Posted on 10/09/2011 5:21:04 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
He is the latest Tea Party favourite to burst through in the increasingly heated race for the Republican presidential nomination and see their poll numbers rocket them to frontrunner status.
However, unlike previous rightwing darlings such as Texas governor Rick Perry and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, wealthy businessman Herman Cain, 65, can claim to be cut from a very different sort of cloth from the average Republican candidate.
First, he is not actually a politician. Cain, whose CV includes being a radio show host, a navy ballistics expert, a Baptist minister and a Federal Reserve official, has never held elected office in his life. His most famous job was as chief executive of the fast-food firm Godfather's Pizza.
Yet none of that seemed to matter to the cheering crowds at the Values Voter Summit in a Washington DC hotel late last week. There was much to celebrate. A Zogby opinion poll had just boosted Cain into first place in the race, with 38% of the vote, compared with 18% for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Perry trailed in third place with 12%. The study even showed Cain beating President Barack Obama in a match-up by 46% to 44%.
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Seriously though, the race card is pretty lame. I play rough and don't mind if others do too. I can be a very cranky critic, and so I have to accept the same in return. But the race card? That's just nonsense.
Cain has one outstanding defect against his candidacy:
Playing the Niggerhead card against Perry!
He should have kept his mouth shut about this non-issue!
No and No.
You obviously haven’t been in the upper 20% of the population who have to mark their every move on that ridiculously complicated and byzantine tax code. My time and privacy mean more to me than to spend hours keeping books specifically for the government.
Perhaps we could come up with a system where people who enjoy being b-——s for a bunch of authoritarian a———s and wasting hundreds of hours a year under the whips of a bunch of ignorant, effete, and officious bastards could opt for that, instead of just simply paying straight taxes.
Cain would negotiate the numbers, and by the way, his 9 9 9 would include that for Social Security, etc. I didn’t see that added in to your figures.
Originalists among the anabaptist movement do not, in fact, consider themselves to be part of the Protestant movement at all since they never bought into the state church thing dating back to the time of Emperor Constantine.
Jan Hus is the most famous of the anabaptist martyrs. However, there is ample evidence that Roger Williams, the American icon of religious freedom, had anabaptist leanings as well.
This is the kind of statement psychologist Paul Meehl identified and called a 'barnum statement." It sounds uniquely meaningful but could be applied almost anywhere about any subject.
"Being a general is much different than being a President."(Washington, Eisenhower) "Being a Secretary of State is much different than being President"( Jefferson, Madison, Monroe). Being a movie actor is much different than being President(Reagan).
Maybe we should stick with governors like Clinton and Carter. Should have given Dukakis a try. All that "political experience" really paid off for the nation.
What makes you so sure of that.
Cain would negotiate the numbers, and by the way, his 9 9 9 would include that for Social Security, etc. I didn’t see that added in to your figures.
Then read it again. I pointed out that the average family of 4 with the median income likely pays nothing but FICA, currently at 5.65%. So Cain's plan is an income tax increase on them right off the bat. Add to that the 9% sales tax on virtually everything they buy and it more than doubles their federal taxes.
Reducing Herman Cain to a “Pizza Delivery” man just shows your ignorance,or perhaps bias.
“running a corporation is much different than being president of the Nation.” How is it much different? To run a corporation you need to be a problem-solver. To run this country you need to be a problem-solver.
A good problem-solver can solve problems... wherever they are. We need a problem-solver to run this country because the current president has created more problems than he has solved. He is not a problem-solver. He’s the last of the big spenders (of our tax money).
Cain doesn’t need any political experience to solve problems. That’s a major misconception that many people have.
Perhaps, but were they generals?
FICA is not 5.65%. It is 7.65% x 2 = 15.30% IIRC.
Check your paycheck. The employee contribution has been 5.65% since the first of the year.
Check your paycheck. The employee contribution has been 5.65% since the first of the year.
I couple of them were.
My crooked brother pays me as an “outside contractor,” he doesn’t take out the taxes.
Then if everyone worked for a crooked brother then everyone would make out under the 9-9-9 plan.
That’s good to know. (as an aside, my brother is a sociopath and has no contact with anyone in family including me-)
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