Cut, Balance and Grow strikes a major blow against the Washington-knows-best mindset. It takes money from spendthrift bureaucrats and returns it to families. It puts fewer job-killing regulations on employers and more restrictions on politicians. It gives more freedom to Americans to control their own destiny. And just as importantly, the Cut, Balance and Grow plan paves the way for the job creation, balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility we need to get America working again.Rick Perry • Discussing his new plan for taxes, “Cut, Balance and Grow,” which has a name clearly worded to evoke the “Cut, Cap and Balance” plan that House Republicans tried to push through earlier this year. Perry’s plan, in simple terms: An optional 20 percent flat tax, with benefits for lower-income people who would not necessarily benefit from such a flat tax. Don’t like it? Keep your current tax rate. Unlike Herman Cain’s 999 Plan, this might actually have a shot at getting through Congress. And would you look at that? Right on cue, Perry suddenly has an endorsement from Steve Forbes, the guy who banked his entire campaign on the flat tax — twice! Cain’s gonna have some gimmicky tax plan competition at the next debate. source (via • follow)
Say it ain’t so, Rick! The Texas governor and presidential candidate recently told Parade Magazine that he dined with Donald Trump, and that Trump didn’t believe President Obama’s birth certificate was genuine. When pressed for his own opinion, Perry said he had “no reason to think otherwise… I don’t have any idea. It doesn’t matter. He’s the president of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue.” (Photo by Gage Skidmore)source
If Rick Perry were the nominee, I’d be voting for him. I believe every single person on the stage in that last debate would do a better job than president Obama.Mitt Romney • Claiming, during an interview over the weekend, that he would vote for Rick Perry, the man he savaged during last week’s debate. But would Rick vote for Mitt? SUSPENSE! source (via • follow)
You want somebody who’s actually created jobs, not somebody who’s just watched them be created.Mitt Romney, trading barbs with Rick Perry over employment. Romney also claimed 40% of Texas’ new jobs during Perry’s tenure went to “illegal immigrants,” which Perry called “a falsehood on its face.”
Rick Perry just called for defunding the United Nations, to a rather warm reception from the GOP crowd. Ron Paul followed up by declaring his intent to cut all foreign aid.
The concept that we select people based on the church or the synagogue you go to strikes me as a great departure.Mitt Romney, addressing the anti-Mormon remarks by Pastor Jeffress, who endorsed Rick Perry. Romney said he’d heard worse insults over his faith, and would’ve rathered Perry call out Jeffress for earlier comments in his endorsement that faith should be at play in the presidential selection process.
You get to ask the questions, and I get to answer how I want to.Rick Perry, flatly refusing to answer moderator Anderson Cooper’s question, even when Cooper explicitly stressed he wanted him to respond to his question rather than go after Herman Cain. On top of his aggressive interruptions of Mitt Romney, it seems clear Perry’s strategy is to come out swinging with high-energy, but frankly, we think he’s coming off as massively rude and undisciplined.
The idea that you stand before us and tell us you care about illegal immigration is, on it’s face, the height of hypocrisy.Rick Perry, in the course of a wild sequence with Mitt Romney, in which the two were practically shouting at each other over who got to speak. Perry was referring to old reports that Mitt Romney had undocumented people working on his estate, a charge Romney claims was the fault of a contracting company that he was unaware of. The real story, though? Romney and Perry went at it, with Romney showing a rare flash of rhetorical aggression (at one point placing his hand on Perry as he vehemently declared “you’re just going to keep talking?”) that probably helps him more than the attack might help Perry.
Rick Perry says we shouldn’t be worrying about Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan so much as one 9; the nation’s 9% unemployment. This is a tricky tact for Perry to take, however, as he has yet to release any detailed economic platform, beyond his general call for “energy independence,” which drew cheers from the crowd but is yet pretty vaguely defined.
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Rick Perry went on the attack against Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, but in doing so referenced a deficiency of his own that’s becoming blindingly conspicuous; he still hasn’t released his own economic plan. He said it would be coming in a week, but at this stage a lot of voters may feel like it’s been too long coming.
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Hello, and welcome to yet another GOP debate! YAY WE’RE SO EXCITED! Hopefully Anderson Cooper won’t screw this up (don’t take any tips from Wolf Blitzer, bro). Here are a few things to look for during tonight’s debate:
Frontrunner? Herman Cain leapfrogs Romney in new 2012 poll: And it’s a big leap, too: Cain is at a solid 27 percent in the NBC News/WSJ poll, with Romney at 23 percent and Perry way behind with 16 percent. This despite the fact that Romney won handily on Tuesday. source
Ladies and gentlemen, so terminates your Bloomberg-Washington Post debate for the Republican presidential candidates. So who comported themselves well? And who came up short?
The Winners:
Mitt Romney. At this point, it’s almost becoming embarrassing. Romney has just wiped the floor with… [more]
We’re starting to get to the point where the winners and losers are the ones who aren’t necessarily flashy, but well-polished and well-studied. Romney made it look easy; he’s well-polished and well-studied. Santorum and Huntsman are in the same boat, and suddenly looking better as a result. Cain’s well-polished, making up for his weakness on certain things (like explaining 999). Paul’s well-studied, but his opinions are tougher to polish for a larger audience (although he’s making inroads). But Perry and Bachmann looked like they were drowning (all buzz, little substance), and Newt just looked like the odd man out, a tenured college professor in a real-world situation. To us, it seems like this debate format had the effect of playing up smarts and playing down rhetoric. Those who lean more on smarts won. Those who lean on rhetoric struggled.
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