Posted on 11/01/2011 8:55:31 PM PDT by txroadkill
Edited on 11/01/2011 8:56:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A new report claims that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain voted for Democrat Bill Clinton for president in his first run, as well as for two Nebraska Democratic candidates in the past.
In a story on the Nebraska Watchdog website, Joe Jordan writes that Mr. Cain supported Mr.Clinton during his 1992 presidential bid, 17 months before he squared off with Mr. Clinton over his push to overhaul the national health care system.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And Rush Limbaugh endorsed him. So what? It doesn’t prove anything!
Same here. I voted GOP in 94. I was always a life-long Democrat. Had to change with the times and I didn’t like the way they were going.
Ronald Reagan voted for FDR and Harry Truman, so what more can I say.........
In my copy of Gore: A Political Life by Bob Zelnick is the story of the politician's redo when he hit the national scene.Gone was the gun-toting pro-life Tennessean; behold the gun control, abortion-defending metro-eunuch.
And when did Zelnick risk opprobium by outing Al, Jr.? 1999.
The tantalizing but too-brief biography of Bill Clinton by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Boy Clinton: The Political Biography was not until 1996.
One might contrast Al Gore of that day with Dan Quayle, of DePauw that school down the road with its high opinion of itself.
Surely his wife gave me the ice-cold glare when I complimented her for his February 28, 1998, Biloxi, Mississippi speech to 1,600 Southern Republicans calling for a "tough, new Three-Interns and You're Out policy."
And George Herbert Pluperfect had boldly commanded us to read his lips--all he was saying was he was leaving Iraq, humiliating Schwarzkopf but caving to Democrats in Congress.
So, in a strictly weak-horse, strong-horse format, Herman Cain might have been persuaded nearly twenty years ago before Waco, and Vince, and all the sex and treason.
As surely as Rick might have gone for the Tennessee flannel-shirt Gore before he became the metro-dweeb (and long before he became the Adductor Muscle of Doom).
Kierkegaard not Professor Peabody: we live life forward, see it in reverse--
But Cain or Perry, we shall beat Mitt Romney, beat Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., and save the Republic.
I would stipulate the Herman Cain who gave better than he got from Slick Willie HillaryCare Salesman was an enlightened man.
Just as I would guarantee the Rick Perry who practically begged Federal border enforcement from Obama and was sneered at owes nothing to the Gore supporter of the 'Eighties.
Ronald Reagan's great reply to Sam Toupee Donaldson's "Mr. President, you blame Congress for the current situation--does any blame fall on you?"
"Yes, because I was once a Democrat."
I have written in the names of Priests, that I don’t know - may have been democrats. But I have always voted for a Republican to be President.
At this point I can go with either Cain or Perry.
Or, even worse - non-Pasteurized milk from an Amish farm.
This guy got it straight from Cain
http://missouri-news.org/midwest-news/nebraska/cain-voted-for-bill-clinton/10263
During those same years? Do you have a source?
My father loved buttermilk. I thought it was disgusting.
I am proud to say I never voted for Carter. EVER.
BTTT
Sad but expected. And its the usual suspects.
And don't get me started on his source for discount mushrooms...
With that said, Herman would make a good president.
Perry was once a Democrat. It seems Cain was once a Democrat. So what?
Gee, what if Zell Miller ever threw his hat in the ring? All he did was GIVE THE KEYNOTE SPEECH AT THE '92 DEM CONVENTION in which Slick was nominated.
I would vote for Zell over either Perry or Cain (or Santorum, Bachmann, Newt)
I never did though :-)
You must be VERY wise!!!! I was very busy and just believed the headlines of newspapers—and it WAS before the internet—so truth was hard to acquire with the takeover of the schools and media by marxists/socialists like John Dewey.
I was totally indoctrinated. I admit it.
Just wondering how all the “Perry supported Gore in ‘88, so I'll never vote for him” people will deal with this little piece of info.For the record: I always thought (and sometimes said) that all those posters who said “Perry supported Gore in ‘88, so I'll never vote for him” were espousing a moronic point of view.
I always said that.
And I similarly defend Cain. I don't care who he voted for in '92. I care what he will do in '12.
I wasn't totally unindoctrinated. My first vote was for Anderson. After that, though, all Rs for Pres. and Congress. I did go third party a few times regarding Specter & I voted for Bob Casey Sr. for gov.
Your parents must have been wise....my dad was great...owned his own business and hated unions and Democrats and hippies. (It had an effect—when I matured) I was also packed off to Catholic schools, which helped.
That is the only reason I returned to logic (my Latin and Socratic bkgrd). I just found Michael Savage on the radio and VOILA....I started to read and actually think for myself, and, of course, with the internet, I could sift through the white noise.
I think we, as a nation, are going to come back big in 2013.
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