Do you recall a national sales tax being a prominent part of discussion? Do you recall that being something clamored for? It was a fringe issue before now. In a way, the fair taxers have THEIR own cult.
So Cain is now the object of admiration for all the cultists in our ranks (except for Ron Paul cultists, nothing if not faithful.) They don't support Cain because they favor a national sales tax. They talk themselves into supporting a national sales tax because they like Cain.
Cain is popular for the same reason the All-State insurance guy does TV commericials. He's black and has a sonorous voice, and he's a talented pitchman.
Racist much, Huckster ?
I have been a FairTax supporter for ten years.
Cain agrees with me on 90+% of the conservative positions that I hold dear. The big one that he doesn’t agree with is an issue where *I* break away from the conservative pack.
He is the candidate that is most closely aligned with me. That is why I support Cain.
In addition; I do hope that, with his charisma, he is able to articulate the conservative position better than Bush did. His would be a powerful voice in the national lib vs conservative argument.
I am not following a cult of personality. The reason I became more enthusiastic two weeks ago, is that I finally saw hope that a real conservative actually had a chance in this race. Until then, I’ll admit that I was of the ‘he’s good, but he can’t get elected’ camp.
My husband, on the other hand, was not. He’s been a Cain supporter since 2008. He’s no ‘cult’ follower. He’s a principled man who likes Cain for the same reasons that I do.
Exactly. This is starting to give the impression of 1992 and the Ross Perot phenomenon. And we know how that turned out. Cain is running for potus as a political neophyte. He has no governing record or legislative record to judge him on. Except for his rhetoric, I have no idea what he will do. We are suppose to take his word on everything. I want more substance.
Spot on!
Could not agree more.
Conservatives want a King just as badly as liberals want a Dictator. Whoever looks and sounds like the one who would be best at smiting the current crop of real or imagined enemies is going to rise in popularity.
There are men in politics today who correctly identify and know what to do to counter America's most dangerous enemies - statism and collectivism - but they don't look or sound to us like good Kings. So we call them "crazy" or "RINOs" or "losertarians" and keep going back to the guys with the big voices and the good hair who prefer to distract the public by attacking the easy targets and never, ever question Holy Alliance of the money center banks and the multinational corporations and the defense industry and the welfare state...entities who like to pretend they are at odds for public consumption but in practice are all loyal supporters of the State.
That is by definition a “Cult of Personality” candidate
Perry is a blank slate who allows voters to project their own personal political agenda on to him by making meaningless speeches full of nice sounding words and platitudes. He's the Conservative Obama.