Or in short, it is conceding defeat...
I agree that would be the conventional wisdom, that it suggests a lack of confidence.
You know every few years we get a candidate for president who promises to cut out the political double-talk and just be honest with the American people, etc., etc.
I remember Ross Perot with the same approach, and for a while everyone is enamored with the different, fresh, straight-talking approach. No doubt we can list other examples.
Cain has been saying the same sort of thing.
But there often there is a reason why the conventional wisdom is the conventional wisdom, and I think Cain is seeing it now with the MSM gotcha games.
Truth be told, we all know Cain is not the front-runner. He is third in the Fox News poll behind Romney and Perry, both of whom have deep pocket financial interests and the establishment power structure behind them.
Cain has an opportunity here, because the conservative grass roots really does not want to have their hold their nose for a RINO like Romney and really, really does not George W. Bush the Second with Perry the compassionate conservative taking another shot at shoving the illegals down our throats.
But what he has is an opportunity, not a glide path to victory. So in acknowledging that someone else might win the nomination, he is just being honest.
I think what we will probably start to see with Cain as we have seen before with other "straight-talking" candidates in the past is that they begin to adhere more to the conventional wisdom as time goes along.
Precisely!