Umm, Herman Cain is black. Why would anyone believe the GOP would nominate him?

Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that the racists who inhabit the GOP would actually let Herman Cain be their presidential candidate?

The MSM is going along with this charade. Cable "news" is going along with this charade. Wingnut pundits are going along with this charade.

And worst of all, Herman Cain is going along with this charade.

Would anyone who actually believes this bullshit "candidacy" please raise your hand and speak up.

Cain could look, act, talk, and walk like the great saint ronnie raygun and he still can't overcome the pigment of his skin.

I think he knows the reality of the situation. He's paying himself a salary from his campaign funds. That tells me that he knows the score.

The racists in the GOP would never nominate Cain. He is dead in the water but apparently just doesn't know it yet. The guy seems to have a HUGE ego.

its open, and if the Repukes could fuck with my primary and vote for Hillary, I can fuck with theirs. :evilgrin:

and a Cain 2012 sticker on the other end. Racists make exceptions all the time.

In reality, no freakin' way.

He's toast.

but we need to remember how stupid their base is, they may just fall for their own trick.

In this case I don't think they would ever nominate Cain, but he may make it far enough that the republican racists get riled up are ruin any good PR they may have gotten.

Cain is pretending to be serious, when all he wants to do is make some money, a la Palin, and the Teabagger Republican Party pretends to believe him.

He'll be gone as soon as Iowa is over, he has no organization, no real money, no real chance, and bigots as potential voters.

to help the ruling elite maintain the social imbalances that allow them to have a disproportionate amount of wealth.
If a black president will help them maintain the imbalances,they will allow him to get elected.

so why not a loss the GOPers can live with....makes PERFECT DENSE

barely tolerable to southern R's. A black dem/liberal is the hysteria material, practically the anti-christ.

retribution

he wouldn't be doing so well in the polls. Cain presents himself well to a GOP audience. Don't know why he couldn't be nominated.

On thing that is strange, though. Cain's surge coincided with Perry's plunge. So it would appear that a lot of Perry's supporters moved to Cain. So a lot of GOP voters must have had Perry at #1 and Cain at #2.

I checked out a RW forum when Palin announced she wasn't running, and most of them said they'd be moving to Cain.

than other places. Scratching my head.

If you think it's about anything other than that, please be more specific.

good grief. It's appalling. It should not matter the color of a man or woman's skin, yet we seem to want to speak to that every day here. Get's tiring.

Just my point of view.

Let's debate his plan. Let's debate his stance on abortion and woman's rights. If he wins the nomination are WE going to be the ones bringing up race???? Ironic hyperbole on our part methinks.

I scratch my head often.

the moderates in the republican party decided to take their ball and go home. they voted for obama or did`t vote for anyone for senator.
keyes won 3 districts and a earth shattering 27% vote the vote. the green and socialist candidate split the 3%

things. But, keyes comes off as very boring and intellectual when he speaks. He has no charisma. cain on the other hand has a folksy way of pulling people in.
I believe that is why keyes never did well in the polls and never will and cain is holding his own for now.

and they will tell themselves that unlike Obama, they(rethugs)own Cain. Which they will after all the money via campaign contributions. Cain wont care either - he's already proven that he'll say or do anything to get elected.

'You see the Republican Party isn't racist. We nominated a Black man for President.'

Well the Democratic Party is in their face with that meme. We "elected"

but it would be the closest thing to a hollow victory as you can get. Just as Bachmann would have been, though slightly less so. Generally speaking, they feel that whites are superior and females are subordinate. Bachmann herself admitted to subordination to her husband.

They would indeed nominate him BECAUSE he is black, in their effort to prove "we aren't racist!!!"

The difference being, he's THEIR black guy, their "boy." He is being used big time, and I believe he knows it and doesn't care, because he's just a male version of Palin (selling books and speaking engagements). I do think he'll be surprised if he ends up being the nominee, only because that doesn't seem to have been his goal; again, $$ -- a la Palin -- is his goal, imho.

Herman Cain is the "I have a black friend" version of Republican politics, just as Michael Steele was in a similar position.


Edit to add that Bill Maher was spot on when he said the Republicans look at Cain and say, "Why can't they all be like him?!"

Racist and bigoted to the core, and Cain is the ideal pawn, since I believe he's a bigot, or at least plays one on TV.

I just shook it off, but their may be something to it.
Time will tell.


Personally, I think Cain is a cooky old man. He rubs me the wrong way and it has nothing to do with color.


..........They would indeed nominate him BECAUSE he is black, in their effort to prove "we aren't racist!!!"

Yes, the powers that be pull the strings.

But here's the problem. Cain is not a stupid man. What if he actually ended up in the Oval Office and decided to "Go Rogue." What if he decided to implement his own agenda? Do you really think that those who own America want to take that chance?

My guess is that if the GOP controlled both houses of congress and "President Cain" didn't follow orders, they would quickly pass a law to make it legal to publicly lynch him. And yes, I know how ugly that sounds, given the history of this country. But this is the Republican Party we're talking about.

I would imagine TPTB are still determining who can be controlled the most (seems Romney consistently fits the bill for those who pull the strings).

I suppose I was speaking more to the average racist Republican voter (not that I think all are racist, but a certain subset most definitely is, imho), and the fact that they would indeed vote for him for the reasons I gave.

It goes hand in hand with Limbaugh convincing these same people since Obama came onto the scene that they aren't racist, even though prior to 2008 they were proud to claim that label.

:)

he's really out of his league and not Presidential material at all. He's profiting right now from his run, he'll pull a Palin and ride off to the bank with his $$--and if he doesn't, they'll shut him down. The GOP isn't totally suicidal, they'll run a governor/former gov. when all is said and done.

cognitive dissonance. They believe one thing, they behave another way.

Several people here have already nailed it: a combination of faux tolerance ("See! We aren't racist at all") and a weirdly sneaky belief that a conservative black man can defeat the liberal satanist socialist Kenyan Obama.

I would love to see Cain nominated and then see what happens when all those nice, closeted racists realize that if they're going to vote for either major party candidate they will have to vote for -- gasp! -- a colored person! I think you'd see someone making a pretty good run as an independent/third party candidate which would pull significant votes from Cain. Which would, of course, pretty much guarantee the re-election of Obama.

I would also love to see those debates. Obama is so obviously the smartest man in the room everywhere he goes, and Cain, while certainly no dunce, just isn't in the same ball park.

absolves white voters from being charged with racism if a Repuke puts Barack Obama out of the White House.

Do I believe that? Of course not, but it's the answer to your question.

He is being Uncle Tom'd so to speak....

kind of terrible joke.

of course they would, if it would defeat obama.

They hate black people, he hates black people, what's not to like?

Bob Somerby frequently says that liberals' favorite sport is calling other people racists. And then we wonder why those people we've just insulted don't vote for us.

maybe even a FOX News job, and sell books. He never had any intention of being a serious candidate.

and not a power in his own rite.