by | September 25, 2011 · 3:40 pm

If my primary was Tuesday, I’d vote for Cain.

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38 responses to “If my primary was Tuesday, I’d vote for Cain.”

  2. pistol pete's avatar pistol pete
    September 25, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I’m not completely convinced someone who hasn’t been mentioned for a few weeks will not decide none of the current field can displace the usurper.If you-know-who gets in,it will change everything.

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  3. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    September 25, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    1- Chrissy I couldn’t agree with you more.
    2-All, sorry I have dropped off the face of the earth. Much to worry about, and will be back with you soon – – -hopefully.
    3- Hi to RP, whoever you are = )
    4- A very wierd story – – – but indicative of something, I’m not sure what:
    last night we were with my parents closest friends, people we spend special holidays with as family – for YEARS, and I rarely see in between. He an MIT grad, and also grew up in Europe under German occupation, she very educated, and Jewish, they very wealthy from running their own business.

    We were talking politics, and I always knew they leaned liberal, but they are so close with my extreme conservative Dad so I thought we would be okay. I told them Christy was reconsidering entering the race, and he said that IF he did, he would vote for Christy, otherwise it was OBAMA. I said “Could you really vote for OBAMA?! And then somewhere in there I slid in about Fast and Furious and the Solar Company and suddenly there was a violent reaction beyond anything I can understand, where his wife tried to calm him down, and was seriously concerned with him having a heart attack, as was I, and calmed him by saying “[my name] doesn’t know what the F–k she’s talking about.” My parents, who have never used the word, or been around it much, asked what was said, and I repeated it, and to change the subject my Dad asked me if I saw the beautiful sunset. I got up and said it didn’t matter if we weren’t going to have a country left, and then went to my car and cried until someone came looking for me, and we had to sit down and eat dinner together.

    Then the woman said, we always say grace before we eat (which, of course, was not true) and asked us all to join hands and pray (so I was now holding hands with the man I almost gave a heart attack to by criticising Obama. The prayer was nice and without saying so was to smooth things over, but I still have no idea what happened last night = ( Any theories, which, of course, is all they will be, but I’m still in a state of shock.

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  4. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    September 26, 2011 at 12:17 am

    Ting, assuming you are right, what does bellicose type mean, LOL.
    (Gads it was so stressful, and likely to continue to be the unspoken elephant in the room = (

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  5. What A Hoot's avatar What A Hoot
    September 26, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    1st, Reading of your evening my radar goes off but I don’t know what about. I know somewhere in the story is something big, but I can’t see it. Call it gut or instinct or a brain overloaded and stashed with an abundance of junk or whatever but something is saying, “That’s it!” But, sheesh, I don’t know what the obvious is right in front of my eyes. I have read it six times and each time I feel a little closer, almost grabbing it, but then it is all confusion again. I would be interested in Red Pill’s insight as his mind may connect the dots with all the historical content rolling around his brain.

    Hang in there.

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  6. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    September 27, 2011 at 10:27 am

    DO let me know when you’re radar tells you something. I know I triggerred something, and I don’t understand it, and it could well chill a longstanding family relationship for eternity. (why is it always me, the black sheep ?)

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  7. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    September 28, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    A long time ago, I was puzzled by the fact that so many issues seem to be polarized as somehow “belonging” to one side or the other without any apparent reason defining what went where.

    E.g., if “keep the government out of our lives” vs. “government must protect the rights of minorities” were consistent, then the Right would be pro-choice and the Left would be pro-life.

    E.g., if supporting the rights of gays and women were truly paramount to the Left, then they’d condemn fundamentalist Islamic laws rather than host and toast A’jad the way they do.

    Eventually occurred to me to apply God’s Word to the two sides and found … and still find … 100% congruity. The Right stands for Judaeo-Christian values. The Left stands for anything and everything opposed to them.

    Read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. In particular, note the WWII-era lament by Screwtape (a demon) that the Lowerarchy (forces of Satan) have “not yet” been able to make humans both spiritual and worldly, but there is (was) research going on toward that sublime (for them) end.

    Screwtape explains that the difficulty for demons in the either-or situation is that they had to steer their human prey either into pure materialism (which tended to break down in the face of uncomfortable truths like sickness and death) or else they had to try to make them into magicians (which had the unfortunate side effect of making some of them turn into great saints).

    Now consider our modern world, where the Lowerarchy’s big goal of a materialistic spirituality appears to have become mainstream via the New Age movements which are, no surprise, pimped by the Leftist Media Complex. E.g., Oprah and any number of television shows.

    All that being said … I believe the most likely reason for the over the top, heart attack style reaction to criticism of Obama is spiritual. The Left isn’t a political or social entity so much as it is an anti-Christian religion. And like all good (bad) little cult members, Leftists go absolutely ballistic over any criticism of their messiah.

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    • itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
      October 1, 2011 at 9:56 pm

      Well said, and I completely agree.

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    • itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
      October 1, 2011 at 10:02 pm

      Please go back and read Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech. You’ll love it… it even mentions Screwtape!

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    • itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
      October 1, 2011 at 10:05 pm

      And if you’ll permit me, I’d like to quote the ending of Reagan’s speech…

      Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one of the terrible traumas of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism’s attempt to make man stand alone without God. And then he said, for Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, “Ye shall be as gods.”

      The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism’s faith in Man.”

      I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last — last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. For in the words of Isaiah:

      “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increased strength… But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary…”

      Yes, change your world. One of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said, “We have it within our power to begin the world over again.” We can do it, doing together what no one church could do by itself.

      God bless you and thank you very much.

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      • chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
        October 2, 2011 at 3:11 pm

        RP: The morning of the day I had to appear in court to defend my disability claim, a friend called and said she’d gotten a ms for me in a dream. “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.”

        The hearing was HORRIBLE. Really nasty judge. I only had a legal aid law student to defend me; her supervisor had told us they would not take me past this level. So if I lost, that was it. My doctor said I was not just seriously disabled, but had been for many years before I was diagnosed. But if Social Security didn’t agree, pfft to the desperately needed money.

        Well … Legal Aid was SO ANGRY when they heard my student’s report and then listened to the tapes, they decided to keep me on. They took me right through a 5th level appeal into FEDERAL court . (The SS judge was 3rd level. 4th is a paper appeal kind of sideways to another judge who is getting paid to turn down applications.)

        One step was for Legal Aid to type the transcripts and then I went in to sign. When I was doing that, a secretary came over and whispered, “I was the one who typed those. I heard the tapes. That judge was HORRIBLE to you!”

        Yes, he was. But right behind and to the right of his head, from where I was sitting, was a beautiful bas relief sculpture of a huge eagle in flight, carrying the elderly and disabled on its back.

        The decision from the federal appeal was only two pages long. I cherish it. In curt legal terms, it said SS had been violating the law by withholding my benefits, that the law said if the doctor said I was disabled, that was the end of the story. Bean counters and Social Security judicial hacks do not have the right to over-ride that diagnosis.

        I got 4 years in back payments and could FINALLY pay off all the people who had kept our little family going through the hardest years … e.g., thousands to my dear doctor and many hundreds to multiple babysitters, two in particular … a single mom who had her own 3 kids and a teen who helped out without pay because we needed her.

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  8. What A Hoot's avatar What A Hoot
    September 28, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Wow, Chrissy. You have said many of things, printed a zillion words, and share umpteen insights but this….this little essay may well be your finest piece of intellectual thought and logic to date. Short, sweet, but packed with order and logic. Thank you.

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  9. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    September 28, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    One word for our Chrissy: AMAZING.

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  10. itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
    October 1, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    1st: Tell your lefty associates that you’re “going green” and doing your best to “reuse/recycle”…

    2nd: Get out your old bumper sticker:

    3rd: Get out a sharpie and use it as so…

    4th: Watch lefty heads explode!

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  12. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    October 1, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    First of all, How did RedPill find his way here? I can’t even find ones I post on and am looking for to see if anyone has left responses to me! Seriously, RP, how did you know to come here?

    Next up, I took that test and I was all over the map with who they said I matched, from Cain to many who were not in the race. When I took it years ago it gave me Huckabee, before I even knew his name. Did I do int wrong so that I didn’t get ONE (1) person my values come closest to?

    Next, I love those bumper stickers with the using the sharpie “as so” [big smile], but, and dare I say this here? I kinda think West would be the better VP over Palin.

    Finally, I’m off to read Reagan’s evil empire (though I’m definitely living in it as we speak), but it was sooooooooooooooooo good to see you RP.

    Can anyone send what I recently sent out via email to RP. He had said to keep him posted on my thing – (Chrissy?)

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  13. itooktheredpill's avatar itooktheredpill
    October 1, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    integrity1st,
    I’m not a daily regular here, but I do try to check in periodically. I first found my way here when I was trying to find chrissythehyphenated, and someone on another blog let me know that I could find her here.

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  14. integrity1st's avatar integrity1st
    October 1, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    Oh, I’m well aware of your arrival, I just was pleasantly surprised you would ever find this particular post where Motley called you out, since I know what it’s like to try and just keep up when popping in and scanning through. Maybe you’re just AMAZING too, like Chrissy = )

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  15. Dee's avatar Dee
    October 2, 2011 at 8:21 am

    I have yet to find any news coverage of this, but Cain won the TeaCon straw poll by over 77% of the vote. I believe that he was the only candidate to speak at the event, though. I’m sure if they voted after he spoke it would heavily influence the vote as he is a dynamic speaker.

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    • Mafia Rose's avatar Mafia Rose
      October 2, 2011 at 10:44 am

      He did win by over 77% and he was the only candidate to speak, BUT…it was clear from the beginning of TeaCon that he was going to be the straw poll winner. So, it may have bumped his percentages a little, but I don’t think it changed the winner.

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