when Barack Obama goes to sleep, he dreams the GOP nominates Herman Cain

[scheming daemons]

It will never happen, but it would be glorious if it did.

Let's not destroy him too soon. Let him be a headache for Romney for a while first.

[On the Road]

1. I Wouldn't be So Sure It Would Never Happen

You and I may look at Cain's interviews and see ignorance and red flags all over the place, but GOP primary voters don't seem to see it that way.

If he does get nominated, though, I agree with you. Despite being able to hire the best Republican handlers, he's going to come off as a lightweight who's out of touch with political issues.

Romney at least knows what he's doing.

[humbled_opinion]

4. LOL I tried that too...

Reply is this ...."You idiots on the left already set the lowest qualification standards of a any President by hiring a community organizer that had little to no government experience before kicking off his campaign and had absolutely no business experience, no wonder the economy is in the tank and the world is a firestorm of shit right now....Followed by..."you idiots should have stuck with Hillary at least then you could have used that qualifications argument....

[humbled_opinion]

2. Be careful what you wish for....

At work today and I work with a group of full on Teahadists, I started up a conversation about the Cain 999 plan and how it being such a regressive tax it would hurt the poor the most.... The first thing out of their mouths was, "are you a racist or something? You obvioulsy don't like Cain because he's a real black man, not a half black man, like the one you voted for, not a black man that grew up with his rich white granny and rich white friends and went to rich white schools and didn't go through any of the tribulations that a real black man like Herman Cain born in the south to American parents who came from slavery's roots and blah, blah, blah....

It kind of shocked me a little my only response was I never judge Politicians by the color of their skin only by the content of their character...

That started another whole diatribe so I just shut up after that....

[LuvNewcastle]

5. That's what a contest between Cain and Obama

would be, I fear, a race to see who's blacker. We would see the nadir of American politics in an Obama vs. Cain match, and Republicans are very good at rolling around in the muck. People should be careful what they wish for.

[scheming daemons]

8. Oh, stop it. Cain ain't Reagan. Hell, he ain't even Goldwater.

The ONLY people who would vote for Cain is the teahadists.... and there ain't enough of them.


Cain is EXACTLY what I wish for in a GOP candidate. An unwinnable candidacy.


Certainly better than a Romney nomination... Romney could possibly get enough independents to win.

[humbled_opinion]

12. Interesting you think like that....

Typically the Republican candidate gets very little support (5 percent max) from the black community. If Herman Cain was to somehow capture just 20 percent of those that would have typically voted Democratic the result would be about an overall 10 percentage point swing in the national average if you think that isn't much understand that Obama only won the 2008 election by 6 percentage points and that was a near landslide victory. In a close election Democrats would have not chance. Besides it would create a new narrative and potentially create momentum to push regressive conservative religious views....

Again Cain has already claimed and will continue to talk about his personal story and battles with segregation and the American Dream.... Obama is vulnerable to this kind of attack and a strong response from any white Democrats could be perceived as racist......

It is very troubling to think that Herman Cain may be the Republican nominee.... I hope and pray he is not.....

[Rene Descartes]

3. If I recall, Jimmy Carter had a similar dream...

[pnwmom]

7. Precisely. nt

[scheming daemons]

9. Uh, no.... Cain ain't no Reagan.

Romney is the scarier candidate for Obama, because Romney could win enough independent voters to pull this off.


Cain would get less than 40% of the vote.



Reagan was a governor of the largest state. He knew politics, had charisma, and had proven he knew how to run a government.


Cain's a joke that would have trouble getting Ross Perot-type numbers.


Some of you people have no sense of political reality.

[Rene Descartes]

11. You are overlooking the effect Cain would have on the black vote.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. And you're overlooking the effect Cain would have on the base of racists....

....the GOP has cultivated.

[pnwmom]

6. I think it could easily happen. And that doesn't make me comfortable. n/t

[flamingdem]

10. Looks like Perry will continue to nip Mittens heels

Why not bring up the MAGIC UNDERWEAR?