Cain supporters will not be shaken because reality means nothing to them. Cain has no policies he can articulate, he understands nothing, he speaks in nothing but buzz-words, and he’s totally unqualified - but people wanted somebody they could see as the “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” candidate.
Cain is obviously as good as Obama at leaving any inconvenient past behind. The fact that he was a lobbyist, part of a failed energy investment venture that ended with some of the money disappearing, a motivational speaker whose whole life is his personality and his ability to manipulate people, etc. never affects the image that he has tried to create of an innocent who can be the standard bearer for whatever position these people wish to project onto him.
Precisely because it is so personal, however, his real devotees will remain in place no matter what. He’s like Obama: you could tell them the truth and show them photos and they would instead merely swoon and faint because He was in the photo. But I think there were other people who may have foolishly put their trust in him and are now feeling used and humiliated. (Also, I think he has been behaving pretty cynically throughout this.)
I said at the very start that we have got to stop attaching ourselves to personalities and look at policies and competence. And worshipping a personality is setting yourself up for a terrible fall: as the Psalmist said, “put not your trust in princes or the sons of men...”
—I said at the very start that we have got to stop attaching ourselves to personalities and look at policies and competence.—
Sounds like something you need to tell the democrats. Regarding Cain, I’m focused on his track record.
—I said at the very start that we have got to stop attaching ourselves to personalities and look at policies and competence.—
Sounds like something you need to tell the democrats. Regarding Cain, I’m focused on his track record.
Actually that is my focus with ALL the candidates.
Well stated. Time to let the Cain supporters have their time for Mourning.