“For the most part, the only conservatives who will vote for him are those who harbor some deep-seated racial guilt and want to satiate it by voting for a black conservative.”
Interestingly, your viewpoint focuses on conservatives’ guilt about race, but your analysis itself focuses on race to the exclusion of other factors. Conservatives who, like me, are tired of seeing businesses get marginalized in our society will vote for Cain, absent any considerations of race whatsoever, and your analysis, which attempts to highlight other parties’ focus on race, actually reveals a myopic focus on race within itself.
‘“For the most part, the only conservatives who will vote for him are those who harbor some deep-seated racial guilt and want to satiate it by voting for a black conservative.”
Interestingly, your viewpoint focuses on conservatives’ guilt about race, but your analysis itself focuses on race to the exclusion of other factors. Conservatives who, like me, are tired of seeing businesses get marginalized in our society will vote for Cain, absent any considerations of race whatsoever, and your analysis, which attempts to highlight other parties’ focus on race, actually reveals a myopic focus on race within itself.’
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So you are voting for Cain because he is a businessman. And you have a great idea how he is going to govern because...he told you. How myopic is that? A first time politician tells you what he is going to do and you believe him. Even if you are right, what evidence do you have that Herman Cain’s experience in business transfers into competence as President? That is three gigantic leaps of faith (believing that a first time politician can be elected President, AND believing that he means what he says AND believing that he can actually do what he says) that I am unwilling to take in 2012 when the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.
I can’t fathom how anyone would repose that kind of trust in an untested first time politician. It is either gross naivete, racial guilt (as I suggested above) or the intent to promote another candidate (such as Romney) by trying to steer as much of the conservative vote as possible away from a candidate who can win both the nomination and the election and who has a splendid track record of doing exactly what she says....Sarah Palin.