He came out of the political blue and burst into the Republican presidential sweepstakes as a nonentity, a candidate with fewer qualifications for the presidency than Barack Hussein Obama-which is saying a great deal. Because of his dearth of experience, I don't think I could vote for him next year but, considering the rest of the GOP field, who knows?Should Cain make a serious run, I certainly wouldn't ignore him. Ignoring him could be interpreted as racist since Herman Cain is an African-American, an odd African-American at that since he's a rare breed, a Republican conservative black and a Tea Party member to boot!
Liberals, however, basking in their liberality and empty professions of race equality, tend to react to black conservatives like most of us would react to the plague.
Some years ago, pre-Obama, I had hoped another black conservative, J.C. Watts, would run for president. I felt that here was a black man who was clean and articulate, as then-Senator Joe Biden later described Obama, and Watts had the added attraction of being conservative. I gave up on Watts after he proved to be a black racist by abandoning his alleged conservatism by throwing his support and his vote to the most liberal Democrat in the history of the Republic.
For the record, I would also have backed Rep. Allen West had he been around at the time or Condi Rice or Thomas Sowell had they been candidates. Alan Keyes, I'm not so sure about.
I can't substantiate my view that Watts is a black racist so I'll let his radical flipflop speak for itself.
Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza which, like Cain, I had never heard of until recently and which title, should he get the Republican presidential or vice-presidential nomination, would be used by Democrats to beat him over the head without ever saying, "A black pizza man?") has more going for him than pizzas.
Ballistics mathematician with the U.S. Navy, deputy chairman of the civilian Board of Directors at the Kansas City Federal Reserve, successful businessman, columnist, radio show host, the 65 year old native Georgian worked his way through Morehouse and Purdue and went on to make a name for himself.
He considers Social Security a "scam," which it is, and he advocates major reform. He wants a reduction in corporate tax rates, which would benefit everyone, he attacks welfare as a dependency system, favors vouchers in education, off-shore drilling, repeal of Obamacare, tightening of our borders, the Defense of Marriage Act, and de-funding Planned Parenthood since he holds the radical belief that life begins at conception.
Cain also enthusiastically supported TARP, bank bailouts, the only real chink in his conservative armor. More about that below.
On foreign policy, he generally favors a hard line and, with respect to Israel, he opposes Obama's approach of forcing Israel into the indefensible box of its 1967 borders. Cain was caught by the MSM when he muffed a response on the "Palestinian right of return," which he now endorses but only under Israeli conditions.
That same mainstream media has yet to ask Obama about those 57 states he visited.
Cain threw his hat into the presidential ring on May 21st but seemed to know weeks earlier where his hat was going. At a Florida Tea Party event at the end of March, he lambasted the media's bashing of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann then let loose the bombshell, "They are doubly scared that a real black man might run against Barack Obama."
There's no question Obama's MSM is terrified of Palin and Bachmann and there's even less question that Cain is "a real black man." The only real question is whether he is a true, conservative black man or is he in the mold of J.C. Watts, i.e. conservative only when it suits his purposes.
That media has been playing its usual games, hyping Republicans who can't beat Obama-Howard Dean is now warning Dems that Palin could win-and largely ignoring those who actually have a shot. They must think Cain is in the latter category. Time Magazine and its political "expert," Mark Halperin, took that approach a giant step further by omitting Cain from Time's listing of GOP hopefuls, after Cain handily won the Republicans' South Carolina debate in May.
Herman Cain's lone conservative chink, his support of TARP, is a source for concern for J.J. Jackson of AmericanConservativeDaily.com.
Jackson specifically contends, despite Cain's subsequent TARP backtracking, that Cain "knew all along what was going on and like so many political cowards he supported it. He supported it because to not support it would mean moving forward without the bailout, letting banks fail and dealing with all the pain that would follow. Now that the rage against TARP is popular and the thing has proven to be what we all knew it would be he is now on the other side."
Those charges may all be valid and true. No one has ever been perfect, least of all politicians but Herman Cain will probably never get the Republican nomination, anyway. In view of the dire threat posed to America's future by another four years of Barack Hussein Obama and in the immortal words of Rodney King, "I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?"
Can we?
(See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4740)
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