Posted on 10/13/2011 8:11:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Herman Cain seemed to enjoy his turn auditioning for the role of Mitt Romney’s chief foil Tuesday night. Luxuriating at the center of the table thanks to surging poll numbers, he basked in the attention of his rivals as every exchange seemed to come back to his signature 9-9-9 tax plan. It’s a good thing Cain relished his moment in the spotlight, because it’s almost certainly downhill from here.
The pizza magnate’s ascension has been the product of his well-honed outsider’s shtick, his stirring personal story and his charisma. It’s a package that resonates with Tea Party activists who are searching for a Romney alternative. “Black walnut isn’t a flavor of the week,” he declared. But the attributes that lend power to his candidacy–including his unwillingness to play by, or even pay attention to, Washington’s rules–will almost certainly derail his chances of winning the GOP nomination.
Take, for example, Cain’s ballyhooed 9-9-9 plan, the centerpiece of an economic platform that bears scrutiny not least because his chief executive credential is his stint as a corporate CEO. Cain’s idea is to simply tear up the federal tax system and replace it with a 9% sales tax, a 9% flat tax and a 9% corporate tax, while forgiving taxes incurred by repatriation. Cain claims the plan is revenue-neutral, an assertion that seems dubious, but which is hard to check because he hasn’t released the details. Either way, it is has no shot of passing Congress. Its inclusion of a sales tax won’t wash with many Republicans, who suspect Democrats would use it to turn the U.S. into Europe (and who are already leery of Cain-sian economics because of his backing of TARP, an original sin on the right.)
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Both the left and the RINOs fear and hate Cain.
Replace “Cain” with “Obama”. Did we read anything like that in 2008? Nope, sure didn’t.
Why is Time magazine racist? (cough)
CAIN .... They fear him !
Time doesn’t want him, then he gets my vote!
You can tell a lot about a man by who his enemy’s are!
don’t the liberal-progressives and rino-progressives wish!
The GOP and the tea party should never stop fighting the MSM because the MSM will never rest until the tea party is done for and the GOP is just another version of the Democrat party, if that.
TIME Mag has already wrecked.
“Its inclusion of a sales tax won’t wash with many Republicans, who suspect Democrats would use it to turn the U.S. into Europe”
Really? Zero and the Dims are turning us into Europe now.
Time. LOL! Where the hell do people find that rag? The ones in my dentist and doctor’s offices are collector’s items. I haven’t seen it anywhere else.
No we sure didn't, but we desperately needed to. Just like the Right needs to hear this now.
“Wishful thinking”, is just what I was about to say.
Romney, the Bush Family, and the lamestream media must all be terrified.
Cain can beat Obama. Better yet would be Cain/Palin.
I notice always the mention of pizza.
Nah, he never did ballistics for the Department of the Navy, worked as a burger flipper to learn the business so he could turn around 400 Burger King stores, be CEO of the National Restaurant Association and later chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank.
And even for pizza he wasn’t just a CEO, he was the fixer sent in to make the chain profitable — which he did. And then he was part owner.
Why don’t the media outlets just fire their writers and let Plouffe and Company write it all? I mean why pay writers for news stories when the ones submitted are written by the gatekeepers.
According to Altman, Cain is just another uppity TEA Partier who dosen’t know his place.
You forgot the barf alert!
They know that once every working American has to pay some percentage of his income in federal taxes, Progressivism, Liberalism and the Democratic Party are all finished forever.
These racist SOBs have no shame.
Time only goes after blacks that got off the plantation.
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