Posted on 10/14/2011 8:39:08 PM PDT by Cookies4ever
This is my very first post after a decade+ of reading FR online so if I've made a formatting error, please forgive me. What is the GOP "elite" problem with Herman Cain? He's a legitimate candidate with great conservative plans. He's had no political experience, but why is that a bad thing? What career politician has accomplished what Mr. Cain has? Why do O'Reilley, Hannity, Rove, etc. hold Mr.Cain with such contempt? What do they fear...or...do they just swallow the left's pablum that Romney is the only viable candidate--and the only GOP candidate that Obama "fears" which is total BS!!!
It is a convenient bogeyman to blame when some one’s candidate, like Bachmann, self destructs.
In case you are wondering, that was extreme sarcasm.
All of the above answers are great.
Bottom line is the republican party as a whole has been taken over by the liberals. The country club types if you will. Living in their ivory towers and sending down their commands to the conservative base to do what they say.
Anything (tea party) or anybody (Cain or Palin) is seen as a threat to their power structure and firm grasp on the party.
These people are no better then liberal democrats and many of them enjoy each others company and are frequently seen with each other at affairs and such.
This establishment is dragging the country down nearly as quickly as the democrats are...Perhaps some are a bit more fiscally conservative then your typical liberal democrat but make no mistake about it, if they had free reign it would spell the end of the republic in the blink of an eye.
In any place not on the up and up you have to ‘make your bones’ so as to be as culpable as the rest. That way you can’t afford to step out of line.
How about the entire country is considered an "empowerment" zone? With equal incentives across the board and across the country?
If you attract them (investors) equally, they will come.
Just before we get too far with the true conservatives on parade, just remember before he passed away, Buckley supported McCain in the 2008 primaries.
I think powerful Republican “elites” look at all things through the lens of electability ....if they appear to “hate” Caine it is really that they think he is un electable ....this explains why they love someone like “Romney” .....
If anyone is controversial they think they are un electable
Hannity??? I call B.S.
Because he has not paid his dues. What did he do in 2008 or 2010??
They know he doesn’t have a freckin chance of beating Obama.
The man knows one thing: 9-9-9 and its being reported he stole that from a video game. Of course that is not true.
The republican voters better get their act together. First it was Bachmann, than Perry, and now Cain.
Cain knows nothing about foreign policy. I saw him do an interview the other night with Greta and she asked him about the Iran terror plot and the man was clueless. He had not study his talking points or oneliners for that issue yet.
The man is a talking and a con-artist just like Obama. The only difference is that Cain is bullshztting the republican party.
Our country is sinking and people are pushing a radio host for POTUS and one that was not even as popular as a Rush, Hannity, or Levin??
Give me a freckin break!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fix is in. Bumping up the primaries was a dead giveaway.
I’d heard that one of Rubio’s top aids lobbied for the FL primary bump up.
Just watch as the machine gears up into full combat mode.
We either all hang together or we all hang seperately.
That might be a bit of a misrepresentation. I can only speak for myself that I've posted some very critical messages of him, but I actually find him quite likeable on a personal basis. I probably only read 1% of the anti-Cain messages from others, but the ones I read criticized his policy ideas and experience, not him.
Hmm guess you did not know Reagan used the same concept. So now you are saying Reagan wasn't Conservative. Maybe the actual problem is you are mindlessly devoted to Perry and cannot be bother to rationally think about any other candidate.
In the United States, the zone concept gained its first supporters among leaders of the Republican Party, which advocated an overall reduction of government influence. In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan included enterprise zones in the urban policy platform for his presidential campaign, and Senator Jack Kemp introduced the first bill featuring enterprise zones in Congress. The idea gradually expanded its base of supporters to include more liberal members of Congress, such as Democrats Robert Garcia and Charles Rangel of New York, as well as the leaders of prominent minority organizations, such as the National Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Congratulations on your first post!
I don’t think the GOP elites hate Cain at all. They just don’t think he can win. And if he wins, they know they won’t have the influence with him that they might with some other candidate.
Nothing really complicated or sinister, IMHO.
Bill Kristol to a NY Time Reporter telling him how the GOP Establishment plans to deal with “the Tea party mutiny”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2792217/posts?page=3
Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race, a development that essentially ended [the more radical Michele] Bachmann’s brief ascent. Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.
There is a dedicated Perry following that post thread after thread how Cain is no better than Obummer. That is just the way things go here. Palin fans, Perry fans, Bachmann fans and yes, Cain fans. It is a Primary after all. Vetting needs to be done.
Cavuto likes Cain. Cain was introduced by Cavuto as a regular guest on Your World years ago. With Beck gone from FNC, Cavuto is the only political opinion show host I can stand over there. (Baur and Kelly are very good but they play more the reporter role not opinionist.)
Hannity I gave up years ago, he pushed Steele on RNC
O Reilly GAG, he is only a Republican because he doesnt want his taxes to go up
Rove (doesnt have a show) thinks RINOs are most electable, as he is one.
They also consider it critical that he previously held higher office before prime time. I doubt they hate him. Lets not start sounding like those Palinistas.
I think Cain is the best of the lot. The others are duds.
And they are not.
Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Chales Kraulhammer, Daid Brooks, George Wills, the Bush’s, the Doles, The Romneys, etc etc etc
Denying their existence doesn’t change the facts. Try reading about them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2792635/posts
In the United States, the zone concept gained its first supporters among leaders of the Republican Party, which advocated an overall reduction of government influence. In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan included enterprise zones in the urban policy platform for his presidential campaign, and Senator Jack Kemp introduced the first bill featuring enterprise zones in Congress.
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