Cain supporters, stay tuned. We're still going to get the job done. We're going to have to do it from the outside, and I will lead the way and be the people's voice.
I'm having a hard time accepting the "don't despair" message. We may no longer have a candidate in the GOP race for the nomination that can beat Barrack Hussein Obama.
It was in horror that I watched Herman Cain's GOP nomination campaign implode, through no fault of his own. There seems to be no candidate with a truly Conservative philosophy remaining in the field that would have a chance to win the election in 2012. We seem to be left with little or no choice in good Conservative candidates that have at least a chance to win the GOP nomination.
I was heartbroken when seeing the following segment on Hannity last Thursday:
Clips from Hannity's show on December 8, 2011, with Herman Cain
We are going to need to hear Herman Cain's voice during this time of trepidation. With the primary season starting in less than three weeks with the Iowa Caucus on January 3, 2012, it appears that the Republican Party is not going to give us a strong Conservative that could beat Obama. The closest conservative candidate that we may have in the top tier at this time could be... gulp... Ron Paul.
Do we just watch the Republican Party split and implode?
Is the Tea Party really dead like the Mainstream Media, and even Fox News, is telling us?
If there was any time that we need the Tea Party Movement to be revived, it is now. I believe that most of the Tea Party Movement still stands behind Herman Cain. He can still be our voice, along with others.
However, if Barack Obama is going to go down in defeat next November, I'm thinking that we need more than just a voice. We need a Conservative leader, somebody that would be able to unite and energize the Conservatives in the GOP. Or, maybe, it won't be a Republican, but rather a third party candidate. Unfortunately, as we've seen in the past, third party candidates have always assured the Democrats of a victory.
I am not sure if a voice from the outside, not even Herman Cain, will be all we need. It won't be enough, unless We the People get together to fight for our liberty. It is going to take all of us that are concerned about our children's and grand children's freedom, and that are aware that we are dangerously close to losing it. It will be our responsibility to join people like Herman Cain in the effort to inform and persuade as many people as possible before it is too late.
As to this coming election in 2012, the major effort still needs to be focused on defeating Obama. That could possibly mean nominating a squishy RINO Republican candidate. Whatever it takes, right? If that is the outcome, what Herman Cain has suggested in this column will become even more significant, as you will read. We the People need to be able to put the pressure on whoever wins the White House and Congress!
The Tea Party Movement needs to be revived. If that is going to happen, we need to do it NOW. We the People need to lose the doom, gloom, and despair, and start working together for positive solutions. I'm just sayin'...
Since my campaign ended, I've been honored to hear from so many people who asked me to continue because they felt I was the person who could help this country fix things that urgently needed fixing. I will continue to lead but not as a candidate, because I chose to put family first.
I will continue to be your voice and our voice. We will make 9-9-9 a movement. We will put "strength" back into "Peace through Strength and Clarity." We will become energy independent. We will put "united" back into the United States of America.
I know this from you: When the people understand it, they will demand it!
We can't count on the mainstream media to properly inform us, because too many members of the media are chasing the sensationalized or distorted story. Many members of Congress are so busy trying to keep up with the legislative process, small incremental changes in the laws and the partisan cat fights that the big changes needed never get addressed. Worse yet, they never even try.
We have seen repeatedly that expecting 535 members of Congress and the president to make bold changes to truly fix problems from the inside of Washington is not going to happen. Washington is broken! We must change it from the outside.
The late Sen. Everett Dirksen popularized the phrase, "When they feel the heat, they will see the light." We will be the heat like they have never felt it before. Politicians' actions are ultimately determined by what they believe the people are demanding of them. We will demand bold changes.
Hope and change is not stimulating the economy. Hope and change is not a job, and the latest jobs report shows that to be so. The administration continues to say that the economic hole was deeper than expected. If so, it should have stopped digging.
They also say that people just need to give the president's policies more time.
That's called watch and hope.
Let's get real! America needs more empowerment, not more entitlement and spending by government. Empowerment means enabling businesses, workers and consumers. Get government out of the way. But that's neither in the president's nor the Democrats' DNA.
We must empower our economy with lower taxes on businesses and workers. All we have to do is look at the success of the 1960s and 1980s.
Do you want to know what I think REAL empowerment is? It's having a viable candidate that goes up against the Establishment GOP! And yes, of course, the person that I think could do it is the writer of the column, Herman Cain. I believe that Herman totally understands the big picture, where it is the American people who are empowered to be creative and use their talents to get our economy back on track, rather than Big Government, which never solves anything.
We hear all about America's problems every day. We can't get away from them, especially when the bad news is compounded with more bad news about natural disasters. The latest economic and jobs news is yet another indication that this nation's problems are getting worse and stifling our prosperity.
Every time this administration or Congress tries to fix a problem, it gets worse. That's because the administration believes more government, more spending and more taxes are the answer to everything.
The real answer is less government, less spending and less taxation.
After nearly $1 trillion in federal "stimulus" spending, the economy is still growing at an anemic rate. The first quarter of 2011 weighed in at only a 1.8 percent growth in GDP. Remember, China is growing at about a 10 percent rate of growth.
I think Herman Cain scored a tremendous victory in his long-shot campaign for the presidency by going toe to toe with these seasoned politicians and outshining them all.
I'm sure many other Americans are feeling good about the fact that there is at least one exciting candidate in the Republican field already.
Last July, I wrote, "In my humble opinion? This is the guy! He IS the worst nightmare that Obama could ever have!" I've been excited about this guy as a potential GOP candidate for a long time! And so is Joseph Farah, which wouldn't ever surprise me. Joseph was one of the first to let us know that Herman Cain would be a great candidate for the GOP nomination. And it was Joseph, last July, that discussed the things about Herman Cain that inspired me:
Herman Cain is another name to add to the list.
It's a long way between now and 2012. But listening to a man like this gives me hope. He's inspirational, and we desperately need inspiration. He's fiery, and we desperately need that passion. He's experienced, beyond the experience one gets playing politics through adulthood.
I don't know about you, but I get excited thinking about the possibilities for 2012. People like Herman Cain need our encouragement and our prayers.
But somebody had beaten Joseph Farah to the punch: From his own staff! There was a column by Chelsea Schilling on WND that actually appeared three days before Joseph Farah's commentary. It was actually Chelsea who wrote the story saying that Herman Cain was contemplating a run for President in 2012:
Cain, a devout Christian, emphasized he is "prayerfully considering" a 2012 bid for the GOP nomination.
"I'm a man of faith, and I do believe in prayerful consideration of something this big," he explained.
Well, as Joseph wrote in this column, "I'm sure many other Americans are feeling good about the fact that there is at least one exciting candidate in the Republican field already."
Let me add another ingredient to what Joseph said: Herman is a candidate to seriously consider! One of the factors that made Herman the leader of my field of potential GOP candidates was his involvement with the Tea Party Movement. I already knew who Herman was. I had heard some of his speeches. Impressive!
Don't just take Joseph Farah's word for it. Don't even take my word for it! Do your own homework, and find out who Herman Cain is. And I'm sure that Joseph Farah is just as biased in favor of Herman as am I! I do have a feeling that people involved with the Tea Parties across America will have mutual feelings. But I'm just sayin'....
Here are a couple of video clips provided by Fox News from the debate (just to prove the point!):
I watched the South Carolina Republican presidential debate Thursday, and I thought Herman Cain won hands down.
But I was tickled by the fact that virtually the entire focus group assembled by GOP pollster Frank Luntz agreed with my assessment.
Why did he win?
Because he has strong convictions and knows how to articulate them.
He didn't just win the debate – he blew the competition away.
And I have more news for you. I know Herman Cain personally. I've seen him in many other venues. I've heard him speak many times. This may come as a shock to the rest of the Republican presidential cast, but Herman Cain was not even at his best Thursday night.
It took him a while to warm up.
It must be a little intimidating to find yourself on national television for the first time debating as a presidential candidate. Knowing Herman Cain, I suspect that actually meant something to him. He's not an actor playing a presidential candidate. He's the real deal, motivated to action only, I suspect, by his deep love of country, not mere ambition.
So what am I saying here?
Am I saying I have found my presidential candidate to oppose Barack Obama's re-election in 2012?
Well, I've found at least one entirely acceptable to me. I will keep an open mind on some of the others.
But I like Herman Cain. I haven't found anything to dislike about him. He's charming, charismatic, bold, funny and principled.
A bold objective would be zero dependence on foreign oil!
We can do it if we maximize all of our own natural resources as I described in last week's commentary. We just need to streamline the government regulations that are holding us back.
I believe we can responsibly drill here now (oil), dig here now (coal) and develop safer and smaller nuclear facilities here now. In doing so, we can cut our energy dependence in half in 10 years on our way to energy independence.
A serious energy independence strategy would also curtail the rapidly escalating cost of gasoline and household energy costs, which are becoming a huge drain on consumers' discretionary income. The pain at the pump is just the beginning.
I will continue to stand by what I said last week in regard to Herman Cain's conceivable and achievable energy policy:
The brilliance of this article is in helping people to understand that when energy prices increase, it ripples through the economy. Energy prices are directly related to the prices you pay for groceries and the number of jobs that are available. So, isn't it just common sense to develop our own energy in America, create jobs, and avoid having to purchase energy resources from countries that don't like us?
Just before stopping at the grocery store yesterday morning, I noticed gas prices had gone up another nickle per gallon overnight. I was delighted that I had bought some gas the day before the latest price surge. But, my delight quickly fades as I go through the store to find that prices were going up, such as a pack of my favorite hotdogs that had increased from $3.99 to $4.49... Like Herman says, "The pain at the pump is just the beginning."
In this column, Herman Cain discusses Barack Obama's energy policy that was addressed last weekend in another teleprompter speech the President gave. Herman points out the differences between what he had suggested last week in his column, and what the President is proposing, the point being that the President's plan can not do enough to lower our national security risk in a short enough time.
I am all for Herman Cain's suggestion for energy independence. It is imperative that we put bold energy policies in place as soon as possible.
But here is my real concern: Will it be soon enough? I'm just sayin'...
The president believes in energy security. I believe in energy independence. In case you missed the president's weekly radio address, here is what the White House released on energy security, so I will not be accused of not understanding what they meant. The title of the address was, "Energy Security Can Only Come If We Invest in Cleaner Fuels and Greater Efficiency."
WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Obama discussed his strategy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and secure our nation's energy future. When the President was elected, America imported eleven million barrels of oil a day. This week he announced a bold, but achievable goal of cutting this number by one-third by 2025.
To achieve this goal we will increase responsible domestic oil and gas development in the short term, while also increasing efficiency and harnessing new technologies including biofuels, natural gas, and advanced batteries. …
Reducing our dependence on foreign oil in the foreseeable future is a key to bringing down energy costs and especially gasoline costs, the average price of which has doubled in the last two years. I think that's what he meant by secure our nation's energy future, but I am not sure. You really can't tell from the words he used, but they sounded good.
The president proposes to reduce our dependence by one-third in 14 years. That's not a bold goal using electric cars, alternative fuels, advanced batteries and all the wind and solar power we can muster. Remember, those batteries have to be recharged. That means traditional electricity, which is generated from coal and natural gas-fired power plants.
That's an anemic goal! In the early 1970s, we were nearly 25 percent dependent on foreign oil. Today we are nearly 70 percent dependent on foreign oil. Reducing our dependence by one-third would still mean we are nearly 50 percent dependent on foreign oil. That level still leaves oil dependency as a national security risk, especially with what's happening in the Middle East.
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