Report: Cain voted for Clinton

Washington Times ^ | 11/01/2011 | Seth McLaughlin

[txroadkill]

A new report claims that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain voted for Democrat Bill Clinton for president in his first run, as well as for two Nebraska Democratic candidates in the past.

In a story on the Nebraska Watchdog website, Joe Jordan writes that Mr. Cain supported Mr.Clinton during his 1992 presidential bid, 17 months before he squared off with Mr. Clinton over his push to overhaul the national health care system.

[Antoninus]

Good grief, what's next? Herman Cain tipped a waitress 13% once? Herman Cain leaves the toilet seat up? Herman Cain once stuck gum on the underside of a church pew?

This all out attack means but one thing--the establishment is entering panic mode.

[max americana]

Don’t be “heartless’...

[CharlesWayneCT]

If true, it doesn’t matter. Although it should shut up the anti-Perry folks who complain about him being a democrat in the 1980s, especially given that the last democrat president HE voted for was Carter in 1976.

[BillyBoy]

>> In 1992 Clinton was more conservative than GHW Bush. <<

Oh, dear. A Perrybot must have stumbled on this thread and misread the headline as "Report: PERRY voted for Clinton". They will soon be posting a primer for us "non-Texans"

;-)

[smoothsailing]

I’m complimenting Cain for becoming a Republican. Why should that bother you?

[mr_griz]

I didn't vote for him, but I definitely remember admiring a guy who could run 1 mile from the Governors mansion to McDonalds, swing by a girlfriends house for a little woohoo, then run a mile back to the Governors mansion.

I remember saying to myself "a man with that kind of stamina might make a great president"

[justsaynomore]

Cain has donated less than $2000 to Democrats (2 in Nebraska, 1 in NY) and over $350,000 to Republicans.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

And I was a registered Democrat and voted for Jerry Brown in the ‘92 primary. We all do stupid things in life. Live and learn.

[El Cid]

Hah!
Now this IS a scandal with legs.... Ewwww, voted for a Clinton. How could he? (by the way, what happened to secret ballots?)
Oh well, repent ye sinners. I'll chock it up too youthful indiscretions - if true...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Don’t we have secret ballots in America?

Just saying.

[smoothsailing]

I know what you mean, I started out liking Cain.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I missed that. So I guess maybe this is an admission that he supported Clinton?

In the hillarycare video where Cain complains to Clinton about how the law would hurt restaurants, he does start by thanking Bill Clinton for tackling the national problem of health care. I have called that just another example of being polite before getting your message across. I’m guessing hillarycare wasn’t the only thing that would have turned Cain away from Clinton though.

[justsaynomore]

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrTa8C_Pl4

I assume you know that exchange between Cain and Clinton is credited as the beginning of the end of Hillarycare.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It is harder to feel bad for him, after his disgraceful attack on Perry when he called him “insensitive to blacks” over the rock story. Perry is being much more graceful on Cain’s current problems.

But that’s because Perry has been focused on one thing — sinking Romney. Cain on the other hand has an announced strategy of tearing down all the other conservatives, and leaving Romney alone. Because that will make all the supporters of the guys he attacks support Cain instead — it’s the “last man on the sinking ship” strategy.

[katiedidit1]

Well IF Rainbow Push Coalition could support Cain...guess Cain could support Clinton.

[txhurl]

Well, Cain’s affinity for Romney and aversion to Perry is well-documented here. If you really want proof of that, stick around.

[justsaynomore]

Cain said the same thing in an interview not that long ago that it was the mid 90s that he became a Republican (Kemp had a positive influence on him)

This is not news, he’s mentioned it in at least one interview that I know of.

[potlatch]

I find this so funny after all the flack we’ve had about Perry and Gore [twenty three years ago].
I’m heading to bed. - Also, hope you saw this;

JimRob - I like Perry just fine.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2800991/posts?page=409#409

[ConservativeMind]

So what? My mother voted for Clinton too, and she became so incensed with his policies in the first six months of the first term that she switched to being a rabid conservative to the right of even me. My guess is that he learned from that.

Remember, too, that Bill was the first black president.

[katiedidit1]

Clinton is as much of a nut job as Gore and it was Clinton that chose Gore to run as his VP!!!