Read that Cain got an influential endorsement that day. Good show.
Also Perry's crew hired some of Crist's old hands and that didn't set well.
Handlers are like used car salesmen. I hope he fired whoever hired the Crist people
and the people he hired. If you can't manage your crew you can't manage America.
Cain's crew has been chided as "amateur hour", he picked his own people and shied
away from professional hired guns. Looks like he has a loyal crew.
Now see, as I previously wrote, that is a TEA Party attitude, a TEA Party tenet of belief. No more professional pols! (A strike against Palin, as well. But I do view her different, on my side, the side against the media and the elites, against government intrusion into our lives. That Palin now hails from Alaska may be one of her best, and untapped, assets. I don't mean doing a tv reality show, but that she really does represent the last of who we as a people are -- or were. She's from the last outpost of rugged individualism. Where meat does not come in plastic from a grocery store.) Cain wouldn't be known outside of business/industry circles today unless tens of thousands of people around the country hadn't risen up in recent years (has it been that long already?) to let the government know it had overstepped its role, to petition them for redress of grievances (and 'get yer thievin' hands outta my pocket' is definitely a grievance worth being redressed).
I admit that when I first heard about Herman Cain, and listened to some of his words on YouTube, I wasn't "excited," but I was comfortable with him being in the race, as opposed to Romney. I like Cain for the fact that he is not a professional pol (although being a CEO can rightly be argued to be a political position as well as a business one), that he brings that perspective to a White House and Washington that has completely lost touch with "the business of America [being] business" -- and not the government manufacturing red tape. Not picking winners and losers, whether on a business or concept scale, like car dealerships or the glowbull warming scam. Cain brings to the table something none of the others can bring: He has not served (to my knowledge) in a political office. He, for the moment (until circumstances change), is one of us, one of the not-Washington D.C. people. I can't see Cain worrying about what the cocktail party circuit thinks (unlike Obama, who is a poll-watching vulture). Cain is bringing something to the table, he is bringing back the whole onerous concept of public duty, of doing some service in a public office, but eventually going home and back to your family and business, back to your life. (And, honestly, I don't think Cain would be running if a white Dem had been as communist as Obama has been; I think it is Obama's very skin tone that has brought Cain into the race.) When was the last time there was a serious candidate for president who hadn't held public office? Eisenhower? (It has been argued, though, being C-in-C at SHAEF was definitely a political as well as a military position.) We could do worse than Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza*. Much worse. Obama could be reelected.
* When it's put like that, it's kind of funny. But then you compare that to Obama's resume bullet point, the Annenburg Project (which was called Obama's business experience as he was on the board), well, it's not even a fair comparison. I know Obama got where he is by being lightly challenged, even pushed along; I cannot see affirmative-action as being a part of Cain's business experience. Cain is a presidential candidate who happens to be black, not a black presidential candidate. And that's a distinction with a difference.