You know nothing about Herman Cain if you think that. Suggest you find out for yourself, not let media talking heads tell you what to think about him. Your statement about Cain is nonsense.
2. Anyone who proposes introducing a national sales tax is not conservative.
3. Most people, but not Cain, apparently, know full well that corporations pay no tax. Any levy is simply passed on to the consumer.
4. His plan includes "empowerment zones" which is another way of saying someone in the government will be deciding who gets an advantage over someone else. Cain has not explained who is in these zones or who decides.
5. Cain is a past chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, and has said that the Fed doesn't need auditing, that they already have been audited, and that any audit would tell us nothing. That was before Bloomberg News discovered the $16 trillion secret bailout total.
6. Cain claimed as late as September 1, 2008, that the economy was on solid ground. This was even after the housing bubble had burst.
7. Cain pronounced TARP a "win-win" for taxpayers. His main concern is that the government bailed out some banks and not others.
8. Cain's publicly named economic advisor, Rich Lowry, is a managing director of a Wells Fargo branch, which WF received $25 billion in TARP funds. Oh, and another $169 billion in secret loans from the Fed.
I just don't see a conservative there.