Herman Cain wins Tea Party straw poll with 77% of vote

[IndyPragmatist]

Schaumburg, Ill. - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain won the TeaCon 2011 Straw Poll with 77% of the vote. Organizers say Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich came in second and third place.

Greeted like a rock star, newly crowned Republican presidential candidate frontrunner Herman Cain was the main attraction at the Midwest Tea Party Convention, TeaCon 2011 in Schaumburg, Illinois.

According to Cain, “This patriot movement is what's going to save this nation. No, not hope darling, we will save this nation… I kind of like clinging to my guns and Bibles and I'm not going to let them go.”

A week ago Cain won the Florida Conservative Political Action Conference Straw Poll surging into the top tier among nearly a dozen GOP presidential candidates including Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/herman-cain-teacon-michele-bachmann-newt-gingrich-presidential-candidate-20111001

[dkf]

1. Crazy!

[malaise]

2. Wins what?

Look Cain is part of the group for one reason - to attempt to divide the Afro-Amiercan vote. It's all orchestrated - these are his few weeks to try to divide and rule.
Fuck that self-hating asshole and fuck all ReTHUGS

[IndyPragmatist]

4. His 9-9-9 plan is really popular with the right

He is the only person who is showing an actual plan for tax reform. Obama claims he wants to reform the tax code, but he hasn't shown a plan and I don't believe he actually pushes it. None of the other Republicans, sans Ron Paul, will do anything to eliminate the tax breaks for the rich and corporations. Cain is very popular now with a lot of people...not just Republicans. I'm seeing quite a few independents supporting him.

[Syrinx]

3. weird, but there is zero chance that the Republicans will nominate a black guy

No chance at all.

[Courtesy Flush]

9. If he were on the ticket

It might keep a lot of republicans from voting at all. They just can't pull the lever for a Black man.

[JoePhilly]

5. For just 9.99 you also get crazy bread.

[NBachers]

6. Here I Am - Rockin' Like A Herman Cain!

[KharmaTrain]

7. I Doubt There Were 77 People There...

:rofl:

The organizer of this swillfest was hiding after it was revealed he was busted for cavorting with the world's oldest profession and the protestors and media outnumbered everyone else.

Thank goodness the Democrats don't need to play these stupid games to get attention and scam money. Cain's 15 minutes are soon to end...the party estabishment can't control him and don't own him.

[Raschel]

8. He's a kook. Here's some of Pizza Man's Krazy Quotes:

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

Stupid people are ruining America.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Don't try to pass a 2,700 page bill – and even they didn't read it! You and I didn't have time to read it. We’re too busy trying to live – send our kids to school. That's why I am only going to allow small bills – three pages. You’ll have time to read that one over the dinner table. What does Herman Cain, President Cain talking about in this particular bill?"

I said, well, Sean , first of all if really thinks that I’m serious about a bill only being three pages the joke’s on him. And I said secondly as far as him mocking me look I’ve been called every name in the book because I’m a conservative, because I’m black.....
So the fact that he (Stewart) wants to mock me because I happen to be a black conservative, in the words of my Grandfather, “I does not care. I does not care.”

"America has got to learn to take a joke." - Cain, when asked about his alligator moat to stop immigration.