Well I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on who is qualified to be in the White House. I don’t think only a professional politician can defend and protect the Constitution and fight socialism. And I think the country needs an outsider. The founders were right to NOT put qualifiers. Lincoln only served in the Illinois state house where his concentration was on his state’s constitution. Yet he managed to keep the entire country from splitting in two.
Sometimes “business as usual” doesn’t work. And someone who isn’t typically considered “qualified” is the very best choice. Professional politicians with Ivy League credentials and the “right” path gave us 0bama (the right path, no experience, Marxist ideas). Whether right or left socialism has been creeping into our country. I have absolutely no faith left in the political class. I’m willing to take a risk on the qualifications the founders deemed important, along with my own reasoning skills.
Clearly what we’ve been doing for the last couple of decades hasn’t been working. There isn’t one member of those running with “political careers” who hasn’t been compromised (or compromised themselves) in some manner or the other. I’m fed up.
Cindie
He won't stay an outsider for long, and it is precisely his inexperience that will facilitate it. His national sales tax is going to need a Constitutional Amendment. That means he is at the mercy of the states. In other words, he is at the mercy of the very thing...the game of politics...that he supposedly stands apart from. By the time the amendment passes, if it does, he will have agreed to a lot of deals and granted a lot of favors...just like any other politician. Don't kid yourself into thinking that they're going to let him ride above the game.
I don't think he'll take the nomination though, let alone the Presidency. He knows practically nothing about foreign affairs and his understanding of domestic affairs is, to be kind, less than impressive. He would get clobbered in the general election. Don't think someone like Herman Cain is just going to breeze into the White House. It's not going to be that easy. If the electorate were dumb enough to vote someone like Obama in once, they can do it again.
Mr. Cain simply has too much inexperience, and it was glaringly obvious with this new interview that just surfaced. I'm sorry, but he's simply not fit to be President.