Herman Cain will make an outstanding President if Americans are bright enough to elect him.
He’s smart, articulate, successful, and he seems to have clear ideas that he communicates in no-nonsense language that most people will easily understand, even if they don’t agree with him.
He’s also the equivalent of a Republican “secret weapon” because he’s black. It takes the race card out of the deck when playing politics.
I admit it — I want to vote for a black man for President as I vote to replace Obama next year.
The primary reason I oppose voting for Obama is that his economic policies have been disastrous.
I vehemently disagree with his stated policy regarding the redistribution of wealth.
Now it seems that no one is very concerned about what will happen when the health care system of America evolves into single payer, another stated Obama policy objective from long before he was elected President.
The whole goal of Obamacare is to put the health care system under the control of the federal government, not insure 40 million more people.
What good will insurance coverage be if it takes between 6-12 months to get a doctor’s appointment?
We aren’t adding enough doctors to replace those who have gone on record to say they plan to retire before allowing the government to control their compensation.
Obama’s own brother-in-law is a doctor opposed to Obamacare, which is killing the incentive to study and practice medicine.
Think about it — malpractice insurance premiums are obscenely high. You can be sure the lawyers will oppose any reform of the legal system to help keep doctors practicing medicine.
The new law will require doctors to treat patients and dictate their compensation for doing so. The patient may still sue the doctor for a seven figure judgement, if he happens to make a mistake.
John Edwards managed to convince some juries that even birth defects can be attributed to doctor mistake. As a result, doctors now practice preventive medicine, meaning they perform unnecessary medical procedures to avoid being sued.
Would you practice medicine under these developing circumstances? Is it worth going through the debt accumulated from attending medical school?
We’ll all have health insurance but only a few, very overworked providers. That’s a recipe for disaster.
The talking heads voice the conventional wisdom and have said that Cain cannot win because he’s never held political office. He ran but lost a race for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia.
But it isn’t his fault we weren’t smart enough to elect him. Let’s prove the talking heads wrong (again.)
If failure to hold public office is the major obstacle, how about Herman Cain for Vice President and let’s draft Allen West for President?
West currently serves in Congress and led troops in combat beforehand. How more qualified can you get?
Both men share three very important attributes. Unfortunately, we haven’t progressed beyond the point where all three bear mentioning.
- Allen West and Herman Cain are both articulate and successful.
- They both demonstrated proven leadership skills, in the military and big business, respectively.
- They are both black, eliminating the race card from the next presidential election cycle.
In my mind, only the first two points are truly relevant to their qualifications, but I mention the third point because racial politics will factor in the next election unless both candidates have the same skin color, unfortunately.
The perceived “best” Republican candidate, Chris Christie, has repeatedly said that he isn’t running.
I really like Christie’s direct and to-the-point style, but he isn’t running. And there’s no reason to believe he would do a better job than Cain or West as President of the United States.
I believe Christie realizes if he did run, his supporters will ultimately be called racist because they are voting for a white man over a black man. Why not take it out of the equation?
Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney and other potential Republican candidates all have the same problem.
About ten percent of America’s population won’t even consider them because of their skin color.
I know this sounds crazy — the only way to defeat the charge of racism in today’s politically correct world is to act like a racist and look for the right candidate with the politically correct skin color.
It’s ideal that both Cain and West appear to be very capable of handling the job.
Why not nominate either or both men as a preemptive strike against the obligatory liberal ad-hominem attack? They are both great Americans that happen to be black.
Didn’t Vince Lombardi preach that the best defense is a good offense?
Cain and West are not any less qualified than our President when he took office. I have every reason to believe they would be as good or better than the current crop of Caucasians.
Both men are very intelligent, articulate, and conservative.
Let’s face facts…Mitt Romney probably can’t beat Barack Obama. He’s governed in similar fashion. How can he criticize Obamacare when it’s very similar to RomneyCare?
Truthfully, was Obama qualified by his two years experience in the Senate before his promotion to the White House than Herman Cain would be, a former CEO of a large, successful company?
No, Obama just presented an image of articulate competence; he was all style, very little substance.
Either Cain or West (or in a dream, both) could add that substance to the facade of leadership thus far demonstrated by President Barack Obama.
Fantastic work