The Other Guy Wrote:
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> Read this article from a very, very conservative
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/charges_aga
> inst_cain_cannot_be_ignored.html
The writer of that article is not particularly conservative. They have written 2 articles for the site - the first was a whiner, and the 2nd, this. While it is important to fully vet folks (which never happened with Obama - people were too busy cleaning their pants every time they talked about him), there is a point where you have to trust that someone of decent common sense, wisdom in how the world works, and the ability to direct and motivate people will do a good job.
Jimmy Carter was a great example - a peanut farmer from Georgia who went to the Naval Academy and eventually commanded a nuclear sub. Sound great, except there was never any reason to believe he had a fluent command of foreign policy, or even an inkling of whatever passes as domestic policy other than having served one term as governor of Georgia. His great passion was human rights, and evidently he was very good at nuclear physics. Some would argue he was a good candidate - but the evidence of his failures still haunts Democrats today - as does his frequent support for folks on the wrong side of the argument for American foreign policy. The main good thing he will be remembered for is Habitat for Humanity - I will give him credit for that. Otherwise he is a whack job.
Whether it ends up with Cain, or someone else for the Republicans - other than the media painting it so, none of the folks out there today are any worse or better than others we have seen in the past. But the media wants us all to believe that somehow these folks, with their issues good or bad, are somehow all that much worse than Obama. Obama just foisted a really good snow job on the American people, aided and abetted by the MSM - and honestly, his performance hasn't been so great that any of these folks contending today could do much worse.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University