Herman Cain Victim Of Racist Left-Wing Attacks

December 5, 2011 Leave a comment

Over the weekend Herman Cain announced he would be “suspending” his campaign. Don’t read to much into his suspension, it allows him to continue raising money to pay off any debts accumulated or outstanding expenses. He isn’t going to jump back in the race as we’re only four weeks away from the Iowa Caucus. Cain’s departure isn’t unexpected after he’s been hit with one allegation of sexual misconduct after another. His response was poorly coordinated and in the end that was why support for Cain dropped.

Make no mistake Cain was the victim of a coordinated leftist attack. Black conservatives were sent a very clear message, run for high office in the GOP and the left will attack you relentlessly. It matters not that there’s no truth to any of it. We had a handful of women, most in financial ruin, accusing Cain. We had leaks from the Restaurant Association of nuisance payoffs that were leaked by former Daley associates and friends of Obama administration adviser David Axlerod. The most recent accuser is a bankrupt nut who has had multiple evictions and a failed sexual harassment lawsuit.

None of these women were credible. But that isn’t what matters. What matter’s is that Herman Cain was destroyed. We can’t have a black conservative win the GOP nomination after all. In the end, these accusations exposed Cain not as a sexual predator but as a poor manager of a political campaign. His team allowed the first round of accusations to linger for a week without addressing them. That’s what really hurt him. He had an excellent press conference where he denied the accusations. But he wasn’t prepared for a relentless left-wing onslaught. Axlerod and the left prepared a new lying whore to make headlines every week. It ensured that Cain could never get back on message.

Truth doesn’t matter in politics anymore. Perhaps it never did. Fairness certainly never mattered. In 1992 Clinton had far more credible women accusing him of adultery. In fact, many of them had eye witnesses, something Cain’s accusers never had. The left-wing media called the women trailer park liars and ignored the matter. With Cain, a black conservative, they endlessly replayed the accusations. One week of accusations is something Cain could have weathered, even with his poor response. But week after week of a campaign focusing on responding to lying whores rather than discussing 999 is just not something a candidate can overcome. Truth and fairness matter not.

In the end Cain dropping out is a huge positive for Newt Gingrich. As Cain has dropped in the polls over the last month, Newt has picked up most of the drop. It’s likely that Cain will endorse Newt, after all at one of the early debates Cain said he would like to pick Newt as his Vice President if he had to select one of the other GOP candidates. Cain’s departure could end up being what puts Newt over the top. We really could be looking at a Newt Gingrich campaign against Obama next fall.

The message to black conservatives is clear. If you run for high office you will be relentlessly attacked as a sexual predator. They did it to Justice Clarence Thomas in the 90′s, now they’ve done it to Herman Cain. The next black conservative who runs for President needs to be prepared for the lying attacks. He needs to have a better campaign organization in place and he needs to have campaign staff that is skilled in crisis management. The left will not tolerate a black conservative and everything is fair game with these people.

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2012 Conservative Goals: Defeat Romney Then Defeat Obama

November 30, 2011 Leave a comment

Herman Cain is done. He’s the victim of the typical leftist plot to accuse any prominent black conservative of being sexually loose. It’s a sickening stereotype. Unfortunately for Cain, his response to it was poor and he lost numbers because of it. Now there’s a woman with a criminal past who claims to have had a 13 year affair with Cain. Enough is enough. Cain needs to drop out of the race for the sake of the conservative cause because in the fast moving world of primary politics, he can’t recover in five weeks to win Iowa.

From the conservative perspective, Romney must be defeated. We currently have to many conservatives running for President. Several of them need to step aside, including Cain, Santorum and Bachmann. Paul won’t step aside under any circumstances and Perry probably won’t either. Huntsman is, as usual, irrelevant. This leaves Gingrich as the conservative going up against the progressive flip flopper Romney. At this point, Newt is up in Iowa, gaining in New Hampshire and with Cain dropping he’s poised to take over South Carolina and Florida.

Newt isn’t perfect. We are not going to get the perfect conservative to win the nominee. There are things I don’t particularly like about Newt, not the least of which is that he’s on wife #3. He’s apparently repented of past sins and if that’s good enough for God then it’s good enough for me. But that’s still an issue out there. But let’s face it, Newt was Speaker when the budget was balanced. His leadership led to a surplus. It also led to welfare reform and a number of other conservative reforms during the liberal Clinton administration. But for Newt, none of those things would have happened.

If Newt is the conservative who can knock off Romney, so be it I support him. If Bachmann makes a surprise run up the polls of if Cain miraculously comes back, fine I’ll support them if they can knock off Romney. At this point though, Newt appears to be the guy. With a month to go before the Iowa Caucus, it seems unlikely that Newt will lose his position. Newt doesn’t make debate mistakes like Perry, we know everything about his personal life so nothing they come up with will shock people like the Cain accusations did. We know he can debate, we know he has experience. In short Republicans know Newt and that goes a long way in making various attacks less relevant.

We as conservatives must keep in mind that we have two goals going into 2012. First is defeat Romney. Mitt Romney must be defeated at all costs. He is a progressive Republican and a serial flip flopper. We must back one of the conservative candidates and ensure he beats Romney. All of the conservatives are essentially the same, they ought to please all of us. Our second goal is to defeat Barack Obama. Any of the conservative candidates have a good shot at knocking Obama off. In fact, they all likely have a better shot than Romney despite what the left-wing media claims.

Election season is kicking up into high gear. The next three months will determine who our nominee is. In fact, we could know who the nominee is by the end of January. We conservatives cannot allow ourselves to splinter apart over minor differences between conservative candidates. We need to decide on one and back him so that Romney isn’t the nominee. I looks like Cain is done, Bachmann wasn’t able to sustain momentum, Perry doesn’t know where he is most of the time and Santorum doesn’t appear to have the cash or basic support of the party. That leaves Newt, who is no different in policy than the others. Fine, let’s get behind him so that Romney loses.

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November 22nd Republican Debate Review

November 23, 2011 Leave a comment

Yesterday the GOP held another debate. This one focused on foreign policy. CNN didn’t do a dreadful job as most of the questions came from scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation. On to the review!

Michele Bachmann was the close winner last night. When she was asked questions she was able to shine. She has a clear grasp of foreign policy issues, despite what the liberal media and liberals in both parties told you. Her time on the House Intelligence Committee has helped her a lot. She understands the issues and articulates them quite well. Her last few debates have been fairly mediocre. She’s repeated what we’ve already heard her say a dozen times on domestic issues. But last night she took her debating to the next level. She’s the winner last night. Barely.

Newt would have been the winner last night but for one issue: Immigration. No one has the knowledge, skills or tact of Newt in these debates. Newt has an in depth answer for every issue no matter what region of the world is being discussed. Where he falters is on his quasi amnesty support. Let’s be quite up front about what Newt called for last night. He didn’t propose amnesty across the board. He supported not deporting illegals who have been here 20+ years and who have established themselves as otherwise non-criminals. He also didn’t want to give these people citizenship but rather he wanted to create a legalized status for them. He supported deporting all other illegals. While I don’t agree with Newt’s position, it’s at least more reasonable than the Democrats support for across the board amnesty. Newt would have won last night but for his immigration position, which ought to get a few people enraged.

Romney would have been irrelevant last night had CNN not asked him nearly every question. CNN even let Romney get into a one on one debate with a strawman: Jon Huntsman. It’s clear as day that Blitzer wants Romney to be the nominee. As for Romney’s debate performance, he’s steady eddy as always. He never makes any big gaffes, he tries to hog time as much as possible and he really doesn’t say a whole lot. Steady has worked for Romney to the point that he consistently has 20% in all the polls. But he never seems to move his campaign to the next level. Perhaps because he never takes his debates to the next level.

Herman Cain I thought did a mediocre job last night. This isn’t surprising since foreign policy really isn’t his focus. The issue with Cain is that he constantly defers to experts whether it’s in the wars or in dealings with various foreign powers. We currently have a President who governs via expert in President Obama. Why would we want to replace a liberal governing by expert with a conservative doing the same? Governing by expert doesn’t work, especially when a conservative is doing it. This is because it is absent a clear, overriding purpose. Last night, when Cain was coherent, he sounded like he was just rattling off talking points. With his poll numbers dropping he needed to do a better job last night. Instead I suspect he confirmed for a lot of people why they’re moving to Newt or other conservatives.

Rick Perry, what does one say about Perry? He didn’t say oops last night, that’s a good start. But he wants a no-fly zone in Syria for no particular reason. He’s right in being concerned about the rise of socialism in Central and South America. It was nice to hear someone bring this up. But otherwise, his positions weren’t much different than Newt’s and Newt did a better job presenting them. Rick Perry isn’t saving himself with stellar debate performances. Not forgetting the third country he’s going to bomb is nice but it doesn’t win any votes. (yes I’m kidding about the bombs)

Ron Paul is a whiny nut who wants to return the country to isolationism. He has some good points to make from time to time. There are legitimate concerns that need to be raised before we go to war. He even has some decent arguments against the war on drugs. But he’s just so whiny and off putting. At this point the libertarian wing of the party needs to find themselves a candidate who can connect with more voters than just them.

Jon Huntsman was given an inordinate amount of time to speak for a candidate consistently polling at 2%. It is absolutely ridiculous that CNN lets this guy get into a 5 minute exchange with Romney while front runners like Newt stand in silence for nearly the first half hour. Huntsman has nothing to offer that either a Democrat or other candidate doesn’t already offer. This guy is at best a liberal Republican and in reality he’s a Democrat. Which of course is why CNN let’s him speak so much.

Rick Santorum has some good points but he comes off as a snake. He sounds so arrogant when he speaks, no wonder his campaign hasn’t gained any traction. He’s also constantly whining about the lack of opportunity to speak. It’s one thing to do this at one debate, it’s another thing when he does it at every single debate. Last night he would have had a point, fellow 2% candidate Huntsman was given a ridiculous amount of time to speak. But Rick, you’re still a 2% candidate. His foreign policy positions were little different than Newt’s and Newt did a better job presenting the position.

Win: Bachmann took advantage of her foreign policy experience and brought her A game.

Place: Newt will take heat for his quasi amnesty position but otherwise no one articulates the conservative position on foreign policy better than Gingrich.

Show: Romney needs to do something to get his poll numbers above 20-25% where it has been stuck for a year.

Big Loser: Cain needed a stellar performance to overcome his recent dip in the polls. Unfortunately for him he didn’t deliver.

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November 9th Republican Debate Review

November 10, 2011 2 Comments

Last night the GOP held yet another debate. This time it was on CNBC and it featured their “best and brightest” journalists. Based on the questions, I have to wonder how these guys became CNBC’s best and brightest. Jim Cramer yelled every question, the woman was utterly incompetent and the perfect hair gentleman sitting next to her was irrelevant unless he decided time was up on an answer. You can tell I don’t watch CNBC right? On to the debate!

We really must begin this review with the big loser of the night. By now I’m sure everyone knows it’s Rick Perry. Poor Rick doesn’t really want to run for President, his wife is making him. It’s entirely evident at these debates. When he isn’t yelling at other candidates he’s not making any sense. Last night Perry refrained attacking other candidates. But he made what will be the gaffe of the 2012 primary season when he couldn’t remember the third Federal agency he wants to shut down. Thirty minutes later he remembered that he always wants to shut down the Department of Energy but by then it was to late. His gaffe will be replayed millions of times and Rick Perry will become a laughingstock. It’s right up there with Admiral Stockdale wondering aloud why he was at the VP debate in 1992 and Howard Dean’s scream in 2004. Perry’s campaign is more or less over. Let’s be honest though, we always knew Perry wasn’t the sharpest knife in the…no wait I know this one! He’s not the sharpest knife in the….suitcase? NO! Oh blimey I can’t remember….

Onto the big winner last night which we believe was Herman Cain. Cain was in his element last night talking about the economy. He brushed aside the sexual harassment allegations with one simple and to the point statement early on. He then talked about his 999 plan and how it would positively impact every economic issue facing the country from housing to foreign trade to our basic home budgets. Every answer included a reference to Cain’s 999 plan. At one point Jim Cramer yelled at Cain about China and told him not to use his 999 plan in his answer. Cain used 999 anyway, without mentioning it by name. Even angry Cramer laughed. Cain successfully argued that 999 would create tax certainty which would create jobs in the US and create favorable business conditions over China and other countries. Cain had a solid night.

Romney also had a solid night. He was in front of a homer crowd in metro Detroit, so it’s no surprise that the audience liked him. (Mitt’s father was Governor of Michigan and the state party big wigs, including the McCain liberals, have lined up behind Romney) Romney has the same basic answers that he always has. He delivers them well. He did have one good line about what corporate profits really are early in the debate, which earns him some points. He doesn’t answer questions that he doesn’t want to answer. He didn’t come out in favor of keeping the one year social security tax cut that’s set to rise in January. He only declared he doesn’t want taxes to increase. He’s a little sneaky in that regard. But otherwise, it was the same old, typical Romney performance. One wonders at this point if he’s winning any new supporters with the same old performance.

Newt had a solid night. No one has a grasp of the conservative argument better than Newt. Gingrich has done a terrific job not attacking any of his opponents throughout these debates. He gives them credit and then expounds upon their ideas. He did it several times last night. Newt saves his attacks for the Obama administration and the media, both of which are endearing to a Party that can’t stand the President and is distrustful of the media. Last night he schooled the CNBC woman and the media for not understanding the economy and not asking the Occupy Wall Street savages logical economic questions. The Party loved it. The CNBC moderators then shut Newt out of the last 30 minutes of the debate.

Ron Paul is Ron Paul. Nothing ever changes with this guy. He complains about the Fed, he spouts off libertarian rhetoric. He gains no supporters, he loses no supporters. That said, Ron Paul is no Republican. This is a man who has said he may not endorse the GOP nominee and he’ll even take it a step further by threatening to run third party. If Paul runs third party he will ensure that Obama is re-elected. Is that what you Ronulans want?

Michele Bachmann needs to drop out of this race. She has no money and her supporters are only taking away from Cain and Gingrich who have a real shot at beating Romney. Bachmann gives the same answers debate after debate after debate. They’re almost verbatim. At least she didn’t mention her 5 children and 23 foster children last night. Maybe she’s figured out that we know this already. Did you know she was a tax lawyer 20 years ago? I’m sure she’ll remind us at the next debate. Bachmann has never evolved as a candidate since the first debate in May where she broke out as a star. The end result is that she’s wasting space and money running for President.

Rick Santorum…..see above comments on Bachmann. It’s time for Rick to step down so we can beat Romney.

Jon Huntsman. What does one say about Huntsman? He’s basically a Democrat running as a Republican. He sort of looked like a Republican last night, until he bowed before China. Once again, I’m left wondering what the point of his candidacy is. He has no support and no money. What’s his purpose?

Win: Cain returned to message in fine form.

Place: Romney is steady eddy as always.

Show: Newt is setting himself up as a frontrunner slowly but surely

BIG LOSER: Without a doubt it’s Rick Perry. It’s time for him to pull the plug on his candidacy. There is no recovery from last night’s gaffe.

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Gingrich vs Cain Debate Review

November 7, 2011 Leave a comment

Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain held what was billed as a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. In reality it was more along the lines of a modern debate but with longer response times. Since the two of them basically got along they were more or less given unlimited response times. It was a great opportunity to watch the two conservative front runners present their ideas in a more relaxed atmosphere. The topic was entitlements. It would be great to see these two hold a second debate on the topic of the economy.

There is no doubt that Newt has a better grasp of all of the issues. He cites studies, past political debates and he name drops like no one else. He has solid conservative ideas and a solid grasp of politics. Herman Cain clear doesn’t have the same grasp of the issues, largely because he’s spent his life in business. It was an interesting contrast in perspectives. Newt came at all the issues from a government and policy standpoint while Cain came at the issues from a business standpoint. In the end they largely agreed on the solutions, all of which are well thought out and market driven.

If I had to pick a winner, it would be Newt. He came across as extremely knowledgable, in fact he came across as a nice guy. Cain didn’t have the same grasp of the issues and on two occasions deferred to Newt by letting him answer a question first. Cain never distinguished himself from Newt’s position. In fact, neither one of them distinguished themselves from the other’s positions because they largely agree. But that hurt Cain more than Newt because Newt has a grasp of the issues far and above Cain. Cain often looked as though he was saying me too.

What does this mean for the long run? It’s tough to say at this point. Newt is third in the polls behind Cain and Romney. It appears that last week’s flap with Cain didn’t hurt him in the short run. In the long run if Cain continues to have bad weeks and continues to misspeak conservatives are going to start moving away from him. Where will they go? They won’t go back to Bachmann or Perry, they’re likely to go to Newt.

Newt has perfectly positioned himself for Iowa and the other early primary states. He’s not attacked any of the candidates in the debates. He has a solid grasp of all of the issues and on substance has won every debate. When he goes on the attack he’s attacking Obama and the left-wing media, both of which endear him to Republican voters. With Romney unable to get above 25% in the polls and Republicans looking for someone other than him, Newt and Cain are both in position to win the nomination. Cain is the front runner right now but if Cain falters it will be Newt.

Both of them would be terrific candidates against Obama. Newt would crush Obama in the debates because Obama doesn’t have knowledge of the issues like Newt does. Cain in a debate can present two different America’s, one which relies on government and one which relies on freedom and hard work. The key here is to knock off Romney. If Cain is going to falter, let him falter in the next couple weeks so Newt can pick up momentum. Otherwise, those of us on the right need to get aboard the Cain train and ride it to victory in Iowa and South Carolina.

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Rick Perry’s Smear Campaign Won’t Win GOP Nomination

November 3, 2011 3 Comments

There’s something wrong with Rick Perry’s Presidential campaign. He entered the race as a front runner, as the conservative who would knock off progressive/moderate Mitt Romney. But after several terrible debate performances and several terrible policy positions, Perry has fallen to the status of an also ran. This should come as no surprise when the candidate declared that those in the GOP who don’t want tax money to be used for illegals college education were “heartless.” The statement sounded like something a Democrat might say. Republicans will put up with mediocre debaters (read: Bush, McCain, Dole etc) but they will not put up with being called heartless.

The Perry response hasn’t been to moderate his illegal immigration views. In fact he’s doubled down on them while dropping the heartless line. The Perry campaign team has instead gone on a full throttle negative campaign against Perry’s top rivals. At the last GOP debate Perry brought up an illegal that might have mowed Mitt Romney’s lawn. Never mind that the illegal worked for a lawn company contracted to mow Romney’s lawn and once Romney figured out what was going on fired the company. No sir, Romney hires illegals! Perry brought it up not once but twice during the debate. Apparently this was to make us believe he’s tough on immigration while he’s paying for illegals college education and calling opponents of this practice “heartless.”

It has now come out that Perry operatives are in part behind the Herman Cain sexual harassment story. Interestingly so is former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel. The two candidates who have the most to gain by sweeping Cain aside seem to be working together on this one. Perry believes that he’ll get Cain’s supporters if Cain is forced out. Obama would rather face Mitt Romney than Herman Cain next fall.

In the world of Blogs, Twitter and Facebook, Rick Perry has a legion of nasty supporters who have spent the last month trashing all of the GOP candidates while declaring Perry to be the most inspiring candidate since Reagan. One, Clint Cox, works for Perry’s PAC and is a “social media manager” in Washington state for Perry. Cox got Facebook to censor an event hosted by an anti-illegal immigration group and declared the group “deserved” to be censored. Interestingly yours truly got into a heated discussion with Cox last week when he declared that he would never vote for Cain or the other GOP candidates if they got the nomination. Clint Cox is one of dozens of attack dogs smearing the opposition in favor of Perry.

Perry has a major problem on his hands. He’s a terrible debater and his positions on several issues important to conservatives don’t sit well with us. He’s down big in the polls as a result. His strategy seems to be right out of the Democrats play book. He’s ruthlessly smearing and attacking all of his opponents in the hope that in the end he will be the only one left standing. This isn’t how it should be in a party primary. This primary is a debate about issues, it’s a debate on who can defeat Barack Obama. Rick Perry’s campaign has turned this primary into a series of nasty personal attacks.

Has anyone else noticed that Perry is the only one personally attacking other Republicans. Sure Romney has had some nasty anti Perry ads but they’ve all been focused on the issues. Romney is focused on immigration, Perry is focused on who may have unknowingly had an illegal mowing the lawn. Cain is the conservative front runner, so Perry is leaking nonsense sexual harassment stories about him with help from one of Obama’s Chicago henchmen. Is this who we want to be our Republican nominee? Rick Perry’s debate’s may have destroyed his chance at the nomination in 2012. His nasty personal attack campaign may ensure that he doesn’t get the nomination next time around.

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Cain Needs To Get His Campaign Staff In Order

November 2, 2011 Leave a comment

Herman Cain isn’t a politician and it showed this week. It’s one thing for Cain to make political mistakes, he at least has the excuse that he isn’t a politician. It’s part of his charm. But his campaign team isn’t exactly a bunch of armatures with no history in politics. How the Cain team has handled the bogus sexual harassment claims from the 90′s has been less than adequate. Luckily for Cain, many conservatives see these allegations as leftist attacks (more on who may be responsible for them later) in the same vein as Justice Thomas. In Iowa Republicans don’t seem to care about them at all.

The Cain team knew that a Politico reporter was snooping around this issue 10 days before the story broke. When the story did break, they denied everything. A few hours later they said they knew about the allegations but they were bogus. The next morning Cain acknowledged the accusations existed but there wasn’t a settlement. That evening Cain said there was an agreement with at least one of the women.

All of this shows major incompetence by the Cain team. When the campaign found out a Politico reporter was snooping they did one of two things. They either ignored it and didn’t tell Cain or they asked Cain about it and he blew it off. Both are staff errors. Not confronting Cain is a huge mistake and allowing him to blow it off as nothing is just as bad. That they denied everything at first suggests they never really talked to Herman about the allegations they were hearing. That is a colossal campaign failure that should never happen at this level of politics. Especially so on an issue as potentially explosive as this one.

Cain initially claimed there wasn’t a settlement, later saying there was an agreement. I understand where he’s coming from as a businessman. In his mind a settlement means a lawsuit was filed, which never happened. An agreement is something that most employees sign when they leave a company. The problem here is that he comes off as though he’s parsing words. A good campaign staff would have nipped this in the bud long before Cain appeared on television. At this point, Cain seems to be winging television interviews. I’ll bet good money he ad libs his speeches and more or less wings debates. It’s pretty clear that Cain isn’t being properly prepped for interviews. He probably isn’t prepped at all.

In the end, these allegations are ridiculous and irrelevant. Most Republicans see them for what they are: Baseless attacks on a black conservative. But even on that, Cain is playing the race card when he shouldn’t. A good campaign staff wouldn’t let him play the race card. He doesn’t need to, he has Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of conservative pundits and bloggers playing it for him. Cain himself playing the race card comes off as petty and excuse making. A good campaign staff wouldn’t let him do it. But then a good campaign staff would prep him for interviews, would find out all about the allegations the second they first knew a reporter was looking into them and would have tried to control the story before it was ever printed.

Who is behind all of this? allegations of sexual harassment more than a decade old don’t just show up out of nowhere. Someone at the Restaurant Association knows about these ancient allegations and likely is a supporter of one of Cain’s rivals. This person contacted their team who then got a reporter to investigate further. The question is which one. There are two that are the likely culprits. First is Obama as he is the most threatened by Cain. Cain really can take a third of the black vote and he threatens to destroy the leftist lie that blacks all must think alike and Republicans are racists. Obama wants Romney as the nominee because he believes he can marginalize him with Romneycare and his Wall Street connections. The second is Rick Perry, who has already shown himself as someone who uses the Democrat playbook with his ridiculous attacks on Romney’s lawn mower. Which one it is remains to be seen.

Cain is still a frontrunner for the GOP nomination. His status as the not-politician candidate is great. But he still has to play the political game. This means he needs to be properly prepped for interviews and debates and he needs to at least have a basic outline for his speeches. He can no longer afford to wing it because he’ll continue to get himself into trouble. At some point the party will tire of these seemingly endless gaffes and they’ll turn to someone else.

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Herman Cain Victim of Vile Leftist Sexual Harassment Attack

October 31, 2011 8 Comments

As we predicted on this blog earlier this month Herman Cain is now the subject of what he might consider a “high tech lynching.” Politico alleges that Cain sexually harassed two women when he worked at the National Restaurant Association in the 90′s. Politico proudly declared that they wouldn’t release any names for “privacy concerns” and they so much as acknowledge that their buyouts contracts contain no stated reason as to why they left. In other words, there’s no evidence whatsoever that Cain did anything wrong. Which is of course what he’s claiming today.

This is completely predictable. It’s straight out of the leftist playbook for attacking a prominent black conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas was ruthlessly attacked by the left without any proof whatsoever. Anita Hill had limited credibility and she had even less proof. The same is true in the case against Herman Cain. There’s no evidence whatsoever he did anything wrong. All we have is an article with no names named and a pair of contracts with gag clauses, as though such clauses are only used in cases of sexual harassment.

The ends justify the means with the left. It doesn’t matter whether Herman Cain or Justice Thomas did anything wrong. All that matters is that conservatives aren’t allowed to be black because it destroys the leftist narrative on race in America. The left projects their own racism on conservatives because at the end of the day, it’s the left that doesn’t believe that blacks are capable or should think for themselves. Cain took these people on directly when he declared he left the Democratic plantation. For the left this was a declaration of war that justifies any and all attacks on Herman Cain, true or otherwise.

If Herman Cain wins the GOP nomination, this is only going to get worse. The left will play to the classic racist line that black men are sexual predators and they’ll take it well beyond two unnamed women and a gag clause in a contract. The left imagines that whites are all a bunch of racists (whites are even racist for supporting Cain in the minds of the far left) and thus we shouldn’t be surprised when they trot out a white woman who claims Herman Cain raped her. The leftist mind believes this will destroy Cain’s chances of winning because racist whites will flock to a poor little white girl’s defense against the wicked black sexual predator.

There’s only one problem for the left. No one on the right believes them anymore. Contrary to what the left believes, white conservative Republicans couldn’t give two hoots about race. It’s only the left that believes in racial politics. The right figured out the leftist playbook when they ruthlessly attacked Justice Thomas. We don’t buy their lies about black conservatives. The left has always projected their racism onto conservatives, to this day they don’t understand how it could be possible that conservatives don’t care about race because it goes against their basic political ideology.

Herman Cain was absolutely right to prepare for a high tech lynching. A high tech lynching is what he’s going to get at the hands of leftists who see a black conservative as the biggest threat facing the country. We should expect to see more of these nonsense stories come out about him. If this story doesn’t take hold, they’ll come up with another one. If he wins the nomination, expect the white rape victim (and no doubt a Dem donor and/or George Soros associate) to make her appearance sometime next October. These leftists will stop at nothing.

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GOP Must Focus On Defeating Obama

October 26, 2011 1 Comment

There are problems with all of the GOP Presidential candidates. Most recently Mitt Romney refused to endorse government employee union reforms in Ohio. It’s yet another example of Romney not really being all that conservative. He’s a big government progressive from the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. Last week Herman Cain got into some trouble on abortion, which could be easily remedied by asking him if he will only nominate pro-life judges to the Supreme Court. Rick Perry has a major immigration problem. The other candidates have their own issues or background problems as well.

We can and should have a policy debate within the Republican Party. We clearly have differing opinions on tax reform. Obviously we all want lower taxes, how we achieve that is up for debate. Romney has a tax cut plan that works within the system, Bachmann and Perry have a modified flat tax and we all know about Herman Cain’s 999 plan. We in the GOP should discuss and debate the merits of these proposals and any other issue that comes up.

The problem that I’m seeing right now is that rank and file Republicans are digging their heels in over their candidate. I have heard in the past week “I’ll never vote for x candidate” over and over again. You ask them if they’ll be voting for Obama and they declare they’ll vote third party. Have we lost sight of what the goal here is?

The goal is to defeat Barack Obama. We aren’t going to defeat Obama if all of us in the Republican Party dig our heels in over our candidates. I make no secret that I don’t like Mitt Romney. But Mitt Romney is better than Barack Obama. Yes, they’re both progressives but Obama is so much further to the left of Romney. In the very least Romney will take us over the cliff slower than Obama. I don’t care for Rick Perry either but he’s infinitely better than Obama. I’m concerned about Cain’s inconsistent abortion statements but if he commits to nominating pro-life, strict constructionist judges he will be far better than Obama.

We cannot lose sight of the end goal: Defeating Barack Obama. It’s great to have policy discussions within our party. I’m all in favor of that. But we must never dig our heels in so much that we declare in the 2012 election we won’t vote for certain candidates if they win the nomination. This election is far to important. Our country cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama. If we want outright European socialism, we’ll refuse to vote for the GOP nominee for one petty reason or another. Obama must be defeated a year from now, we Republicans must be prepared to support and vote for whoever wins the nomination.

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October 18th Republican Debate Review

October 19, 2011 Leave a comment

Last night CNN hosted a debate with Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt as host. Keep in mind this host has accused Republicans of lying eight times more than Democrats on his CNN show. Not surprisingly as moderator of the debate Cooper encouraged fighting and asked loaded leftist questions. On to the analysis.

Let’s start with Rick Perry who essentially lost any hope he had last night. Perry came out with over the top attacks on Mitt Romney, including accusing him of hiring illegal house help. He brought this up repeatedly, as though his accusation would somehow make everyone forget he’s giving free college education to illegals in Texas. There’s no point in going through all that went wrong for Perry last night. But it should be noted that all of the stunts Perry pulled were straight out of the Democrat Party handbook. He grew up in that party and he clearly hasn’t given it up.

Herman Cain did not have a particularly good night. He failed to properly address concerns with his 999 plan. His plan is revenue neutral and the middle class isn’t going to be paying more in taxes. What he failed to point out last night is that 999 eliminates FICA and Medicare taxes, which total around 9%. Businesses would no longer pay their share of that 9% to employees, which effectively equals the sales tax increase thus prices wouldn’t rise. Cain had to explain that and he didn’t. It was also incredibly troubling to hear he might negotiate with terrorists for the release of Guantanamo Bay terrorists. He backed off his original statement but it was troubling nonetheless.

Mitt Romney was in the middle of a number of heated exchanges. He bested Cain, Perry and Newt last night. It won’t win him the nomination yet but it puts him a step closer. Romney is certainly capable of being President. His problem remains his flip flopping and his Rockefeller Republicanism. He isn’t a conservative, which is why the party will continue to rate him below 30%. Even after a very strong performance last night.

Newt is perhaps the most knowledgable candidate on state. He knows the conservative position and articulates it better than anyone else. His vow to challenge Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style 3 hour debates with no moderator was priceless. One wonders if Newt doesn’t become the next conservative flavor of the month if Cain drops off. He had another strong performance.

Michele Bachmann’s voice is shrill and she continues to repeat the same old lines. Though I’ll give her credit for not mentioning her 28 children this debate. Nevertheless she mentioned her tax attorney job from 20 years ago and the fact that she’ll repeal Obamacare. Bachmann has strong positions, she makes good arguments. But she makes the same arguments over and over again. The problem I have with Bachmann is that she knows everything that’s wrong with the current administration but she tells us little of her vision to replace all that she would get rid of. Until she can offer a vision outside of getting rid of all things Obama, she can’t possibly be a first tier candidate.

Rick Santorum is the only guy up there talking about the family. The family is the #1 enemy of the progressive left and it always has been. So it’s great to see one of these guys talking about it. But Santorum comes off so whiny. He comes off as the neglected underdog who wants to tell you all about how neglected he is. Last night he seemed to support Iran-Contra, which ought to end his chances completely. When you’re polling under 5% you can’t expect to stick around when you support something like Iran-Contra. Santorum loves to mention how he’s won two elections in blue state Pennsylvania. He neglects to mention he lost his last re-election battle in 2006. It’s time for Santorum to end his campaign.

What does one say about Ron Paul? It wouldn’t be a debate without Paul grousing about the Fed. He can’t help but mention it, as though we don’t know his position. It wouldn’t be a debate without him declaring that terrorists aren’t actually terrorists, as he did yet again last night. If Ron Paul were just running an economic campaign, he wouldn’t be so bad. But Paul has a well thought out foreign policy that is contrary to the overwhelming majority of Republicans. He isn’t like Cain, who’s inexperience can be made up for with solid advisers. Paul has thought about these issues for decades and like the far left he takes the blame America position. This is the single biggest issue keeping him from rising to the level of contender.

Win: Romney because he dished it to everyone and didn’t make any mistakes

Place: Newt, with Cain’s fall Newt took advantage and may be the next flavor of the month

Show: Bachmann, she’s shrill and didn’t offer anything new but she at least does a good job saying the same thing over and over again. But let’s face it, no one else did a good enough job to come in third place.

Big  Losers: Perry’s campaign is done after last nights debate. Cain didn’t do as good a job as he should have but he has enough support right now that he has a chance to rebound.

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