The only two viable alternatives to Cain are Romney and Perry. Both only have "public executive experience" as governors. Do you know how bad the history of governors becoming president in the last 100 years is? If people do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, the odds would be with them if they disqualified governors from being president.
“If people do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, the odds would be with them if they disqualified governors from being president.”
This must be the most ignorant remark in the entire thread, and we already had some doozies.
Governors are the ones who actually had experience in running a state — the US is just bigger and more complex. Whom do you want as president, Senators, diplomats, business executives? The problem with business executives is that they ARE dictators in their companies, if they don’t like someone, they can fire them, they can force people to implement their vision. A president is not a dictator — he has to work with Congress.
And as for Perry, he has a beyond excellent record as Texas governor for 11 years — he must be doing something right, people are flocking to Texas because that’s where the jobs are. We need him to do for the US what he did for Texas.
Cain’s wonderful business executive experience consisted of closing down Godfather Pizza places, cutting jobs, not creating them.
Herman Cain saved Godfather’s Pizza by ‘shuttering hundreds of restaurants’
Is America ready for The Herminator?
In a 40-year business career, perhaps his greatest feat was turning around the struggling Godfather’s Pizza chain, in part by closing numerous branches. He was also a board member of a major energy company when it was successfully sued by employees for nearly obliterating the pension fund on risky investments.
Ronald Reagan was a governor who became president — I think we all can agree that worked out. I also still believe George Bush was a very good President, and he was a governor.
And on the democrat side, Clinton who was a governor was much better a President than Obama, who wasn’t. Carter sucked.