Cain is in for GOP Presidential nomination
By JR Hoeft | Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 | Politics
GOP presidential candidate, Herman Cain
If you are looking for a GOP alternative to Romney, that very well may be Herman Cain.
Yesterday, at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in front of 15,000, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, Federal Reserve Chairman in Kansas City, and radio talk show host (who Erick Erickson of Red State is filling-in for) announced his intentions to seek the Republican nomination.
“We have become a nation of crises. We have a moral crisis, we’ve got an economic crisis, we’ve got an entitlement spending crisis. We’ve got an immigration crisis. We’ve got a foggy foreign affairs crisis and we’ve got a deficiency of leadership crisis in the White House, ” said Cain. (h/t: Politico)
Check out Cain’s announcement from YouTube:
I’m quickly becoming a believer. This guy might just be the answer for the GOP.
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33 Responses to "Cain is in for GOP Presidential nomination"
He might be the answer but to a question the Repubs will never ask. I love him though.
President Cain has a nice ring to it. The only thing better would be if Condi Rice runs as his veep.. Obsama and his ilk can’t claim the race card and the duo would actually be more qualified from day 1 to take that 3am call than the ONE we have now. If Cain polls well our market speculators will rally and that alone will help us tremendously. Also, the fair tax will become a real discussion point.
Great article JR, more like it please!
I really like Herman Cain. I am getting sick of people like Krauthammer et al that refuse to support anyone that isn’t inside the beltway. I believe that this time to the rodeo, the people will choose their own candidate, and Herman Cain is well on his way. Some are going to be forced now to include him in polling, which to date, many just have ignored him which is at their own peril.
I’m with these guys…here’s our quarterback. I believe they’ve ignored him because he polls well.
I have liked this guy for a while. I heard him filling in for Bortz. I don’t agree with everything he says, but that is true of everyone. I do wonder if, as a talk radio guy, if he said some things that can be used against him.
neo-Reaganesque. As a Huckabee guy looking for someone to back, I’m going to give Cain a good look.
The GOP elitists aren’t going to like this.
Just made my first donation to a 2012 presidential campaign..
I like this guy. Especially when compared to the other dude(tte)s potentially in the running. I was hoping for Mitch, but Cain is probably our second best option. Pawlenty is a decent choizzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
You’re all kidding me, right? Why not Allen Keyes?
HISROC,
He’s not going to win the nomination but he knows how to fight and talk is a straightforward manner and it may, just may, rub off on the eventual nominee. He has a far more accomplished background than Keyes so I don’t think your jibe is fair. But as Jimmy Carter once said “Life isn’t fair.”
As for qualifications and being able to win the nomination, “YES WE CAN” Just ask Hillary Clinton.
I actually believe he can. The media is trying to ignore him, so he must be electable. They’re out pushing for Paul, Daniels and Romney, nothing better than to determine your own opponents.
HisRoc,
Where do you base such a comment? Alan Keyes? Seriously? You can do better than that because, quite frankly, it smacks of racism.
Cain isn’t going to win the GOP nomination. And hasn’t he been in the race for weeks (at least) now? I always hate it when these guys try to have four different announcements.
Mr. Ron Paul for 2012 Republican Nom and President.
-Strengthen our USD
-No Inflation
-Balance the Budget
-No Mandated Healthcare
-Creates MANY JOBS
-New Crop Industries
-Free Market
-Very Pro Life
-No Bailout
-No Patriot Act
-Stays out of foreign DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, but contract/trade with all
-No Unjustified War with no objectives
-Brings our Troops Home after over 10 YEARS OF FIGHTING!!!!
The USA could have fought WWII twice in 10 years!
Please, let’s bring America’s Troops home. They deserve it. We could have fought 2 WWII in this time.
Leave the Middle East, and all other Nations that are agreed to be sovereign, ALONE with regard to DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
American Lives are NOT toys.
Bring our Troops Home
I am a Ron Paul Republican
Mr. Ron Paul 2012 for Republican Nom and President
JR,
I think that the comparison of Cain and Keyes is a fair one, regardless of the coincidence of their ethnic background. Both are conservative activists who have run quixotic campaigns for high Federal office without any previous elected experience. Too bad if you think that it smacks of racism–I have no power or responsibility to manage your perceptions.
HisRoc – I’m just was waiting for you to make a statement of fact. There are other “quixotic campaigns” you could have compared him to, you just happened to choose another black candidate.
That being said, Keyes is not Cain; Cain is not Keyes. I want to know where you think Cain is the same as Keyes on ideas, policy, persona, and campaign ability. Or did you make that statement just because they’re both black?
Be honest.
I’ve been watching Cain closely for a while now and I like what he has to say and his experience. Speculative now but Cain/Rice would be a great ticket. RomneyCare will help Romney with Democrats and Independents and will help Cain with Republicans. Cain needs money though and lots of it to catch up with Romney. We’ll see.
JR,
When the Republicans were trying to derail Barack Obama in the Illinois senate race, they ran in a black conservative opponent from Maryland who had no elected experience or other qualifications except that he was conservative, and black. Now that you are trying to defeat Obama in his re-election campaign–something that I hardily approve of–you get behind a conservative activist who happens to be black.
Tell me again what “smacks of racism?”
HisRoc, What about Allen West? You seem to have pretty strong emotions about him.
JJ,
So what? I also have pretty strong emotions about 1LT Rusty Calley that I have expressed here in relation to LTC West.
Oh boy this is going downhill fast.. oops, is that politically correct enough?
This entire thread is amazing to me. Conservatives have complained since Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for president that any criticism of him was characterized by the liberals as “racism.” And yet, any criticism of a black conservative who mounts a potentially fruitless and impotent challenge to him is “racism.” Please.
HisRoc- You use racism as a tool, as most if not all Liberals do. It’s old, tired, worn out, and no longer effective. The Conservatives didn’t dream up the racism charge against Obama, because most Conservatives see a person for their character and qualifications. Most Republicans saw Obama for the phony, unqualified, and inexperienced person that he was. It was the Liberals that started screaming racism, because they were desperate to get their nanny state Socialist in the Oval Office, so he could give them stuff from the public coffers. They believed, and still believe that the end justifies the means, the means being false and phony charges of racism.
If you believe Cain to be so very unqualified, you could have used any number of names, even Donald Duck, rather than dragging up another black Conservative to compare him to. To use Keyes, who isn’t even on the same planet as Cain, you were all but calling Cain an Uncle Tom. For the Liberals, such as yourself, who is against replacing Obama, any black man who is a Republican/Conservative, really isn’t black enough, if even black at all. Only Obama, who is only half black, is really black enough. You are a racist, a selective one, but still a racist.
I love it when people shoot their mouths off when they have no idea what they are talking about.
Sandy, if you think HisRoc is a liberal, you’ve never met one.
Thanks, Steve. Sandy’s characterization of me as a “selective racist” is just as credible as his/her assertion that I am a Liberal. (With a capital “L,” those are the worst kind.)
BTW, when did Alan Keyes get thrown under the bus? I must have missed that news bulletin.
Steve and HisRoc- Tell me what part of this statement isn’t Liberal-
“Now that you are trying to defeat Obama in his re-election campaign–something that I hardily approve of–you get behind a conservative activist who happens to be black.”
Now that “YOU” are trying to defeat Obama (so apparently you aren’t HisRoc)in his re-election campaign, something I hardly approve of (so you don’t want to defeat Obama in his re-election campaign HisRoc?). If you are not trying to defeat Obama in his re-election campaign, you are a Liberal. That’s pretty clear to me.
Stop it, Sandy. You’re killing me.
What part of “something that I hardily approve of” means that I don’t want Obama defeated in 2012?
Look, you can call me a racist if that floats your boat, but if you keep calling me a liberal then I’m going to get pissed off.
A central bankster for president? Yeah, that’ll work just fine.
HR-But you might have meant “heartily approve of,” yes?
Sandy-so was everybody who voted for Obama in 2008 a capital L Liberal?
‘Cause you know he got a lot of votes. Unlike some recent presidents a majority of the popular vote, if I recall. And a big majority in the Electoral College.
If America was really that capital-L Liberal just three years ago, the GOP has no shot in 2012. Won’t matter if you run the pizza king, the quitter governor of Alaska, the fat guy from Jersey (not Tony Soprano, the other one) or the Mormon Tabernacle flip-flopper. If there’s that many capital-L Liberals, you’re going to lose.
Steve,
No, Mister Newspaper Man, I meant “hardily,” as in “robust, inured from fatigue or hardship.” But “heartily would work, too.
I’m thinking that we need to stop picking on Sandy. He/she was probably one of those drooling window-lickers with coke bottle bottom glasses who rode the short bus to school.
BTW, my friend, you ARE a liberal, but with a small “L” since you seem to be willing to listen to a reasonable argument, even if you don’t agree with it.
What seems to be getting me in trouble here, Steve, is directly related to your point. Moderate independents are the decisive voting block in our national elections. Tens of millions of them voted for Obama in 2008. And a sitting president, as Shaun has pointed out in another thread, is rarely denied a second term unless he is primaried by someone in his own party. Gerry Ford versus Ronald Reagan in 1976 and Jimmy Carter versus Ted Kennedy in 1980 are recent examples. I don’t want to see a second Obama term, but the Republican core seems hell-bent on making sure it happens. They keep rallying behind candidates that are patently unelectable, no matter how good they make you feel. And anyone who points out that these folks are unelectable gets attacked like a half-eaten pork chop in the dog pound. Sad.
HR- I have to tell you that my Big L Liberal friends don’t really think I am one. Something about supporting the 2nd Amendment and the Death Penalty disqualfies me. Also I have some ideas about taxes that, while they horrify Conservatives, horrify Liberals just as much. I’d say I’m pretty conservative on law and order issues, fairly liberal (with Libertarian tendencies) on civil rights and social issues and a populist on economic issues.
Come on people – this is silly. HisRoc’s comparison is no more bigoted than comparing Bachman to Palin or Kirkpatrick (all women) or Kathy’s comment of Rice for Cain’s VP (both black). Judging by ability & character, rather than skin color, doesn’t compel blindness.
Cain’s color is relevant, in this micro sense – our party is melatonin challenged and the country’s ‘black vote’ still leans overwhelming democrat. I’m glad he’s in the race; he’ll steer conversation, shake things up (like Rand), and yes – give conservative values a face that isn’t lily white … and those are all important to our country (and our party). But he will not get the nomination – won’t even come close – because he’s a pizza king, a radio talk show host, and not yet qualified to run the country.
This thread (and knee-jerk attack on HisRoc) is a perfect example of how we’ve moved from an age of racism into an age of white guilt. No doubt that guilt, when used as knowledge, can be a positive force. But taking it beyond that encourages new behavior that also dehumanize the people who inspired the guilt in the first place.
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