Yah? Why? I see his "outsideness" of Washington as a good thing, not a bad thing. Tell me why it should be a bad thing.
First of all, should Cain get the nomination, he has very little experience running a campaign and what little he has, is bad.
Being an "outsider" is all well and good...........except that means that he has no idea who to pick for a variety of positions;first for his campaign and secondly, should he become president, for all of the positions he will have to fill.
He is a business man. He has never had to deal with anything even remotely like Congress;let alone foreign dignitaries, heads of state, lobbyists, etc.!
Advisers to any and every politician are important. So HOW and WHOM does he chose and why?
From what he has said during the debates, we know that he doesn't like Perry. He supported Romney in the last go round. Does he like Newt? Probably and he also probably knows him better than the others.
Cain has NO record at all. So it's just his words now and since he has backtracked on some things, thus far, we can't just take him at his word, since there have been some flip flops, talking first and then changing some things later, and so on.
Is he ready to go up against Obama and the full thrust of the MSM/DEM machine? NO WAY and sadly, he still hasn't shown me that he has done any work to correct that problem.
He is trying to start at the top, which in times past, was frowned upon and ridiculed.
And before you try to throw Washington, Jackson, and/or Ike at me, those generals had dealings with Congress ( The Continental Congress for Washington ) prior to running for president.
There's more, but these really are things to mull over.
Both the Dems and the GOPers did everything in their power to get Ike to not only run for president, but to do so for their party. Once Ike decided to go it as a GOPer, the full force of the party and pols stepped in to help him.Do you honestly believe that the GOP will do that for Cain and/or that he'll accept the help?
I've read that he likes to do it all on his own. Perhaps that's true, perhaps it isn't; I don't know and I bet that nobody else here does either.