Posted on 03/02/2011 5:12:48 PM PST by justsaynomore
While former Georgia Sixth District Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich decides when he’ll make the expected announcement he’ll form an exploratory committee for the 2012 presidential race, Herman Cain, an already-presidential hopeful with Georgia ties is increasingly landing in the spotlight.
Cain, the conservative talk radio host and former Godfather’s Pizza executive, who in January announced formation of his exploratory committee, is making headlines this week in newspapers including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and on CNN.
Cain won the straw poll at a Tea Party Patriots conference over the weekend in Phoenix, and national media have taken notice. A Washington Post column says Cain’s win at the convention may be “a sign that his fledgling campaign may actually pack some punch in a key community heading into the 2012 vote.”
The WP column also notes that Cain received positive reviews in February following his “powerful and impassioned” speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and in 2010 at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Most of the write ups do say, however, that although Cain has picked up steam he is sure to face strong competition. Those who will, or might, enter the race, include Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Tim Pawlenty, and there’s still time for more. But no matter what, the Washington Post column states, Cain’s rousing speeches will make him a crowd-pleaser - and even if he doesn’t win he could become “a Tea Party kingmaker.”
Pinganator!
Allen West’s speech did more for me than Cain’s.
Go CAIN! I read today that Newt is throwing out hints of West as a VP. How about West/Cain. Screw the insiders.
I’ve got four words for Newt.
Don’t waste our time.
...I'm listening.
Wait which party is Newt considering running for?
Seems to me his policies are more in line with Obama, than most Tea Party Americans.
No one is going to be elected President who gave his cancer-stricken wife divorce papers in her hospital room.
What a waste of time and money.
Newt is so...yesterday.
HE didn’t get that memo yet he is too busy writing books like the rest of them.
Cain seems like a boutique candidate to me. No shot.
Right now Cain and Bachmann are the only candidates I am interested in.
Has a private citizen, who has never held public office or been a commanding general, been elected President?
I don’t believe so. Good question.
West is very qualified. Cain would clean up the economy.
I do not want someone in there that wants to be or has been a nascar with their sponsors.
Can anyone truly Serve the people and not get bought?
The entire government needs laid off for good.
Dangle millions in front of someone and radical mobs own America.
Gingrich is __________. Please, please don’t run!!!
You know Newt,in that commercial where you sat on that bench next to Nancy Pelosi, and mumbled all that Global Warming crap, you lost it. Save your money and don’t waste our time...cause it’s not going to happen.
Precisely. Women will hate him once this becomes widely known.
He's also on his third wife. Might be ok for a RAT but not the GOP candidate.
Didn't our last beloved candidate do the equivalent stunt with his injured wife? Yes, I do realize that the idiot didn't get elected President, but his history with his ex-wife wasn't an issue in the campaign at all.
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