Lame? Sounds like a pretty clear answer to me.
I did not support Romney, but Cain's answer is not a bad answer.
I think it’s a great answer. You can disagree with Romney’s positions, but he worked as a consultant for BCG, then started and built Bain and Co., a very successful capitalistic free enterprise private equity company. Anyone who denies his business experience is a fool. Mr. Cain certainly is not one.
I’m of the opinion that the pubbies screwed up royally by putting up McCain instead of Romney, Romney might have been a pretty good president over that last couple of years.
However, I really mean that, over the LAST couple of years. He’s not the guy for the NEXT few years.
I was curious about this the other day so I checked the Google news archives on when he came out to support Romney. It was June-July 2008, after most of the primaries were over and only a couple left. At this time the choices were down to Romney, McCain, Paul and Huckabee.
It would be a lose, lose, lose, lose situation if you wanted to hang it on the guy. No matter who he supported, folks would damn him for supporting a liberal.
Sorry. I hallucinated the word “lame” from the OP.
The little bit I have heard from Cain has me at least interested.
by contributing to the splintering of the conservative vote in ‘12, he will be supporting Mitt Romney again.
With all the anti Cain threads popping up here, one may wonder if someone is worried about him being too good a candidate. So, he supported Romney in 08 and does not now. Gee the darling of some here, Trump, supported Hillary. Finally, would Romney have been that much worse a candidate the McCain was...I don’t think so and would have rather he was the candidate between the two. In any event, to point to Cain’s support for one of the final GOP candidates in 08 and make that a bad thing makes me wonder why it is so important to cite that as a negative.
So, EV, who is the AIP putting up for 2012?
Ooops. That’s gonna be a deal-breaker for a whole lot of conservatives.
He supported the election of Scott Brown in Mass. too.
Romney has killed his chances with me and if Cain suupported him knowing, but not caring, about Romney's dismal history on RKBA he will go on my list as well.
It saddens me to say this because I really like him and was ready to get on board the Cain Train, but despite his support of the Fair Tax, unless and until Herman Cain issues a public statement repudiating his remarks opposing an INDEPENDENT audit of the Fed and pledges to vigorously pursue such and audit, I cannot support him. I’m sure he’s heartbroken at this news – NOT!
Herman apparently does not understand that the same folks who foisted the Fed on us understood the need to have a tax on incomes (for all but themselves, of course). There had to be a way to annually vacuum the excess fiat currency they would ultimately create out of the system lest the great unwashed (that’s us) catch on to their scam. The sort of inflation we’re seeing today — and will see accelerate — does NOT harm everyone: THOSE AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE (GOLDMAN-SACHS, J.P.MORGAN-CHASE, ETC.) GET THEIR “MONEY” FOR NEXT TO NOTHING while THOSE AT THE REAR OF THAT LINE (THAT’S US) GET NEXT TO NOTHING FOR OURS.
Unless Herman knows that the Fair Tax rate would need to float or spike much higher during times the Fed is running the presses flat out, I’m sad to say that his defense of the Fed while embracing the Fair Tax causes me to consider him the “double-minded man” mentioned in the Bible. Scriptures goes on to call that man “...unstable in ALL his ways.”
And we’ve already had our fill of unstable men in the White House. At least I have.
I’m not interested in Cain.
I would have RATHER have had Romney than McLAME last time!!
You can tell Cain is scaring the libtards already
Romney was the most conservative of the lot once Fred Thompson bowed out, which isn’t saying much. I voted for Romney in the primary and didn’t like it at all.
Cain is awesome.
Great answer.
I was leaning towards Mitt in 2008. It wasn't like there were a lot of choices.
Cain’s support of Romney could’ve earned him a ZOT here on FR.
These kinds of threads just make me feel tired. Let’s not pick the nits of ‘08. ‘10 showed us we can win with the right temperament and the right message; I’d say Cain has a lot of both. I liked the guy even before the debate.