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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 15, 2011

Herman Cain, a black conservative, a strong contender for the GOP presidential nomination

I’ve not made much effort yet to determine which GOP candidate(s) I’ll support for the 2012 election. It’s still too early in the game, not enough debates have been conducted, stances on hot-topic issues have not all been revealed, and not everyone’s hat has yet been tossed into the metaphorical ring.

However, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, Herman Cain, is looking very strong in the presenting of his conservative values and other directions for the country that I deem important. He loves America, embraces free market principles, has been a successful businessman, and is a true patriot.

Will I vote for him? Considering that many of the potential candidates that the mainstream media is trying to force down our throats as “viable” candidates are tired old RINOs and career politicians, if I had to vote right this very minute with the information I have about him today, I’d say “yes.”

Time will tell. It’s still premature, I know of no skeletons in his closet — but I trust that scores of DNC-hired lawyers will be working their overpaid tushes off to dig up or fabricate dirt on him. Liberal journalists have already castigated him, at least one has called him disgusting racist names, as was pointed out in February by Michelle Malkin — ah, the “age of civility” and curtailing “hate-talk” that never applies to liberals:

Tea party favorite and former Godfather’s Pizza President Herman Cain is another outspoken black conservative businessman who has earned the civility mob’s lash. Two weeks ago, a cowardly liberal writer derided Cain as a “monkey in the window,” a “garbage pail kid” and a “minstrel” who performs for his “masters.”

Monkey. Parrot. Puppet. Lawn jockey. Uncle Tom. Aunt Thomasina. Oreo. Coconut. Banana. We minority conservatives have heard it all.

The Other McCain masterfully slammed the racist hit piece written by black liberal Chauncey DeVega, and includes this background about Cain:

Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of insulting liberal condescension, they surprise you:

Black History Month is Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC

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Having known Herman Cain since 2007, I can testify that what you see is what you get. And the thousands of people who’ve met Cain at Tea Party rallies and other events would tell you the same thing.

At this point, Cain is one of two at the top of my presidential short list.

From Examiner, Herman Cain attempts to build momentum at Macon’s GOP convention:

Herman Cain spoke in front of thousands of people in Macon on Saturday morning, May 14th with hopes of building support for his campaign to be the country’s next President of the United States.

Cain, an African-American Republican, energized the conservative crowd with his speech that detailed how the ‘American Dream’ is under attack by a wavering economy along with a burgeoning debt.

Cain has never won elected office, but is trying to become the second African-American to become President. Currently, he is a radio show host at WSB-AM in Atlanta and had been the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza.

“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This!”– Herman Cain Debates in South Carolina – Highlights from May 2011 Debate

From HillBuzz, Herman Cain: Obama’s Worst Nightmare:

I’ve been a fan of Herman Cain’s since I heard him guest hosting The Neal Boortz Show out of Atlanta.

Cain truly is a nightmare candidate for the Left, as evidenced in his CPAC speech, below. He offends the Left with his self-reliance, education, plain speaking and insistence on personal responsibility.

Herman Cain to Obama at CPAC: “U.S. Will Not Become U.S. of Europe on our Watch” | February 2011

This was written four months ago by C. Edmund Wright at American Thinker – Top Ten Reasons to Support Herman Cain for President:

Even those conservatives who will not vote for Herman Cain to win the Republican nomination should hope that he does run — and that his candidacy lasts a long time during the nomination process, perhaps even succeeding.

Not the least of reasons is that a Cain candidacy would be a hoot. And I do not mean that in a derisive or condescending way at all. I mean that it would be the kind of doggone honest and refreshing campaign the country needs. It would be the opposite of the stale McCain run. Cain does not speak Washington drivel, and he’s not afraid to take a strong position. Dare I say it? He’ll call a spade a spade, and he’ll reach across the aisle only to smack someone down. He will admit what McCain would not: that we do have a lot to fear from an Obama presidency.

Herman Cain is peerless among the long list of potential candidates — and his impact on the field and the direction of the party will be in the direction of free enterprise, less government, and speaking with boldness — you know, pretty much the opposite of what the GOP has done since Newt’s Congress lost steam in the mid- to late ’90s.

Click here to read Wright’s list of 10 reasons to vote for Cain. Summary:

This would be the hope and change America thought they were getting in 2008. This would be ticket not so much of “racial healing” as it would be the ticket of “just get over the race thing.” Because liberalism is joined at the hip with the race pimp industry, a liberal African-American cannot by definition do for the country what a black conservative can. A black liberal winning reinforces counterproductive stereotypes. A conservative black winning crushes them. Period.

Cain wrote this editorial just before the 2010 election — step one has been accomplished, on to steps two and three, patriots:

Conservative Republican control of the House is step one. Taking control of the Senate is step two, regardless of whether we do it in 2010 or 2012. And step three is electing a conservative president in 2012. It will not be as easy as one-two-three, but it can be done and it must be done to take back our government.

This two-year hijacking of our government by an ultra-liberal president and Congress has put this country on a fast and dangerous path to socialism. It has been fast when you consider how fast the national debt has escalated while the economy has stalled. And even though we survived the financial meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, we are still dangerously close to a double-dip recession. Even worse, a depression is possible depending upon the actions of the upcoming lame duck session of Congress.

The first priority for the newly elected Congress is to rebuild some credibility with the American people. The new political party in control must do what it said it would do, even if it does not ultimately become law. The people are tired of being lied to, deceived and ignored. Congress’s approval rating is at an all-time low for those reasons.

The voters also want the spending and spending deception to stop in a dramatic way. A $1 trillion stimulus bill has not stimulated the economy. It has created 198,000 new federal government jobs, while private sector jobs have decreased by more than 7 million since the end of 2007. The new Congress should do something dramatic, such as ending earmarks in proposed legislation, or refusing to allow any increases in federal budgets, except maybe national security spending and homeland security.

More on the racist attack against Herman Cain written in February…

From The Right Sphere, The Next Target of the Racist Left: Herman Cain:

The Left is fond of accusing conservatives of being racists. The tactic is part of their DNA. Disagree with a black politician? You’re a racist. Nevermind that you disagree with white politicians who hold the same positions. It doesn’t matter. Take ObamaCare as an example. The law was written by a group that consists almost entirely of white people. That fact has not stopped the Left from declaring that the only reason most people oppose the law is because they’re racist, even if subconsciously so. “Republicans hate poor people, especially poor minorities.” This is a core belief among the Left. It essentially defines them. Guess what? They’re hypocrites.

They’ve been attacking Clarence Thomas since as long as I can remember. With ObamaCare lawsuits making their way to the Supreme Court, the attacks have been increasing. They’re demanding he recuse himself over nonsense. A few weeks ago, Leftist protesters were recorded saying that Thomas should be “strung up” and sent “back to the fields.”

They’ve focused their attacks on Congressman Allen West since he became a rising star in the Republican Party. Calling him a war criminal and even suggesting he was part of a criminal bike gang.

Now that Herman Cain is gaining popularity in conservative circles, the Left has found a new target. Cain threatens their strangle hold on the minority vote therefore he must be destroyed at all costs.

From Gateway Pundit, Hateful Leftist Racists Attack Herman Cain: They “Always Need a Monkey in the Window”:

Conservatives in the media are consistently being attacked for their alleged racism. They accuse Tea party protesters, Republicans, Conservatives and pretty much everyone else on the right of vile racism on a regular basis. All it takes is for someone to cry racism (no evidence needed) and it becomes headline news on MSNBC for 3 straight days. All of this when there’s is literally NO evidence of such racism.

But when someone on the left displays blatant racism that couldn’t be more obvious, like the recent attack by liberal protesters calling for Clarence Thomas to be lynched, they are given a pass in the media.

Now we see another blatant attack from a writer at Alternet going after Herman Cain and his recent CPAC speech in what can only be described as truly vile and disgusting racism in its purity.

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Once again, indisputable evidence of clear and present racism on the left. Will the NAACP make a statement? Will Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson make their media rounds condemning Alternet for this hit piece? Will MSNBC spend three straight days on the out of control racism on the left?

I’m not holding my breath.

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