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The Spectacle Blog
Atlanta businessman Herman Cain’s strong showing in Thursday’s South Carolina GOP presidential debate — winning over a Fox News focus group in a performance that pollster Frank Luntz called “unprecedented” — has given his campaign a sudden boost, Neil King Jr. reports at the Wall Street Journal:
Interview requests are pouring in, along with donations, volunteers and invitations to speak.
On Friday night, several hundred people turned out to hear him in Las Vegas. The same night, he won a Washington state GOP straw poll. On Monday, former UPS president Ron Wallace will host a high-priced fundraiser for Mr. Cain in the suburbs of his hometown, Atlanta. Three hundred are expected to attend.
Long-shot presidential candidates seek one thing in the early stages of a campaign: Traction. Mr. Cain may have just won that.
At Friday’s event in Las Vegas, “Many came to see [Cain] despite not knowing who he was a mere 24 hours earlier,” blogger Mike Chamberlain reported.
Currently running an exploratory campaign, Cain has scheduled a May 21 rally at Atlanta’s Centennial Park where he is expected to make his presidential candidacy official.
Herman Cain was featured in a Dec. 27 profile for The American Spectator.
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Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 12:07PM
All authentic conservatives need to know about Cain is that he 1.) supported TARP and 2.) is an ex-Federal Reserve official. Next!
That said, I predicted a while back that Cain has the potential to become the conservative alternative candidate to whomever emerges as the centrist Establishment candidate (Romney, Pawlenty, Daniels). He should not be dismissed or overlooked.
Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 5:30PM
For those who might doubt that I actually predicted this, see here:
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=8450
Go to the last paragraph and note the date of 4 April 11.
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 12:09PM
Soundbites don't cut it.
And on foreign policy, his prescription seemed to be to endlessly defer to so-called, unnamed "experts" who will advise him what to do, and that advice he'll take, because that's how it's done "in the business world."
Unready.
Out of his element.
Incapable of presenting a strategic assessment of the sit rep in the mideast, near east or the far east.
Yet we're all supposed to get euphoric over him, because of his ability to put together pleasing soundbites.
Sorry, isn't going to cut it.
LarryK| 5.9.11 @ 12:38PM
And how is that different from the current President? soundbites and inexperience!!!????
Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 12:21PM
Dan, so far Cain has endorsed very boilerplate mainstream "conservative" foreign policy interventionism, much to the chagrin of non-interventionist conservatives who were hoping as an outsider that Cain might be different.
I'll look for a link.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 5.11.11 @ 1:12PM
Nope. He hasn't. He has said that if his advisers tell him that withdrawing from Afghanistan would be the wisest thing to do (it would), he would do it.
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 12:33PM
Red,
Go back and listen to his answers the other night on foreign policy. They were so threadbare as to be non-existent. And even his domestic policies were likewise little more than Reaganesque cheerleading: "less government, YEA team!" "less spending, ------ push 'em back, push 'em back, --- WAAAAY BACK!"
We desperately need more.
Now I'm not asking for a specific blueprint which would only provide a bullseye for our opponents to go after, ------------- but anybody who tosses out soundbites is only going to make me suspicious.
GHWB had no problem putting out soundbites, as did his son.
And we don't need that.
Only one guy who wasn't a nut looked like he believed what he was saying the other night, and that was Santorum, and other than maybe getting the tap for VP, his candidacy is going nowhere fast, as is that of Cain by the way.
Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 5:33PM
Here are the links on Cain's foreign policy I promised.
http://www.amconmag.com/lariso.....rman-cain/
http://www.amconmag.com/lariso.....tea-party/
David W| 5.9.11 @ 1:03PM
But it will be so good to watch the leftists protray the Republicans as racist when we have a candidate who is more black then theirs (both of Cain's parents were black, as opposed to only one of Obama's).
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 1:38PM
Just glad to see Paul not going anywhere.
Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 2:14PM
Keep dreaming Occam. Paul is unlikely to win the GOP nomination, but he is moving the debate - on constitutionalism, on sound money, on the Fed, and much to your dismay on foreign policy - and you know it. That is why you are so fixated on him. You must think that if you keep repeating "Paul baaa...d!" enough times it will make everyone believe it.
Clint| 5.9.11 @ 2:13PM
'Ron Paul hauled more than $1 million just on Thursday via a debate-day money bomb.
Paul’s presidential exploratory committee alerted his supporters to the 24-hour online fundraising via email and social networks and were able to sit back and watch $1,028,436.56 roll in.
The successful money bomb capped off a big day for Paul’s camp, as he attended a tea party rally ahead of the presidential debate and was shown to run stronger against Barack Obama than any other candidate in an new CNN/Opinion Research poll.
Thursday’s money bomb is already Paul’s second major one-day fundraiser of the 2012 campaign. Paul brought in more than $700,000 for his PAC in February, helping jack his fundraising stats for the first quarter in which he hauled $3 million for his various political organizations…"
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 3:07PM
Yea but there's just one problem, one small prob, but a prob that nonetheless needs to be addressed.
And that is that Paul is a crank.
As are a good chunk of his increasingly morbid, cult-like following.
Red Phillips | 5.9.11 @ 3:30PM
Dan, calling someone a crank does not constitute an argument. Grow up!
Notice when I came out against Cain, I said it was because he was pro-TARP and pro-Fed. (One can assume, I guess, that he is pro-Fed since he used to work for them.) But I also managed to give Cain his due. Take note. This is how intelligent adults debate. They present their case in a rational way. They don't call people names. You should try it.
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 11:51PM
Agreed, usually terming a guy a crank doesn't cut it.
Except when it does.
Sorry, Paul is a crank who is going nowhere, is wasting time and absorbing attention properly directed elsewhere.
Red Phillips | 5.10.11 @ 8:51AM
Seriously Dan, grow up!
Clint| 5.9.11 @ 6:25PM
Bitchy Danny appears to be The Crank.
On October 10, 2001, Congressman Ron Paul led the effort in Congress to give President Bush the tools he needed to capture, dead or alive, Osama bin Laden and the other terrorists responsible for September 11th. Dr. Paul introduced on that day H.R. 3076 - The September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001.
If passed, that legislation would have given President Bush an additional weapon against bin Laden. If Dr. Paul's legislation had passed in 2001, it is likely bin Laden would not have been around until last Sunday.
Also, Dr.Ron Paul Voted for The Resolution to go into Afghanistan.
" Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country."
-Ronald Reagan
Zbigniew Mazurak | 5.11.11 @ 1:15PM
A Letter of Marque and Reprisal Act?HAHAHAHA! Are you 9 years old? Letters of Marque and Reprisal are useless these days. The only way to cap OBL's ass was to go to Afghanistan and Pakistan and kill him. Had RP had his way, OBL would've STILL been alive by now.
What Reagan said was said in the 1980s, a very long time ago, and is irrelevant today. These days, RP is one of the chief ENEMIES of a strong defense - along with Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), the other two leaders of the Blame America First Traitors' Crowd.
C Bowen| 5.9.11 @ 2:34PM
Glenn Beck mentioned in his 2007 effort, An Inconvenient Book, that Cain was part of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), a Security and Properity Partnership (SPP) steering group--the so called North American Union.
How are we to take the Ruling Party, and so called reporters on the Ruling Party seriously, if they don't bring up such a basic question about his past dealings?
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 3:04PM
DAVID's comment I think highlights the fascination with Cain, and that of Allen West by the way. That is that they're both black, and that the GOP has been desperately waiting for some black, {ANY black} to make the case that the GOP has been making for some time, and not just against Obama, but against the whole Dem agenda.
Were Cain not black, ---------------------- who here would pay him any attention? What has he done or said that in any way makes him some kind of standout?
Answer: Nothing.
Nothing at all.
This black man isn't Thomas Sowell, nor Walter Williams. This guy can't get into the details of policy and economics. Cain PREFERS and I'm thinking very deliberately prefers the realm of the soundbite.
And that tells me something.
And that something isn't very flattering for Cain.
If he thinks he's going to play me like the Bush family, ------------------------------ fat chance pal!
bsuden| 5.9.11 @ 3:05PM
The closing comments at the debate said it all.
One candidate talked about issues, the economy and sound money. The rest, Cain included, talked about themselves or how God was blessing America. OK. I turned it off after Pawlenty, but really.
IOW the Repugs are looking for a new Aff.Act. candidate. Since the tarnish is wearing off the old Aff.Act. candidate from Alaska, maybe the one from Atlanta really is better. It's finally dawned on the one siamese twin that race trumps sex in identity politics and so the Repugs are in a hurry to jump on the winning bandwagon before 2012.
Any bet things will be any different with Fed. Reserve bankster Cain, than they are with Geo. W. Obama?
MikeN| 5.9.11 @ 3:41PM
Alan Keyes wowed Frank Luntz's focus groups too. Bush campaign was getting annoyed that FoxNews put up the poll results of who won the debates.
Dan| 5.9.11 @ 11:53PM
And where did the fascination with the articulate Alan Keyes lead?
Nowhere.
Just another crank.
Red Phillips | 5.10.11 @ 8:52AM
Would Dan's Mommy please get him away from the computer? Us adults are trying to have an intelligent conversation.