Posted on 08/10/2003 5:35:44 PM PDT by Engine82
POLITICS: Raising Cain Herman Cain, candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, may be the national Democratic Party's worst nightmare.
Cain has been described as a Ronald Reagan clone. The first words on his Web site are: "People make better decisions about their lives than government." A former adviser to Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes, he favors low taxes. He wants to privatize Social Security. He would scrap income taxes, replacing them with a national sales tax.
The most obvious difference between him and Reagan is that Cain is an American of African descent, and that presents a dilemma for Democrats.
Zell Miller is retiring. Democrats need to hold that seat if they are to have any chance of winning control of the Senate next year -and that will be difficult if many blacks bolt the party to support Cain.
Of course, Cain isn't assured of getting the GOP nomination. He isn't yet well known and his three opponents include the popular U.S. Rep. Johnny Isakson, whose record is as conservative as Cain's rhetoric.
Still, Cain has an agenda certain to resonate with Georgia voters -and, as a regular on the motivational speaking circuit, he obviously has some skills that could be helpful during the campaign.
Cain would be an excellent role model if he goes to Capitol Hill -a chauffeur's son who got an education, worked hard to prove himself competent and, as a CEO, nursed a failing Godfather's Pizza back to health.
Married 34 years, and holding a master's degree and seven honorary doctorates, Cain serves on the boards of four major corporations and is the author of three books. He consistently stresses that people can be whatever they want and insists that, as a senator, he would work to remove government-imposed barriers to success.
More importantly, the Democratic Party increasingly has sacrificed the interests of blacks -whom it considers a "safe" voting bloc -in recent years to gain the favor of various monied special interest groups. Polls show most blacks favor private school vouchers, for example, but the party's leadership steadfastly opposes them.
If elected, Cain could use his high-profile job to help make minorities aware of other ways that the party fails them.
When asked why he, being black, favored giving workers more control over their Social Security money, Cain noted that the life expectancy of a black male is 68 -seven years younger than a white man.
"If you work 40 years putting money into Social Security and die at 68," he explained, "you have subsidized white males, have no ownership of your contributions and can't pass (them) on to your children and grandchildren."
Generally speaking, the conservative agenda better serves the interests of most Americans of any race on such issues as criminal justice, taxes and welfare, as well as education. Cain would be an effective spokesman for that agenda.
http://www.cainforussenate.org/
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Do you really think so?
"I only know one way to succeed...work for it!"
And why shouldn't we? Look at the man's own statement:
"If you work 40 years putting money into Social Security and die at 68," he explained, "you have subsidized white males, have no ownership of your contributions and can't pass (them) on to your children and grandchildren."
1. "Subsidizing white males", is it? As opposed to the opposite that's been going on for three generations?
2. "...have no ownership of your contributions..." Show me where you and I have any ownership of the SS money that confiscatory taxation has wrested from us; and
3. ".and can't pass (them) on to your children and grandchildren..." I don't know of ANY instance where SS benefits are "passed on" to heirs, unless you don't report the relative as dead.
Thought you might be interested...
I have seen him speak several times, had lunch with him once, and think he would make an awesome candidate.
My favorite Herman Cain line is his offer of what he says they call a "twofer" in his business (pizza chains). For every regulation the government enacts they have to eliminate two!
Cain for President in 2008!!!!
The man's statements on Social Security applies to everyone, but the point he made to his audience is correct.
Black males have a lower lifespan than others. Since many black men won't live to see the age to receive SS benefits, those taxes benefit others. It is a statement of fact, the same which Larry Elder has been saying for a while.
You may as well abandon your wishes of not having to deal with conservative blacks. We're not going anywhere.
Good.
Without calving off black voters from that great glacier of a voting bloc, that statement may very well be true.
Because the Socialists WILL write you off as no loss to their cause - until and unless, you start making inroads.
The DNC already dismisses black GOP's, because of your numbers as a voting bloc. And the GOP shouldn't throw away political capital - UNLESS, black GOP's can prove that they are a viable, growing movement.
It's now August of 2003. We really won't know what efforts have succeeded until November of 2004.
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