozed by the opportunists among Republicans; he dared them, because he was righteous.   He broke away from the communitarianist Republicans among us, and expressed his individualism boldly, thank God; the sheep jumped right behind him. Thanks to  Ed Rollins, John Boehner and other among a few  for giving strength to his voice. It could have gone the other way as well and weaken him, if it was not McCain.

Michelle Bachman’s ugly moment

She had miserably failed in her bid for Presidency with her senseless rhetoric. She had difficulty even getting 50 people to attend her talk once or twice, it was pathetic to watch.   She may have been brainwashed to believe that by barking at Muslims, she can gain some additional advantage from the non-existent (substantial) supporters.  She probably was desperate to be on the national scene and thought, she had an opportunity to be nominated to the vice president or some such thing, should that have happened, she would have sunk the Republican Party for a long time to come and screwed Americans from having checks and balances without a strong opposition in the house and the senate.

As a disclosure, I am a Republican, a moderate one; a majority of us feel pity for the radical ones in our party but do not speak up, most of us do not have the balls to speak up against loose mouths, however we do it at the ballot.   We dumped them all; Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and a handful others who have made uncouth, unsubstantiated statements about fellow Americans without consequences.  They still don’t get it that radicalism does not pay, and I pray that they do.

Our party has let the radicals take over our GOP, and I am afraid, we will pay a price by losing the majority in the house. We have to speak out firmly and furiously against the likes of Bachman and other radical republicans amongst us.

I hope our party leaders wake up now, and rescue the party by purging the gratuitous allegations and gossip from the party.

These men and women have no shame in denigrating Muslims.  Let these guys say similar things to Jews and the African Americans; they will be hounded and chased down like wild pigs. Shamelessly, they feel that they have a free ride on Muslims, Mexicans, Gays and Lesbians.  That is not only unpatriotic, but downright immoral to treat a fellow Americans in that fashion.

They are an embarrassment to our civil society. In fact, they are not tearing Muslims, they are tearing America apart; shame on them.

No group of Americans need to be targeted, we should always nail the bad guys and not their affiliations, consider the following scenario;

If Joe Blow rapes a woman in your neighborhood, should the police arrest Joe, or should they arrest and harass his parents, siblings, kids, spouse, and his friends?

If Joe committed the crime, it his tushie that needs to be hauled off, and by arresting him, it bring calmness to the neighborhood, knowing that the rapist is locked up. People would feel safe again and a sense of justice would be restored in the community.

On the other hand, imagine harassing the entire neighborhood, blaming the Mayor and the pastor or even the Bible for this criminal, we will never resolve an issue if we dance around it.

Do you remember how quickly the opportunists cashed in on Osama Bin Laden?

Had we nailed the criminal Osama bin Laden in the first place, and not others, we would not have caused budget deficits, and millions of Americans would not have lost their jobs and their homes. The war mongers should never be listened to, they make their good, but the common man gets screwed. The results are in our face.

What did we do instead?  We destroyed nations instead of him; we blamed their religion and their book, how dumb! Did the Billion plus Muslims vote Bin Laden to do the evil? We recklessly sacrificed 5000 of our own men and women in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and have destroyed other nations and innocent people and shamelessly called it a collateral damage.

 As a nation, we need to stand up against this non-sense. “Evil persists if the good people do nothing about it.”  Thank God for Senator McCain and Congressman Ellison and I pray more will join the righteous ones.

Here is an example of standing up for everyone in the progress. http://standingupforothers.blogspot.com/

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Bad news for Romney

John Bolton has become a surrogate volunteer for Romney, and this does not bode well for presumed Presidential Nominee. Romney could increase his chances if he was true to his own ideals of moderation, but sadly, he has fallen in to the same pit and has surrounded himself with rash men like Bolton.

There was a little hope a few days ago, that the Republicans will wake up and clean the party from radicals who do nothing but destructive and divisive talk that has brought our nation to this sad economic point in history.

It takes one to change the world and one to destroy it.

Senator John McCain’s individualism broke away from being a Republican communitarian momentarily, when he spoke up against Congresswoman Michelle Bachman’s McCarthyistic accusations against fellow Americans, then the community of Republicans joined him, restoring common sense.

Now, John Bolton goes against McCain, Boehner and the other Americans.

Think Progress reports, “Today on Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney’s radio show, Mitt Romney foreign policy adviser John Bolton defended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) call for the U.S. government to investigate suggestions that government employees — including a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — are affiliated with a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the U.S. government.”

Romney on Bolton, ““John Bolton insists on good results for America and is someone I respect,” Romney said in December. “I think he’s a fine man with great capacity.”

As a moderate Republican, I am still hoping Romney had better clean up his people. He is studded with Bush men all over, and it is not good news for Romney. I am still undecided, but Romney is not helping either by piling up radical men on his side to make him a less logical choice.

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Is Romney the cat with NAACP or the mouse with NRA

http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2012/07/is-romney-cat-with-naacp-or-mouse-with.html

The following words are showered on Mr. Romney; bold, honest, tells it like it is, non-compromising on principles. He has only one mouth he speaks from.

During his speech at NAACP, he got booed. Of course, booing goes with public life, so is cheering; after all we are a free people and respond to situations instinctively.

Steve Holland of Reuters writes, “Although several of his lines were greeted with applause, Romney drew waves of boos when he blasted Obama's record on jobs and the healthcare overhaul that was backed by the president and recently upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

The wire continues, “I'm going to eliminate every expensive, non-essential program. That includes Obamacare," Romney told the crowd of hundreds in a half-filled ballroom. “Sustained boos of more than 10 seconds broke out, and Romney seemed unsettled by the reaction.”

There is other side to it.

Reuters continues, “Was it to court black voters - or to show Romney's mostly white, conservative base that he could take his message to the heart of the opposition?”

The conservatives on the other hand see him as Rambo, the guy who dares into the enemy territory and comes back unscathed. Hence fund him more!

ABC News reports, “Critics in Obama's camp charged immediately after the speech that Romney planned to be booed in an effort to charge up Republican voters.”

Romney said, he will give the same message where ever he goes. Really?

Did he say those words because he had nothing to lose? Did he discount the NCAAP group because he had nothing to gain from them? No funds no votes?

Would he be straight forward when he goes to the NRA or AIPAC? Or will he become an appeaser or play mouse?

Should a president do what is right, or what is beneficial to his political aspirations?

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Obama contraceptive goof up

I am really surprised by President Obama’s move that he would want to infringe on personal liberties.

As a Muslim, and in behalf of several Muslims, I stand with our Catholic Brothers and Sisters, they should have the choice, and freedom to practice whatever method of birth control they want to pursue.

We are not China to regulate, a man and a woman should choose what is good for him or her and not the government.

Where did he get the idea that contraceptives will be provided free of charge to consumer, is there anything free out there? God is not going to shower the contraceptives on the health insurance companies, if they were to provide, they have to pay for it, and it will be passed on to the employer.

I hope he withdraws this unequivocally. This was my conversation with Sean Hannity on his Radio show today.

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Obama victory is certain if Santorum is the guy

Santorum has busted Romney in three states last night;

Missouri – Santorum 55% - Romney 25% - Paul 12%
Minnesota - Santorum 45% - Paul 27% -Romney 17%
Colorado - Santorum 45% - -Romney 34% - Gingrich 13%

This does not bode well for the GOP, it will drive the moderates, independents, and Republican leaning independents towards Obama.  GOP fails to understand that a majority of Americans are moderates and not conservative sticks in the mud. Romney has a chance.

Gingrich is out of touch with the public, when he uses the term “Massachusetts Moderate” to Romney, he is offending a majority of Americans who are indeed moderates and not right wing extremists like him, it shows in the polls.

Santorum is another radical right winger, a panderer to the tea party folks, a small interest group. If he were to plunge us into a war with Iran– who loses? The American Public;  5000 soldiers, another trillion dollar, more airport security checks… more job losses, foreclosures… contracts for his buddies. He needs to be checked out, who is buying his soul?

The nation is on the path to recovery after the mindless destruction of our own economy and other nations in the last decade. We don’t want another one who hurts the average American.

The candidates we need are peace makers, job creators for all Americans and bring prosperity to America. The likes of Santorum and Gingrich are not for America, but for themselves. When we step out into national elections, the majority will go for the moderates.  

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/mike-ghouse/41272/obama-victory-is-certain-if-santorum-is-the-guy

Santorum's ten problems
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72607.html

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Newt, you can run but you can't hide

Mitt Romney, Brian Williams and John King wanted simple answers, what did Newt do? Instead of answering, he attacks them and let them spin and fend themselves; King almost felt like it was a crime to do the follow up, Romney recovered at least once but Williams moved on. So, Newt goes Scot free and the supporters laud him. They will keep lauding and keep building Newt to be a farce, fake thing and deliver it to the Tiger.

Tiger will not let this goat frighten him, he would say, Newt first answer the question, answer it now! I am not going to let you get away...with your pranks, baby cranks.

If Newt acts like a baby and responds, "I am not going to answer that", then Obama will "tell" him, I need an answer now, even if you don’t want to answer me, you owe it to the American public, and you can’t do the same to them as you did to two of your wives.

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Three volumes of the Ethics Committee Investigation. All public records. Nancy keeps saying that. I am a slow reader. There are some Secret Records, and Nancy keeps saying they will remain secret, but the answers are all in the Public Record.
http://ethics.house.gov/committee-report/matter-representative-newt-gingrich

POLLS ACCURACY

I have been keeping an eye on the accuracy of polls for quite a long time when Gallup was the only game, then ABC joined and now we have plenty of sources. But usually the actual results come very close to the polls... that establishes the authenticity of polls.

January 17, 2012

Monmouth U Romney 33, Gingrich 22, Paul 12, Santorum 14,

Rasmussen Romney 35, Gingrich 21, Paul 16, Santorum 16,

ABC /Wash Romney 36, Gingrich 16, Paul 16, Santorum 13,

Gallup Romney 34, Gingrich 15, Paul 12, Santorum 15,

Gingrich and Santorum are looking for fumbles, Cain went, Bachman went and now Huntsman is gone. Really after the SC results, if they depict the same results Santorum needs to go. Gingrich will wait until he falls flat on the face.

Nancy Pelosi had an odd ball prediction, either she is cooking up and throwing the bait, or she has the insights into it. She thinks the Evangelicals are not supporting Romney because Romney is not going to make it, so they rather stick to their conservatism and let Obama win anyway and get ready for 2016.

I had predicted similar pattern on yesterday morning and the latest polls are in the same pattern; Romney, Gingrich, Paul and Santorum.

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Perry wins the debate in Florida

Republican  Presidential Candidates debate tonite on CNN 
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All the eight Republicans participated - Perry, Bachmann, Romney, Paul, Gingrich, Cain, Santorum, Huntsman. 
 

However Bachman, Gingrich, Santorum and Cain are a waste of time, but subtly boosting Perry or Romney. Bachman certainly lifts Romney, Gingrich lifts Perry.
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Tea party activists booed on Ron Paul about War issues and Afghanistan. They booed Perry on inoculation to the teens to presumably protect from potential cervix cancer.

Poor singing of National Anthem by Diana Nagy. It was embarrassing. Listen to this one we played at Unity day yesterday by Beyonce’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=OhrrGu2rcZ4
Moderator assured “fair share” of questions. Either Bachman, Gingrich, Santorum, Cain were a waste of time and it was fair not to give them the time or he was not fair.
The debate was really between Perry on one side, Romney, Huntsman on the other, while the others were useful.
Social Security – Somehow criticism did not stick to Perry, even though he was in a defensive position, he played offensive.
Inoculation to teens – Perry stuck with the guns of being pro-lifer first. Bachman hit him hard. Perry, “I am offended that you criticize for $5ooo contribution against 30 millions?” Bachman said “she was offended for the girl not having a choice”. She got a lot of applause. Santorum hits Perry hard on the same note. The tea partiers did not give the claps to Perry, even though he spoke the plain Bubba language. His winning moment was when he said it was wrong for him to pass the executive order instead of going through the legislature. Wasn’t Bush made the same way? Shove it down the throat? Somehow Perry made it through. If he has more mistakes like that, it may be a major issue.

Gingrich was useful to Perry, but he was dishonest about GE not paying taxes… that was because of Bush tax breaks dummy. Don’t blame Obama for that… sorry to say this, there is a shortage of intelligence among Tea Party members. Check the www.MediaMatters.org, they do the fact check immediately.

Bachman – Obama stole from Medicare – stupid as always. Make some sense lady.
Perry – different tone today on Social Security – look in the face, look in the eye..
no one has the courage to say it like it is.

Romney – Perry said ss is ponzi – after 70 years of relying…

Perry was scaring seniors – did the damage
Romney – got right back – it was ponzi that scared
Huntsman – these two are frightening… instead of finding solutions

Newt – made great points – liked his plan but not rhetoric, safe for senior, let the young manage their own


Perry came out as a straight shooter, he won points when he said he was wrong about the vaccines to the teen girls – he should have gone to legislature. But will use the executive order to wipe out Obama care which got him thunderous applause.
Perry said he is pro-life at least thrice. I have watched the dummy Wolfe Blitzer in the past and have written about how he fails to ask the follow up question. Why did he not ask about the state killing the people? What about the death penalty? Of course, it would have given Perry a few more points. Nothing sticks to that son of a Gun.

Perry is crisp with short answers but has a lot of appeal in his tone.
Most of this was tweeted and posted on face book.

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Perry will be the nominee if he keeps up

Presidential debate on September 7, 2011

Perry and Romney are the front runners with a wild card Huntsman, together they got the most time in this debate. If they keep up, they can march forward. Bachman came in to the light now and then as a surprise, as if she did not exist, same was with Gingrich. Why don’t these guys drop out and let the three debate more intensively and receive some serious grilling and fine tuning. These are my random, unedited, random notes I sent on Twitter, I just don't have the time to fix to put in flowing manner.

His cocky attitude towards death penalty has appealed to the right, his Ponzi word earned him the support from the conspirators on the right.... he was prepared well. But he has two negatives; the executive order that was thrown ...out by the legislature and anti-Federal Government but yet recipient of federal grants. He caught himself short somewhere about wanting federal funds... he did not complete the sentence. He was anti-regulations and yet he was regulating on abortive mothers and teens...

I like Obama, voted for him, held two rallies, wrote over a dozen articles in his favor.. He operates from the idea that all are mature people and will do their job without breathing on their necks. The Tea party people listen to shut up kind of language and Obama is not adept in it as a result they are creating a mess. Debt ceiling should have been increased for the job growth and Obama should have threatened to veto or go 14. He did not do that, he wants consensus from radicals and it ain't going to happen. A sign of weak leadership.

As a Moderate Republican I am hoping a good competitive candidate; somehow none of the Republicans in the front line are moderates and I do not relate with them. Huntsman sounds good to me so far, on the other hand, Perry could not do the damage Bush had done when we have a strong Democratic senate and reduced majority of Republicans in the house, he may fit in perfectly.

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PERRY - Good suit - came across confidentPerry has strong appeal to the conservatives when he talks about punishing those boys and sticking to the guns of ponzi schemes on social security. He has got that Red-neck appeal. The state killing the criminal? Nope's we need to have compassion - What's difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia where they hang and stone to death. He will lose out on sticking to his gun on the Ponzi scheme story on social security. He has negative on issuing an executive order to inoculate the girls against aids, state intervention? No way. Good exchange and come back with Romney
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ROMNEY - Bad Suit – came across confident
Romney does not have a strong appeal, viewed as intelligent but will not cut it, if he does no improve. Hits Perry in the guise of Obama – what does a guy know who has never worked in private sector Fully prepared to debate, had everything on his finger tips. He keeps scoring negatives on his health care
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HUNTSMAN - Best Dressed, loved his Tie, looked presidential-
He was eloquent in his response and seems to have vast experience. Makes most sense in his answers, just as Obama does, how much of it is really implementable?
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BACHMAN – Could have dressed better.
Good on immigration policy though shared a bad example of visiting Florida- just because the Cuban folks in the Restaurants don’t like the policies… what is her take? Moral? Will lose out on thoughtless rhetoric of $ 2/Gallon Gas – Market determines that, not her. Good to see her praise Obama on something…

PAUL – No Presidential looks, sorry Ron
If they (state) feels the obligation to help the poor..... his belief stems from the idea that every individual is independent, healthy and not sick. That is a wrong policy Paul – talk with people who have children born withdiseases, aids from blood transfusion… if it was left to the pre- civil rights act, the locals would let the down trodden die. ]

CAIN – Good suit, clarity in speech
He was on bent on cleaning everything and fixing everything. Life and politics are not logical and he cannot fire people at will, or shut down a business if it is not profitable… can’t do that with life and politics where other lives are dependent.

GINGRICH - he knows the stuff, but the
wrong stuff. No idea why he is there
BRIAN, the Anchorman – Had difficulty in asking
questions, too much talk for short questions

OBAMA-CON-ME? OR Obama economy? I just invented this term

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