All I can say is that the more I hear from him, the more I like him – and the more irritating become things like Hewitt urging the GOP to freeze candidates like Cain out of the GOP primary debates.
Cain has the take no prisoners attitude of Donald Trump without all the baggage. He has the intellectual acumen of someone like Gingrich without the over-theorizing which leads to freakishly weird things like slamming the Ryan plan. He is an outsider who understands how the political game is played. He is a practical, experienced man at a time when career politicians are in bad repute. He’s got the great, personal narrative which shows he knows how regular Americans have to live and struggle. In some respects, he is ideal…
So, why hold back? For me, it is an unwillingness to commit to anyone this early. But what about the rest of you? Are their objections to Cain which I haven’t thought of? Other good things about him I haven’t learned? Can he win the nomination and beat President Obama?
What are your thoughts?
