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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: KyrosL who wrote (172912)9/30/2011 5:33:31 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 540798
 
I thought you would have some interesting things to say about that piece.

Meanwhile, below is a POV from a RW SI thread that seems to me to be gaining traction. Within weeks after the spotlight shines on a Republican nominee as the frontrunner for the nomination, the base finds reasons to discard that person. Judging by what I have been reading on RW SI threads (not necessarily a good barometer, to be sure), the spotlight is now slowly turning to Godfather Cain. The post below seems to me to capture the current general attitude pretty well:

I am more libertarian but had to vote republican because they were lesser evil. Now I am going to register as a republican and will most likely vote for Herman Cain.
When I see Perry - I see Bush. I don't buy a notion that person can be smart but could not put together a coherent sentence. Romney looks very good. He really look presidential. But the problem with him is that I don't believe a word he is saying.. He looks like a politician who would try to applease everyone. Does anyone here really think he would put any meaningful effort to repeal Obamacare? I don't believe that for a second.
Politicians got us into this mess. And it would be naive to think that another smooth talking politician will get us out. That is why I won't vote for Romney even though he would definately beat Obama.

Which leads to following. Romney is being sold as only candidate that can beat Obama. But why not Cain?
He is better than Obama in any department: his career, his speaking abilities, his common sense approach that I personally like. And liberals won't be able to play racist if he is nominated.

And I don't buy that BS about him not being knowledgeable about foreign politics. None of them are. They just memorized talking points and recite them. If you dig any deeper you would see they know next to nothing.
Especially if we assume that CIA knows much more than general. So when Cain said that he would get an expert and will learn about any particular situation - I like that. Because that is what I would do. You ask one advisor for suggestion, then you take this suggestion and run it against other experts and learn about pluses and minuses and eventually you have an understanding.
We have to support him to show those politicians that they can be replaced at any time.
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