Former Godfathers Pizza CEO and conservative radio talk host Herman Cain has made it clear he will be launching a Presidential Exploratory Committee in the coming weeks.
“We could be talking about an exploratory committee real soon,” Cain slyfully told host Neil Cavuto during a recent appearance on Cavuto’s Fox News program.
A former president of the National Restaurant Association and darling of Tea Party groups, Cain currently hosts The Herman Cain Show on an Atlanta talk radio station. He also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column.
This would be Cain’s second bid for elective office, having already lost a 2004 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Georgia. Dumping significant amounts of his own money into that campaign to pay for television advertising, he nearly forced a run-off that would have given him a legitimate shot at winning the seat.
Cain favors most of the usual things you’d expect from a Republican candidate for President: strong on national defense, the Fair Tax, energy independence, slashing government spending, restructuring Social Security. He’s also a strong “social conservative” - stating during his failed 2004 run that he believes that unless a mother’s life is threatened, all abortions should be illegal, even if a woman became pregnant through rape or incest.
It’s unclear how much traction Cain would be able to get as a White House hopeful, but it seems likely that he could play a Gary Bauer or Alan Keyes style role in the nominating process, perhaps winning a few delegates and earning a seat at the table during key debates.
If the public should expect Republicans to support the Fair Tax boondoggle then that is one more reason to vote Libertarian for President.
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Great his track record of getting things done, and his ideology is someone I’d get behind for POTUS.
If Mr. Cassidy is going to write an article on a celebrity, he needs to have a little more breathing room from the editor, lest he appear to have gaps in his synapes. Three paragraphs and then, …a WHAT? It’s as if someone chopped a hunk out of the article! However, experience says that many times the “ax murderers” of a decent story do so, with political leanings regarding the FairTax; However, in this case the public still doesn’t know what elective office Cain may shoot for, or what a Presidential Exploratory Committee is apt to explore. Try, try, again.
Gary,
Are you kidding me? A Presidential Exploratory Committee is a very common and well-known term… and the article mentions the word President – the office Mr. Cain plans to seek – 3 times. Plus a fourth time in the headline.
Perhaps you need to adjust your reading glasses.
Best wishes.