Cain is a talk show host who has had a very successful business career as a CEO and served on the Federal Reserve Board. He ran for the Republican nomination for Senator in GA in 2004 but was unsuccessful. He has never held an elective office and that is his major shortcoming. He holds views very similar to Sarah Palin, a plus. He did support TARP, another shortcoming. So did Palin, but she did so as McCain’s running mate which left her little room to disagree.
President would be Cain’s first elected office and it’s just not done that way. Didn’t work for Ross Perot with his billions and it won’t work for Cain.
He is bringing the conservative message to a new audience and may stick it out for a while. As of now, he’s not showing a half a percent on Gallop, so he’s not doing any damage. He will not want to take votes from an electable conservative to tilt the race to Romney and will probably withdraw if he starts splitting the vote.
Thanks for the news on Cain. he is eloquent in speech and has organized ideas. I think he’s a bit more sharp/people person, probably from his talk show, easier to listen to than Perot. Granted I liked Perot for reasons besides running for president but I sense the “phenomenom” you described is probably true, maybe a month or two of fame but he’ll fade and i hope we have a well established someone to knock Oburkha on his keister by that time once and for all for all time, for good, done, kaput, finis, gone.