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Why America Needs Herman Cain
American Thinker ^ | October 10, 2011 | Ed Kaitz

Posted on 10/10/2011 7:51:37 PM PDT by neverdem

Niccolò Machiavelli once said that "the man who adapts his course of action to the nature of the times will succeed, and likewise, the man who sets his course of action out of tune with the times will come to grief."

What I'd like to argue in this essay is that based on the current "nature of the times" in America, Herman Cain must be the GOP nominee for president. In fact, Cain's nomination represents what could be the last and best opportunity Americans have to pry our battered country out from the clutches of the increasingly strident, divisive, and Marxist pro-Obama Democrat left.

Conversely, if the nomination goes to Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, it will simply confirm my suspicion that the GOP base is absolutely clueless when it comes to appreciating the unique contours of the American left's long-term strategy to undermine our nation's constitutional heritage and disposition.

The left has successfully poisoned any possibility for a white conservative to attract enough minority voters on a platform based on America's colorblind founding principles. Even a Romney or Perry victory, in other words, will leave America as viciously divided as ever and will merely set the stage for more Republican compromise with political opponents who rarely if ever compromise.

Martin Luther King, in his 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail," said that when the "disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best in the American dream and the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage." In addition, said King, "[black people] were carrying our whole nation back to those great walls of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."

King's early Tea Party proclivities don't...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; cain; dartmouth; debate; hannity; hermanator; hermancain; mittsworried; nomination; perrysworried
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To: 1010RD

Pizza man for Prez. Yeah Baby.

His great plan. Instead of two for the price of one Pizza .
You get 3 taxes for the price of 6. An offer you can’t refuse. And WE”LL BE BAAACK for more.

Double the taxes on Milk and bread. That’s the ticket.


101 posted on 10/12/2011 6:43:47 AM PDT by marty60
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To: marty60

your speculations are just so much blathering drivel.

Since Cain is unique and unprecedented to suggest he will not reach the American people with his message is baseless


102 posted on 10/12/2011 6:44:20 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
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To: bert

Don Quixote
Tilting at windmills.


103 posted on 10/12/2011 7:00:00 AM PDT by marty60
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To: bert

Cain is HARDLY unique. He is a product of the giant mega corporation Pillsbury.

Even worked for a Company that join ENRON in it’s giant energy scam.

He’s not unique just more of the same con men running scams on the American people.


104 posted on 10/12/2011 7:03:00 AM PDT by marty60
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To: marty60

Weak ad hominem attacks won’t cut it. Think of the benefits of a NST.


105 posted on 10/12/2011 7:48:06 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: marty60

HHS is unique as a candidate
Those of us who are pro business and not Anti favor a businesmN over a politico

It is just silly to cond Cain for excelling

To do so is to endorse left win mediocrity


106 posted on 10/12/2011 11:01:37 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
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