I didn’t say you hated Cain. I said it’s hateful, in light of his life experiences and accomplishments, to call him inexperienced and glib. Being a politician is not the only way to get experience, and who are you to write Mr. Cain off as glib? Those who know him best agree that he means what he says and says what he means.
Otoh, I agree w you. Cain doesn’t have the experience of bouncing around on a sofa w Pelosi, nor does he have the depth required to back a Dem loving Rino [Scozzafaza] over a good, solid tea party candidate. In both those senses, Gingrich is way ahead of Cain.
I’m talking about political experience and governing experience, of which Cain has none. He once unsuccessfully ran for office, and that’s it. As for the glibness, he’s somebody who has had his own radio show, and that’s simply one of the things that goes with the territory.
I don’t mean that he’s cynical and doesn’t believe the things that he says, but simply that he doesn’t always think before he speaks and things come out as sound-bites (which is precisely why he was so successful in the “debates”). Some of the worse ones, such as the electric fence on the border, he has had to walk back, but I think that if he actually does get to be the candidate, you’re going to see every blooper magnified to enormous proportions.
Gingrich did accomplish the “Contract with America,” btw, and was fine until dumped by the GOP when the Dems attacked him in revenge. Why he backed Scozzafava, I don’t know, and he should certainly be asked about this; IIRC, that was a very chaotic election for a variety of reasons. But by that token, why did Cain support Romney in the last GOP primaries?
As for sitting on the sofa with Pelosi, I can assure you that Cain would have done exactly the same thing if he had been invited to do so.