Cain has been vetted by those of us here in Georgia.The elites are scared of him and that tells us what we need to know.
Exactly...the “machines” I was JUST talking about, above.
He never held office in Georgia, so how could you "vet" him?
He ran for office, but lost with only 26% of the vote in a primary. Hopefully, that isn't what you meant by "vetted", because he'll need a bit more than that to win the nomination.
The other poster is right. Cain sounds good, but a lot of candidates sound good -- the argument is over their record in public office. Perry would sound like the perfect candidate if he wasn't talking about and explaining actions he took when he was a successful governor for 10 years.
Cain has some business executive experience, but not only is that entirely different from government executive experience, it also is private -- you have little visibility into the decisions he actually made.
A private executive, even one who runs a subsidiary like Cain started with and has to answer to superiors, is a dictatorship. As president, he made decisions, and they happened. He didn't have to compromise, didn't have to sell, didn't have to get someone to vote for most things. He may have had to convince a board of scared office-holders who thought their company was going under.
We already know that conservatives are scared to death of a President of the United States who acts like a dictator.
Anyway, "The elites are scared of him" is both a meaningless statement meant to sound serious but it isn't, and in fact it doesn't appear to even be true. Romney, who by any measure is the elite's candidate, LOVES Cain, and says nothing bad about him. I haven't seen any "elites" attacking Cain. Maybe they will later when he's the only candidate left other than Romney.
So, having "vetted" him in Georgia, how does Cain handle things when he has to compromise? We have no real evidence. We have ONE clue:
Cain supports the FairTax. Fairtax eliminates the income tax and replaces it with a sales tax. But Cain doesn't think we can pass the Fairtax. So before day one, before he even TRIES to push the plan he supports, he came up with a bastardized, hybrid version called "9-9-9", which he readily admits is sub-optimal, and is a compromise of what we CAN do. He hopes to get to the Fairtax later.
And then, within the 9-9-9 plan, whose biggest selling point is supposedly that we ALL have skin in the game, he exempted sales of used items, because the poor people can buy used things and not pay taxes. And then he added 'enterprize zones', where some preferred localities (based on I guess their ability to lobby for it) get to be tax-free, while their neighbors have to pay taxes.
This will "revililize" run-down places, but encouraging businesses to pull out of healthy, productive areas of the country and move to the places that couldn't support business. It rewards failure by giving it a tax break.
That is the ONE clue we have as to how Cain handles not being able to dictate his way.
Cain sounds great. He's a conservative talk show host on conservative radio, and he knows what his audience wants to hear, and so far as I can tell he truly believes everything he says. But we don't know how that will translate into governance, because he's never governed anything.