Cain Plans to Introduce Public to His 'Greatest Supporter' -- His Wife

Pardon my typo please.

Do you have a link stating this about Mrs. Cain?

Pretty lady. She’ll definitely be an improvement for First Lady over Chewbaca.

She was a registered Democrat until 2004. I’m pro-Cain, but I’m curious how many liberal views she still has, and how much influence she will have on Herman.

Apparently she's not had too much liberal influence on him to date. And, she did switch registration. Is there a specific time period you require before you believe it's taken effect?

I wonder how long Ronald Reagan took to become a real Republican after he switched his registration.

Perhaps true, but being a Democrat in the South (at least for the older generation) is a bit different than being Democrat in the rest of the country. They’re generally more conservative, family-oriented, and have a dislike of the gubmint telling them what do to. I have an aunt who is as staunch a Democrat as she is a Baptist. Billy Graham is a registered Democrat as well.

Thanks mandaladon.

Here’s an article from the AJC with some more details about Gloria Cain’s voting.
She seems like a wonderful person and I’m not going to hold her voting record against her.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/gloria-cains-quiet-presence-1217182.html?cxtype=rss_news

Some of us can remember Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower

I don't, I was too young. But I do remember Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush..........I should be so lucky.

Good response. Thanks.

She was a registered Democrat until 2004. I’m pro-Cain, but I’m curious how many liberal views she still has, and how much influence she will have on Herman.

I wouldn't worry about it. I was a registered Democrat until about the same time.

Well, Nancy was considerably more liberal than Ronnie...and he turned out all right.

48 posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 7:51:23 PM by aimhigh: “Good response. Thanks.”

Thank you for the note.

46 posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 6:20:20 PM by Atlantan: “Here’s an article from the AJC with some more details about Gloria Cain’s voting. She seems like a wonderful person and I’m not going to hold her voting record against her.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/gloria-cains-quiet-presence-1217182.html?cxtype=rss_news
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Thank you for link, Atlantan, and thanks also to justsaynomore for similar comments. I think the link is helpful in explaining the situation.

44 posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:41:31 PM by Spirit of Liberty: “Perhaps true, but being a Democrat in the South (at least for the older generation) is a bit different than being Democrat in the rest of the country. They’re generally more conservative, family-oriented, and have a dislike of the gubmint telling them what do to. I have an aunt who is as staunch a Democrat as she is a Baptist. Billy Graham is a registered Democrat as well.”

I agree. I **REALLY** wish some FReepers would stop repeating the wrong statement that there are no moderate Democrats left. That simply is not true. There may not be many left, and they may well be in the process of being driven out of any political influence in their own party, but to say they don't exist is simply wrong.

Moderate and conservative Democrats need to be recruited to become Republicans, not being antagonized by claims that they are closet liberals.

Great points!

Even IF Gloria voted democrat at some point (and I don't know that, I trust NOTHING from the media at this point), that does not mean she still does. And Herman Cain being around democrats, in a heavily democrat church obviously has no bearing him -- he has been staunchly conservative as can be seen in his weekly commentaries and books for the past decade. People from his church would call his show and argue with him.

Everything I have heard about Gloria Cain tells me she is a moral conservative. She spoke briefly at an event I went to, and it is obvious she supports Herman 100%.

From Cain's Facebook page: my wife Gloria and I laying a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial:

Thanks, Justsaynomore...

If we're going to recruit conservative black Democrats to become Republicans, how we treat Herman Cain is going to make a big difference.

Herman Cain's opponents are playing into the old stereotype of the libidinous black man lusting after every woman in the room. I'm not saying that stereotype is true (in fact I think it's a bunch of bunk) but it's an effective political tactic in the short term which carries dangerous long-term risks for Republicans.

We need to be extremely careful that we do not “throw Cain under the bus” with these accusations. Socially conservative black pastors and free-market black businessmen are watching carefully to see how Cain gets treated. The modern Republican Party includes the sons and grandsons of some of the worst and most bigoted elements of the old Jim Crow tradition, and this is our opportunity to prove to everybody, once and for all, that the modern Republican Party has not become a racist party by accepting millions of conservative Southern Democrats. It's also, unfortunately, an opportunity to “prove” that blacks who join the Republican Party will never be treated as equal partners and will be subjected to racist bigotry if they challenge the Republican political establishment rather than being obedient and useful pawns to promote white elite power groups.

Put bluntly, there have been things said on Free Republic over the years which don't belong in the Republican Party and sound like stuff out of the days of Bull Connor. They aren't common, and I'm not convinced they're from real FReepers (they may be liberal trolls trying to cause trouble) but such sentiments have no place in conservative circles. Nominating Herman Cain would be a very good way to drive that stuff into the garbage pail of history, and that in itself is a good reason to vote for Cain.

On the other hand, facts are stubborn things.

It should be obvious to everyone that if the current accusations against Cain are true, or if he has a history of flirtatious behavior to women other than his wife, he cannot and should not be the Republican nominee for president. Maybe after a public apology he could be made Secretary of Commerce or given some other financial position; maybe he could run for a lower office. However he simply cannot be the standard bearer of the Republican Party if these accusations are true.

Over the last couple of decades we have become the party of moral values, not the party which tolerates the shenanigans of President Bill Clinton and even worse stuff from the likes of Sen. Teddy Kennedy and Rep. Barney Frank.

So far, the Democrats have been able to say with some legitimacy that the Republicans were just as much deficit spenders as Democrats. Yes, I know the Democratic Party reduced spending by cutting the Department of Defense, but the general public doesn't understand that and has come to the conclusion that Republican politicians and Democratic politicians are just two peas in a pod when it comes to big spending habits.

We absolutely **CANNOT** allow that to happen on moral values.

That means we as Republicans must walk a tightrope. We need to give Cain the benefit of the doubt, both for reasons of justice and pragmatic politics. But we can't excuse bad behavior. The situation is easy if these charges can be proved false by discrediting the accusers beyond a shadow of a doubt, showing that Cain simply did not do what he's accused of doing, and making clear to the general public that the accusers are politically motivated. Unfortunately, it's awfully difficult to make an airtight case either way in the next few weeks or months, and that's all the time Cain (and the Republican Party) have to get this situation behind us.

Don't know the accuracy but a link is here

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Well, Cain really won round one - the NRA statement on Friday confirmed Cain’s version of events.

We only know of one agreement between one woman and the NRA, and Cain was not a party to that agreement We have not seen any credible evidence that a second agreement exists.

Bialek is a supposed “third” case but her story is falling apart already.

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Socially conservative black pastors and free-market black businessmen are watching carefully to see how Cain gets treated. The modern Republican Party includes the sons and grandsons of some of the worst and most bigoted elements of the old Jim Crow tradition, and this is our opportunity to prove to everybody, once and for all, that the modern Republican Party has not become a racist party by accepting millions of conservative Southern Democrats.

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Well said.

I keep saying, even if Cain is not your candidate, he is one of the good guys and we should not be helping the lamestream media by spreading misinformation. Let’s stick to the facts, and if you aren’t sure, wait and see how it plays out.

Piling on, especially when all we have right now is allegation and inuendo, only helps Romney at this point. If your candidate is a better candidate, fight on the issues, don’t get in the mud like this.

It would help the other candidates if they would come out and decry this jounalistic malpractice, and a couple of them need to come out and distance themselves BY NAME by people associated with their campaigns who are clearly connected to promoting this witch hunt.

Thanks for your note.

I really, really, really hope Cain manages to put this behind him. I am encouraged that you said (in a different thread) that some Freepers personally know Cain. He needs to tap into the reservoir of support for Sarah Palin that Free Republic represents.

My candidate was Gov. Huckabee, based on his evangelical Christian stances and a decade of executive experience. He's not running, and I'm very much aware of some of his negative points. Right now I don't have a candidate who I heartily support, but I do know that if evangelical Christians don't get unified very quickly behind someone, we're going to have Mitt Romney as our presidential candidate.

I still think Gov. Romney is better than President Obama, but I was shocked by Romney's flip-flopping on abortion, which simply did not get the attention it should have received in the 2008 campaign. I believe we in the conservative movement need to work as hard as possible to avoid having to make a choice between Gov. Romney and President Obama. If that means backing Cain, let's do it — but these sexual misconduct issues absolutely **MUST** get settled, and it's really hard to do that in two months.

Four years ago when friends of mine in Iowa said a young black senator from Chicago was winning white rural Democratic voters in the snow-covered fields of Iowa, I dismissed them. I used to live in Iowa, I have two decades of church-related personal contact with the Dutch Reformed communities in Northwest Iowa and Pella, and I thought the idea of white rural Democrats voting for a black Chicago senator who was a protege of the Daley machine was nuts.

Stranger things have happened. Getting rural conservative evangelical Christians to vote in the Iowa Republican caucuses for a southern black pizza executive would be one of the strangest things imaginable — but given that Romney is assumed to win the New Hampshire primary so a win there won't help him much, and the the next few major races after Iowa and New Hampshire are going to be heavily Southern, I see real possibilities for Cain.

A major win in the Iowa caucuses for Cain, followed by lots of conservative blacks and white evangelicals picking a Republican ballot to vote for Cain in the next few states, could give us our second black president and finally break the stranglehold that the Democratic Party has on the black vote.

Given demographic changes, that, combined with a similar breakthrough with non-Cuban Hispanic voters, could end up being the best way to save this country from what's facing it if we continue down President Obama’s agenda. Those of us who are traditional white conservatives need to realize our country is rapidly changing, and if we don't reach out to ethnic minorities who are religious conservatives — just as Ronald Reagan successfully reached out to blue-collar ethnic Catholics on the abortion issue who had voted Democrat for decades — conservativism is dead.

A black Republican president is probably the best thing that could happen to the future of the conservative movement, right up there with a Hispanic Republican president. I don't know if Cain is the right man for those shoes, but we need lots more minority Republicans, and maybe a successful turnaround business executive who is black is what this country — and the conservative movement — need today.