White conservatives clearly hoped that this black conservative would provide the pretext to absolve them of their racist sins the way Obama ostensibly did for white liberals. Except that Herman Cain is suddenly turning out to be more of a demonic black Archie Bunker than the messianic black Ronald Reagan he was supposed to be (or become).
Not to mention that for a candidate who touts his enviable combination of business and common sense he has displayed neither. For example, on the one hand, this putative “pro-life” crusader says that abortions should be illegal in all cases (i.e. including incest, rape and even to save the life of the mother); while on the other, he says that the “choice” of whether to abort or not should be left to the woman, her family and personal physician. Huh, what kind of nonsense is that?!
Of course, unqualified opposition to abortions is a hallowed litmus test for the vast majority of the conservatives who comprise the base of the Republican Party. Therefore, it did not bode well for Cain’s dark-horse quest to win the 2012 presidential nomination when they began jumping off his quixotic bandwagon within hours after he uttered this gibberish about abortion on Thursday.
Frankly, all you need to know about this guy to dismiss him as nothing more than a campaign jester is that he hails Clarence Thomas as the mold for his ideal Supreme Court Justice.
But nothing demonstrates what a political minstrel he is quite like having a dimwit like Michele Bachmann outwit him on national TV the way she did when she eviscerated his 9-9-9 plan to fix the economy with this pithy statement:
When you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn it upside down, I think the Devil’s in the details.
(FOX News, October 11, 2011)
Ouch!
Incidentally, Cain insists that the popularity he’s enjoying (among conservatives) has nothing to do with race. But just as intelligent women must have been embarrassed, if not insulted, by Sarah Palin’s foray into the political arena, intelligent blacks are embarrassed, if not insulted, by his; i.e., race has everything to do with it.
The funny thing is that I don’t think there has ever been a wannabe president who was so damn proud of his ignorance. Which obliges me to clarify that the only Republicans who are enjoying his minstrel show are those who are too ignorant themselves to understand what an insult it is for Cain to be pandering for their votes by reassuring them that as president he would be nothing more than a puppet with advisers (white puppet masters) telling him what to say and do.
In any case, I’d say he has about 3 of his 15 minutes left before he becomes too much of a national laughing stock even for his Republican puppet masters….
NOTE: Why do you suppose Cain was the only one Texas Governor Rick Perry kept referring to as “my brother” during the most recent debate among candidates for the Republican nomination? Things that make you go hmmm, no?