Cain's dialect is not of a programmed candidates controlled by Republican Party hacks or "up-and-coming political stars."Cain does not require handlers and consultants. No political consultant would ever tell a candidate to answer a question, to which he cannot truly give an informed answer, as Cain did on a question of national security, "I don't know all the facts." Few, if any, would encourage a candidate to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu's view on the ultimate aims of the jihadists. Cain speaks with total self-confidence born of ability and achievement, not the unearned laurels of sycophants (sycophants....a person who uses flattery to win favor from individuals wielding influence).
Cain speaks blunt truths about how far we have fallen from our charters and the necessity to restore them and revere them again. As he recently told Neil Cavuto when refusing to walk back comments about a ban on Muslims in a Cain administration, he only wants "true patriots" around him, committed and dedicated to the Constitution, the Declaration, and the laws of this country. What else matters?
Cain has proven himself again and again as an executive (which, lest anyone forget, is the office he is seeking and unlike the one in this office now), willing to begin at ground level and rising to save a company from bankruptcy. He is a scholar, a mathematician (bachelors from Morehouse), and computer scientist (masters from Purdue) who speaks logically and plainly. He recognizes that this is a world of absolutes, right and wrong, and operates so. He does not fail, nor does he ever need to preface any statement with "Let me be clear."
Cain as a candidate would not cause me to cringe in anticipatory dread during the presidential debates. Cain would crush "the obama" in a debate, and would do so as calmly and precisely as he demolished Bill Clinton in 1994 (wonder were Clinton's teleprompters were). Cain is Obama's worst nightmare: A strong black man from the South, a self-made black man, unafraid of anyone, unafraid to say directly to Obama's face what needs to be said directly, as often as it needs to be said. Cain has had a true American experience. He knows from real racism and segregation, not some intellectualized rage formulated in the soft environs of the Ivy League. Cain did not beg, borrow, and steal for a piece of the pie -- he quite literally made his own pies. His example is the American example (here is a black man with the credentials to have been the first black President of the USA).
I support and advance the candidacy of a capable citizen who not only speaks the language of freedom and democratic republicanism, but also lives it. I (and you should) support someone who has the wonderful boldness and capability to defend what is worth defending. If we are serious about really changing (not hope and change or hope to change) the American political culture, we (ALL) must support and advance the candidacy of Herman Cain, citizen.
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