Posted on 10/23/2011 10:42:14 AM PDT by RobinMasters
ATLANTA — Herman Cain is learning the hard way what it means to face the glare of the national spotlight.
After captivating Republicans hungry for an alternative to Mitt Romney, the presidential hopeful has made a series of stumbles that have left some questioning if he's ready for the White House. The Georgia businessman has been on a media blitz since a rise in the polls catapulted him into the top tier of the race for the Republican party nomination.
But Cain has sometimes appeared to be in over his head. In the last week, he:
—Suggested a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico should be electrified to kill illegal immigrants trying to pass into the United States. Cain later called it a joke and apologized if anyone was offended by the remarks.
—Said he would negotiate for the release of U.S. prisoners held by terrorists, then reversed himself and said he had misunderstood the question.
—Muddied the water on abortion, telling CNN that, while he strongly opposes abortion, "the government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make." He later issued a statement reiterating his opposition to abortion.
—Amid criticism that his signature 9-9-9 tax overhaul would force the majority of Americans to pay more to the government, he reworked the plan to exclude the poorest Americans and to allow some deductions. Backers of Cain's original plan had praised its simplicity, and piling on loopholes could erode into that support.
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You wish...
Love the way the Campaignbots keep repeating the lie hoping it becomes truth. If rocketing up this week in the state polls in Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina and Florida is “stumbling” then maybe your candidate of choice should be trying to “stumbling”
Yeah we are doomed. running round like chicken little...these media dolts are so totally clueless...
Sophistry!
OK, I’ll vote for Herman Cain.
Wishful thinking, LOL, a few more weeks of these stumbles and old willard will be in the 2 percent range with perry,. _Cain is leading …Perry by 14 points in guess where, Texas.
As am I and most other conservatives.
good gravy!
now newsmax is carrying the rino message?
It is telling about our culture that considering all of your options, assessing a situation, is taboo. The Republicans who railed against Cain on the hostage situation expose their own fatal flaw.
Yeah.
I guess that we may as well tell Ubama to go ahead and cancel the 2012 elections and save us all a lot of energy and money.
Hell, let’s just go ahead and tell him he can occupy OUR White House until he’s ready to step aside.
No point in continuing this charade anyway.
America ceased to exist when He was immaculated in January, 2009.
Whatever happened to Newsmax.
It didn’t used to be so nutty.
Sigh. BTW, Is Romney electable? He’s a snake.
If the census had the question to each of us about putting up an electrified fence, IMO, the answer would have been an overwhelming YES!!!
It’s really getting to look like the MSM totes favor with Romney...really...
If you read the actual interview, the decision in which he wanted the govt. not to intervene was whether to put a child conceived through rape up for adoption. It was not about abortion at all.
Some people have poor reading comprehension, while others engage in deliberate distortion via quoting out of context.
Apparently so and it's VERY disappointing.
Sadly, I fear he’s not ready for Prime Time. The MSM will cut him to pieces before he debates Obama. Look what they did to Sarah Palin! He will be made to look like a dottering fool. He isn’t the great black hope.
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