He may have voted for Clinton...I don’t care.
He showed up when it mattered...during Clinton’s Town Hall on Hillarycare, and utterly destroyed Clinton. That was before Dole had his turn at bat.
That was my first introduction to Herman Cain, and I’m glad it wasn’t my last.
In my copy of Gore: A Political Life by Bob Zelnick is the story of the politician's redo when he hit the national scene.Gone was the gun-toting pro-life Tennessean; behold the gun control, abortion-defending metro-eunuch.
And when did Zelnick risk opprobium by outing Al, Jr.? 1999.
The tantalizing but too-brief biography of Bill Clinton by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Boy Clinton: The Political Biography was not until 1996.
One might contrast Al Gore of that day with Dan Quayle, of DePauw that school down the road with its high opinion of itself.
Surely his wife gave me the ice-cold glare when I complimented her for his February 28, 1998, Biloxi, Mississippi speech to 1,600 Southern Republicans calling for a "tough, new Three-Interns and You're Out policy."
And George Herbert Pluperfect had boldly commanded us to read his lips--all he was saying was he was leaving Iraq, humiliating Schwarzkopf but caving to Democrats in Congress.
So, in a strictly weak-horse, strong-horse format, Herman Cain might have been persuaded nearly twenty years ago before Waco, and Vince, and all the sex and treason.
As surely as Rick might have gone for the Tennessee flannel-shirt Gore before he became the metro-dweeb (and long before he became the Adductor Muscle of Doom).
Kierkegaard not Professor Peabody: we live life forward, see it in reverse--
But Cain or Perry, we shall beat Mitt Romney, beat Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., and save the Republic.
I would stipulate the Herman Cain who gave better than he got from Slick Willie HillaryCare Salesman was an enlightened man.
Just as I would guarantee the Rick Perry who practically begged Federal border enforcement from Obama and was sneered at owes nothing to the Gore supporter of the 'Eighties.
Ronald Reagan's great reply to Sam Toupee Donaldson's "Mr. President, you blame Congress for the current situation--does any blame fall on you?"
"Yes, because I was once a Democrat."