Even the craziest Tea Party leader understands: Time for Cain to drop out

[ck4829]

Tea Party Nation head Judson Phillips says that Herman Cain should leave the GOP presidential race after his excruciating stumble in an interview with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Phillips, who has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president, was referring to Cain’s inability to respond to a question about the crisis in Libya. “It is obvious Cain is in over his head and simply clueless,” Phillips writes in an alert to members yesterday, “Watching Herman Cain stumble around looking for an answer is beyond painful.”

"I was wrong.

It is not messaging. Cain cannot talk about anything else. Tonight there is a video from the Journal Sentinel online that show an interview with Herman Cain. Forget the sexual harassment allegations. Forget Mark Block’s gross incompetence. Herman Cain needs to leave the race because he is not qualified to be President. The video is painful to watch. It is obvious Cain is in over his head and simply clueless.

And this man wants to be the Commander in Chief making decisions? Candidates have something called briefing books. These are prepared by staffers and contain, among other things, topics candidates are expected to have at least a passing knowledge of. Cain may not be expected to know the name of the President of Montenegro or the Prime Minister of Moldavia, but Libya is a question that will obviously come up."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-leader-calls-cain-drop-out-following-libya-flub

[FSogol]

1. If cluelessness, gross incompetence, & allegations of wrongdoing were applied to all GOP

candidates, who would be left? :shrug:

[HopeHoops]

2. They're using him as a distraction to shield the other morons.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Cain doesn't have political experience and it's really beginning to show. n/t

[Raschel]

8. You don't even need political experience to answer that question. Most of us on DU know more about

Libya than ol' Cornpone does!

:hi:

[PoliticAverse]

10. I agree, but politicians are much better at avoiding a question when they don't remember the answer.

[Raschel]

11. Oh, yep. Good point.

[joeybee12]

4. Leave Herm Alone! That was a "Gotcha!" Question

:sarcasm:

[Raschel]

9. Plus he had "lots of things swirling around in his head".

:rofl:

[GodlessBiker]

5. No! Stay in Herman. Keep on chugging along. You are a great representative for the repuke party.

[NeedleCast]

6. Tea Partier Not Happy Their Pony Isn't Winning

Going to see a lot of this for the next several months as various tea party factions call for one candidate or another (never the one they endorse) to drop out.

[dtexdem]

7. Exactly why I hope he stays in.

And I hope he comes out with crap that hurts Mitt and the other GOP idiots.

[Orsino]

12. Cain's staying in the race would eventually mean...

...that GOP candidates would have to start addressing the issues of the victims of sexual harrassment, which would only reveal their ignorance and callousness.

If Cain drops out, the rest of the field can return to ignoring victims.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Where was Judson Philipps during the 2000 election?

George Bush knew nothing about foreign policy and his father had to hire Condi to wipe his nose. Bush couldn't identify any foreign leaders. HE vwasn't qualified either. These are just a few select quotes from the 2000 campaign when Bush made Cain look like a genius by comparison:


You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for President.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

I watched his interview with her (death row inmate Carla Faye Tucker), though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder. 'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'

If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.

Rarely is the question asked,... our... is our children learning?

If you're a single mother with two children—which is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concerned—you're working hard to put food on your family.

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.

This is an impressive crowd — the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base.

This issue doesn't seem to resignate (sic) with the people.

...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

They misunderestimated me.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. ..."Phillips, who has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president,"....

Well, Duh. Of course he'd want Herman out.