A Black Liberal cyber friend wrote in commentary, “the GOP will never nominate a Black”. This is a profound statement and I am sure he thinks it is the truth and it may well be, but I have heard many Conservatives on talk radio express the opposite opinion.
Let me start by saying Conservatives and Republicans may swim in the same pond, but since Reagan, there have been some major differences. A Republican will consider a Conservative part of the GOP, but many Conservatives are looking at the profligate and capitulating behavior of leading GOP members in Washington with indignation, while wondering if their voices are heard and if they may as well be whispering to a typhoon. Consequently, with resignation, many Conservatives only consider themselves Republicans by default.
I liked Cain the first time I heard him speak on the radio, almost two years ago. I knew he was a Black by the sound of his deep commanding voice, but the color of his hide wasn’t important to me; he was a man with a message and I liked the message. No, Obama hasn’t soured me toward Blacks as leaders, but I will never trust an undocumented teleprompter reader again during my time on earth, regardless of pigmentation.
Herman Cain is a Conservative and understands the machinations of business from the bottom up. If you have read of his techniques in turning companies around, you will realize this is a man who isn’t too proud to work next to the lowest employee in order to learn the nature of a company from the bottom up.
He could have easily been an elitist and ridden around in a limousine, hiring capable people and demanding results, but he is a man of the people, a man with humility. A leader with humility will have a greater chance of pulling our country together and uniting us under common goals. Electing another polarizing personality will only increase this festering animosity in America. Our last three presidents have all been polarizing leaders and each has managed to out perform his predecessor in this counter productive ability that causes Americans to dislike each other.
There is a long way to go in the nomination process, but Cain doesn’t seem to get a fair shake from the media. He is there and still in the race; the others are displaying their true natures and Cain may still have a chance, even though he is in the back of the pack. The cards are being played and I will back the winner, but I still like Cain.
He receives no visible support from Black America and the Congressional Black Caucus is only trivializing itself by insulting him and other Black Conservatives. Yet, they may be hastening their own premature demise; since, we may see America’s greatest Black leaders emerge as Conservatives. The formula is there for the right man and if it happens, the Democrat Party’s suffocating hold on the neck of Black America will be over. Potential Black leaders, who are ready to pick up the reins of traditional Liberalism stand a hundred deep, but Black Conservatives have a different message, a message offering an alternative to collective entitlement based on race.
Men like Cain and West (not a candidate) stand as inspirations to all Americans, not just Black Americans. When ‘they’ speak of “my people,” no Americans need to feel excluded, except by their own devices and choices. These men inspire faith with their undoubted loyalty to this great country, and yes, they will not hesitate to tell you of the greatness of this country and of the opportunities available to all Americans. This is exactly the type of leader that will be needed if we are to bring America together once again. Some of the other candidates may have those qualities, many Republicans and some intrepid Democrats stand poised to make the decision on who will win the Republican nomination, thanks to open primaries: we can only hope they will use the Buckley parable and nominate the Conservative that stands the best chance of being elected, but also a nominee that can unite our great country once again.
It is for certain, Obama is not the great unifier he was promoted as being by our corrupt and despicable MSM, an organization that little more than a propaganda bureau for the Democrat Party and Obama.
The next GOP candidate should be the type of Conservative that can inspire people with oratory and be a strong diplomat that commands respect, a diplomat that allies and enemies feel obliged to respect.
To be blunt, no one respects a man who begins his presidency by bowing and apologizing to strongmen and dictators around the world.
Cain is a great speaker, he doesn’t need a teleprompter on each side to engage an audience and no one thinks of him as a wimp. He deserves a closer look.
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I read today that Mr Cain won the florida straw poll. and not by a small margin. Close to 22 points.
His poise demeanor in the debates to me speaks Volumes. When others are speaking he turns towards them to listen and give them his undevided attention. The others stare straight ahead as if they are affraid to make eye contact. Its RUDE to NOT face the person that is speaking. Mr Cain is a smart man he doesnt play the political game and thats what we need. I do however have a point to make about the article , where the write says that Mr Cain or Col West when they talk about “MY PEOPLE” . I have never heard either one of them make that sort of statement. I dont beleive that they see themselves as anything other then AMERICAN. Back to Mr Cain. He is the best man for the job. I have been in love with him since I first heard of him 6 years ago. His business sense and proven results is what I like. GO MR CAIN!!!!!!!
Its our job to tell others about him. He cannot win on his own. Spread the word people, Main stream propaganda machines dont like Mr C because its gets rid of the race card!!!!
To me the color of his skin is just a bonus. Like a 2 for 1 deal at GodFathers pizza.
Cold, I haven’t heard Cain or West use the phrase and they may never use the phrase. Holder and Obama have no such reservations and use it to express racism and exclusivity, thus promoting racism and divisiveness in America. I should have made the distinction in the article.
People of the free world(i’m sounding like Eisenhower) choose your next president. It will be a conservative, hopefully.
Who will you choose? Polls mean nothing at this point.There hasn’t been a primary yet and the MSM is picking them already. Get informed, get registered, and vote in the primaries.
Why am I as a Canadian so deeply involved? Liberty,Egality,Fraternity, and my mom lives in Dallas.
Mom adores Perry and I’m partial to Bachmann. Newt, Cain, even Palin are good choices. Palin and Christie aren’t in yet. Get rid of the Obamination.
I pay huge taxes in both countries. I can only vote in one. We got Harper a majority government and hopefully you folks can get a conservative president.
Great read Skookum. I too had heard Mr Cain on the Monica Crowley radio show and was impressed with what he had to say… You are dead on with many many of your points about Herman Cain.
What I find shameful about the Democrat Party’s Black Caucus is their dismissive attitude toward Mr. Cain. Here is a man with an honorable ‘message’, this is the ‘true’ “Yes! We Can” man (Leader) who speaks to ‘every American’, ‘believes in America’, and with all her faults, still ‘Loves this country ‘ knowing it is the greatest place on this earth.
Mr Cain has a lot of “Wisdom” and a great message. If elected as President would no doubt surround himself with “qualified (real world) people who are acutely aware of the problems we face as “all inclusive Americans”. Not just “Specific Groups” of
victim mentalityAmericans – as it should be…Extremely GOOD Read…
CAIN is the best Conservative candidate there.
He’s not a RINO flip-flopper like Mitt Romney
He’s not a amnesty-loving open-border weasle like Rino Perry
He’s MUCH more likeable than Bachmann, Newt, Santorum, Paul (et al)
CAIN is everything you said in you post…
…He’s the real deal – and true Conservatives would be VERY WISE to get on board with the Cain train.
But remember… Donations are the key to ANY successful campaign so, if you like Cain, then visit his website and DONATE to keep his momentum going strong!!
PS: I like this blog – just found it recently.
I have sent him money several times.
One of the first things I read this morning was that Cain had won the Florida straw poll. What a great way to start a Sunday. I was formerly a Perry supporter, but after Thursday I was looking elsewhere. I always liked Cain from the beginning, but I did not think he had a shot. Yesterday changed that. Cain is everything a conservative candidate should be. Let us get the word out on him and help get this guy elected.
We all know that the black vote is crucial for any liberal to win The White House.
It was not always true that the inner-city voter was predominately black. In the decades preceding “The White Flight”, most of the voters residing in ANY city were not black.
But even then, the “Social Progressives” tended to be concentrated in these areas.
Because large cities tended to produce the most jobs, wages and tax revenues exceeded those of their rural neighbors. So social programs were considered “affordable” by these voters. And those voters received and saw the benefits of higher taxes, benefits like mass transit, access to services and higher education.
Extremely few liberals could win national or state-wide elections without the urban vote, as evidenced by the famous “USAToday Red-Blue Map” (See if you can pick out where the cities are):
Today, those inner-cities are overwhelmingly populated by black voters. But the demographic of the inner-city versus rural voter trend has really not changed all that much over history.
So I think the key to victory for both Republicans and Democrats alike lay in which party can more successfully energize their block of constituents to actually turn out and vote.
In the next election, Obama is terrified that blacks (um, I mean “the inner-city voters”) will just throw their hands up in disgust and stay home on election day.
I believe that it’s a myth, to an extent, that “all” black voters support Obama, if you look at the voter tendencies among black voters in rural areas.
That we see prominent black conservatives like Alan West, Thomas Sowell, Herman Cain, Lloyd Marcus,
Condoleezza Rice, Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas, and many others does nothing to dilute my belief that it is indeed possible to make great gains by conservatives in convincing the black voter to support conservative principles.
I like Herman Cain very much.
Yesterday, on a talk radio show a man who was a low-level employee of a company Cain headed called in to talk about the impression Cain made on him….30 years ago!
Yup.
He made a lasting impression.
30 years ago Mr. Cain worked side-by-side with this man for an entire day.
Never said he ran the company, just seemed new to that part of the work and wanted to do it well.
Also was interested in this man’s opinions about how to make work better in that part of the plant.
Only later did the man realize that was his boss he spent the day with.
To this day he looks up to Herman Cain as a great man.
I was noticing that Mr. Cain has made a real effort to acquaint himself with international issues.
That is good.
He needed to do this.
His 9-9-9 plan is ringing true to a lot of people.
Nostradamus, you have provided excellent commentary with significant ideas to ponder.
I often wonder about this idea of encouraging the uninformed voter to vote. Is it similar to encouraging someone with a pistol to shoot without aiming?
I realize it has been a method of winning elections for a long time; however, it may be time to enlighten or inform the voters rather than encouraging blind obedience from the ignorant.
I know, I know, it sounds like lofty and impractical concepts from an idealist, but from such idealists come movements. We the little guys are gaining in influence. We can write theoretical bullshit that bores people and floats over their heads like so many clouds or we can put forth an extra effort to touch one or a few. Each of us has the potential to help in an effort to help make the public aware. I much prefer an aware public, rather than an ignorant but dutiful and loyal public.
For example, with your commentary, you have provided excellent ideas and like seeds, they may germinate and be productive. That my friend is our goal and the best that we can hope for as we beat up these little machines unmercifully.
Yes, we will still need to encourage the uninformed and the ignorant to vote in order to win elections, but we have been given a much greater voice with the internet and these machines. We must use them to our utmost advantage.
We have liked Cain since we first heard him speak. And have been working at promoting him as much as we can. And will till he drops out and or succeeds. We were in a packed house watching the debate, all of us sitting on the edge of our seats, and hoping that Cain would make a break-out this time. He did! We both realized that Cain was and is a dark horse with many obstacles to overcome. He just overcame one of them with his major victory at the straw poll. Cain can do what Regan did in 80 if given the chance, a little luck, and hard work. He has to consistently show the voters what politicians like Perry and Romney are, opportunistic professional politicians. That they have and will sell out conservative principles when if benefits them. I know this may anger some people but I will have to think very hard before I ever vote for another politician who has made a habit of caving in too political correctness, and selling out conservative values. Cain speaks and acts with common sense, backed by intelligence, and experience. All traits that have nearly disappeared from our government. Cain has the left, Rhino politicians who want to keep the broken system as it is, conservative voters who like Cain but only think that a Rhino can win, and of course everyday democrats who want Obama. Its going to be a long tough up-hill battle for him.
@Skookum:
Very true, what you said about the ignorant voter.
Funny thing: At the very first campaign team meeting for every political campaign I’ve volunteered to work for, the campaign leaders or chairman would implore the candidate to always educate the constituency when making speeches, campaign ads and fliers and when doing meet-and-greets.
One has to understand that the opposition, in some cases, actually wants their voters to be ignorant of the details of pertinent issues of the day, and those opponents often go out of their way to actually brainwash their flock (In addition to using pay-off tactics) in an effort to solidify their core base.
On another similar note, I would like to you good folks to be made aware of very important new tool I’ve discovered on The Web that is easy to use, provides up-to-date information on pending legislation and allows YOU to cast YOUR VOTE as well as offer your opinion (to your representatives) about any House Resolution or Bill.
You can play with this great website HERE:
https://www.popvox.com
Skookum mentioned using the web to inform. This site should be bookmarked by every political activist. It took me all of 4 minutes to get signed in and create an account, using only the same information you would use to email your representative. And THEY take care of sending your message in a great format.
@Nostradamus: Thanks for the site! Its really good so far. Its nice to be able to see the areas of support too.
at one time folks used to say the “White House” was called that for a reason too…think the only folks hung up on race are the racists themselves…oddly enough most of them seem to call the Democratic Party home.
@Nan G: We have yet to hear from a former student of Barack Obama about how his teaching inspired him or her.
I saw all of the ABC talking heads show (with crazy lips, the moderator) and most of the David Gregory show. Only Donna Brazil, as an aside, mentioned Cain’s name. I am halfway through David Gregory’s show, and so far, I don’t think this has been even mentioned.
You would think, with this upset victory, these talk shows would be falling all over themselves to get Herman Cain as their guest.
Am I paranoid? Did the wrong man accidentally win the Florida Straw Polls?
Herman Cain’s straw poll win in Florida just shows the disarray of the Republican Party, and will simply result in another bursting of our cherished political rules of thumb–namely, that whoever win the Florida Straw Poll, wins the Republican nomination.
My new bumper sticker…
“Let’s beat Obama with a Cain!”
I’m going to go with:
Citizen Cain
I like Cain a lot, he’s real and could bring actual “outsider energy” to the beltway aristocracy, the kind that was claimed/promised by the current POTUS (and was an obvious lie when he said it, silly sheeple)…Cains biggest misstep that I’ve seen were those comments about Israel, but compared to the sitting POTUS and some of the establishment GOP field, the man is a breath of fresher air — he’s a strong domestic candidate and it is our domestic house that is in the greatest disarray atm imo.
Bachmann I’d like to like…but the mistakes she’s been caught in are just sloppy ones…imo it shows a lack of staff talent / leadership / trust / prep…something is broken in that camp where they can’t simply fact check their public positioning statements and ultimately this reflects on her abilities to manage.
Romney I preferred over McCain and think he got a raw deal with having his religion used against him, something we should be beyond…yet my liberal in-laws were already circulating the anti-mormon tongue waggling when he was front runner recently. Anyway, his sidestep in ’08 seemed a smart move then to fight again in ’12…but the ground isn’t the same now, there’s no old man for him to run circles around and the contrast with establishment Perry is stark enough, let alone Cain.
R. Paul…isolationist, nuff said. (I’m sure the Paulbots will jump me for that, but that’s the cold hard truth…old school isolationist — zero clue about geopolitical realities, which is odd considering his strong economics should inform his geopolitics…) the domestic house in order comes into play with Paul, and is a strong argument for many — but his foreign policy as stated would be an unmitigated disaster.
Gingrich…Newt is fun to listen to on talk radio, but the 90’s are over. Old guard establishment looking for that last chance shoot-the-moon fling at the top.
Santorum…meh.
Huntsman < (Santorum/2) — see "meh" above.
Perry…the establishment, a more palatable set of compromises than what Romney brings, and would probably make a decent POTUS.