True, but he's also benefitting from the fact, that conservatives hate Romney, Bachman is dropping like a rock, and Perry stumbled badly in the debates, and the media was focusing on attacking him. He benefits off of this, and because he sounds very conservative. He can also be a vessel for people looking for someone who talks the talk, and has no record to disprove that they don't walk the walk. Lucky for him.
Since then I've noticed that Herman Cain fears no one to the right of him and seems to cherish the fight with those he considers to be to his left(politically speaking).
Not sure about that, he backtracked with the muslims, and he got caught up in some "miscommunication" on the abortion issue. I can't say he fears no one to his right, he hasn't had a whole lot of conservatives to really battle with. At least viable serious candidates.
Do you think that Herman Cain is the (CAIN+PALIN) express because of his conservative values? Its a good question, he's got a great record of talking like a conservative, but he has never, governed like one, in fact, outside of his speeches, there is no record that he is a conservative, just his own words. We assume he has our values, because he says he does, and there is no record that can contradict it, but there is also no record to verify it, and he has never had to be tested on how committed he is to those values.
Can Herman Cain win if Palin won't endorse a candidate in the primaries?
Anything is possible, but I don't think its likely, I think he may be this years Steve Forbes, so to speak.
Do you believe Herman Cain has proven to be equal or better than Palin as a conservative?
No, Palin was an experienced politician, she was a councilwoman, a mayor, and a governor, and she was and still is an outsider.
Cain is a former central banker who used to work for the Fed, supported TARP, and was also the senior economic advisor to Bob Doles presidential campaign. He has no governing record, and he has never had to put his commitment to his values to any kind of test, but he has been involved in the most establishment wing of the GOP, and was thought highly enough by Dole and Kemp to be given that kind of job.
Finally, Why as Herman Cain risen so fast while Perry has plunged in the polls?
Because Perry debates about as well as Obama runs an economy, and he sounds mighty soft in illegal immigration, which is much worse, then say supporting TARP in the eyes of voters, plus, Perry talks the conservative line, but has a pretty long political record, that can be combed, and a couple of misteps, Cain, has no record, so he can be a blank slate, to project on, what we want (and he'll tell you he is it).
Being conservative is not only possible outside of holding political office, it is the statistical norm. Cain dropped a million of his own dollars into the promotion of prolife values. And he has lived his life according to the principles of meritocracy, not gimme-ocracy. That is the root of fiscal conservatism. The only area in which he is truly untested, IMHO, is foreign policy. But inasmuch as his life has been lived, on the record, as one who genuinely treasures his country, that puts him light years ahead of the current occupant of the WH.
I remember another blank slate in 2008, and now he has just about ruined the country.
Also Cain was once a inside the DC beltway lobbyist, now he plays the role of an outsider.
Well stated!
Except for the record of two interviews. I discount the CNN/Morgan interview because you can sense the antagonism in Morgan, even in a transcript, and he did try to twist the question into another issue. But the Stossel and MacCallum interviews demonstrate that Cain is either ignorant of the clear semantics of decades of discussion of the topic, or he's fence-straddling and pandering, or in the clinches some of his own contradictions slip through, or they're his true feelings. Any way you slice that pie, I don't care for it.
And lest anyone say I am passing on "smears" -- here are the interviews for your own eyes and ears to judge:
Stossel interview discussed here, with transcript: http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/vander-plaats-on-cain’s-abortion-stance-“sounds-like-john-kerry-in-2004”/
MacCallum interview here: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/21/herman-cain-in-new-interview-abortion-should-not-be-legal/