Tag: Herman Cain
Cain Declines Opportunity to Deny Sexual Harassment Allegations
The Los Angeles Times reported this story (on page AA2) with the headline, “Cain Denies Harassment Accusations,” but that is not accurate. According to right-leaning Politico.com, the outlet that broke the story, Cain has passed up multiple opportunities to deny the charges:
Halloween Costume Suggestions
That’s right! You could go as Herman Cain campaign volunteers.
[This punchline was ripped off from Ray Seaman, online director of Progress Florida.]
The Line: October 28, 2011
Forbes Magazine publisher, flat tax advocate and failed ’96 presidential candidate Steve Forbes has endorsed Rick Perry, in part because Perry has released a half-cooked economic plan that includes a 20 percent flat tax. In an interview with political gossipist Lloyd Grove titled, “Forbes: ‘Perry Will Be the Nominee,'” Forbes said, “Whatever part of the Republican establishment has gone to Romney is almost by default — not because they really like him or because they’re writing big checks or bundling large amounts of money. So if Perry or somebody else comes along and catches fire, which I think Perry will, Romney is going to be stuck at his 23 percent or maybe even less.” - Ron Brownstein reminds us how Forbes’ flat-tax proposal flattened his campaign in 1996, paving the way for then Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to win their party’s nomination that year. In the general campaign, Pres. Bill Clinton’s tean cleverly paired (by then retired) Senate leader Dole with his uber-unpopular counterpart in the House, Speaker Newt Gingrich, and easily won reelection.
- Steve Benen notes that Perry is promising to add 2.5 million jobs if elected president — which, says Benen, means “Rick Perry believes he’ll be able to create the same number of jobs in four years that Barack Obama has created in a year and a half.”
- Even though Parah Salin (remember her?) is officially out of the running, David Corn reminds us that there is still an “openly mean” candidate vying for the GOP nomination. Here’s Corn’s collection of ugly things Speaker Gingrich has said over the past 33 years.
Call him “Miss Ross.” Apparently Herman Cain has taken a cue from Diva Diana. Ex-staffers say they were instructed by memo, “Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to.”
Whence Herman Cain?
Herman Cain’s flip-flops on negotiating with Al Qaeda for the release of Guantanamo terrorists and getting the government out of decision-making when it comes to abortion should have yanked his approval rating down into Santorum territory. Failing that, releasing a strictly-from-amateur web ad that featured a stoned-out looking middle-aged guy smoking a cigarette and a cheesy musical riff right out of “Idiocracy” should have done the trick.
And yet, he’s still ahead in nationwide polling. Why? Andrew Sullivan suggests that…
Faux Outsider: Cain Was a Lobbyist In Bed with Big Tobacco
If you’re having trouble grocking Herman Cain, a recent article in the New York Times will make your mental light bulb shine.
Cain, who has been the next Reagan since he won the straw poll at Florida’s Presidency 5 confab in September, says his main virtue is that he is an outsider to politics. And while it’s true that Cain has never held elected office, he is only an outsider in the Jack Abramoff sense of that word.*
…the role that helped propel Mr. Cain into politics was that of an ultimate Washington insider: industry lobbyist.
Cain is Just Like Reagan, Supporter Says
He’s got a lot of Reagan qualities.
Rick Baker, former mayor of St. Petersburg, offering random Republican catnip to a reporter to explain why he’s backing Herman Cain for president. Which Reagan qualities might those be? “He’s a straight talker and he wants to be bold for the future.” Oh yeah, those.
Herman Cain Ad – Not the Onion
This is not (meant to be) a joke.
Cain’s Fruit Salad Doesn’t Pass the Sniff Test
Cain is going to have to come up with a better answer to the question of whether he’s increasing sales taxes by 100 percent on states like New Hampshire, who don’t currently have a sales tax, than “apples vs oranges.” If you’re paying zero taxes on apples now, and “Herb” affixes a 9 percent federal sales tax to your apples, you don’t have oranges, you have more expensive apples.
Joy-Ann Reid, publisher of the Reid Report, on Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 taxation scheme.
Racists for Cain: Why Are Tea Party Voters Giving His Plan to Raise Taxes a Pass?
It is a sign of the times that an African-American Republican, Herman Cain, is leading by double digits in South Carolina, the heart and soul of the Old Confederacy, a hotbed of the Neo-Confederate tea-party movement today and an early primary state next year.
According to an InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion Research poll [PDF] of likely South Carolina voters conducted for the Augusta (S.C.) Chronicle on Oct. 16, Cain leads second-place candidate Mitt Romney 32-16 percent. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a sometimes advocate of secession, is a close third with 12 percent, while also-rans New Gingrich, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmman and Jon Huntsman bring up the rear in single digits. Rick Santorum, the single-issue, anti-gay candidate, failed to muster even 1 percent support.
(It is unclear why 17 Democrats were included in a poll about the Republican primary, but Cain led among these Democrats with nearly 55 percent while Michele Bachmann trailed among Dems, with 22.5 percent.)
So what does Cain’s ascendancy say about the Republican Party and its tea party base, with its nearly all-white, mostly middle-aged demographics? […]
