May 16th, 2011 | 
Author: Well it’s hypothetical now, but below is how it was, with the consensus now believing that Cain would have been another ego-maniac à la Obama!
Dennis Miller Endorses Herman Cain – Fox News
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Dennis Miller Endorses Herman Cain
Fox News He is endorsing Herman Cain for president of the United States. Miller was in town last night. O'REILLY: So the sage of Southern California in New York City to do more charitable work. We'll get to that in a moment. But first, shocking: Miller endorses … Herman Cain's Curious Strategy For Attracting Black Voters Herman Cain Says Black Voters Have Been Brainwashed Herman Cain wins straw poll |
Herman Cain: How high can he rise? – Washington Post (blog)
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Herman Cain: How high can he rise?
Washington Post (blog) Businessman Herman Cain is surging in the GOP presidential race, rising as high as 17 percent in the most recent Fox News Channel/Opinion Dynamics national poll. That's nearly triple the support that Cain won in the last Fox poll and puts him in a … New poll: Cain now part of top tier? All Shook Up: Herman Cain Reasserts Himself in GOP Race (The Note) Cain's rise dispells theory the media made it a two-man race |
This is Part 13 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
Take a look at Herman Cain discussing the "Immigration issue".
Sounds a lot different to Obama doesn’t he?!
And who do you think won Fox News Channel’s debate last week among contenders for the GOP’s 2012 presidential nomination?
Don’t know?
It was Herman Cain!
How Do We Know?
Because Frank Luntz, who is a best selling author and GOP pollster, held an instant focus group after the debate which overwhelmingly declared the Cain the winner.
"In all the years I have been doing this, I have never seen a reaction like this to a debate. Something very special happened here tonight".
Contributions And Praise
Traffic and contributions to Cain’s web site have increased sharply in the days since the debate and the conservative media, particularly the blogosphere, praised the 65-year-old talk radio host from Georgia all weekend.
Another Win!
And shortly after the debate, he won a presidential straw poll at a Washington state GOP convention and drew a crowd of several hundred people in Las Vegas.
Who Is Cain?
Cain is best known as the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza where he is credited with saving the pizza chain from bankruptcy in the 1990s and making it profitable and he has extensive experience in the corporate world and even served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.
He has recently mastered the one-liners and fiery talk of conservative talk radio and also holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in computer science.
He made his debut on the national political stage back in 1994 when he challenged President Clinton on his health care reform package during a televised town hall.
But, whilst he has charisma and an impressive business resume, he has never held elected office before and when he was asked the reason for that at the debate, he had one of the evening’s most memorable answers:
“I’m proud of the fact that I haven’t held public office before. Most of the people that are in elected office in Washington DC, they have held public office before. How’s that workin’ for you? We have a mess. How about sending a problem-solver to the White House?”.
Does Cain Have What It Takes?
He’s good at one liners but he hasn’t to my mind yet shown any real ability to discuss serious topics like foreign affairs, and Dave Funk, who’s a prominent Republican Party official in Iowa, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal profile of Cain expressing a similar impression.
"Herman is a great speaker and makes a great first impression. But what I don’t see yet is a great deal of depth on things like Afghanistan and national defense".
Does He Have A Chance?
It is still a long way to the nomination, but Herman Cain is now a player, and the main question now is,
"Will the former pizza mogul be able to deliver the goods?".
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Cain held no prior political office, and maybe that could actually be a big an advantage at this point?!
As noted, and for whatever reason, the Godfather Pizza chief executive officer Herman Cain stole the show at Thursday’s Fox News debate of Republican primary contenders in South Carolina!
But to be fair, not all in the full field of GOPers were there to speak, of course, and the main ones missing were Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin.
Luntz found, that of the twenty nine who originally considered Cain for the Republican slot prior to the debate, only one positioned him as Numeral Uno.
But after?
More than a dozen saw Cain as the leading candidate to beat.
“This is unprecedented”, Luntz said. “He wasn’t a real candidate before tonight”.
“What happened?”.
It’s official, Herman Cain just launched his bid for the White House, and if there’s an early crowd favorite in the Republican race for president, it may be Cain.
The businessman, author, talk radio show host and tea party darling knows how to wow a conservative gathering, and he’ll now try to see if he can use that grass-roots enthusiasm to turn a long-shot presidential campaign into a credible bid.
Cain has been crisscrossing the country for months now, his intentions abundantly clear, and so are his views, espoused for years on his radio show and in speeches.
He supports a strong national defense, opposes abortion, backs replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax and favors a return to the gold standard.
Cain says he’s running “a bottoms-up, outside-the-box campaign’, and his supporters say he taps into the tea party-fueled desire for plain-speaking citizen candidates.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday on May 22, Mr. Cain reaffirmed his so-called “Cain Doctrine”.
“You mess with Israel, you are messing with the US”.
He said that if were elected president, he would offer the Palestinians “nothing” in the peace process negotiations because he is “not convinced that the Palestinians are really interested in peace”.
Cain trounced other Republican presidential candidates in a straw poll taken at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this past weekend, receiving 48 percent of the vote.
Cain, best known as the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, received 246 of the 508 votes cast.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who, like Cain, delivered a speech during the three-day conference, came in second with 13 percent of the vote. Perry has not formally announced that he will run for president.
Typically, the straw-poll results reflect “who’s given the best speech, not how people plan on voting,” said Katy Atkinson, a local conservative political consultant.
Still, Cain was excited about the results.
“Didn’t I tell you that the people are going to select the nominee?” Cain asked the crowd in the Denver Marriott City Center.
Cain finished his speech less than 20 minutes before the Centennial Institute, a conservative think tank based out of Colorado Christian University, closed the polling.
Conference attendees were asked to select their preferred candidate for president out of 14 choices.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who led the Colorado GOP caucuses in 2008, received 10 percent of the straw- poll vote, as did former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann received 9 percent of the vote.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul received 2 percent, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty each received 1 percent.
I see that there haven’t been any comments here for a while but I reckon that’s going to change now that Herman Cain has jumped to 3rd place following the debates.
Take a look at Cain talking about race Race And 2012
Do you think he’s got a chance?
I like him, but it would be a little strange after just getting our first bi-racial President to see him running against a Black American for the next Presidency, wouldn’t it?
This is the same man who put himself through Morehouse College majoring in math, got a masters in computer science from Purdue and plotted rocket guidance for the Navy.
Started in business at Coca-Cola, then went on to turn around the fortunes of Philadelphia’s Burger King franchise, took over Godfather’s Pizza chain and then became the head of the National Restaurant Association.
Was appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, and also hosted a radio show into the bargain.
And, of course, he defeated the Big C. (as in cancer and not the show).
Herman Cain has moved into a tie with Mitt Romney atop the field of Republican presidential candidates, according to a new CBS News poll, while Rick Perry has fallen 11 percentage points in just two weeks.
The poll shows Cain, who stood at just five percent support two weeks ago, now holding 17 percent support among Republican primary voters. That puts the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO into a tie with Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, whose support has essentially held steady over the past two weeks.
Perry, meanwhile, has dropped from 23 percent support to just 12 percent support over the past two weeks, a sign that the Texas governor’s shaky debate performances, in which he has alienated portions of both the Republican base and the party establishment have taken their toll.
Eight in ten Republican primary voters said the candidates’ debate performances are at least somewhat important to them, and 58 percent said they have watched the debates that have already taken place.
Just ten percent of Republican primary voters said they agreed with Perry that the children of illegal immigrants should be allowed to get in-state tuition, a contentious topic in recent debates.
Cain was the first Republican candidate to criticize Perry for leasing a Texas hunting camp with a racial slur in its name, a controversy sparked by a Washington Post report.
“Quite frankly, based upon Gov. Perry’s position on some issues, I would not be comfortable being his vice presidential nominee,” he said, noting Perry’s support for in-state college tuition for children of illegal immigrants and his opposition to a border fence.
The Perry family didn’t, and hasn’t ever owned the property and Rick Perry hasn’t been there for at least seven years.
The name “Nigger Head” was widely used all over the use for the names of geographical sites.
So Caine’s comments would seem to be plain and simple politicking.
Maybe take a look at this: Name of Perry’s Hunting Lodge
THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Sixty-year-old Susan Tubbs last week waited in line behind 200 people at a Barnes and Noble store, and when it was finally her turn, she held out her copy of the This is Herman Cain book and meekly voiced a desire to give the author a hug.
In spite of his handler’s insistence otherwise, presidential candidate Herman Cain halted the swift-moving line, slipped around the barricading booth, and hugged her.
“Sometimes I break the rules”, Cain boomed with a toothy grin, pausing to allow a friend of Tubbs photograph the moment.
A national poll released Wednesday shows former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
Additionally, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has moved past Texas Gov. Rick Perry into third place.
According to the Public Policy Polling (D) survey, Cain leads the field with 30% support.
Romney has 22%, Gingrich has 15%, and Perry has 14%.
None of the other candidates garners more than 5% support.
Both Cain and Gingrich have benefited from Perry’s decline.
The Texas governor rocketed to the top of the polls after he entered the race in August but has fallen in the wake of several mediocre debate performances.
Can Cain Win the nomnination?
Herman Cain just surged to 27% in a hypothetical national primary ballot test, which is up from just 5% in an August NBC-WSJ poll.
His current standing puts him on par with Romney who is at 23% and makes it clear that the two men comprise the top tier in the race as of today.
Nearly one in four Republicans (23%) in the NBC-WSJ survey didn’t know enough about Cain to offer an opinion on him.
Just 6% had no opinion of Romney and 11% didn’t know enough about Perry to rate him, which means that Cain, unlike either of his two main opponents, still has a ways to go until he reaches his political ceiling.
Combine that with the fact that the people who know Cain really like him, 52% have a favorable impression, whilst just 6% have a negative one, and there’s clearly room for growth there.
The left wants minorities, women, blacks and Hispanics to lean on government.
Liberals have long loved to claim they represent African-Americans better than the right ever could, but under Obama and even with a Democratic Congress, unemployment for blacks has spiked, as has the number of those on food stamps.
Cain has publicly stated:
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who believe this country owes them something”.
“If you put your mind to it and you don’t play the victim card, you can do whatever you want to do in this country. I am walking proof of that”.
So the man who compares himself to black walnut ice cream is giving liberals a brain freeze.
Herman Cain Suspends Presidential Bid Amid Allegations of Infidelity, Sexual Harassment!
He might have been forgiven for his infidelities but using his position to get the s** wasn’t.
“Ah you want promotions or a pay raise; no problem, open wide!”.