On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:25:42 -0400, Lil Abner wrote:

On 10/27/2011 3:01 PM, X ` Man wrote:
...he is dumber than Bachmann.

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Rick Perry, whose performance in a series of
Republican presidential debates has corresponded with a steep decline in
his support in polls, plans to limit participation in future face-offs
ahead of early state nominating contests.

The concession by the Texas governor, confirmed by an aide in an e-mail
to Bloomberg News today, could benefit former Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney, who has taken a lead over his rivals for the Republican
nomination in the states slated to hold the first four caucuses and
primaries in January.

"I think reality has hit him in the face," said Victoria M. DeFrancesco
Soto, a visiting scholar in the Department of Government at the
University of Texas in Austin. "I think he has realized his strengths
and weaknesses. He made the political calculation that more debates are
only going to hurt him."

Perry's absence from debate stages could spur criticism that he is being
timid about confronting his rivals. In Texas, Perry had a history of
avoiding some debates with his gubernatorial competitors, DeFrancesco
Soto said.



Read mo
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz1c0hXVAjT

Performance is just it! They are performing and seeing who can garner
the most votes with the biggest tales. Let their record and who they
represent speak for them.
The Receiving Class, of government policy and Legislation and taxation
advantage, for the last many years has not been Americans. Most of out
tax dollars go to the Receiving Class of Global Business, Foreign or
Global Banks hostile countries and welfare of their citizens and
subsidizing off shoring American jobs or subsidizing Big Ag and anyone
with a Lobbyist, with a bag of promises and money , our economy and
decimating our Sovereignty.
Time for these Politicians to get religion and decide who their
allegiance is with.

Not until campaign finance and lobbying reforms are put in place.

Each and every one of these elected officials owe a debt of gratitude
to those who support their campaigns. The higher the office, the more
money it takes to run.

There was a recent study done where they found that in 95% of the
races studied, money was the single determining factor in who won. Now
that can be spun a number of ways but (the best candidate garnered the
most contributions) we know totals raised by a candidate can be tilted
by those who have a specific agenda that'd be served more effectively
by one candidate over another.

This is the system that every candidate for office has had to deal
with and learn to exploit. Recognizing that humans are change averse,
what's the chances that this group, who also happen to write the laws,
would change the very basis of how their industry operates?

Not enough to make a change.

The answer is in what's happening with OWS. People need to be ****ed
off and demanding an answer to this completely ****ed up system.