My view has always been more to the point as written by Thomas Sowell this week to buttress Cain/Gingrich. Having this intellectually and spiritually tough man at the helm would start a systemic deconstruction of the societal malaise that started before the last century and was put into high gear by LBJ. I love Newt’s ability to cut to the chase while skewering the premise at the same time.
The president needs to focus on the big picture and manage the playing field while his right hand man must be able to stand before the nation and take on the liberal and establishment goons at a moments notice to do the job originally set for the VP. Gingrich can have the latitude to set the battlefield while Cain focuses on moving the country forward.
Snip from the article;
What role does race play in all this?
It is probably not racism, as such, that motivates these attacks on Herman Cain. The motivation is far more likely to be politics, but politics makes a prominent black conservative like Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain far more dangerous to the Democrats than an equally prominent white conservative.
The 90 percent black vote for Democrats is like money in the bank on election day. A prominent black conservative who offers an alternative view of the world is a serious danger politically, because if that alternative view has the net effect of reducing the black vote for Democrats just to 75 percent, the Democrats are in big trouble at election time.
In this political context, merely defeating a black conservative at the polls or at confirmation hearings is not enough. He must be destroyed as an influence in the future — and character assassination is the most obvious way to do it.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111011.php3