[quote=poorgradstudent] …….That said, I don’t really care, because Cain is a terrible Presidential candidate anyways. 9-9-9 is a huge tax increase and wealth redistribution plan, stealing from the poor and giving to corporations. Cain has no coherent policy on social issues; he had a rational moderate stance on abortion that he flipped on when he realized it wouldn’t fly with Republican primary voters.[/quote]
I, likewise, give the finger to the whole sexual harassment thing, or at least to the incredible overreaction of the press. What is truly disturbing is that this same press has done nothing toward reporting on and documenting Mr. Cain’s absolute unsuitability for this office in both intellect and experience. Watching him in debates and in interviews is like watching Sarah Palin……except Sarah is smarter.
He’s pulled stuff from his ass so often that I’d swear he’s had a larynx surgically transplanted there. Someone asks what he plans to do about healthcare, and he comes out with this long stream of absolute BS made up of terms that he thinks are appropriate. He refers to his “solutions” that are, in reality, “ideas” that are totally without form or substance. If he comes up with a “plan”, it is so extremely broad-based as to be laughable.
Yet, the press, for the most part, has never questioned these very serious shortcomings, either before or following his rise in the polls. I find it indescribably depressing that we have a national political press corps that cannot identify such eloquently and effectively presented characteristics of ineptitude such as those consistently demonstrated by Mr. Cain. Perhaps it is because the savvy and fearless political reporters of yesterday are today’s paid “guest pundits” on completely-one-sided media outlets, and the current political press corps is made up of youthful and inexperienced bloggers who interpret “keen and insightful political analysis” as agreeing or disagreeing with someone else’s paid blog entry.
However, in Mr. Cain’s defense, not much more credit can be afforded the other Republican candidates. Of the eight, only Paul, Huntsman, and Gingrich are appreciably more intelligent, and at the minimum level required of a President; however Paul and Gingrich have problems that outweigh that superiority. Gary Johnson and Buddy Roehmer are both very bright, and have cogent, detailed plans for addressing the issues, but neither has been able to procure a seat at the table. I look at those who have received the vast majority of media attention, and it’s a surreal experience in the absurd – like watching a DC-based Monty Python episode.
