Herman Cain Leading in New Polls but Still Plenty of Bad News to be Had.

Some questions to ask about Cain’s candidacy:

1. Will his lack of previous experience in high government office be a help or a problem in the general election? When was the last time someone other than a high-ranking general won the presidency as his first elected office? Is Cain the GOP candidate that has the best chance to beat Obama in 2012?

2. Does his 9-9-9 plan have any chance of becoming law? If not, then what’s plan B? The status quo is to sail off a taxation cliff in 2013. If 9-9-9 plan is DOA due to the certainty of opposition by Democrats, won’t this open Cain up to the same criticism that’s been levelled at the current administration’s jobs tax plan?

It’s all well and good to tout the business experience of Cain, but the sad fact is that the president must know how congress works (or not). This is not a business where you can fire someone if they don’t do as you tell them to. All the great plans on the planet aren’t any good if they can’t get past congress. Additionally, he’s very light on foreign policy.

It’s a long time until the election folks… keep your eye on what the candidates do – not just what they say.

If Cain can get the nomination he will win, for the simple reason he will also pick up most of the Independent votes in the general election. In fact, I would predict that if he runs, he will win in a landslide.

There is no way the media or the good old boys are going to tell mainstream America how to vote. We have just about been choked to death on political correctectness, consequently, an America we can hardly recognize, getting worse by the day. Until now, no one has had the cuts to just be a straight talker, something of which the majority of Americans are starved to hear from a trust worthy candidate. Who else has ever told America that we are in a moral crisis?

Like or not, that’s the crux of our problems, a government so corrupted and infeseted with behind the scenes dirty dealing that if we did know the details, we would all be taking to the streets.

If Romney get’s it, we will most likey lose. Mark Levin made a great point that Romney is so “Obama-lite”, especially on Obamacare, that there won’t be much of a fight on the issues, unlike the differnece between Romeny and a true conservative.

I’ve written many times that the Republicans loathe the social conservatives, only keep us cause they can’t win without us. It’s really showing now, as Cain is a true conservative from the bottom up. His speech at the valuesvote was awesome, leaving no guessing necessary on where he stands on issues.

Cain could be an American game changer, for a plethora of reasons, all good!

@Patricia:
If Romney is nominated we will most assuredly loose. . . regardless of who gets the most electoral votes.

Herman Cain is not black.
I can prove this assertion. Black is defined by Sharpton, Jackson, Smiley, Jackson Lee, Belafonte, and all the other Black leaders, Cain fails on all counts in his Blackness.
He is not now, and never has been, dependent on Government.
He is not now, and never has been, a beneficiary of Affirmative Action.
He is not now, and never has been, dependent on the color of his skin.
That is what frightens the RINOs. Cain is off the plantation. Way off. He doesn’t buy into any of that “we are all unequal” c***. He seems to think that America is the land of opportunity, where you invent yourself.
Cain is not controllable.
This frightens all believing liberals. They have no idea what he would do.
How perfect. The living embodiment of the “dream” of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And he will be REJECTED by those who claim to honor King.
As an old poet said: “the words of the dead are modified in the guts of the living.”

Even most of the talking heads want a GOP man. But if Cain, a big but too can keep his surge going and get an effective grass-roots donation in play, he may start to get money from the big players. There is still a chance that we may actually have a non-professional politician for president. Can he do any worse than all the previous professional politicians? Maybe, but then maybe he might just be what Washington and the country needs. And yes Rommey is considered the one now, some just feel its time to give him the mercy vote, like McCain. Its my hope that Cain can stir up the kinda passion that Ronnie did back in 1980 from all conservatives as time goes on. He is his biggest enemy right now.

@ella: “BOLDERDASH”
Cain could care less about any labels you want to hang on him. So stop complaining that he does “not have the money” and crack open your tight-fisted pocketbook and donate to him. Whether the media, or you for that matter, fabricate fault with Cain get used to it; He is going to first kick the Republican ticket representatives butts, then he will go on to tear the oval office from Obama’s clutching fingers. (Piece of cake!)
Get used to saying, “President Herman Cain”!

The 47% of Americans who pay zero federal income taxes aren’t going to like his 9-9-9 plan.

This is make or break it for conservatism. I suspect Palin will endorse Cain, consequently, this will be not only a Cain victory, but a “We the people victory.” We simply don’t have any more time for the RINO’s.

The Main Street Establishement, from the MSM, to the good old (we really hate social Repbulicans, and WE will tell you who to vote for GOP), have once again totally underestimated the real America. If they think we cleaned their clocks in the last election, they haven’t seen anything like they are going to see when we elect a common sense, outside the beltway, no BS/no political correctness social and fiscal conservative to the white house. Oh, and by the way, he also happens to be a self-made, victimless, black man. More kudos to him for his savvy in understanding how he has what it takes to create the perfect storm.

All we have to is get Cain to the nomination. It will be the biggest landslide and political upset in American History, a true “game changer” in America.

Herman Cain has been my favorite, early on; but I have been trying to be careful about this. I am pretty certain that, the feeling I have about him is quite similar to the feeling liberals had about Obama. He is just a very likeable, charismatic man.

However, something has to be done out government spending and how our taxes are determined. Entitlements are out of control as well. We cannot continue allowing the government to spend billions on worthless projects, calling this spending investments, when often, they are simply political payoffs (the same for many breaks which are found in the tax code). We cannot continue to have 50% of the population pay no taxes; if that is the case, they have little reason to vote responsibly.

And there is not enough money in the world to insure that everyone gets good medical care and that everyone has a guaranteed retirement for 10-30 years.

I am not certain that I want someone who “knows how Washington works.” Maybe I would prefer someone who might do some of the things Obama promised, like greater transparency and a responsible approach to government budgeting.

So far, of the candidates, Citizen Cain, who has had to oversee large budgets with many moving parts (including dealing with franchises) seems to be the best man for the job.

I like Santorum and Bachmann, but do they really have executive experience? I like Romney’s experience, but does he have the same views that I have? I really have no idea with him. I think he would say or do anything to be president. I really like Gingrich and I would pay to seem him debate Obama, but, again, there is the executive experience problem.

Finally, I am a citizen of the sovereign state of Texas, and Perry simply is not all that conservative. Our taxes are far too high here. The government is more heavy handed than I would like. During the time that Perry has been governor, there have been about a half dozen regulatory laws passed which affect me directly, and for the worse. So, even though I love his slogan, “I want to make Washington as inconsequential to your life as possible” I don’t believe him.

Now, when it comes to his dealing with the border and immigrants, there is a reason why he is “soft” on immigration, and there is a reason why he cannot be honest about this. Texas is a big state with a lot of Hispanics. If a conservative does or says the wrong thing and pisses off the Hispanic population here, the landscape could suddenly turn blue, and we would be a reliably blue state, just like NY and CA. So, in this regard, Perry is just doing his best to navigate a difficult issue.

Anyway, put me down, so far, for:

Citizen Cain + Rubio or
Citizen Cain + Gingrich (even though they are both from the same state).

Here’s the Dream Team:

President: Citizen Cain
VP: Marco Rubio
Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
WH Press secretary: Newt Gingrich (brilliant choice, right?)
IRS destruction Czar: Michele Bachmann

@James Raider: Stellar posting!

@Patricia: Right on and well said! Just saw Coulter on the tube puhing for the GOP boy Rommey. Thats all we need when the libdems are starting to pour out of their holes.

@MataHarley:
He’s nothing more than a troll. It recently tried to debate again…and was shredded. I would say embarrased, but have you ever seen a leftist understand what that word even means? After being trounced so badly even it can see that fact, it has defaulted back to it’s original behavior.

@MataHarley:
It did make an attempt at a few baby steps, but once those bronzed shoes got crammed where the sun doesn’t shine, it went turtle again.
I didn’t respond to it’s last post because it was wanting to provoke a response and nothing else. It laughed to itself thinking it was making us dance to its tune. It assumed itself to be Pavlov while we were the dog.
I am all for proving otherwise.

Obama’s targeting tax hikes of all who he despises has been a failure so far.
I think Cain’s 9-9-9 tax would inprove consumer and business confidence in predicting future costs, upping hiring and improving the economy.
Tonight I saw a report on how Obama’s tanning tax only led to falling sales in tanning so that less than 1/3rd of what Obama thought he would get from pale white folks actually got collected.

The IRS initially projected the tax would be due quarterly from roughly 25,000 stand-alone tanning salons, plus spas, health clubs and beauty parlors.

But the inspector general report found that actual tax returns filed for the first three quarters through March 31 averaged just above 10,300.

Tanning tax receipts for that nine-month period totaled $54.4 million, the report found. That was below projections by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, which had estimated the tax would raise $50 million in the last three months of fiscal year 2010 and $200 million for the full 2011 fiscal year.

OOPS!
See, what Obama keeps forgetting is that people change their behavior based on pleasure/pain.
A 10% price hike on tanning artificially can be saved by simply going outside….or by giving up the habit.
Just as Obama keeps thinking there is only so big a wealth pie and we should redistribute what we have, he also believes taxpayers will blithely go on with their same actions even after he adds huge tax increases to them.
Where was Obama when the yacht builders were being destroyed by that luxury tax?
Dumb dummy!

Herman Cain is on the right track even if it takes a while to get there.

@MataHarley: #33
All taxes are increasable. Congress just has to vote the higher amount in. Just like they have been doing for years.

I don’t read all of the comments, and I sometimes don’t read all of a comment.

The Fair Tax gang estimates that we pay an average of 32% of our income to the Feds. 9+9+9=27. The 9% tax on corporations is less than the 35% (not sure of exact amount) they pay now. 35%-9%=24% less that businesses could charge and still make the same proffit. If business try to keep prices up, the small businesses will lower theirs to gain business and the big ones will have to follow.

The 9% sales tax will be paid by all. This includes the rich, illegals, and foreign visitors. I ain’t a mathematician, so I like this simple approach. Each time you buy something the amount you pay to the Feds is printed on the ticket, so you can see how much you are paying. Everyone can do their own taxes. Multiply your income by 9% and there is the amount you owe the Feds. The same for businesses. No more having to hire all kinds of accountants to pay as few taxes as possible

Cain also wants to switch to the Fair Tax eventually, and I am for that. One tax on everything you buy and that is it for Federal taxes.