The American voter officially jumps the muthaeffin' SHARK: "He's run a business and paid the bills."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://news.yahoo.com/cains-impossible-dream-resonates-voters-074938501.html

But Cain's moment is right now, and the former Godfather's pizza chief executive is marketing himself with practiced skill, banking on his charisma and the notion that the messenger is as important as the message.

His everyman image is resonating.

"In the field right now, he's the most like me," said Jimmy Hoppers, a 60-year-old physician from Jackson, who was hoping to meet Cain so he could hand deliver a $1,000 donation to his campaign. "He's run a business and paid the bills. He's authentic."

:wtf:

[TomClash]

1. That's what every patient wants his or her doctor to be

A guy who runs a business and pays the bills.

:eyes:

[LonePirate]

2. Hoppers is trying to buy that tax cut Cain has promised people like him.

[Skidmore]

3. So has Mitt. Everytime I hear about some candidate "having made a payroll and balanced books"

in a business, I remember that so much of those from the corporate world running for office have done those things on the back of the worker. Business people are not genetically programmed to be geniuses or moral. And, for that matter, neither are Ivy League gradates, who appear to be somehow the designated officials of our nation.

[pnwmom]

4. "He's the most like me," says the rich doctor. Big surprise. n/t

[taterguy]

5. Dupe

:shrug:

[rustydog]

6. No, he was CEO of a well-established pizza chain run by

regional managers. Cain made millions letting others make the chain successful. By most CEO's arguements, the blueprint is there, a CEO of Ford could be CEO of Gold's Gym, or Sunny Jim products. The formula is the same. These guys aren't geniuses, they are high-paid head hunters. down-size here, outsource here...