With the primaries getting earlier, it is good to see conservatives coalesce around a candidate.
If we don’t, Romney will be our nominee.
Hopefully Palin will endorse Cain.
There's a lot of wisdom in this statement.
I'm not necessarily a Cain fan. There are things I like about him and things I don't. Many of the things I like about Cain are the things I liked about Romney back in the 2008 campaign, before I learned of Romney's abortion flip-flopping, which for me is a “no-go, no way.” Cain's business background is a big plus.
Being able to vote for a successful black Republican businessman is a huge positive, and I don't mind saying that. We need a thousand more Herman Cains running for city, county, state, and federal office. The Democratic Party takes black votes for granted, and there is absolutely no good reason why conservative evangelical churchgoing blacks should be voting for a party that is destroying on weekdays what they're hearing preached on Sundays in their churches. (Yes, I know there are lots of liberal black churches; I'm talking about conservative evangelical black churches which should be part of the Christian conservative movement, but are not.)
I just wish Cain were running for a U.S. Senate seat or a governorship. The presidency is not an entry-level job. We've seen the consequences of electing President Barack Obama who had minimal government experience, and if Cain gets the nomination, it is imperative that he surround himself with people who understand not only how business works but also how government works.
There are important differences, the biggest one being that many things about government are slow by design. A private business has every right to make its own decisions and answers to nobody but its customers and stockholders. A government answers to its constituents, and that sometimes requires very different approaches from what works in business.
A President Cain will have some serious rocky roads to overcome. However, given our current government crisis, maybe what we need is a businessman with a background of fixing near-bankrupt businesses.