Is Herman Cain a Contender?
Posted: 5 October, 2011 Filed under: Election 2012, Politics | Tags: conservative politics, Politics, presidential election, republican Leave a comment »Is Herman Cain a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination? It’s a question no one in the pundit world was asking until the past week.
Cain has never held public office. When he ran for the Senate in Georgia in 2004, he lost the primary by a 52 percent to 26 percent margin.
He has zero experience in foreign or defense policy, where presidents have the most leeway to set policy. When questioned about the Middle East earlier this year, he clearly had no idea what the “right of return” is.
His solid performance in the Fox News/Google debate Sept. 22 didn’t get pundits to take his chances seriously. Read the rest of this entry »
