W.E.B. Du Bois
05-17-2011, 12:00 AM
Salon.com, a liberal website has a writer who wrote the following:
salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/16/herman_cain_time
With Huckabee out, the GOP nomination is definitely Herman Cain's to lose
The former pizza magnate is the rising star of the Republican race
By Alex Pareene
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee would rather host a talk show and produce a children's edutainment cartoon than be president. I can respect that decision. While his withdrawal may appear to help frontrunner Mitt Romney, who now actually has a shot at winning Iowa, or maybe Tim Pawlenty, who could absorb some of the Huckabee supporters who refuse to switch to Mitt, true political junkies know that one man now stands poised to seize control of the race: Herman Cain, Tea Party pizza magnate.
Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza (and head of the restaurant industry's lobbying organization), has been unfairly written off as an unserious candidates by the elites, because he's never won an election to anything before and he's very silly. But GOP voters have caught Cain fever. After Frank Luntz's focus group almost unanimously declared Cain the "winner" of the May 5 South Carolina debate, Cain took the Georgia Republican Party convention by storm and won the Tea Party Fort Lauderdale straw poll. As Tea Party Fort Lauderdale goes, so goes Tea Party West Des Moines.
Nate Silver has declared Cain "the most Huckabee-like of the other Republican candidates," according to his mystic number sorcery. Cain is the thin, black Huckabee with private sector experience. He is unstoppable.
Sure, he has absolutely no clue what to even say on foreign policy and his sole domestic policy prescription seems to be the rebranded flat tax, and a great deal of his support seems to be related to white Republicans' resentful touchiness about being accused of hating Barack Obama for reasons informed by his race, but none of that changes the fact that Herman Cain will definitely be our second black president.
The last line strikes me as satire. There is no way the American people will elect Cain and no real reason to think they would.
Among Cain's weaknesses:
* He said on tape that Muslims would not be allowed to staff his administration
* He has never held political office
* He is intellectually weak: he said he doesn't have a position on Afghanistan and he would need access to sensitive information to formulate one
* His position on the issues is the same as Limbaugh's (according to Limbaugh) which is far to the right of the American people
* He has no discipline as a campaigner, as opposed to Obama, a polished campaigner and speech-maker
I don't think Cain will even win the GOP nomination. He's nowhere in the polls, nowhere in the early primary states, he's not taken seriously by his own party, he has none of the staff or early support that his rivals like Pawlenty, Romney or Daniels have, and he's black in a party that has a significant anti-black element in it. I really wonder if tomorrow the writer of this article will write a new article entitled: Gotcha!
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salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/16/herman_cain_time
With Huckabee out, the GOP nomination is definitely Herman Cain's to lose
The former pizza magnate is the rising star of the Republican race
By Alex Pareene
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee would rather host a talk show and produce a children's edutainment cartoon than be president. I can respect that decision. While his withdrawal may appear to help frontrunner Mitt Romney, who now actually has a shot at winning Iowa, or maybe Tim Pawlenty, who could absorb some of the Huckabee supporters who refuse to switch to Mitt, true political junkies know that one man now stands poised to seize control of the race: Herman Cain, Tea Party pizza magnate.
Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza (and head of the restaurant industry's lobbying organization), has been unfairly written off as an unserious candidates by the elites, because he's never won an election to anything before and he's very silly. But GOP voters have caught Cain fever. After Frank Luntz's focus group almost unanimously declared Cain the "winner" of the May 5 South Carolina debate, Cain took the Georgia Republican Party convention by storm and won the Tea Party Fort Lauderdale straw poll. As Tea Party Fort Lauderdale goes, so goes Tea Party West Des Moines.
Nate Silver has declared Cain "the most Huckabee-like of the other Republican candidates," according to his mystic number sorcery. Cain is the thin, black Huckabee with private sector experience. He is unstoppable.
Sure, he has absolutely no clue what to even say on foreign policy and his sole domestic policy prescription seems to be the rebranded flat tax, and a great deal of his support seems to be related to white Republicans' resentful touchiness about being accused of hating Barack Obama for reasons informed by his race, but none of that changes the fact that Herman Cain will definitely be our second black president.
The last line strikes me as satire. There is no way the American people will elect Cain and no real reason to think they would.
Among Cain's weaknesses:
* He said on tape that Muslims would not be allowed to staff his administration
* He has never held political office
* He is intellectually weak: he said he doesn't have a position on Afghanistan and he would need access to sensitive information to formulate one
* His position on the issues is the same as Limbaugh's (according to Limbaugh) which is far to the right of the American people
* He has no discipline as a campaigner, as opposed to Obama, a polished campaigner and speech-maker
I don't think Cain will even win the GOP nomination. He's nowhere in the polls, nowhere in the early primary states, he's not taken seriously by his own party, he has none of the staff or early support that his rivals like Pawlenty, Romney or Daniels have, and he's black in a party that has a significant anti-black element in it. I really wonder if tomorrow the writer of this article will write a new article entitled: Gotcha!
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