[Update: There is already a Draft Cain 2012 website up!]
Oh wait, the picture doesn’t follow the mainstream meme does it!
I guess Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann’s running narrative of extremists running the Tea Party doesn’t quite fit the pic.
//satire off
Oh shucks.
Herman Cain is the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and is contemplating a run for the executive branch of the U.S. government.
The mainstream media will be suffering a sort of mental aneurysm at the thought of a “black” republican, and Tea Partier at that, gunning for their Messiah’s seat.
The liberal political blogosphere will be going hebephrenic!
“They’re ready for a non-establishment candidate,” Cain, casually dressed in a blue shirt and slacks, said here in Florida during an interview Thursday after addressing an enthusiastic crowd at a “Spending Revolt” rally. “I will run proudly as a non-establishment candidate. I think the public has an appetite for a non-establishment candidate.”
Though he may not be well-known on the national stage, the stage 4 cancer survivor and chairman of the Hermanator PAC is a star among the conservative grassroots. Activists who showed up to the Americans for Prosperity’s “Spending Revolt” bus tour this week didn’t hide their admiration.
“He’s a beautiful package,” said Bob Prescott, a Jacksonville man selling campaign buttons, while Cain addressed an audience in Tampa. Prescott said he’s heard the Tea Party star speak multiple times and would support a Cain bid in 2012.
Not bad at all.
Read the rest by Alex Pappas of The Daily Caller here.
(Photo: Chas Geer/The Daily Caller)
Token… or Uncle Tom?
Neither.
He’s the real deal.
Alex V.,
That’s a bit of a borderline racist comment there. Be careful, we don’t tolerate that here at TAC.
We’ll let it slide this one time in case you weren’t aware of how your comment could be read.
After reading this post, about a man I had never heard of, I simply had to click the link to his website, which you put in your post.
I read the following and simply must comment that what I am posting is a quote from Mr. Cain himself, which made me laugh for the content/comment in the final line of this quote and the joy it brought to me for his having said it and the relief of having not said it myself, although I wish I did.
He said:
“Keep one thing in mind as we get into 2011. There are a lot of people that may be interested in seeking the Republican nomination, but I want you to remember one thing, there might also be a dark horse candidate that you don’t know about.”
Herman Cain
Mr Cain. Thank you. Tito, thanks to you too. I love this guy’s sense of humor.
Maybe it’s time again to elect someone who’s not a career politician. Couldn’t do any worse than the one we’ve got.
Sounds like a good man with alot of common sense. Thats exactly what we need.
I voted for this class act in the primary in 2004. While Isakson has been much better than expected, we really missed our chance to send a great conservative to the Senate. Herman is the real deal.
if you elect a career politician… you get a career politician. if you elect someone who isn’t a career politician… eveyone complains because they aren’t experienced enough.
I’m beginning to see a slight difference with the crowd the tea party is gathering. there is a faint “so what” when someone in the media tries to make the “not enough experience” argument.