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When Democrat Harry Truman made the phrase “the buck stops here” famous, who would have imagined that we’d have our own Republican presidential candidate decades later practicing “passing the buck” whenever the questions get a little too tough for him to handle? Whether the issue is foreign affairs and he tries to get by with “I will discuss the options with my generals and listen to them” and “depending on priorities” or the issue is immigration and he resorts to and “let the states decide,” the end result is that Cain can't seem to put together a thoughtful, coherent answer that doesn't 'pass the buck!'

Seeing Cain embracing passing the buck even before winning the GOP nomination is a sure sign of weakness, and it is a strategy doomed to fail. In Cain’s world, it’s OK to have bureaucrats decide - state by state - whether to deport people or allow them to remain stateside ("amnesty," or whatever word he prefers to use).

And even if adopted, 50 states with 50 individual bureaucratic systems giving inconsistent decisions invites a legal nightmare. Welcome to endless lawsuits making all sorts of claims based on equal protection. The buck sure didn't stop here!