Posted on 06/17/2011 6:52:38 PM PDT by neverdem
“I have a dream.”
That’s how Herman Cain launched his keynote speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans today.
Cain clarified that he had two dreams. One, that the GOP win the House and Senate in 2012. Two, that the audience was “looking at the next president of the United States of America.”
Shooting back at critics who had decried his candidacy, Cain said, “To Mr. [Bill] O’Reilly, Mr. [Karl] Rove, Mr. [Charles] Krauthammer, I didn’t get the memo that I’m not supposed to run.”
He also had a response for those who said of his lack of foreign policy experience was a fatal flaw. “You’re right,” Cain said. “I don’t have any foreign policy experience, but … you don’t need foreign policy experience to know your friends and your enemies.”
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure you stand by your friends and keep an eye on your enemies,” he added.
To those who charged him with not understanding the Washington culture, Cain replied, “I do. It doesn’t work. That’s why I’m coming.”
During the speech, Cain outlined his economic plan: eliminate the capital gains tax, make 25 percent the highest corporate and individual tax rate, institute a “real” payroll tax holiday, suspend taxes on foreign repatriated profits. The “most important” step would be to make all those cuts permanent: “Uncertainty is killing this economy.”
“When we put the right person in the white house — moi — America’s exceptionalism will be obvious again,” Cain said, referencing New Orleans’s French heritage.
He positioned himself as a problem solver. “People are sick and tired of being sick and tired of problems not being solved in Washington, D.C.,” Cain observed.
For Cain, the goal is to stay on offense: to change our current policies so that the future’s prosperity is preserved.
“Because the founding fathers did their job, we got to be the defending fathers,” he said.
I like Herman Cain a lot.
Cain’s running takes the race card off the table.
Cain is impressive.
That’s raci...
/sarcasm
Bachmann running also takes the gender card away for them. Palin would make it even better.
I like Cain. He is a straight talker. If he doesn’t know an answer to a question he says so. I like his inexperience in foreign policy. He can look at it with a fresh point of view once in transition to the WH (which is when pres-elect actually do find out about threat matrix and military secrets.) No president ever went into office experienced (unless reelected).
I am sick and tired of talking heads telling me who can or can’t become the republican nominee. How accurate have they been over the years. Mr. Cain has as good a chance as any other candidate to get the nomination and its ironic that with all the nay-saying he’s polling in 3rd place in some polls and way ahead of newt, pawlenty and santorem.
Actually it puts it in play against the left.
This is Black America's chance to save the day.
The country needs a Conservative and Herman Cain is the one to bring Black America to conservative values......55 years late but better now than ever before.
It's time for the ghost of LJB to get lost.
I have a dream too and it’s Herman Cain being on the ticket in 2012~
” He also had a response for those who said of his lack of foreign policy experience was a fatal flaw. “You’re right,” Cain said. “I don’t have any foreign policy experience, but … you don’t need foreign policy experience to know your friends and your enemies.” “
Devoid of excrement....you know what I mean ;-)
Yes, he indeed would be the first black president. : )
Caine sounds great but then so did Obama and John McLaim..
Many want to hear what they want to hear..
Caine has not been proven.. tested and proven..
Bachmann has.. he would make a good VeeP.. maybe..
Or even a good Senator.. President is... too much... too quickly..
Many here need to get control of their emotions..
There is too much at stake.. Now is not the time for Hermie..
That's a wonderful sentiment, and I would so love to see it happen in my lifetime, but I fear that it'll take more than having a conservative with the right paint job, for blacks to move away from liberalism in substantial numbers.
Cain might pull another 5% of the black vote that Republicans wouldn't ordinarily get, but don't look for him to be the Moses who leads blacks to the promised land of conservatism.
Bachmann has been what? Proven? How so?
She hasn't run a major committee since being in Congress. She's never won a statewide election. And she's never run a large, hierarchical organization like a corporation or a state government.
This is true of most House Reps, which is why very few have ever won a presidential election.
If you want to say that she's passed the ideological test, well, she's got problems there too. She had two excellent opportunities in just the last week to criticize RomneyCare, but didn't do it.
If she's weak on one of the most egregious violations of American constitutional rights, what else is she weak on?
That's the only thing I've disagreed with. We're sick and tired of problems being *created* in Washington, D.C.
She said it’s unconstitutional today on CNN. Did you miss that?
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