May 242011
A recent Zogby poll puts Herman Cain at the front of the pack of GOP Presidential hopefuls.
Cain: 19%; Christie: 16%; Romney: 11%; Ron Paul: 9%; Palin: 6%
The Democrat spin machine is gonna have to work overtime on figuring out how to run with the “Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Partiers are racist” meme if Cain continues to make advances.
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Looks like the Republicans have a good lineup with the exception of Palin. The Republicans could have had the first black president if they had given the nomination to Colin Powell back in 1997. I’d like to see a Cain-Romney ticket but that’s even more unlikely than Cain getting the nomination.
The Democrat Spin Machine is already doing it. They are saying that the only reason the Republicans are even considering nominating him is because he is black. They are also starting to paint him with the same “Uncle Tom/Oreo” paintbrush they hit Colin Powell and Condeleeza Rice with. Basically, they believe that if you are a black politician and not a liberal, your not really black.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
The MSM is just waiting for a clear leader to emerge. If it’s someone they like – i.e. someone O has a good chance of beating, they will smooth the way until the primary is over – before going to death beam mode – if not they’ll got death beam immediately.
Cain isn’t a serious candidate. If the Republicans complained about O not having any experience – the Dems will be throwing it back in the Reps faces. Plus he apparently is an ignoramous when it comes to foreign policy – perhaps even worse than Palin.
> If the Republicans complained about O not having any experience…
… then they have a winner in Cain. Cain has *years* of executive experience. Obama had ZERO executive experience.
From Cain’s Wiki page;
In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of vice president by the early 1980s. He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, another of their then-subsidiaries. Within 14 months, Cain had returned Godfather’s to profitability. In 1988, Cain and a group of investors bought Godfather’s from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned to become CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.[8]
Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.
Compare that to obama big fat *nothing* prior to becoming President (and, effectively, after).
> Plus he apparently is an ignoramous when it comes to foreign policy
Really?
>– perhaps even worse than Palin.
And what made Palin an “ignoramous when it comes to foreign policy?” She’s certainly not high on my list, but the bulk of the complaints against her tend to be bullcrap.
Get me ten randomly selected Republicans in one room who can actually agree on what the party philosophy is without getting into violent battle inside of a hour among themselves…
They’re against this and that; what exactly can they agree on that they are in favor of?
In general, smaller Constitutionally-limited government, lower taxes, less tyrannical gun control, strong national defense. Beyond that, things get fuzzy. Now, if they’d actually pick a small list of important things, like the list above, and stuck with that and *only* that, I think they’d be unbeatable in election after election. But they do seem to be incapable of *not* bitching about abortion or gay rights or god or whatever, and immediately turn off the masses and start losing.
Get me ten randomly selected Republicans in one room who can actually agree on what the party philosophy is without getting into violent battle inside of a hour among themselves…
Get me ten randomly selected Democrat politicians in one room and — in private — they’ll quickly agree on what the party philosophy is:
More power for the government, because the people don’t understand what their best interests are; we do, because we and our friends are the best and the brightest and the most enlightened, so we deserve to govern.