The Rude Pundit: Really? We're Doing Herman Cain Now? Okay, Fine...

[meegbear]

Honestly, the only reason the Rude Pundit is writing this is so he has an excuse to post that photo, which is from a 1988 Ebony magazine profile of Herman Cain, back when he was the god of Godfather's Pizza, just because it's pretty damn funny, doncha think?

So we're gonna indulge this now? Is this what we've moved onto? We're gonna spend the next week or so talking about whether or not Herman Cain can win the Republican nomination for president? And whether or not he could win in an election? Really? 'Cause the GOP's going through flavors of the month faster than Baskin-Robbins (Aw, yeah, high five anyone?).

No, really, please. Let's go ahead and pretend that one of the other candidates is gonna beat Mitt Romney, who has been as inevitable a 2012 nominee as Barack Obama. Let's just keep playing this game of seriously looking at proposals that are nonsensical and personalities who passed borderline on the way to crazytown. We were told by the pundidioits that Michele Bachmann was gonna be our mad queen. We were told that Rick Perry was absolutely going to ass rape every other nominee and ride his horse into the White House. That's not to mention the Chris Christie and Sarah Palin diversions.

So now it's Cain as the Romney-killer, with his bullshit 9-9-9 plan (mentioned no less than 24 times at this week's GOP circle jerk), his lack of anything beyond food business experience (oh, and time at the Kansas City Federal Reserve), and his failed Senate campaign (where he lost his party's nomination). You know this egotistical fucker ran for president in 2000? And he built up his resume' since then by having a talk radio show and doing motivational speaking. You couldn't name the president of Uzbekistan either, you elitist fuck, if you spent your life making money serving steaming piles of horseshit, either on a pizza pan or in a burger box or in a hotel conference room to the corporate tools who bought your time.

Cain is this year's Perot. He's Donald Trump with nothing better to do with his time right now. And he's now leading Romney in some polls, like Perry had, like Christie had, blah, blah, blah. But, hey, GOP, go ahead and play around. It's not like any of you are gonna beat Obama. This whole nomination process is all about your party's identity crisis.

What everyone should be asking is not whether or not Herman Cain can win. Instead, the question should be "How fucked is it that we're talking about him?"

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[TwilightGardener]

1. That last question: Yep. You know, I wouldn't even MIND Cain that much

if his pizza tasted good, but it doesn't. It's right down there with Papa John's.

[NYC Liberal]

2. The GOP has a new "rising superstar" every other week.

Sarah Palin
Bobby Jindal
Joe Wilson
Liz Cheney
Michelle Bachmann
Donald Trump
Rick Perry
Chris Christie

and now Herman Cain.

It's the MEDIA that pushes this crap.

[meegbear]

5. And what big name(s) are missing ...

Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.

Even when they win polls, they're not even considered.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

4. Latest flavor of the month for the media to swoon over

I did see one nugget of perspicacity on the Evening News last night, and that was that Cain doesn't have any campaign infrastructure. Most states don't have a Cain campaign headquarters, he doesn't have a bunch of paid advisors, and he doesn't have the army of volunteers necessary to do the grunt work of a campaign. Cain's ascendancy has more to do with the splintered nature of today's Republican party than anything else. But the favored media narrative is always that it's the Democrats who are in disarray, and they simply can't see Republican fractiousness.