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CalMark| 11.3.11 @ 7:38PM

"Amateurism" of his campaign.

Tabin, you need to shift your paradigm. He's a businessman, not a politician. He does things differently.

Seems to me you and people like you are actively working to undermine Herman Cain. I recall you did the same to Christine O'Donnell, and were proud of it, too.

You and people like you are the problem.

PFarthing| 11.3.11 @ 7:43PM

Comparing Cain to Christine O'Donnell makes an excellent point, but probably not the one you were hoping to make.

CalMark| 11.3.11 @ 7:56PM

Oh, nice snarkiness.

I'm speaking of philosophy. Tabin & Co. don't hesitate to trash true conservatives who aren't cookie-cutter politicians.

As for O'Donnell, she lost by a far smaller margin than the RINO candidate for governor did. But that's irrelevant, I guess.

PFarthing| 11.3.11 @ 8:40PM

I think if you'll pay closer attention you'll find that Tabin & Co trash conservatives who are damaging to the cause of conservatism, such as Cain and O'Donnell.

The comparison of O'Donnell to Cain is very apt and Cain supporters would be well advised to steer clear of it. Helping Coons get into the Senate by running a terrible candidate against him was bad enough. Now some people want to do the same and help Obama win a second term.

CalMark| 11.3.11 @ 8:54PM

"There are none so blind as those who will not see."

Alleged conservatives like you and Tabin trash conservatives who are "bad for the movement"--according to your lights. Because you said so. So, by gosh, those who support them are idiots and traitors to the cause. Again, because YOU said so.

Tabin would have preferred Mike Castle for Senate. That's the Mike Castle whose votes in Congress make him a solid, de facto "D."

Incoherent.

PFarthing| 11.3.11 @ 9:02PM

Perhaps Tabin preferred Castle over O'Donnell because Castle would have won. The Dems ran what one insider called a "throw away" candidate, Coons, because nobody wanted to go up against Castle. Then you can bet they were kicking themselves when the Tea Party served up O'Donnell instead.

If the Tea Party had ran a competent candidate against Castle in the primaries then instead of Coons in the Senate you could have had a real Conservative Senator in there right now. Instead the Tea Party ran a truly awful candidate creating the only opportunity Coons had of winning.

The analogy between O'Donnell/Coons and Cain/O'Bama is left as an exercise for the reader.

CalMark| 11.3.11 @ 9:57PM

The Republicans of Delaware selected O'Donnell as their candidate. Capiche? SHE WAS THEIR CHOICE. And you condemn them for it.

The reaction of people like you and Tabin: "She's a dingbat. She's unelectable. Idiot, ideologue Tea Partiers. Saddling us with this moron." So you, Rove, Tabin, etc. created a self-fulfilling prophecy of her unelectability. The GOP Establishment routinely and mercilessly trashed her, in a way they'd never do to a Democrat.

Yet conservatives are just supposed to fall in line for the "electable" candidate. Even if those people have been sneering at conservatives--John McCain--for their entire careers.

If we're going to get someone who votes with Democrats when it counts, better that a genuine "D," not some "electable" RINO.

P.S. The "Castle would have won" argument is incoherent. Castle couldn't beat an alleged idiot in the primary. How was he gonna beat someone in the general? I mentioned earlier (which you ignored) that the Establishment RINO candidate for governor lost by a margin 50% worse than O'Donnell.

Uradin Galing| 11.4.11 @ 11:37AM

You're right Mark! O'Donnell was the awesome!!! Maybe Cain could get her as a running mate!!!!!

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 2:43PM

What a clever response! I really love how you respond to my arguments!

Oh, sorry. I've forgotten. The Establishment has NEVER given us bad candidates and told conservatives to "shut up and stand behind OUR candidate."

Bob Dole, John McCain, the worthless Delware governor candidate who lost by 50% more than the "idiot, incompetent" O'Donnell, and countless others in Congressional and Senate elections--never, EVER happened...

Jack in Wi| 11.4.11 @ 7:25AM

Let there be a long, intelligent, and honest debate between the only 2 people who have a chance to beat Obama, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. They both polled the best before the Herman Cain fiasco against Obama. Ron Paul polls the best by far, of Republicans, among the young, independents and Democrats. No Republican can be elected without a lot of these people. Ron has been right on the issues for decades. He also is the only one offering any kind of foreign and economic policy solutions which have a chance to turn this coutry around. I dislike Mitt Romney, but concede he is the best man standing of the elites.

We need a long, honest, and intelligent debate about the future of this party and country. Let Ron and Mitt have these debates, then have the primaries and see if we can bring the country and party together to defeat Obama.

SpiralArchitect| 11.4.11 @ 12:15PM

These polls you speak of:

How many participants?

Of what group (gender/race/political etc or no screening or limited) or were they random people?

Online? Multiple votes allowed by people?

Questions are direct?

Questions about POV now or latter or other, even multiple variables?

Polls show nothing more than a response to an often slanted or indirect question. Up / down polling aside. Still one must consider if the 150 - 1ooo participants are any indication of anything aside from how those exact people feel at that specific moment. No one of above average intelligence can take a poll as an indication for anything more, certainly not to resent a regional or national consensus.

We are presuming those polled are honest...of course.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 11:57AM

You made the point perfectly! He's a businessman NOT a politician and trying to get the top job in politics! How stupid is that? What a total fiasco that 30% of the GOP thinks to support blindly not just someone wholely unqualified for the job with not the first clue of what he's doing, but so unwise in his decisions personally and who he surrounds himself with! Wow sounds like the comments I made about Obozo 4 years ago! Nobody listened then either! How history does repeat itself! This time republicans are the idiotbots dejour! Acting just like democrats! Don't listen to the people sounding the alarms whom they've elected to watch over the common good and public interest! How stupid to give Cain the nomination to give the presidency to Obozo! Why oh why do people think to send someone completely unaware to face a sitting president? The experts have interviewed the candidates over and over and have told you unequivocally that Romney is the only one with the understanding and command of this job, who also has character and integrity. Polls show over and over that he can beat this president in the general election but no ones listening and will send the sure loser instead! Do what you want, you will anyway! Make no mistake...a vote for Cain in the primary is a vote for Obozo in the general! It's that clear, no matter how you try to twist or justify it!!!

SpiralArchitect| 11.4.11 @ 12:17PM

Even for a rant, coherent or otherwise, paragraphs are still welcomed.

jack carlson| 11.4.11 @ 12:38PM

bolsenoo, the BEST Presidents we have ever had, have been NON-politicians! Yes, we need to go back to that. Having a "businessman" as POTUS is actually a brilliant idea. Study history.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 1:24PM

I agree! Put in Romney! He'll do great! Herman (I don't know what I'm doing) Cain...not so brilliant!

MGM| 11.4.11 @ 8:12PM

You had me until your mention Romney. Like Cain, Romney is a joke, and I will never vote for Romney.

bkirkwood| 11.3.11 @ 7:42PM

Too bad Tabin! One accuser has recanted and another has been revealed, shockingly, to be a Dem tool. By 'disorganization' you of course mean Cain doesn't have the 'correct' people 'guiding' him towards 'proper' policy 'goals'. Why don't you and your fellow Rove-flunkies have yourselves a good cry then come up with the next scheme to get Mittens the nomination.

aheaton| 11.4.11 @ 9:37AM

Recanted? Who recanted? Also, there aren't "accusation" that he had to settle sexual harassment suits, those are actual facts. Facts that he denied, though he knew them to be 100% true. The point of this article is right; if he can't even get through the primary without looking like a liar, the Democrats will murder him in the general.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 12:17PM

Birkwood--Your thinking too hard and psyching yourself out! It's the same mistake Rush is making lately...laughable! You sound paranoid of anyone who's been republican before. PARANOID! Better watch out! If Cain got elected, that would turn him instantly into one of those people! BOO!!! You belong in a group home receiving daily psychotherapy so that one day you will be able to rejoin normal society...you and the rest of the off kilter tea party who are paranoid believing that Washington is out to get you, and spend all of their time lying in wait to get you! BOO! Maybe Cain is a secret agent from the planet, Chaos, sent to sound unsuspecting, sing songs, and smile and joke reassuringly (he's a planted new Christmas toy like Sing and Snore Ernie, or Tickle Me Elmo!) When your secure and not suspecting, he's going to laugh and ask how you'd like your pizza...and after he sees the puzzled look on your face, he'll say, "what did you think I was stupid? I sell pizzas and run restaurants!"

Bumr50| 11.3.11 @ 7:51PM

It's a shame that you should come to such a conclusion, John.

How would you have handled this?

He was running his campaign on a shoestring.

Would you have had him run a bunch of interference beforehand so that it would've stayed in the news longer?

We're all sick of "professional politicians."

That's why his poll numbers remain high.

And his supposed "gaffes" were mostly just misinterpreted remarks taken advantage of by opponents and their supporters.

Please be advised: I will NEVER "wise up" and cast a vote for Mitt Romney. Perry seems viable, but has made some severely "unconservative" decisions while governor and I fear would be quickly co-opted by establishment GOPers and lobbyists.

To extrapolate this situation that's occurring on the fly to decisions he'd have to make in the White House are disingenuous and absurd.

What, exactly, has Cain done? And what should he be doing right now? Apologizing? There is no solid evidence of anything that even remotely resembles anything inappropriate. And if that's not your issue with him, you've painted yourself as one who puts more value in pragmatism and statesmanship than honesty and conviction.

Keep watching the polls and frowning. Keep piling on, simply because you'd like to see him out of the race. I hope you are a bitter and disappointed man over the course of the next year.

aheaton| 11.4.11 @ 9:41AM

I'm lost as to how so many of Cain's supporters are missing the forest for the trees. The facts that Cain misrepresented are not about the actual accustations. His lie was that he had never been part of a money settlement for a sexual harassment claim. Despite whether the women's actual claims were valid, it was a FACT that he had been part of an agreement to pay them to settle the claims. He then flatly denied knowing about any money settlements. So someone who should be fit enough to serve as President, whose supposed to impress me with his business acumen, is trying to convince me now that he originally "forgot" that he's been a part of at least TWO paid settlements. Get real. Cain might be a very good, decent man, but he is not ready to be leader of the free world.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 12:28PM

Bumr50--No end to the stupid comments today! Someone in politics is a politician and they get paid...therefore a professional politician! Logic would say that if you're sick of professional politicians, you would not pay attention to any of it, and would advise Cain to not become one...therefore he would withdraw. I'd be okay with that!

Bumr50| 11.3.11 @ 7:52PM

Oh, and what exactly does your "new news" say exactly?

Do you think anyone that takes Politico seriously was going to vote for Cain anyway?

Come off it. Nothing to see here.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 1:08PM

I'd say that anyone who takes an election seriously wouldn't be voting for Cain.

louisc| 11.3.11 @ 7:57PM

Gingrich is secretly digging this too. People are taking a second and third look at him. After all, his dirty laundry has been hanging out for quite a while now. And some of it like the-divorce-papers-in the hospital just ain't true.

Rogue Elephant| 11.3.11 @ 8:42PM

Thus sprach the Romney trolls.

PFarthing| 11.3.11 @ 8:54PM

Umm, if anything that was a Gingrich troll. Or just someone who can read the polls and note that the second choice for Cain supporters tends to be either Perry or Newt. Romney would have much preferred Cain stay in the race longer.

CalMark| 11.3.11 @ 9:58PM

Oh, hey, RINO troll, I hadn't heard that Cain had withdrawn. Wishful thinking?

Nolann Ryann| 11.3.11 @ 8:50PM

Ah yes Tabin once again shows everyone how obtuse he truly is and has always been. This whole "story" has fallen apart quicker than a stale triscuit in the hands of a slobbering four year old, yet this dunce persists in promoting this heaping pile of crap. Nice job once again Tabin. I'm sure the Romeny campaign has a thank you note in the mail. You are one of the biggest wastes of bandwidth on TAS.

George S| 11.3.11 @ 8:57PM

This is amateur hour analysis. Are you seriously putting forth the premise that people will all of a sudden turn around and vote for Obama because of the way Cain is handling an equally amateurish media hatchet job? Can't vote for someone who may fix this mess because he can't deflect exactly-what-I-am-not-sure.

Yes, pass along a helping of ObamaCare followed by a Greek-style welfare state, then shut down fossil fuel production, watch more tax dollars go to to green robber barons, and cheer on a stepped up Marxist class warfare on the productive class.

Look at the polls. There are very few undecideds who may vote for Obama. This dust up is sure not going to change their minds. Unless they are congenitally stupid.

Nolann Ryann| 11.3.11 @ 9:02PM

Tabin is a dunce of epic proportions. You've clearly illustrated his "logical" thought process.

hook| 11.3.11 @ 9:27PM

I do disagree with Mr. Tabin that Obama has an even chance of winning, but his reasoning is hardly irrational or way out there as some above imply. Also, Cain is a totally stumbling candidate but he is capable in many ways and interesting, but he isnt smooth really and it is annoying that he constantly mispronouces words. I personally however believe that if he were a Dem, there would be no problem with these allegations.

Bob| 11.3.11 @ 9:45PM

I see that Michele took a swipe at Cain. Now there’s two dunce peas in a pod. One of whom can't pass a second grade geography test and the other who believes the US declared its independence from Swaziland in 1960. Just thinking those two on a ticket together puts me in a state of nirvana today for a second time.

Count Mahdrof| 11.4.11 @ 8:16AM

Make sure you clean yourself up after these "states of nirvana"

Clint| 11.3.11 @ 9:51PM

Herman Cain's presidential campaign is accusing rival Rick Perry's operation of being behind stories about sexual harassment allegations against Cain in the 1990s.

Cain's campaign manager says the Texas governor should apologise to Cain for providing information about the harassment allegations to the news media.

Perry's people deny any involvement in the story, and suggested the campaign of yet another candidate, Mitt Romney, might be a source.

Spokesman Ray Sullivan said the Perry campaign learned of the allegations when Politico first published the story late on Sunday evening.

USAF brat| 11.4.11 @ 3:49AM

Ah so:
- Cain blames Perry
- Perry blames Romney

Perhaps the truth will come with the next sequence:
- Romney blames Obama
- Obama blames Bush

So, just like everything else, it's all Bush's fault, that bastard!

Jake| 11.3.11 @ 10:01PM

This is becoming more than an amateurish and ham handed public relations disaster.
There's a stench starting to envelope Cain as more outcry witnesses speak about
what the women told them at the
time after their
unwanted encounters with Cain.
The hush money is now up to $ 75,000.
It defies logic that the National Restaurant Association would pay this amount because Cain was discussing his wife's height with various women.

Count Mahdrof| 11.4.11 @ 8:20AM

In the 1980s the applied formula used by insurers was $35,000 for the lawyers to open a briefcase and begin defending any harassment suit. 2 suits would equal an immediate $70,000 settlement at the demand of the insurance company - even if there was not a single shred of evidence. All tort lawyers knew this as did many money-grabbers. Proves nothing.

Jeff Powell| 11.3.11 @ 10:02PM

Cain is accused of randy behavior at work, and doing the nasty with a younger woman not his wife. If he was a Democrat (which I believe he was at the time) this would be a feature, not a flaw!

Conservatives constantly complain of the "double standard" used by the MSM when reporting on them. Cain's purported behavior would be no big deal if he were a Democrat; perhaps conservative media should treat Cain the same way.

Herb Tarlek| 11.3.11 @ 10:12PM

Herman Cain is the victim here. Problem is, nobody puts the victim in charge.

Nite| 11.3.11 @ 10:51PM

Cain was too quick to trash Perry for the third time on national TV. Cain has now backed off the accusation, but has not rendered an apology to Rick Perry. This is not the mark of Presidential material.

Clint| 11.3.11 @ 11:06PM

" The National Restaurant Association is expected to announce on Friday whether it will publish a statement from one of the women who accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behaviour when he was chairman of the organisation.

A spokeswoman for the association, Sue Hensley, said a copy of the woman's statement had been received from her lawyer on Thursday and would be considered overnight.

The decision of the association, which Cain headed in the late 90s when the alleged sexual harassment took place, looks like a lose-lose situation for him. If published the statement could provide the first detailed account of what until now have only been vague charges. If the organisation refuses to publish it will look as if there is something significant to hide."

creeper| 11.4.11 @ 9:06AM

How can she legally release a statement if she signed a confidentiality agreement?

Guess the rules don't apply to those who are attempting to destroy Herman Cain.

aheaton| 11.4.11 @ 9:47AM

Technically, Cain's camp has opened the legal can of worms by talking about the situation. Cain has now, several times, talked about the words and phrases he assumed prompted the claims and how baseless they seem to him to be. Because of his talking about the situation, his accusers may have legal recourse against him and the NRA for breaking their end of the agreement. Thus, to avoid financial liability, the NRA may allow the accuser to allow her side of facts to come out without holding her liable to the confidentiality agreement.

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 2:53PM

You are wrong. Cain signed no agreement. He has said he opposes the NRA disclosing for reasons of precedent. (CONSPIRACY! You scream. Yeah, yeah. Take your meds, calm down, and keep listening:)

If anyone breached confidentiality, it's Politico. THEY should be liable. Where did THEY get THEIR information from this supposedly super-secret file, if everyone is bound by confidentiality?

There is a legal concept: a man is entitled to defend himself against attacks. Oh, sorry, I forgot: the 5th Amendment has been repealed for conservatives, especially black ones.

You are an Obama shill. You hate all the Republican candidates, from reading the posts.

Go back to the septic tank you crawled out of.

Clint| 11.3.11 @ 11:08PM

Meanwhile, pollster Chris Wilson — who said he polled for the National Restaurant Association during Cain’s tenure, and whose firm has more recently done work for an outside super PAC supporting Perry — told Oklahoma radio station KTOK that he had witnessed harassment by Cain toward a very low-level staffer who was maybe two years out of college.

“I was around a couple of times when this happened, and anyone who was involved with the NRA at the time knew that this was going to come up,” Wilson told interviewer Reid Mullins.

martin j smith| 11.4.11 @ 7:14AM

So you do want Obama to win is that not true ?

Joseph Dooley| 11.4.11 @ 8:13AM

What "havoc"? Cain's polling numbers have been unaffected by the scandal. The media seems to be the only one overly concerned with this non-story.

As for Cain's response to the long dead accusations, it's kind of hard to box in the dark against a jelly monster, because that's what this non-story is: no hard facts to refute.

Rob Seabrook| 11.4.11 @ 8:24AM

Keep writing these er.... stories. The more you hope for Cain's demise, the more the general public will yawn. Whether or not Cain gets the nomination, he has helped change the narrative and people will demand that the eventual nominee commit to scrapping the progressive tax code and drastically cutting spending and the size of government. If, and when, these two things happen, America will begin to clean up the mess that the progressive movement has caused over the last 100 years. This will start the transition back to becoming the greatest economic juggernaut the world has ever seen. The rules of politics have been changed by the likes of Cain, Paul and the tea party. You won't be able to put this genie back in the bottle by marginalizing one candidate.

Mic Scott| 11.4.11 @ 8:32AM

You elitist disconnected moron. There is nothing this man could do that would have been correct in the media's view. When you have 50 stories in 4 days and still no face, no specifics that is media derangement syndrome. Sexual harassment is Clinton droppping trou and demanding a BJ and $800,000 is a settlement. And the MSM has one article this is a lynching.

ole meanie| 11.4.11 @ 8:48AM

Why can't people see that Herman Cain is another snake oil saleman like Bill Clinton? If only he had Clinton's brain. Or Obama's.

I want Obama to go home in 2012, but if the GOP cannot do better than Cain, we are done before we start.

If Cain is the nominee, the only question is whether he will self-destruct before Team Obama eats his lunch. The sooner Herman Cain folds his tent, the better the prospects for the GOP.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 12:41PM

And finally...ta da! Someone said something that makes sense! The sooner Cain folds up his tent, the sooner we can nominate a real GOP nominee! I'm voting for Romney...but certainly any of the other candidates are more qualified than Cain! I prefer executive experience (a governor), but even legislators have more experience than Cain!

creeper| 11.4.11 @ 9:04AM

You don't get it, do you? Cain's appeal to most voters is precisely that political amateurism you decry.

You want a great campaigner? I give you Barack Obama. How's that been working out for you?

aheaton| 11.4.11 @ 9:50AM

So you want to entrust the free world to a man who doesn't understand that China has had nuclear weapons since the 60's, doesn't understand the Palestinian right to return claims even though the US is the main peace negotiator in Israel, and who can't explain his own economic policy to the press club without asking his economic advisor to come up and do the explaining for him? Yeah, you're right, the US can afford a few more years of "training on the job". You hated the thought of Obama winning because he wasn't ready for "primetime", and so your answer is to elect someone with even less political and global knowledge? Cool, just making sure I understand.

jack carlson| 11.4.11 @ 12:44PM

well, that would be better than someone like you, a person who cannot understand spoken English!

Remember, Herman Cain actually WAS a military rocket scientist. He knows who has nuclear weapons. He was talking about "capabilities". There is a difference.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 12:53PM

Creeper--You're wrong!!! So wrong!!! Most of us want someone with elective executive experience...NOT someone with no experience! Notice 75% are not choosing Cain! Those who do support him just find him entertaining, and I propose they get a pet or find a new t.v. show! Those taking the process seriously, do not ever prefer someone is disorganized, naive in the ways of politics, surrounds themself with amateurish help, and acts nutty breaking into song in front of the cameras after speaking engagements. Not attractive! This fiasco he's run into is only going to get bigger, further demonstrating his inability to know how to deal with the parameters of the job he's applying for. All further proof that he is not presidential. Romney 2012...Now more than ever!!!

Casey Abell| 11.4.11 @ 10:10AM

Wow, another Spectator writer departs the Cain reservation. Well, at least Quin has some company now.

Aaron and Jeffrey are still hanging in there, though. NOBODY SAW THEM GET INTO THE TAXI. Yep, that'll save ol' Herm.

It's all going to come out, anyway. The written statements will soon arrive. Aaron and Jeffrey will probably dismiss them again. But Cain is down to a three-point lead over Romney in Rasmussen's latest, and it ain't gonna get better.

Looks like it could be Newt's turn as the non-Romney of the month.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 1:04PM

Oh man...you better be wrong! Newt was run out of Washington the first time for sleeping his way through town with congressional aides, cheating on two wives, and women will have a field day with Callista being his mistress for six years cheating on his wife, before becoming one herself! Yeah...First Lady...I don't think so! Michelle is pretty full of herself, and Callista is off the charts full of herself! Callista would make the nation yearn for the days of Mother Theresa Michelle! What a disaster the Gingrich's are...I was appalled St the enormous big head he has to think for a minute that no one will care that he is void of integrity, character, morals, honor, and send him back to Washington because he sounds like he knows what goes on there....well he does becaused he caused the mess when he was there before, and that's why people should never let him go back again!

TruthSayer| 11.4.11 @ 10:24AM

You, Tabin, like most of your journalist brethren, are a fvcking idiot! Cain will not be touched by this 'scandal' which is, in actuality, a hit job. Guess what, there will be other hit jobs on Cain or whoever is the Republican in charge. The fact that you, moron, cower and wimper at these liberal hit jobs is a testament to YOUR character. Go to HELL you piece of SH!T!

Wayne| 11.4.11 @ 10:55AM

If the GOP has trouble next year, it is its own fault. They have spent too much time trying to destroy each other. This is why I am not now or ever will be a Republican. They are the keystone cops of politics. And we are watching them run into each other as Obama walks off with America.

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 3:33PM

Can't disagree with what you say.

Most of conservatives are "reluctant Republicans," because third-party won't work, except to elect Democrats, the "Evil Party."

There's a good reason the GOP has the nickname "The Stupid Party." They earn it, constantly.

jack carlson| 11.4.11 @ 12:45PM

"The truth is that Obama has much better odds of re-election than a lot of people think."

Yes, about the same as my pet Dalmatian...

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 2:46PM

Wow. Obama's "Fake People By Committee," bought and paid for with laundered tax money, are out in force here.

The hate and viciousness here shows the depths to which the Left fears and despises Cain.

Point: don't like Cain? Fine--don't vote for him. But these vicious, ugly personal attacks show that the libs are out in force.

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 2:49PM

This means you, aheaton and balsenoo.

You've never been here before, and now suddenly you're trashing Cain with satanic intensity. Who the hell are you, and where the hell did you come from all of a sudden? Recruited by some Obamista behind a White House desk?

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 4:46PM

Calmark--My, my, who are you getting all hot and bothered thinking you own the place! Hate and fears Cain? Huh? Whatever! Cain's got no money and is spending all his time on defense. You want to fear someone...fear Romney! He's got the money, he's got the morals, he's got the understanding of the job, and if people had smartened up 4 years ago and put him in the white house then...we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now! That said, people would really help themselves if they wished up now and stopped supporting and making excuses for Cain because his organization is so amateurish they can't take care of themselves! Defend him all you want...makes no difference, Cain's going to lose at the end of the day and any vote cwst for him is just wasted!

CalMark| 11.4.11 @ 5:21PM

Nice rant.

I voted for Romney in '08 as the least of all evils. Now Romney is the McCain of the '12 cycle.

As for his morals, Romney flip-flops constantly. I don't trust him.

bolsen00| 11.4.11 @ 9:24PM

Calmark--you can rant with the best of them! Every single candidate has flipped...Romney has never flopped. Funny how Romney never changed or held office since 2008 but what was a good vote then is somehow mysteriously changed. Interesting...I hear this all the time and it's the people who have flipped. Conservatives have a real problem on their hands...they won't support Romney even when they've got the whole package, but they'll support Cain, when people are coming out of the woodwork to tell them what he's done and their determined to vote for him even if there's proof. Women are wise to what happens to them if they come forward against a presidential candidate (look at Jennifer flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky). Clinton lied to the American people for six years before the blue dress nailed him. This nation owes Lewinsky gratitude for saving that dress and restoring the honor of Paula Jones whom Clinton did everything to destroy. Witnesses don't come forward when the stqkes are this high unless it really happened, and Cain shouldn't be in the running to begin with...Cain knows that, but he figures if people are pushing him along, he'll go along. His speech this afternoon was embarrassing. People cheering and jumping out of their seats, throwing their arms in the air shouting alleluia's, jumping up and down clapping their hands high in the air, crying...and all the while Cain was preaching waving his arms like a preacher, acting and shouting like he was preaching a sermon to his congregation. It was 2008 all over again. People have lost all judgement and don't care about using their heads anymore. They have let their emotions take over and the republican party is officially a mess and lost!

SUSEYQUE| 11.6.11 @ 8:00AM

Herman Cain strikes me as a charmer, a bamboozler, and a womanizer. He seems to live the life of a single man. His wife has not been seen. It is beyond me that people think he is presidential material. He is inexperienced in the political realm. Haven't we had enough of men who choose to be mavericks (BHO)?

ron gunter| 11.6.11 @ 10:20AM

Tabin.....I had misjudged your ability to judge reality. Obviously, you have your own candidate
selected. I won't put much stock in your future
writings. "Whether the charges are true or not......?"
Hmmm--mm......

Hook| 11.16.11 @ 1:16PM

I disagree with Mr. Tabin slightly but hardly on his ability to judge reality. He is very measured. I think Obama has a very small chance to win. ANY Republican candidate is likely to win and Cain has zero chance of getting nomination.

Obama has numbers that no former president has overcome since the depression and the unemployment trajectory was good. I also believe that if the supercommittee fails to reach agreement we will get a further downgrade. Finally, things in MIDEAST will only get worse.