Nice Cannondale.
Posted on 10/21/2011 7:37:49 PM PDT by RobinMasters
MORGAN: Abortion. What's your view of abortion?
CAIN: I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances. And here's why --
MORGAN: No circumstances?
CAIN: No circumstances.
MORGAN: Because many of your fellow candidates -- some of them qualify that.
CAIN: They qualify but --
MORGAN: Rape and incest.
CAIN: Rape and incest.
MORGAN: Are you honestly saying -- again, it's a tricky question, I know.
CAIN: Ask the tricky question.
MORGAN: But you've had children, grandchildren. If one of your female children, grand children was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?
CAIN: You're mixing two things here, Piers?
MORGAN: Why?
CAIN: You're mixing --
MORGAN: That's what it comes down to.
CAIN: No, it comes down to it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you're not talking about that big a number. So what I'm saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make.
Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn't have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue.
MORGAN: By expressing the view that you expressed, you are effectively -- you might be president. You can't hide behind now the mask, if you don't mind me saying, of being the pizza guy. You might be the president of United States of America. So your views on these things become exponentially massively more important. They become a directive to the nation.
CAIN: No they don't. I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make.
MORGAN: That's a very interesting departure --
Cain is saying that as President he can't FORCE his beliefs onto the rest of the citizens. Do you want Obama to be able to FORCE his beliefs onto the rest of the citizens? We are fighting against Obama, now. Do you want to give Obama a pass? It is clear from the transcript that Cain was talking about raising a baby not aborting it!
Utmost Certainty; CSI007; justsaynomore; Marie - Feel free to copy and paste this as you see fit, to those that would perpetuate a lie and misrepresent Herman Cain.
Kind of reminds me when Santorum backed Arlen Specter. He's acting like a total backstabber. Again.
Cain looks like he’s planned for a long solo breakaway.
Romney will let him go thinking he doesn’t have the race savvy , experience to make it.
Based on the thread title Cains plan is working to date.
Lots of tarmac ahead, and certainly someone will crash, so
lets see who’s got the legs/heart to tough out the long haul.
Whoever it is we need to dethrone the “ tricycle ( kids version) rider currently holding the maillot jaune....
P.S. Great analogy. Many political analysts , talking heads could learn a lot from your take.
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