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 ...
Supported? I think Clinton just ordered a pizza from Godfathers and then this girl delivered it and and -— never mind!
Baloney. You’re trying too hard. We knew about the women, but mostly, we knew that the Dems and the Clintons were all for abortion, all abortion, all the time.
“In 1992 Clinton was more conservative than GHW Bush.”
That’s not true at all. Clinton may have run as a semi-conservative to get elected, but once inaugurated, the first thing he tried to do was institute gays in the military. Then his first major policy initiative (after signing into law the largest tax increase in U.S. history up to that point) was HillaryCare(essentially a duplicate of Obamacare).
The reality is that it’s the fact that Clinton lurched so far left in 93-94 that lead to the GOP wipeout in the 94 elections. After those elections, Clinton wisely took Dick Morris’ advice and triangulated-claiming GOP initiatives like Welfare Reform for his own. But he never would have pushed for these with a Dem Congress.
I think people have hazy memories of how liberal Clinton was (especially at the beginning of his first term) because Obama is such a radical Marxist he makes Clinton look like Reagan. Clinton was above anything else a narcissist and willing to take whatever position he needed to maintain personal popularity. This caused him to take a few conservative positions, but he certainly was not more conservative than George HW Bush.
You two should try coordinating your defense better.
It’s very confusing, having one Cain supporter telling us everybody knew this and it’s not news, while another is telling us the writer is a lib and it’s a made-up attack.
When you figure out what the story is between you two, let me know. Or I’ll wait for Cain to be asked about this 4 times, so I can get the 4th and final clarification on the subject.
Bill Clinton was a serial rapist and worse and got clean away with it.
Me too...just out of college with a mind full of mush
No, Not if Cain thought Reagan was still a Democrat! :o)
The only thing that saved Monica’s life was Linda Tripp’s insistence she save the evidence. Otherwise, dead bimbo.
R U EFFING KIDDING ME?
no wonder I was getting “Will Robinsons”...you get older you better listen to yourself
Rick Perry was a Democrat around those days too. The point?
IF true, Herm can make a point with his conversion. DO NOT act apologetic.
Now he's more conservative than I am! And we're still in NY so it really doesn't count... :(
But we're trying!
This Reagan Democrat says “who the %$#@ cares?
Well, who knows. I actually like the idea, it tells me Cain is capable of tossing aside a failed ideology and embracing a more pro-American view. Reagan did it, so did Perry.
I'll probably hold my nose and vote for the candidate who can beat Romney. Cain's lucky that I'm at the point of anybody but Romney or Obama.
Darn. I want my ball back, I'm going home.
“Cain said the same thing in an interview not that long ago that it was the mid 90s that he became a Republican (Kemp had a positive influence on him)
This is not news, he’s mentioned it in at least one interview that I know of.”
Agreed. And neither is it news that Perry supported Gore in 1988 before becoming a Republican in 1989 or that Michele Bachmann worked for the Carter campaign in 1976 but became a Republican in 1980 because of Reagan. The common thread with all of these examples is that once they switched over to the GOP, they have REMAINED there and have had consistent conservative positions ever since. This stands in sharp contrast to another leading candidate we know.
Rick Perry was a Democrat around those days too. The point?
You are seeing a political ‘market correction’ taking place.
Words have meanings, and elections have meanings.
Nov 2012 will further demonstrate the PEOPLE throwing off old deceptive labels and returning to the essence of America. No wonder all the RATS with any sense are looking to Hillary to get them out of this, the clintons are the agents of commie change, real change.
They will be buried, too.
There will NEVER, EVER be a reason to “gravitate toward Romney”.
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