Posted on 10/27/2011 8:36:44 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign.
Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire and Iowa, they said, spending the bulk of his time on a book tour through the South. He occasionally mishandled potential big donors or ignored real voters. His campaign churned through the small staff; last week, his campaign announced the appointment of the veteran campaigner Steve Grubbs, his third Iowa leader in four months.
Even bumper stickers have been hard to come by.
And then there was that e-mail to the staff about traveling in a car with Mr. Cain: “Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to,” the memo said.
“I found it odd,” said a former staff member who liked to prep Mr. Cain for appearances while driving. The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, quit not long afterward, citing the e-mail as one of the deciding factors.
Mr. Cain’s campaign has generated much promise since it began over the summer. A former business executive rises improbably from anonymity to the top of the polls, using the strength of his speechmaking, folksy charm and catchy policy plans.
But Mr. Cain’s campaign may have undermined itself with questionable decisions and a series of missteps, which have led to the impression that the candidate lacks focus and preparation.
Mr. Cain has made several contradictory, and sometimes befuddling, remarks on abortion and foreign policy, which have forced him to spend days clarifying and defending himself.
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The NY Times is a lying worthless rag. Not a reporter worth a damn in that propaganda house.
Top of the polls Chaos!
If you’re comparing closing a couple of underperforming stores just so you can continue selling bad pizza to the success of Apple or Amazon, I don’t think you understand business...
Let’s just admit you did not bother to actually read the article and instead are merely desperately spining for any excuse to attack Cain.
Jerkymiester,
You really need to try harder. You are a Troll. You read the NYT daily, and you love it.
““I found it odd,” said a former staff member who liked to prep Mr. Cain for appearances while driving. The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, quit not long afterward, citing the e-mail as one of the deciding factors.”
Sure that email wasn’t directed just at you? Maybe your “prep” was stupid.
The racists at the OLD gray “lady”(term used very loosely) make up stuff about a black man whom they fear. Same old tired playbook.
Well,that’s a nice little threat (I’ll remember that)..still the same..it was a “tea party” member in TN that set the banquet-fund-raiser up for Mr Cain..and according to the “tea party” member Cain walked away from $2.500 donations. Smart-very smart.
No, I was talking about someone else.
Well BYE!
Wow, way to “spin” that. LOL
It looked like a miscommunication between the event organizers and someone on Cain’s staff to me. You made it sound like he walked away on purpose.
Didn’t they print the same thing about Palin only changed the names
I think it’s interesting how several of the “names” in the article now work for other candidates (Gingrich, Bachmann, Santorum) Not exactly “objective” lol
Go to the link and read the entire article.
It points out that Herman Cain has a nerd mindset, which is the same mindset the people that started today’s internet businesses have.
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Hoo Boy! THAT was one fast zot.
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