Anticipating Cain's official endorsement
Well it’s been a long campaign season already, but we’re mere days away from the most anticipated day of the election cycle. I’m speaking, of course, about Jan. 19, 2012 — the day Herman Cain will announce whom he’s endorsing.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’m one of those people who prefers his president to at least have some political experience before he takes the reins in the Oval Office. For this reason, I didn’t support Cain’s candidacy.
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However, I do like my candidates to be utterly zany.
Cain was a boisterous and exhilarating thrill of a candidate I wouldn’t let near my school board, much less 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but he was so much fun.
Did you notice how he turned every question around to somehow have the answer be his “9-9-9” tax plan? Most politicians know how to spin, but Cain knows how to funnel. Every question had the same answer: “9-9-9.”
It saddened me when he dropped out. He reminded us not to take anything too seriously. We obviously weren’t going to make the pizza guy president, even if it would have made postal holidays more delicious, but it was fun having him around.
Yet sexual harassment allegations brought Cain down, so there we sat without him. Until now.
Cain recently announced a “9-9-9” bus tour to promote his tax plan without promoting his candidacy, and told us he’ll pick a GOP candidate to back on Jan. 19, two days ahead of the South Carolina primary.
I’m on the edge of my seat.
Cain said his endorsement would also be “unconventional.” What could that possibly mean? What does Cain consider unconventional? He’s the guy who thought running a pizza chain qualified him to run for president.
Here’s a breakdown of the possible Cain endorsees.
Cain could go “mainstream” and pick Romney, Santorum, Huntsman, Paul, Perry or Gingrich. I never really figured out what Cain believed in except for “9-9-9,” so it’s anyone’s guess who he’d prefer ideologically.
My money would be on Perry. Despite the fact Perry is a left-for-dead candidate at this point, Cain once remarked he wanted to be Secretary of Defense. It seems Perry would be the only one silly enough to let Cain have that post.
But I prefer to imagine more Cain-like scenarios. It’s possible Cain would endorse Donald Trump. Both are businessmen people like watching on TV but would never actually vote for, so that kind of person might stick together.
He could also endorse someone who isn’t running, like Chris Christie, in the hopes that the sole fact Herman Cain thinks he should be president would bring him out of hiding and onto the ballot.
Yet let’s picture an even more theatrical event: Herman Cain steps out of the “9-9-9” bus and says, “I’ve signed on to be Vice President on the ticket with America’s next president…”
The crowd would hold their breath, and we’d all wonder what kind of idea Cain had this time, and we’d wonder how he had turned “9-9-9” into a person.
But as we exhaled and Cain announced the candidate, we’d all shake our heads in simultaneous disbelief and excitement: Sarah Palin.
Palin and Cain are a match made in heaven. They are exciting and unpredictable and totally unqualified to handle anything about the presidency.
Wouldn’t the media have so much fun with that?
I’m on pins and needles waiting for Cain to pick his candidate. We need him in a race the media is taking way too seriously for a campaign Mitt Romney won six months ago.
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by mootsagootsa
Cain will pick the best man for the job. In my opinion that would be Gary Johnson. Cain is smart enough to know that the country needs Gary Johnson to become our next President.
Flag for moderationby pglover
Why not endorse Herman Cain?
Flag for moderationby Janice Dura
I read an average of 4 to 6 hours per day for since 2007. Your article is the most arrogant piece I have read in a very long time. It is obvious that you are a liberal progressive who is totally out of touch. Before you write your next piece try being a journalist.. do some research…. and do your homework. Do you write articles often…..please email your next piece. I would like to see if you can improve your so-called skill.
Flag for moderationby Karen
To-shay Janice. Wel said.
Flag for moderationby Rimshot
That’s “touche”, Karen.
And it’s “well”.
Other than that – fine post.
Flag for moderationby Everyone
Janice – You should have used 1 second of the 4 to 6 hours to read that this is an opinion. And, IMO, a well written and entertaining one at that.
Flag for moderationby Really
Janice,
Before ragging on someone’s lack of skill, read your first sentence. I think there’s an extra “for” in there. You may be missing some question marks as well, and I’m not sure …‘s really illustrate a well written post.
When you put a spotlight on somebody’s writing skill, make sure your own is up to snuff.
Flag for moderationby Nick
In addition, Janice, using ‘ …….’ is grammatically incorrect. A semi colon following ‘journalist’ is appropriate and nothing is required after ‘research.’
The piece wasn’t badly written, just unnecessary. Cain will endorse whichever candidate he deems most likely to reward him, in whatever way he is hoping to be rewarded.
He is a liar, an embarrassment and a disgraceful example of a man.
Flag for moderationby Intelligence
First, let’s all realize how stupid Ms. Janice Dura is by the fact that Mr. Neil Weinberg is not a journalist – yes, he must use facts – but he is an opinion writer, and this is a column, not an article. I doesn’t take a whole lot of intelligence to see that this piece was meant to be satirical more than it was meant to be informative. Honestly, look at the section heads before you try to insult opinion writers for writing a biased or opinionated article!
Flag for moderationby Liann
Herman Cain took a 3rd place pizza chain to 5th place which has now ended up in 8th place, killing around 300 restaurants and destroying jobs of thousands of pizza workers. Cain molested job seekers at the same time, which cheating behind his mistress’s back, served as tobacco lobbyist at the same time at Natl Restaurant Assn, serving a director at the same time on RJ Reynold Nabisco-Holding board of directors. Cain took $26,000,000 as director of AGCO Corp and Whirlpool of Stimulus Funds, while lying to the public that not one job was created by the Stimulus. Cain as director of Whirlpool-Maytag closed the Newton Iowa Maytag washer-dryer factory, destroyed 4,500 American jobs and exported the factory south to Mexico. Herman Cain destryed Aquila Corp, lost the workers their pensions and jobs, while the crippled company was devoured by competitors.
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