Posted on 11/15/2011 5:56:51 AM PST by reaganaut1
Herman Cain is theoretically a great candidate for president. He's a smart, black, successful, conservative "outsider." But as the reality sets in, it's clear that Mr. Cain is barely more ready for the office he seeks than Sarah Palin (or Barack Obama) was four years ago. Cain's performance in a long interview on Monday crystallized this view which has been forming in the minds of many GOP voters in recent weeks.
Mr. Cain's responses in Saturday's Republican debate in South Carolina -- which focused on foreign policy -- were a bunch of platitudes about getting good advice before making a decision. Frequently, his answers on topics that he doesn't really know much about focus on a few points of process, on getting quality advice, on not needing to know everything in advance, and so on.
But this is the real world and these are dangerous times. While the 2012 election will primarily be about jobs and the economy, events across the Arab world and escalating tensions between Iran and Israel -- not least because of the IAEA's most recent report about advances in Iran's nuclear weapon program -- make foreign policy and national security expertise critically important in our next president.
If there is anything America has been reminded of by Barack Obama, it's that the presidency is no place for on-the-job training -- and it's even less so when potential nuclear conflict is involved. Herman Cain gave an interview to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Monday in which his answers on questions about Libya -- and his further discussion with the newspaper's editors on broader foreign policy issues -- sounded like a student trying hard to remember the answers for a test he's been cramming for.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
There’s one problem: by the time a politician has been in the game long enough to be considered “ready”, he will have been compromised by the DC Establishment.
“Herman’s just not a beltway insider.
He’s pro-freedom, pro-faith, pro-life, pro-gun
That’s good enough for me.
I sent him another donation just last night.
The intelligentsia and the effete elitists can stuff it.”
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Well said :-)
So NOW you pimping a smear by far Left wing propaganda group CREW?
CREW who has a long history of filing campaigning ethic accusations at Conservatives only to quietly drop them AFTER the election?
So just which side do you REALLY play for PF?
Which is now what makes him unacceptable.
You don't get to pick and choose which issues he's going to go off the rails with.
I’m sticking with Cain. My biggest issue is to straighten out our current economic woes so my children’s generation will not have to bear the consequences of my generation’s indulgence. In that regard, I think Cain would be the President most willing to serve the strongest dose of medicine that this country needs.
I see the son of a bitch just had to get a dig at Sarah Palin. At that point I tuned out. He seems to think the “professional” politicians have done a good job. Yeah. A good job of throwing down the shitter everything the founders and others fought and died for.
Screw him! Screw the Republicrat Establishment!
Ike isn’t really considered a good president by conservative standards. His SCOTUS appointments were a disaster. His foreign policy wasn’t much better. Robert Taft would have been a better choice.
Excellent summation of reality. I totally agree with you.
Cain is an intelligent man. He loves this country! He would like to protect it and preserve it! I'll take that any day.
Most people would be more impressed with the Cain critics if they didn’t all sound like 12 year olds fighting on a playground.
It is this habitual posting of childish ad homine attacks at Cain that make thinking people dismiss the Cain critic’s arguments as silly nonsense.
How about a rational fact based post making a case against Cain rather then a childish personal attack for a change?
Well I guess if a candidate can spew off the top of his head his policies on Libya while boinking his intern, breaking his marriage vows and tending to his duties as Speaker of the House at the same time Clinton is getting a Lewinsky then Newt is your man.
If they don't, they're not going to win another major election again....ever.
I’m curious. I’ve read your resume. Who at this point in the process do you believe is worthy of your vote, if not Cain?
Both Bush's for example. The current GOP leadership of the US House for another
IF Cain is done, then we might as well turn our attention to retaking the Senate, because the White House is out of reach.
:O) good memory also....Newt should be great at the kind of debates republican’s have, he has had years of practice as a college prof....and he should stay there...
Where does the folklore come from that newt is smart, smart ass maybe, I have watched him for years, he is just your standard old college professor. And a life long politician and skirt chaser. There is not one issue of the past twenty years that he has not been on all sides of.
I don’t know.
After “O”, can the qualifier ‘not ready’ EVER be valid again?
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