Posted on 11/03/2011 4:36:29 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Herman Cain supporters have accepted his narrative that he is an American success story. The question is, just how much of that "success" did he earn on his own? And is it really the Horatio Alger story we are led to believe?
During the late '70s and the '80s, Herman Cain was an employee of big consumer product corporations, starting with Coca Cola. He was not an entrepreneur. He didn't take any risks with his own capital. Cain went from an entry-level analyst position to top management in one decade. He was made what would normally be called a regional manager by Burger King. He was then made manager of a small subsidiary by Pillsbury. It is distasteful to ask, but would Cain's rocket to the top have happened without the special treatment and considerations given him as a result of affirmative action? Many conservatives are convinced that Barack Obama's rise was fueled by racial preferences, so they cannot blink in the face of the same possibility working in Herman Cain's favor.
Affirmative action had recently become the law of the land. Big corporations were under pressure to prove they were complying. True conservatives have never accepted the premise of affirmative action -- that you can reach equality by suppressing the rights of others by government edict. Yet Herman Cain defended affirmative action in debates and on his campaign website in his 2004 campaign for senator.
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I agree they cannot be ignored. But my reasoning goes both ways. I want to know if this is a witch hunt, a high tech lynching, or something else. It should be pretty easy to get to the bottom of it.
Dean Stephens is a libertarian who bashes the GOP at every opportunity.
—The question is, just how much of that “success” did he earn on his own?—
Um, nobody earns success on their own. Well, I guess that depends on the success. If you get a great job, you have help. Everyone does. Nobody makes it on their own except for the occasional Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Donald Trump, who can run roughshod over others with impunity. But even they couldn’t at first.
But the success you have, in carrying out the job, is yours. Having the right parents, affirmative action, plugged in friends etc. may be the price of admission, but after that, you rise or fall on your own merit.
His success or failure is something he takes all responsibility and credit for.
And of it turns out that any other Republican candidate has anything to do with this travesty, their campaign needs to be terminated by the Party!
Ignored? No. Dismissed as irrelevant to his qualifications to be President? Yes.
The roles of backstabbers Rove and Romney cannot be ignored.
After their destroying Gov. Palin, THIS IS IT FOR THE GOP
unless they target the leaker and apply accountability.
What “charges”? So far we have only unsourced allegations.
“Charges against Cain can’t be ignored”
Does it look like they’re being ignored?
We’re NOT ignoring those charges.
Rather we are using them as OUR WAY of responding to what you guys did to Clarence Thomas. This is PAYBACK and Cain’s support and fund raising has only INCREASED because of it.
—And of it turns out that any other Republican candidate has anything to do with this travesty, their campaign needs to be terminated by the Party!—
I agree, though I think proving something like that is virtually impossible.
And to go further, it’s only fair that these female accusers be demonized by the MSM aw Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, (to name a few) were.
Cain's supporters on FreeRepublic are, frankly, scary. They are guilty of the same rose-colored, White Guilt driven mania that put Obama in the White House.
Herman Cain is a bullsh!t artist. A snake oil salesman who sells a fairy tale about a mythical figure named Herman Cain.
For the sake of our Country, people, please WAKE UP about Herman Cain!
What has the fact he put none of his own capital into a business have to do with with his success in turning the business around?
He is a proved and very successful manager and made his money compounding success after success.
What a stupid article.
He worked his way up the corporate ladder and the purchased Godfather’s.
Yeah, that’s not success.
Idiot.
The GOP destroyed Palin? Is that the new and approved excuse for her?
As much as I love this country, I find its short memory infuriating. It seems like yesterday that when a woman came forward on national tv and accused a sitting president of forcible rape (put some ice on that) it was met with total indiference. Now you expect me to get worked up about anonymous whispers about vague allegations of improper gestures and feeling uncomfortable?
Are you serious?
Rather then being stooges and helping spread the smear, people like this author should be addressing the facts
Notice the trend here?
No evidence, none facts, no paper trail. No evidence at all. Merely a string of anonymous sources making accusations.
The accusations are then “validated” by more hear say accusations by third party sources linked to other GOP campaigns. Most notably third party sources specifically tied to Perry's campaign.
The GOP machine better buy a clue. This stupidity on their part may just buy them a Tea Party presidential candidate in 2012.
Nice job with the continuation of the lynching people.
No need for the libtard media to do such, you all are doing such a fine job for them already.
Be thankful for your efforts when the AnointedIdiot is re-elected, kkthxIdiots. =.=
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