Herman Cain has proved to have more gall, more chutzpah, than anyone running for President on the Republican side of the aisle!
This man has yet another woman claiming inappropriate behavior by him, and this time, it is not him making a pass at women who did not wish it, but rather a woman who claims a THIRTEEN year affair with Herman Cain, and all Cain can say is that it is not true! One should feel sorry for Cain’s wife, who obviously does not know her husband and his proclivities. It is time for him to drop out of the Presidential race as he is becoming a burden to the party image.
But beyond that, Herman Cain has shown absolutely no understanding, no knowledge, no depth on foreign policy, economic policy, and really, just about every subject he is queried about by reporters. Even yesterday, on CNN, he totally confused Candy Crowley about his stand on numerous issues, as he says something, and then seems to contradict what he just said, and claims he is being misinterpreted!
If he cannot adequately explain what he is declaring, then he cannot be a good communicator to the public and to foreign nations, and this is not a laughing matter!
Additionally, Herman Cain had stage 4 colon cancer five years ago, and miraculously has gone into remission since, but seriously, should such a diagnosis be considered acceptable for someone to run for President, when the odds are that he might not live for another five years, to the end of the term he would be elected to? Is this responsible behavior, or is it a massive ego, who has delusions of grandeur that he is the conservative black alternative to Barack Obama?
Herman Cain, do us a favor and get out of our face and quickly! Thank you!
Focusing on Cain’s infidelty problem and cancer history brings back memories of the 1992 Democratic primary and the similarities of the 2012 Republican primary.
Similar to this year, 1992 was a year of a favored Republican incumbent, George H.W. Bush running unopposed in his party against a broad field of opposing party candidates including Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerrey, Jerry Brown and Tom Harkin.
The key issue, like this campaign was the economy.
Closing in on the NH primary date, Clinton had the slight edge over the candidate of the bordering state of Mass., former Senator Paul Tsongas (shades of 2012). Tsongas platform was a pro business approach.
Nearing the primary, rumors of infidelities of candidate Clinton broke wide open about a month before when the Gennifer Flowers story broke.
Whispers also ran that Tsongas was secretly being treated for a re-occurance of the cancer that had caused him to announce his retirement from politics 8 years previous after one term in the U.S. Senate.
The N.H. primary results gave Tsongas the win, but Clinton claimed the “Comeback Kid” award for finishing a close second.
As we all know, Clinton went on and surpassed Tsongas, even though the Mass. ex-senator ended up winning a number of subsequent primaries.
The point of this screed is that Tsongas downplayed and even somewhat hid the reoccurance of his cancer.
In reality, he continued to treat the disease over the next four years and passed away in early 1997 from pneumonia. His doctors said at the time that he died “cancer free”, but the resulting side effects left his immune system weak.
So, regardless of what your opinion is of Cain (I agree with Ron–he has no clue. He is auditioning for a competing talk show with Mike Huckabee on Fox News), if he WAS a serious candidate, the health issue would definitely cause one to pause about the stress of one of the toughest jobs in the world would have on one’s health.
What the 1992 election did show is that one’s handling of his personal life trumped one’s handling of the economy.
A very well explained history of 1992 and how it compares to now, although to compare Tsongas in any way to Cain is sacrilegious, to say the least!
Sacrilegious is an understatement! Just pointing out the similarities. It’s the difference between Cain and Able (pun intended). Tsongas was from my old hometown of Lowell, MA.
His personal story on his rise to politics is an Horatio Alger story. Son of a working class immigrant whose father made the American Dream come true by starting and expanding a chain of local dry cleaners.
Tsongas himself worked there to pay his way through college. I often wondered if his cancer was caused from working with the chemicals that were infamous in the dry cleaning industry before technology changed the process!.
His widow, Nikki, ironically in the incumbent Congresswoman in the same district and will have a fight with the re-districting for her political life in 2012.