Margaret Mayer's List: CAIN

• _He suggested electrifying a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico to kill illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States. Cain later called it a joke and apologized if anyone was offended by the remarks.
• negotiate for the release of U.S. prisoners held by terrorists, then reversed himself and said he had misunderstood the question.
• water on abortion. He told CNN that while he strongly opposes abortion, "the government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make.
• later issued a statement reiterating his opposition to abortion
• he reworked the plan to exclude the poorest people and to allow some deductions.

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• • Cain
• potent, zazzy public speaking who largely gets by on surface charms.
• you were exposed, I'm afraid, at this week's debate when a gang of professional politicians ganged up on you and put you through the ringer
• Take that mess you got into over abortion this week
• , "Ultimately it gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family, and whatever they decide, they decide."
• some solid conservative reasoning,
• GOP base wants the government to intrude, massively, into people's lives when it comes to abortion.
• people tend to remember the odd moments where flair and style surface,
• Cain took a mega-dose of scrutiny over his various plans and positions
• revelation of campaign debt
• Probably the highlight of the debate for Newt Gingrich came when he briefly dusted up with Mitt Romney over health care reform.
• retained $3.6 million in cash on hand
• continued failure to regain the ground she'd lost to Rick Perry and Herman Cain
• 's not in debt.
• semi-public fight with former campaign manager Ed Rollins continued to roi
• Cain as a man who's "qualified to run" but not qualified to win.
• he pulled out of the debate that was held Tuesday in Nevada, in protest of that state's decision to pick a primary date that wasn't sufficiently deferential to the needs of the people who plan the New Hampshire primary.
• He's leading in New Hampshire and Nevada (and doesn't seem to be paying a price for refusing to participate in any primary calendar-focused boycotts), and is keeping Cain at bay in Florida.
• Romney established that the individual mandate was a conservative innovation supported by Newt Gingrich
• diss a state you have no hope in winning (Nevada) in order to pander to the people of the state you desperately need to win (New Hampshire). Pretty brilliant, actually.
• e people who offer to help them win and vice versa! This is just an idea we had. (Bachmann also lo
• nd Wall Street continues to show its love.
• undlers are still bringing in the ducats, a
• he wants to  end aid to Israel,  defund our global garrisons more broadly, and reduce defense spending by restoring the Pentagon to a "defense" stance, as opposed to a "militaristic" one.
• at this "campaign" is for him -- a long and costly press junket for his movies. He also got mad at Anderson Cooper for staging a debate in which there was "bickering," as if it were Cooper's fault that Romney and Perry looked like they were about to pull switchblades on one another
• he pulled out of the debate that was held Tuesday in Nevada, in protest of that state's decision to pick a primary date that wasn't sufficiently deferential to the needs of the people who plan the New Hampshire primary
• hooking up with birther dingbat Donald Trump for a "tele-town hall"
• Huntsman campaign is spending lavishly on their candidate and themselves, staying at only the finest hotels, because at about one percent in every poll, they've earned it, dammit.
• it was Paul standing up for the middle class, seconds after Herman Cain had the audience cheering his attack on them:
• no hope in winning (Nevada) in order to pander to the people of the state you desperately need to win (New Hampshire). Pretty brilliant, actually
• particular brand of Christian family values than Donald Trump.
• e's quite sure that people will demand his 999 Plan even if it raises their taxes
• He says that h
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   Cain remains resolute
• telegraphing his coming 999 plan criticisms beforehand and then sinking the last knife of the massive Cain pile-on that commenced as soon as the candidates were given the green light to start talking.
• this 999 Plan is going to raise the everloving monkey-poo out of your taxes, friend!
• Perry's numbers are looking dire. In Florida, he's polling at 2.9 percent.
• nlike many of his competitors, he's not in debt
• personal beliefs are genuine and not at all subject to the whims of political opportunism.
• "Mr. Cain has blamed the victims. There are a lot of people who are victims of this business cycle," Paul said, pointing a finger at the Federal Reserve, where Cain was a regional Fed president, for creating "financial bubbles.
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   Oh, look: Jean-Ralphio Huntsman's campaign is running out of money!
• spending lavishly on their candidate and themselves, staying at only the finest hotels, because at about one percent in every poll, they've earned it, dammit.
• Santorum declared that Cain was showing too much favor to members of the LGBT community by not despising them enough to seek a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
• pot during the debate, hitting Romney, Perry, and Cain. And as Dan Hirschorn points out, the ad's content had an uncanny symmetry to the TARP discussion that actually went down at the debate. More ads are on the way.
• , Jean-Ralphio says he's not going to dip into his bank account to finance his campaign any further, so I guess it's time to fall back on that groundswell of support that he's been able to generate.
• Trump lied to everyone by saying he was leading in the polls when he quit the race. (He was not.)
• Patrick Caldwell thinks that their animosity toward Cain's plan is based on the fact that it makes standard-issue GOP plans to saddle the middle and lower class with the majority of the tax burden while letting the wealthy off the hoop a little too obvious:
• suggested that Herman Cain wasn't exactly "ready for primetime," which had to sound rich coming from a guy in debt up to his nipples,
• ? The middle class got stuck," Paul said. "They lost their jobs and they lost their houses."
• he took the unorthodox positions that have earned him a rump of support that the rest of the field won't even deign to consider: he wants to end aid to Israel, defund our global garrisons more broadly, and reduce defense spending by restoring the Pentagon to a "defense" stance, as opposed to a "militaristic" one. But if there was one big highlight, it was Paul standing up for the middle class
• So we went to the company, and we said, 'Look, you can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake! I can't have illegals!'"
• Huntsman's campaign is running out of money!
• More Republicans now name Mitt Romney as the candidate who is "most likely to agree with you on the issues that matter most"
• campaign staff quit on him.
• "In fact, Herman's pro-choice position is similar to those held by John Kerry, Barack Obama and many others on the liberal left.
• Gingrich himself was named one of DC's "most overrated thinkers"
• The best would be to eliminate Dodd-Frank's backstop. Congress should explore reforms now being considered by the U.K. to make the unwinding of its biggest banks less risky for the broader economy. It could impose a fee on banks whose size exce
• it is not 'whatever they decide, 'this is an innocent human life. It is unconscionable for Herman to run for the nomination of the Party that stands in defense of Life while showing disregard for the sanctity of Life.
• Cain's 9-9-9 plan would result in a massive tax increase for the poor and middle class.
• both personally against abortion while condoning it - you can't have it both ways.
• of the 84 percent of people who would see an increase, the lowest 20 percent of the population would be hit by almost $1,700 in extra
• There are a lot of people who are victims of this business cycle," Paul said, pointing a finger at the Federal Reserve, where Cain was a regional Fed president, for creating "financial bubbles."
• Out came an ad that essentially called Rick Perry a dumbass.
• "In every case, I met people concerned with America."
• without chronicling the many things at which he's a-froth with anger.
• he's mad at Saturday Night Live for putting him in sketches that he hasn't even seen.
• Perry and his handlers are prepared to enter "phase two" of their campaign.
• saw promise in the protesters' dedication and criticized his fellow Republican candidates for not recognizing the movement's potential.
• angry at single moms for not being in strong Republican marriages where they can shut up and produce babies and learn to love being brood-mares for the state.
• made his biggest splash offstage, with his proposal to cut $1 trillion in federal spending, end the War in Afghanistan, and eliminate the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education.
• "Economists across the political spectrum say the impact of such drastic government spending cuts would be majorly disruptive and harmful to the economy in the short term":
• lence of other [GOP candidates] because the students, the young people are so correct," he said.
• What Huntsman wants to do, in essence, is repeal a made up provision of Dodd-Frank in order to replace it with what Dodd-Frank already does, add on something the administration already proposed adding on, and then do an unrelated tax reform
• "You can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for pete's sake, we can't have illegals."
• it's unlikely you could have an immediate reduction in government without hurtling the economy into recession,"
• As for what to do for the housing industry specifically, and are there things that you can do to encourage housing? One is don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.
• "tragically" inappropriate response to the financial crisis
• Perry demonstrated that he could come to one of these debates and remain awake: he "reduced his brain freezes in both number and duration" and refrained from the "passivity" that marred his earlier performances.
  
• We have a model program, and it's a program that requires mediation between the homeowners and the financial institution.
• flat tax" plan -
• days of the Civil Rights Movement and the protests against the war in Vietnam as examples of large, often fractured movements enacting significant change.
• "Senator Heller does not agree with Mitt Romney...his plan could take up to six to eight years for recovery, and that is time that Nevada just does not have."
• educing the deficit from more than $1 trillion to $300 billion in just a year, Paul's plan would upend the economy at a time when it's already fragile, says Gus Faucher
• continue to use religion as a wedge to drive evangelical voters away from Romney.
• "That much deficit reduction in one year is going to be a huge drag on the economy . . . the reduction in spending is much greater than cuts in taxes
• omney told an audience in Iowa this week that he supports birth control.
• may not resonate with the GOP base
• who are already being told by Rush Limbaugh that Romney is "not a conservative."
• "Corporate cronyism and corruption is the issue of our time...it is the corruption itself that is killing this country."
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   She's also mad at Obama, because he took her son's job away: "My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us.
• "She is speaking of Griffin Perry. Griffin Perry, who worked at Deutsche Bank until recently, when he had to quit in order to work on his father's presidential campaign."
• "an example of the old Keynesian thinking that got us into our current mess,
• white whine," Anita.
• means small increases in prices of goods, he believes that creating American jobs is the priority to improve the economy and establish American independence.

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