Saying Cain has zero experience is, frankly, insulting. His experience is in the real world, the world of business where you actually have to produce results or you’re finished. This contrasts drastically with others who spend years in office presiding over deterioration without being held to account (for whatever reason). Again, what we’ve seen from these so-called experts has been an unheralded disaster. The Founding Fathers would’ve preferred those “amateurs” with little experience to the permanent political class we’ve had now for far too long. We’d all be better off.
Saying a plumber has “no experience” would I guess be “insulting”, but you wouldn’t hire a plumber to perform a heart transplant. Heck, you wouldn’t hire a pediatrician to perform a heart transplant.
Cain’s experience was in the private sector, where you produce products and focus on earnings, profits, and for most leaders but not Cain, growing your company. None of that applies to running a government, which doesn’t produce stuff, doesn’t earn anything, has no concept of “market share” and we certainly don’t want to “grow”.
It would be nice to have a president who understands business, but government is not a business, and would never be run like a business.
There are many people in office who are lousy, and we should get rid of them. There are jobs where you could well use an entry-level politician. Executive functions are not those jobs.
The Founding Fathers were part of the political class. They weren’t career politicians, because the concept of a full-time legislature was foreign, and should still be for the most part. But they were people with years of experience in the jobs that were political, while also having private employment.
I know WHAT is meant by “career politician”, but my point was that it doesn’t actually mean “people with experience”, it means “people who made a career out of BEING a politician, rather than people who ran for office to make a career out of fixing government and making our country stronger.
Herman Cain has shown little cause to believe he is prepared to do the job of President. His time a Godfather’s is wholly unapplicable to being President, as was his time leading the NRA lobbying group, or his time as a talk show host. He’s a motivational speaker with a couple of ideas and the ability to say what he knows people want to hear. He might actually be someone who would DO what he says, but since he has zero experience in public office, we have no idea.