Insane In The Cain Membrane: "As a descendent of slaves, I can lead the Republican party to victory"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

In a new Iowa mailer, Herman Cain says he believes he will be the 2012 GOP nominee because he’s a descendant of slaves who can garner a large share of the black vote, he didn’t inherit a dime, he has traveled the globe for years, and he’s a believer in Jesus Christ.

“The news media and the Republican establishment are stunned!” says the first line of the seven-page mailer. “I am now the front runner in the race for the Republican Presidential campaign and the highly regarded Rasmussen poll shows me defeating President Obama.”

A “poll” asks people to check a box for a candidate among a list of nine in alphabetical order, including Gary Johnson.

Cain lists several points on why he thinks he will win the nomination, including that “as a descendent of slaves I can lead the Republican party to victory by garnering a large share of the black vote, something that has not been done since Dwight Eisenhower garnered 41 percent of the black vote in 1956.”

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/11/19/herman-cain-mailer-tells-iowans-he-will-win-gop-race-because-of-black-vote/

[Jumping John]

1. That picture is very telling of a white southern man (Perry) compelled to

to take the rare opportunity to take a close look at the skin of a black man.

[liberal N proud]

2. Does not look him in the eye says a lot

[msongs]

4. or not. he could be looking at the flowers. or a few seconds either way their gazes could be

totally directed at each other or both looking at something else

[Deep13]

3. Mr. Cain, you are what you make yourself. nt

[WilliamPitt]

5. Ow.

My brain.

[libinnyandia]

6. A descendant of slaves who wasn't very involved in the

movement to give them civil rights denied to them by the racist state govermnents in the South. And a member of the party which gained power in the South because of the Civil Rights Movement.

[MFrohike]

7. more like can lead other descendants back into slavery...

Am I right?

[Vincardog]

9. SOMEBODY sold them into slavery in the first place. I wonder which side of that transaction Cain's

ancestors were on?

[MFrohike]

11. I can't speak about his ancestors

I can make an educated guess as to what he himself would do.

[Vincardog]

8. OH I am afraid this son of slaves successful black Bidness man will win the GOP Nomination

[louis-t]

10. Cain was an experiment to see if Kochs could buy a president.

Nothing more.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Mentioning his name in the same sentence as Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower actively sought and earned the support of the African American community through his actions. He promoted the Civil Rights Act which was eventually introduced in Eisenhower's presidency in 1957 and was one of the things that kick-started the civil rights movement. In 1957, Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock when Governor Faubus refused to integrate the schools. Do you think any modern Republican would support the federal government by sending federal troops to deny a states' rights assertion of state power? Eisenhower wasn't exactly a complete liberal but he was light years ahead of the whackos seeking the nomination like Cain.

[Enrique]

13. that angle worked really well for Alan Keyes against Obama in 2004

in case anyone remembers who he was. :rofl:

[dembotoz]

14. those republicans==they say the darndest things