Replies

You’re right, but I still don’t know who it is that they fear. Perry has some good ideas but unfortunately he’s not very good at presenting them in the face of a hostile audience. Texas likes him , but most people there are basically on the same page, be they Anglo or Hispanic, and therefore he’s not used to attacks and misunderstandings.

So I don’t think the Dems are worried about Perry. But I don’t really think they’re worried about Cain, either, because while he is a glib speaker (he had his own radio program, after all), he doesn’t have the substance to really make a difference.

Nobody examined Bambi on his substance, and he wasn’t even glib (he’s a terrible speaker) but his melanin protected him from examination by Democrats. In the case of Cain, his melanin will not protect him and the Dems will do what they did with Clarence Thomas: they’ll say he’s not “really” black, even though their boy Bambi has nothing in common with the black American experience and should NOT be referred to as “African American.” The child of a well-off white hippie and a foreign African graduate student has nothing to do with the US black experience.

So then they will start to grill Cain and he won’t hold up because his area of knowledge is pretty limited and he also seems to be somewhat gaffe-prone. His mouth gets in motion before his mind gets in gear, just like Biden.

In any case, my feeling is that he wants to be Romney’s VP, which might work because while Romney doesn’t know anything outside of being a big deficit spending governor of an NE state, he seems to really impress the GOP bosses. Romney is probably equally ignorant on foreign affairs, but that doesn’t seem to matter to his fans.

However, I don’t think Romney having Cain as a VP would draw in enough conservatives to make a difference. Right now, we’re hearing mostly from the very vocal Cain supporters, who probably recently transferred from Palin, but I don’t think enough people would vote for VP to get Romney a win - we voted for VP in the last election and it didn’t work.

Just my opinion, of course, and probably wrong as usual. But I say this as a veteran of several campaigns. People of all kinds and conditions were enthusiastic about W, who is a good speaker in person but does lousy press conferences. But nobody I know likes Romney and nobody I know (including me) would work for him.

That said, I’m still not sure who it is that the Dems are really worried about.