POLITICO.COM : Not only can Obama be reelected, but he is the favorite right now. Why? Because Obama has one huge plus going for him. It’s called the Republican field. - Why Do Republicans keep looking for a messiah to save them ?

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Herman Cain is a wonderful Human Being and Person, but the rise of Herman Cain in polls shows the Republicans Desperation with their Bad Candidates. Republicans are incredible confused and with no solid message or narrative.

Obama’s campaign staff in Chicago has been doing many things — raising money, shaping strategy, developing a message — but it also has been doing just one thing: counting to 270. Which it does awfully well.

270 is the number of Electoral Votes that the Democrats need for another Obama term.

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Who will be the GOP messiah?

By Roger Simon, POLITICO’s chief political columnist.

Thursday, October 6, 2011


Who will be the GOP messiah?


Some excerpts :

A CBS poll released Tuesday shows that Cain has moved into a tie with Romney for first place in the Republican field. (After the poll was released, ugly rumors circulated that Warren G. Harding had come in third, even though he has been dead for 88 years.)

So what do I make of Cain’s (meaningless) rise in the (meaningless) polls?

It is meaningless. And a sign of how badly Republicans are still floundering in their search for a candidate. Cain is a genial, harmless dodo who thinks running a country is just like running a business. But it isn’t.

In business, your competitors rarely strive to develop nuclear weapons like Iran (a subject Cain knows almost nothing about). In business, rarely do your competitors have the capacity to clash in ways that could involve the armed forces of the United States, such as China with Taiwan or Israel with its neighbors (two areas of the world that Cain has demonstrated remarkable ignorance about). And in business, you don’t have to feed the hungry, house the homeless or heal the sick.

True, Cain is a man with a domestic plan. Unfortunately for him, it is an utterly hopeless one. Whatever the economic merits of his 9-9-9 plan, it is doomed to political failure because, among other things, it would have Americans give up something they like — their home mortgage interest deduction — for something they won’t like: a 9 percent national sales tax that would be levied on top of state and local taxes.

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