[Minus_The_Bear]

Actually the article does... Herman Cain says how it would be wonderful for citizens to hold preferred stock of the banks. He also tells "free market purists" to "hush."

Now, he can play John Kerry & say "I was for it before I was against it."

Or he can lie and say he never wrote it and he doesn't even know what TARP is.

Neither are going to work.

[Brookhaven]

At the end of the day, the TARP attacks agains Cain will also end up being a net positive for him.

Cain is bound to be attacked eventually by his opponents as a “right-wing, tea-party ideologue”—someone that simply parrots the tea party line without thought. This attack would have some weight with voters, because after four years of having a left-wing ideologue in charge, Americans will be wary of putting another ideologue of any stripe into the White House.

Cain can point to his TARP “support” to counter any charges that he is a right-wing ideolouge (easing the minds of voters wary of ideologues of any kind), and instead make the case that he has came to his positions long before the tea party arrived via serious study of the American economic system (which also has the advantage of being true).

By accusing Cain of having a pragmatic side instead of being a total ideological purist, the Paulanistas have inadvertantly adied Cain.

[Sarabaracuda]

Herman Cain is more conservative than Barack Obama.