The problem is people who make a career out of elective office. There is something seriously wrong with them and if we care at all about them, we need to help them by voting them out of office as soon as possible.
We need to go back to the George Washington model: he served his time in the military until the crisis was over and he went back to his real life. He served his time as president and then left politics and went back to his real life.
If I were in charge for one day, the first thing I would do is eliminate all pensions for elective office at all levels of government. Elective office is a duty that SHOULD (perhaps must?) be a sacrifice, not a gateway to the good life.
Our problems are due to career politicians like Perry, not career non-politicians like Herman Cain.
Instead of asking why someone like Herman Cain thinks they have a right to run for any political office, we should be asking why does anyone (including Rick Perry) think they should be able to spend their entire adult life in one political office after another?
We need fewer career politicians like Rick Perry, and more people that have never held office before like Herman Cain.
Career politicians are the problem, Rick Perry is a career politician, thus Perry is part of the problem.
How is making a blanket statement, relevant to Rick Perry's record?
It's a lazy argument.
Rick Perry hasn't spent his entire adult life in one political office or another, unless adulthood begins when you're 34 years old.
One of the best packaged marketing schemes is this notion that Herman Cain is a non-politician, an "outsider". Herman deserves a great deal of credit for selling that malarkey.
Herman Cain has been involved in national politics at least since 1996. He has run for national office in 2000, 2004, and now once again. Perry, who started at it in 1984, has more years of it under his belt, but ole Herman is doing his best to catch up! As a matter of fact, if Herman keeps at it for a while longer, we may be able to refer to him as a career candidate, the Ralph Nader of the 21st century! :)
Excellent idea. Let them contribute to a 401(k) like the rest of us who pull the load.
They wanted to make Washington king and he declined. Then they wanted to make him president for life and he declined that as well. The modern day examples of public "servants" who decline power offered to them are few and far between. J.Edgar Hoover was one.