Newt still remains an insider to me and many others, no doubt.....I sure hope he is in “recovery” from his affairs of the past just as Glenn Beck would describe himself as a “recovering alcoholic.”
Cain has the outsider credentials at this point and appears to be the best shot at stopping the Romney annointing.
The whole system is against anyone challenging Romney because 20 percent plus of the delegates are unelected insiders like elected officials and party leaders.
Any challenger will have to get an overhwelming number of delegates that are selected in early conservative states by proportional means and in later RINO states by winner take all.
The RNC just happened to set up the rules that way.
If Cain keeps building momentum, he may be the one. I’d be happy with either him or Newt as the nominee, and I feel pretty confident that either one could beat Obama. I don’t feel that way about any other candidate.
I do think Cain needs to either re-think his 999 plan or learn how to explain it a little better. That apples vs. oranges analogy about state taxes vs. federal didn’t really play too well, for example (IMHO).