Posted on 07/31/2020 6:26:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
TGIF, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing readers. I hope that the Fifth Month of March, 2020 is wrapping up well for all of you.
Before we get into the seedy stuff alluded to in the headline, I’d like to share a few thoughts about Herman Cain. Jeff has a longer post about Cain’s passing here, and I will probably be echoing some of his sentiments.
I first met Herman Cain in the fall of 2010 at a small luncheon when all of the Tea Party conference travel was really getting going. We were at so many of the same events that by 2011 we were joking about getting a tour bus and hitting the road together. Herman was an easy guy to joke around with. So many politicians — whether career or new to the game — take themselves far more seriously than most others do. Herman did not.
Herman Cain had a ready smile and it was genuine smile, not some cheesy “Give me your vote” kind of thing. He was just a good guy, and politics needs more of them.
For a brief while, there were discussions about me emceeing his campaign kickoff event in 2011, but, sadly, we couldn’t work that out. After all of the Tea Party fun died down at the end of 2012 I never saw Cain again, much to my chagrin now.
When I awoke yesterday to the news of Cain’s passing I did the dumbest thing I could have done under the circumstances: I hit social media. I merely wanted to express my condolences. The coffee hadn’t kicked in enough yet to help me remember that leftists are classless animals whenever conservatives die. Maybe I just block it out in between the deaths of prominent conservatives.
Twitter was an absolute cesspool of Cain-bashing.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I’m bummed about the passing of “Hoyman”.
Mr. Cain was a brilliant administrator...............he would have made a brilliant president.
Which is why he was not allowed to be.
In the demoncrats eyes, he is an Uncle Tom. It is alright to criticize him now that he is dead.
The loss of Herman Cain inadvertently creates an interesting juxtaposition.
There is much wailing and rending of garments over the canonized John Lewis who is , we’re told, as a *Civil Rights icon*. How, exactly, did he earn this lofty monicker? By marching 60 years ago. When you are both black and a democrat, it’s pretty easy to qualify for hero status (See Booker, Spartacus). What else has he done during his 128 years of slopping at the public trough? How many jobs did he create to lift black people out of poverty?
CNNMSNBCFNCCNBCNYTWPCBSABCNBC are not mourning the loss of boot-strapper Herman Cain. Apparently, he was non-iconic.
I have yet to hear a single person who had the good fortune to know Herman describe him as anything other than remarkably and consistently *kind* to all.
What did Herman Cain do to help black people? He created jobs. Crap tons of jobs, at every level, from minimum wage to upper corporate. *That’s* how you lift people out of poverty and keep them up. Having a job is the most enduring self-esteem builder. It creates confidence and a sense of purpose. There is a lot of psychology behind why even a minimum wage job is healthier than government assistance.
Once again, the MSM is throwing all of its adoration at the wrong black guy.
Just drove by RBG's house.
Dirtbag psychopaths/criminals/collectivists have no regard for individuals...their property or their lives. Right “you didn’t build that”/ “bitter clingers” Barry?
Christian. Conservative. African American. Successful.
Of course they have to destroy him.
And yet the same (Atlanta regional mass media) press corpse that just spent hundreds of hours eulogizing and monotonously praising Rep John Lewis as a “civil right icon” are just as near-totally-silent ignoring Herman Cain - who started as a local Atlanta radio talk show host!
And a man I full, a good American.
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