What does a Herman Cain candidacy mean for true patriots?

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Herman Cain  is a product of our America, not some made-up fantasmagorical political character constructed by the democrat machine. Herman Cain comes to us from his own self made energy and life evolved character.

Herman Cain candidacy uplifts many Americans

By Star Parker

 

Freedom is not about warmed-over conventional wisdom. It's about ideals, humility, originality -- and embracing the unexpected and unanticipated.

 

It's not just conservatives who are frustrated today. It is all Americans who long to see their nation regain its vitality, restoring freedom and prosperity at home and shining the light of human potential across the planet.

What is particularly frustrating is that the party out of power, the Republican Party, is supposed to be carrying the torch for these values. But it's barely happening. The Party has become bogged down with careerists, rearview-mirror thinkers and its own inside-the-beltway elite.

Nothing could speak more to this problem than establishment attitudes toward the remarkable Herman Cain.

Take, for instance, a recent column by conservative columnist Mona Charen.

After extolling Cain's compelling virtues -- his rags-to-riches success story, his love of America and the values that make it great, and the courageous ideas he has put on the table in his campaign -- Ms. Charen dismisses his candidacy for president. "He lacks the kind of experience the office requires," she writes, and "political skills ... necessary in a political job."

Others who dismiss Cain point to his lack of a national organization, essential for raising the kind of money a presidential campaign needs.

I just don't see it this way.

The American presidency is not a political job. The American president is the leader of the free world. The job, of course, demands political skills, but so does every job that requires working with other human beings.

One of America's worst presidents -- the former Senate Majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson -- had more of these political skills than perhaps anyone who ever held the office.

What he critically lacked was a clear vision and commitment to American principles of limited government and personal integrity.

The single most powerful asset that a new American president can bring to Washington is the support of the American people. A president with a vision, and popular support for that vision, will have the Washington political establishment jumping to his beck and call.

What makes Herman Cain so interesting is the passion and clarity of his view of American freedom, and his Reagan-like ability to communicate and excite grassroots Americans.

A new Gallup poll on candidates' positive intensity -- the percentage of those with strongly favorable opinion minus those with strongly unfavorable opinion -- shows Cain so far ahead of the rest of the Republican field it is ridiculous.

He has a positive intensity of 35. In second place is Romney at 15, with the rest lagging behind him.

Cain is the only candidate putting concrete and simple ideas on the table for getting this nation back on track.

The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore said Cain's 9-9-9 plan for simplifying our horrendous and highly politicized tax code would be "rocket fuel for the economy."

Cain's support for getting rid of the confiscatory Social Security payroll tax and replacing it with personally owned private retirement accounts would be a boon to all Americans, but particularly for low income Americans.

Personal retirement accounts would provide an unprecedented opportunity for every American to build wealth over a lifetime, as was done in Chile, which pioneered the reform in 1981.

After adopting personal retirement accounts and other free-market reforms 30 years ago, Chile went from having one of the world's most sluggish economies to one of its fastest growing. Returns on these personal retirement accounts have averaged over 9 percent a year.

America needs a new president who loves freedom and has the guts to pursue it without compromise.

Freedom is not about warmed-over conventional wisdom. It's about ideals, humility, originality -- and embracing the unexpected and unanticipated.

The Republican Party establishment needs to start listening to grassroots Americans and asking why no one is exciting them like Herman Cain.

Star Parker

[Patty]

Do you want to have to support Romney?
This article shows the connection between Romney and czar John Holdren.
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/280238/romneys-john-holdr...
And why has Romney changed his tune to Occupy Wallstreet where he now says:
“I look at what’s happening on Wall Street and my view is, boy, I understand how those people feel,”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-pn-romney-wall-st...
When's the last time he acknowledged the Tea Party - the people willing to sacrifice to fix America?

[Patty]

9-9-9 Plan: Summary
■Removes all payroll taxes and unites all tax payers
■Provides the least incentive to evade taxes and the fewest opportunities to do so
■Lifts a $430 billion dead-weight burden on the economy due to compliance, enforcement, collection, etc…
■Is fair, simple, efficient, neutral, and transparent
■Ends nearly all deductions and special interest favors
■Features zero tax on capital gains and repatriated profits
■Exports leave our shores without the Business Tax or the Sales Tax embedded in their cost, making them world class competitive. Imports are subject to the same taxation as domestically produced goods, leveling the playing field.
■Lowest marginal rates on production
■Kills the Death Tax
■Allows immediate expensing of business investments
■Eliminates double taxation of dividends
■Increases capital formation which aids capital availability for small businesses
■Increased capital per worker drives productivity and wage growth
■Features a platform to launch properly structured Empowerment Zones to renew our inner cities
■The pro-growth, pro-job, pro-export economic policies of the 9-9-9 PLAN equals a strong dollar policy
Phase 2 – The Fair Tax

[Patty]

Remember you have to think differently about 9-9-9. Look at your paycheck with no taxes of any kind taken out. Then take out 9% for income tax. The 9% for sales tax is up to you to spend or save. You have the control not the government. As Dick Morris said on Hannity last night, the 9% income tax includes income tax, social security and medicare. You control your money and whether to save it or pay more to the government in sales tax. If you buy used, no 9% tax.
Why do you need a national ID card? This is just a scare tactic. You don't use an ID card to pay state sales tax.
And go to Paul's website. Most of his supporters are there because he will legalize marijuana. The comments go on and on. He loses most mainstream Americans on that issue alone.

[Patty]

Gary Robbins, Economist and former assistant to the director of the Office of Tax Analysis for the U.S. Treasury: Gary Robbins analyzed and scored the 9-9-9 plan. The analysis shows it would create enough jobs to cut unemployment in half.:
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/09/22/fox-first-cain-reveals...

Art Laffer:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204346104576637310315...

Paul Ryan:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/13/paul-ryan-loves-herman-cains-9-9-...

[Sandra]

I am still concerned hat voes for Ron Paul will insure Obama gets re-elected...  We can't afford O for another term, we mus really search our hearts and use our brains in the next election... Think it out. Cain will be out f it soon and some others too, the RINO pick will be the plant of lies for the people like Romney is. ..

[Patty]

Paul is only pulling 10% of the vote on the latest CNN poll. But I have to give you Paul supporters credit, the comments try to increase him to 26%.

Dick Morris just came out on Hannity supporting Cain's 9-9-9 plan. He says it is revenue neutral and he will have a full analysis of it on his website tomorrow. Morris also said the 9% income tax includes social security and medicare payments so you won't have a separate deduction for these. He says Cain isn't going to fade and the race is between Romney and Cain.

[Richard Allan Jenni]

Ron Paul is still my first choice. Neither Cain nor Romney will move to end the Fed's tyranny. They both SAID SO in the debates- chiding anyone who would return Constitutional monetary powers to Congress. I'll hold my nose if I must vote for Romney as a vote against Obama- hold my nostrils even tighter if I vote for Cain...

 

BTW, Congressman Paul had an elecrifying press conference in Nevada today. I never knew he could be so engaging! 

[Patty]

Herman can win but he NEEDS money now to compete with Romney. The primaries start in 2 months and Romney is counting on this to win the nomination.

To help Herman and see his positions, go to:

https://www.hermancain.com/donate