“The experience of being a state governor is a good proving ground for a potus.”
A CEO is much more accountable to reality than a politician. A politician can just get away with looking good and evading the questions. Perry was ‘proven’ for almost a decade and look where he is today.
Governors are faced every day with being thrust into situations where they have to decide whether and how to issue orders to save life and property, even at the risk of other lives and property. The ones that do badly don’t make it onto nomnination ballots.
This is not something that comes with CEO positions.
Although in fairness to Herman Cain, I have read that mozzarella dealers can be pretty ruthless.