[presidio9]

Stanley Crouch used to play a conservative on TV.

Actually, Crouch was a black liberal who was sort of against Affirmative Action before he was not especially for it.

[driftless2]

Doing a little research Crouch is on record as saying he's against affirmative action in theory but supports it until something better comes along. Huh? That's incoherent. Probably the biggest albatross hung around the necks of black Americans (and other "minorities" as well) is affirmative action. Nobody will ever give respect to an affirmative action hire. That doesn't mean that all affirmative action hires are failures. It just tacitly says the person applying for the position didn't earn the chance or their particulars were inferior to others

. Herman Cain might or might not have gotten help from AA somewhere along the line, but if he didn't produce results for the places he was employed, he wouldn't have kept those positions.

[Kenny Bunk]

Don't everyone here at Freep opver-react to this. We are not ... if I don't miss my guess.... exactly a hotbed of Crouch-readers.

FYI, This is Archetypical-Crouch-Sociology-Write. That is, he is saying SOME somewhat plausible stuff in the most hurtful, sneering, devastating way possible. He is excellent at kicking a man who is down with blinding glimpses of the obvious. And make no mistake about it, HE is the number one black thinker around here, not this Herman guy. As proof, who is the black man who gets invited to window-dress parties at Elaine's? Crouch, baby. Not Cain! And that's despite Crouch's uncanny resemblance to "Little Black Sambo" in the now-banned kids' book.

But, no way Cain was going the distance, unless as someone else's VP running mate. And that's for a whole bunch of reasons. Hope he makes it onto the cabinet. Good man with some excellent down-sizing and other fiscal ideas.

As far as Affirmative Action goes, Cain got a big boost from it, and should be honest about it. He did some great things as a government employee and in business, too. He also delivers a hard-hitting patriotic platitude better than most, even if not well informed. It just that IMHO, there ain't much beyond the platitude.

Again, IMHO, Herman would not have swung much or any of the Black vote away from the Mombasa MF, nor many Jews. This Bimbo Thing is a total fake, of course, but the Left blew up his outhouse and a tiny bit stuck. I hope we have Larry Sinclair et al ready to go!