I don't support him, but I find he has a much better clue and better control of his mouth than just about all the other candidates with elective experience. What good has experience done for Mitt, Newt, and RuPaul?
But you raising the issue about race with Cain is pretty loathesome, quite frankly.
Look, I'm raising the race issue because if Cain was white he wouldn't even be mentioned, and you and I both know it. He has no elective office experience, that is my central point, that FReepers are pushing him because he's black, just as FReepers pushed Condi and Powell for President even though they have no elective office experience although both do have foreign policy experience but their moderate leanings also makes them unsupportable. Had Cain won his Senate race or won office somewhere I would have no problems with him running for President.
Now you can say that I support Palin simply because she's an attractive female BUT - Palin has almost 20 years of political experience plus she co-ran a small business as well. So there's no "affirmative action" in my support for Palin. She has the experience and she has taken Obama to the woodshed and the fact that she's an attractive and relatively young woman is merely a coincidence.