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Report: Cain voted for Clinton
Washington Times ^ | 11/01/2011 | Seth McLaughlin

Posted on 11/01/2011 8:55:31 PM PDT by txroadkill

Edited on 11/01/2011 8:56:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Georgia; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: arkansas; cain; cainwuzaclintonista; clinton; clintonvotercain; democrat; exdemocratcain; georgia; hermancain; illraisetaxes; maybealittleblow; mymuslimfaith; nebraska; rinocain; wilinskied
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To: savagesusie

Well, I voted for Mondale, you know the guy who stated at the Democrat convention that he would raise taxes? I didn’t actually see him make that statement when he made it but I say a clip of him saying that.

My excuse was I was young, voting for the first time in my life and because I’m black, I was supposed to vote for Democrats because Republicans hated black people.

What happened? I became a Christian, learned what the DemocRATS stood for and soon after, registered as a Republican and voted that way ever since.


61 posted on 11/01/2011 9:34:36 PM PDT by Sister_T ("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
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To: txroadkill

Rut row.


62 posted on 11/01/2011 9:34:49 PM PDT by BAW (I'm a 53 percenter.)
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To: txhurl

I am well versed in the whole “Cain loves Romney” BS from the Perrybots, thanks.


63 posted on 11/01/2011 9:35:52 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Cain 2012 - http://teamcain.hermancain.com)
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To: Kirkwood

He supported Gore in a primary. So his support did absolutely NOTHING to help a democrat out against a republican in an election. And his “support” appears to have been mostly lending his name as a low-level democratic politician; like those “honorary chair” positions candidates like to tout to help them get in-state donations.

I doubt Cain was instrumental in getting Clinton elected over Bush. Perot and his followers are mostly to blame for that one. And Bush. I don’t think either really matters — just glad to have Cain on our side now. But by any standard, supporting a democrat in a presidential election in the 1990s is “worse” than supporting a democrat in a presidential primary in the 1980s.

Also note that, for those who said Perry was way too old for a “come to your senses” argument, Cain was a lot older when he became a republican than Perry was.


64 posted on 11/01/2011 9:37:14 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: txroadkill
Greg Marmalard: "But Herman Cain's already on probation, sir."

Dean Vernon Wormer: "He is? Well, as of this moment, Herman Cain is on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!"

65 posted on 11/01/2011 9:37:58 PM PDT by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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To: parksstp

The article says that campaign manager Gordon is the source of the information. And that Cain turned Republican by 1996.

That was the year he started lobbying for the National Restaurant Association.


66 posted on 11/01/2011 9:39:36 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: justsaynomore

It’s not what issues he discusses. It’s his “I could support Romney, but I could never support Perry” comments. And his “Romney would be a good choice for President”, and his “I’d love to be Romney’s VP”, and his campaign’s announcement that they were going to target conservatives and leave Romney alone, so they were the last conservatives standing and all the conservatives would have to support him or else.

Of course, I’m not sure Cain has really “attacked” Romney on anything other than Romneycare.


67 posted on 11/01/2011 9:40:24 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mnehring

Thank you for that clarification. I’d like to see this from the campaign, not 3rd-hand. On the other hand, I don’t think it matters (other than it should shut up the people attacking Perry, where I also don’t think it matters).


68 posted on 11/01/2011 9:41:43 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: South40

I’m beginning to think that Cain’s problem is his staff.

Did Gordon really admit that Cain has only been a Republican for 15 years?


69 posted on 11/01/2011 9:41:54 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

McGovern
Carter
Mondale
Dukakis
Clinton

Candidates I voted for, until I saw the light in 1994 and became a conservative.


70 posted on 11/01/2011 9:42:37 PM PDT by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: txroadkill

I voted for Clinton too. Not going to judge the man for that, there was a time when the Democratic Party was not communist.


71 posted on 11/01/2011 9:44:58 PM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: CSI007

1989 vs sometimes between 1993 and 1996. And Cain is 66, Perry is 61. Looks like Perry, for all his faults, is a faster learner than Cain.


72 posted on 11/01/2011 9:45:32 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: txroadkill

Holy Crap! We hve no one to vote for, Nobody at all. DOOM.


73 posted on 11/01/2011 9:45:43 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: smoothsailing

Does this mean that Cain voted against Ronald Reagan in the ‘80’s?


74 posted on 11/01/2011 9:47:12 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

But that’s because Perry has been focused on one thing — sinking Romney.


Actually Perry has been much more focused on sinking zero. I
imagine he was a bit baffled to start taking hits from fellow conservatives who NEVER TOOK, OR TAKE, A SERIOUS SHOT at zero.

I’m talking kill wounds - that’s how you do it in real hunting if you really have a target in your sights. Perry’s having help from Real Governors of Real States containing Real People who want to erase Obama, and he’s taking flack from his own ‘side’.


75 posted on 11/01/2011 9:47:26 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish? Or feed the fish?)
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To: justsaynomore

It is now, although oddly I was alive in 1994, and I don’t remember that being the reason for hillarycare going down in flames. It was the Harry & Loise commercial, produced by Health Insurance industry.

I know Wikipedia isn’t the best source in the world for anything political, but in a reasonable discussion about Hillarycare and it’s demise, it says this: “Opposition to the Clinton plan was initiated by William Kristol and his policy group Project for the Republican Future, which is widely credited with orchestrating the plan’s ultimate defeat through a series of now legendary “policy memos” faxed to Republican leaders.[17] “

It does mention Cain’s question as an important turning point as well: “One key turning point against the Clinton plan was a televised town hall meeting in April 1994. During the event, President Clinton was challenged by businessman Herman Cain on the resulting effects on small businesses.”

And it also mentions Harry and Louise: “The effort also included extensive advertising criticizing the plan, including the famous Harry and Louise ad paid for by the Health Insurance Association of America, which depicted a middle-class couple despairing over the plan’s complex, bureaucratic nature.”

I’ve taken the claims crediting Cain with ending Hillarycare as typical campaign rhetoric.


76 posted on 11/01/2011 9:49:14 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: txroadkill

Interesting information on the Journalist(sic)/blogger that the Washington Times cites.
http://objectiveconservative.blogspot.com/2011/05/nebraska-watch-dog-joe-jordans-yellow.html

What is interesting in this if you read near the bottom was in the race that is cited, he is accused of making up quotes by Bruning’s (Senate Candidate) finance chairman David Sokol... Hmmm...

..and just one more interesting point, look at what other site Jordan writes for.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/author/joe-jordan


77 posted on 11/01/2011 9:51:38 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: txroadkill; smoothsailing; South40
Evidently, this was no secret: http://missouri-news.org/midwest-news/nebraska/cain-voted-for-bill-clinton/10262

What you might not know is that just 17 months earlier Cain was on Clinton’s side. Ten days after he confronted the President, Cain told this reporter (at the time Cain was living in Omaha and I was reporting for KMTV the CBS affiliate in Omaha) that, while he was embarrassed to admit it, on Election Day, 1992 Cain had voted for the Clinton-Gore ticket.

And it’s not as if Cain had jumped on a Nebraskans for Clinton bandwagon. Most of the state opposed Clinton, who only managed to pick up 29 per cent of the vote (Bush 47-Clinton 29-Perot 24).

78 posted on 11/01/2011 9:51:50 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: chris_bdba

I voted for Perot, maybe I should be in prison. LOL


79 posted on 11/01/2011 9:52:26 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MaxMax

Or an insane asylum.. :-)


80 posted on 11/01/2011 9:54:53 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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