Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Posted on 05/21/2011 9:41:18 AM PDT by Kevin in California
Edited on 05/21/2011 10:29:17 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Another candidate has entered the Republican presidential field. Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in his home town of Atlanta, Georgia today. Instead of announcing via social networking websites, Cain, currently a talk radio host, made his announcement at a rally in Centennial Olympic Park.
On his website, Cain writes, "The biggest barrier to solving many of our national problems is lack of leadership."
Excerpt.... Link
Anyone who would call him “Uncle Tom” clearly hates America and should just move to another country.
I had the same advice for Sarah Palin for two years on FR but nobody apparantly has ever heard me or taken the advice (although she did have a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong to pick up some big speaking bucks and it was not organized very well if you ask me from a messaging and logistic perspective). As a result, people like Ambassador Bolton (if jumping in the race) will be able to clearly kick her and others to the curb on this aspect....which will create a strong vulnerability. It will not be enough to say "As a private citizen right now at this presen time, I do not have access to top level information so I can't comment on this foreign policy issue or that foreign policy issue." Wrong SPIN!! That will wear then real soon and he should move away from that ASAP out on the trail.
For Herman, this would involve some multiple, key visits to ALLIES (and their leaders) abroad over the next three months, scripted and arranged just right PR-wise--with some dynamite quotes that will shake Obama and the State Department to their roots. I can see the attacks in advance from both within the GOP (from the country club RINO elite types as well as from Herman's primary opponents), and it is advisable to shore up this front as soon as possible.
Most likely, Cain is going to have a fairly small but very devoted base of supporters. Like Ron Paul only more likeable. When it becomes clear he can’t get the nomination, he needs to withdraw with grace and without the bitterness we get from the Paulistas. The downside of Cain’s candidacy is that when he does NOT get the nomination, the lamers in the lamestream media will paint the Republican rank and file as racist.
That’s reality.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
So, since you know this in advance, tell us your prediction who will get the nomination. Also, who are you for?
Do you know how people laughed at me for saying Obama would get the nod for the Dem nomination? I picked that right and I’m going out on a limb on this one too.
I don't know. Kinda like being an antisemitic Jew/Israel lover.
It's so confusing!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
So, since you know this in advance, tell us your prediction who will get the nomination. Also, who are you for?
Actually, this is the first I’ve heard of him, so I haven’t done any research yet, but I read somewhere that he supported the bailouts, Tarp and was the head of a Federal Reserve branch. Is it true and if so, how can conservative/tea party support for him be justified? Just curious.
On a Saturday? Isn’t this the day that the press dumps all their stories because folks don’t pay attention. I believe he should have announced on Wednesday. Two days after Pawlenty in order to give the press enough time to get over him and then give full attention to Cain. Now Cain might be talked about until Monday and that is it. I need to be his campaign manager.....lol.
Herman Cain discusses Ron Paul and the Fed.
Herman Cain discusses the role of the Fed and auditing the Fed.
YES!! :) That would be great.
Dude,
First he’s relatively new...seems to be building momentum and attention. He’s got my attention in the past week or so.
Secondly...we’re more than a year out! A certain percentage of the population doesn’t begin paying attention until we get within the 4-6 month window.
I’m a huge Palin fan and hope she runs, but I’m also beginning to really like Cain.
I’m not at all worried about how many people showed up to see him today. That will be much more important as we get close to the election.
We have you on the record, then, that Cain is hopeless. Like plenty of other Americans, now famous and at the top of their chosen fields, who had been told to “fuggedaboudit”...
If Palin runs, what do you think of her chances?
Someone posted they were at the rally. They said you could not see a sizable portion of the people when you looked at video, because they were not near the stage due to the very hot sun there. They were near the trees to get some shade. He reported there were thousands, not hundreds, there, but how many thousands he doesn’t know.
Remember the ridiculously low media estimate for the Beck event at the Lincoln memorial. I recall that those who were there said thousands and thousands of people were tucked away among trees where they were barely visible, and that if you included them and estimated from the area they covered, you got upwards of 600,000.
History repeats...
Of the current candidates, he can win. Unless Palin or Christie get in the race, he has a good chance. No one else can come close to him. He pretty much already sent Pawlenty to the curb, and would do the same to Daniels. They both have zero campaign presence. In this group it comes down to Romney vs Cain. Establishment vs grassroots.
Politics today is vastly different than what we have known for the past 30 years. In Florida, Rubio beat the sitting governor....twice, and won a three way race as a grassroots candidate. Mike Lee beat a sitting snator in the state caucus.
Thanks for the links...I’ll check them out. I’m definitely NOT a Paul supporter, but something needs to be done about the Fed.
I’m predicting Cain/Palin or Palin/Cain.....just have a hunch...
House ——— will also be used.
Cain can’t win the nomination. No chance. He didn’t even get nominated for Senate in his own state and has never won an election.
Palin has won elections and has a shot of winning it—she built up some serious grassroots infrastructure stumping all over the country last year for off-year candidates.
In the general, they both could beat Obobo but GOTV would be the key. Conservatives are good at GOTV and RINOs stink at it. But RINOs control the money and the Republican Party regulars who will just crush Cain. Whereas, through McCain, Palin has at least some connectivity there.
But everybody who is for Cain is for Cain and think he can win and there’s nothing I can say that would matter one way or the other. So, speaking sincerely, good luck. He’s obviously a very good man.
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