All-purpose Herman Cain fun thread

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

In related news, the Penn State Board of Trustees has appointed Gloria Cain to the committee investigating what went wrong there.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Did anyone ask her how tall she is?

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

She comes up to right here.

 

His Rick Perry moment arrives when he is asked about Libya:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/cain-backs-collective-bargaining-for-public-employees-l931tg4-133828808.html

According to the MSNBC crawl, Cain defended himself by saying that he has, "a lot of things twirling in my head right now."

 

If you watch the entire interview, you are left with one question:

What the hell was Godfather's thinking when they named this clown as CEO?

 

Another gotcha question by the liberal media.

 

When HRC said that lobbyists are people, too . . . she hadn't considered the possibility of Herman Cain.

 

He said he'd get rid of half the workforce. Simple enough.

 

This video is really incredible.

Here's the biggest problem for me, he's not answering the question, he's searching his brain for the answer. The answer he's practiced.

He has no actual thoughts on the matter, he just wants to give his rehearsed answer -- except he can't remember it. That's why he stops at one point and says, "no that's not it." He was about to give a rehearsed answer to the wrong question.

 

Slate had a good column the other day about how that was the real problem with the Perry gaffe. People can handle a candidate who doesn't know something - and admits he doesn't know it. W. survived in 2000, for example, even though a lot of people thought he was, to put it gently, incurious about foreign policy.

But what someone will struggle to survive is looking like he's just spouting rehearsed answers that he doesn't actually believe in, because it goes to authenticity. We all know, the writer said, that these guys aren't staying up late coming up with their own policy minutia. On the other hand, we want to believe that they at least absorb and internalize what their advisers do come up with.

That said ...

As of this morning, Cain still hot on Romney's heels, both in Iowa and nationally. Twenty-two percent and holding in one poll.

I have no words.

 

We need a leader, not a reader.

-- Herman Cain

 

I agree it's a problem. It's a big problem for me.

If Rick Perry had really sat down and determined after much thought that the way to go was to eliminate the Education, Commerce, and Energy Departments, he wouldn't have to struggle to remember his talking points.

But, since it was some poll tested talking point, given to him by an adviser to repeat like a trained bird, he forgot it.

Will most people see it that way? I'm not sure. But, if they don't have a problem with the lack of authenticity, they'll just figure he's stupid. Neither is a very good option for Perry.