Why is Rush so negative on Herman Cain?
Maybe Rush believes a Radio Talk Show Host doesn’t have the ability to be POTUS?
Cain’s time as a talk show host really is such a small part of Cain’s background. The total package of his life’s experience is just so darned impressive. His time as a talk show host really just honed his ability to think on his feet, to be quick with a timely response.
I don’t get the sense that Rush is really all that negative about Cain’s quality as a candidate. He is just looking with open eyes at the whole picture being played out in front of us. He knows the Dems, he knows the left, he KNOWS how the establishment Repubs work and think.
It really will be an uphill battle for any conservative in this race. Especially one who doesn’t have deep pockets and legions of rabid supporters ready and willing to play down and dirty with the opposition. In fact, I wouldn’t put it past the Romney camp to really play up Cain, just to disillusion and turn off the conservatives who oppose him.
pattyjo
Every time a party out of power chooses a nominee to oppose a sitting President it flirts with some implausible outsider that tugs at its heartstrings. The names are familiar, but none of them won a nomination — Dean, Buchanan, Tsongas, Jackson, etc. Cain is the latest in a long line. He has no more chance to beat Perry and Romney this year than Buchanan had of beating Dole in ‘96 or Dean had of beating Kerry in 2004.
Cain's isn't even close to the strongest of the futile ousider candidacies. That honor would probably go to the Dean campaign. Dean had double digit leads both in Iowa and nationally just a couple of weeks before the voting started. Gore endorsed him. Then he finished third after a mysterious late surge by two more conventional candidates. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
That's the way it works. Uncoventional candidates can fire people up. They can poll well. They don't win. In the end voters play safe and cast ballots for conventional candidates.
Both Howard Dean and Pat Buchanan polled better at some early stage of the primary process than Cain does today. Both came acropper. Cain will too. The Republican Party will nominate either Rick Perry or Mitt Romney and Rush, in common with every rational conservative would prefer the former.
That's why Rush is trying to reduce the ridiculous Cain fever that so many conservatives seem to have come down with. It may seem like tough love, but it's really for your own good.
Rush isn’t negative on Cain. It would be nice if Rush would drop the delusion that Perry’s record can be ignored, but that’s not surprising from a guy who tried to pretend that Romney was acceptable in 2008.