Herman Cain Losing Some Steam

LATimes ^ | October 29, 2011 | Robin Abcarian

[Steelfish]

Herman Cain Losing Some Steam His troubles began once he vaulted into the top tier of Republican candidates, after introducing his 9-9-9 tax plan and winning a straw poll. Now his blunders on abortion, immigration and foreign policy have left political observers scratching their heads.

Herman Cain's blunders have been blamed by his spokesman on fatigue, the fast pace of the campaign and the media taking some answers “out of context.”

By Robin Abcarian October 28, 2011 For months, Herman Cain floated under the radar as other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination were poked, prodded and scrutinized by a voracious national media.

A businessman with no elective office experience, Cain could say anything he wanted — and did — because few were paying attention.

Then Cain unleashed his catchy 9-9-9 tax reform plan. He won a straw poll in Florida and vaulted into the top tier, tying or besting front-runner Mitt Romney in some polls.

That, paradoxically, is when Cain's trouble began.

His statements about abortion seemed contradictory. An electrified border fence: joke or no joke? He fumbled a softball question about negotiating with Al Qaeda. He mocked Uzbekistan, calling it "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan."

[onyx]

[ken21]

they hope.

[sodpoodle]

Labor pains during the birth of a campaign.

[Jet Jaguar]

Romney=Gun Grabber

[richardtavor]

He is not losing strength, he is gaining it...this ass is another hit job, only because he is in the lead..

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“NOT”.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Robin at the La La Times just trying to keep the useful idiots’ spirits up.

[Maceman]

Herman Cain Losing Some Steam

Not as much steam as Obama has lost.

And Romney has no steam. He's just chugging along barely keeping his pace.

[South40]

[Yaelle]

Bite me, Slimes. You wish he was losing steam. They do not use ANY of this kind of scrutiny on Obama. Cain mocked Uzbekistan? Sheesh. What about Obama mocking england with those gifts, and blabbing all through GD Save the Queen? What about him disrespecting the language they speak in Austria? We need to just call them the ObaMedia.

[Castigar]

Wishful thinking.

[onyx]

To: FReepers; everyone; All

PLEASE DONATE

[cripplecreek]

Because everybody needs toucan stubs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uE5xZKszXMQ

[WalterSkinner]

..raising something like $ 3 million in October is not losing steam, fishwrap...

[MrEdd]

Early enough in the race for.more.runners, but Cain is the most steady conservative with no history of leftwing cause defections.

Newts cap and trade thing with Pelosi was unacceptable though it wasnt as bad as the litany of betrayals from the Romney/Perry twins.

Santorum has failed to gain traction and Bachmann can’t think on her feet.

Ron Paul is a whackjob and Huntsman is a Romney Redux.

Cain would have to do something way out of character for Newt to overtake him, but Romney and Perry have.peaked so it is pretty much Newt/Cain race now.

[onyx]

^5

[50cal Smokepole]

The only steam being lost is from the stinking pile of dung of this urianlist.

[Kartographer]

The same people who were too 'lazy' to investigate 'bammy' now want to 'phone-in' their stories for 2012 Presidential Race. They can only do that if it's Mitt and 'bammy'. That means there is no room in their plans for a candidate like Herman Cain.

The 'Lamestream' media, the rino's, inside the beltway boys and political pundits of all stripes have NEVER saw Cain as a viable candidate. There has been nothing but a solid stream of reasons coming from them since he announced as to why Cain couldn't be taken seriously, why Cain can't win, and as those reasons grew thinner in substance or fell apart all together they have been forced again and again to find more and different reasons as to why Cain can't win.

Why do they continue to derail Cain even as he defeats their arguments against him? There are any number of reason, he is not a member of the insiders club for one, he’s not a known career politician for another, but mostly these people just don’t understand a man like Herman Cain. Not that it is entirely their fault, because men like Herman Cain are so rare these days, men of real integrity.

It’s been at least 30 years since the ‘Lamestream’ Media has had to deal with some of Cain’s stripe and they are completely out of their depths in trying to understand him, just as much now as they were then. I am not saying Herman Cain is the next Ronald Reagan, but he and Reagan share common traits and characteristic, which are far beyond these types to understand. Herman Cain who truly was until recently a virtual unknown had faith enough in himself to decide to run for President of the United States on his own. There was no Media hype/pressure/build-up about a possible run, there was no urging by members of the Party, no words spoken into his ear by party players, elites, beltway boys or pundits, not even a word of encouragement from the Republican Party of his home state only faith in himself.

And time and time again Herman Cain has shown just what kind of man he is. Is he without faults? Hardly! No man is without his faults, but one measure of a man is how he faces his faults and Herman not only faces his faults, but admits to them, learns from them, teaches others from then and lastly he laughs at himself over them and it takes a man who is truly sure in himself to be able to laugh at their own mistakes. Considering the great numbers of skeptics on this forum I am sure there will be a good number of FReepers who will find this post funny and stupid, but here goes: I think one of the reasons people support Herman and why so many skeptics can’t see Cain for what he is can be summed up in the following lines from the 2003 movie 'Secondhand Lions'

Hub: "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

In Herman Cain we see a good man, an honorable man, a man that has made his mark through his own effort and owes no one other than God and his Parents for his success. We see a man who did not seek money and power, but achieved them and a yet they clearly hold no sway over him.

Maybe we are foolish and gullible, maybe we have all seen ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ one to many times and now think that Good really can triumph over evil. The skeptics, naysayers, elitist,'Lamestream’ media types don’t believe in anything but there are still some of us, many of us that choose to believe, because those are things worth believing in.

[richardtavor]

Idiotic hit piece. I thought that his comments about abortion were crystal clear, but t baby killers, it would be confusing...this twerp did a hit piece..