Hey Rebel sir

[franksolich]

You know sir, I've been watching politics ever since I was a little lad, incapable of understanding much about it.

Instinct and intuition refine themselves with age, however; they become sharper and clearer.

I've been getting this sense some sort of "way" is being naturally made for your man, Herman Cain, to get the Republican nomination for the presidency, and to defeat the Big Zero.

Just this sense; as others pull away to the side, one man emerges.

It's not anything Herman Cain's doing himself; it just seems a slowly-evolving national attitude and sentiment for which Herman Cain is perhaps probably possibly the best man to fulfill that.

It seems like 1980 all over again, when Reagan was elected not so much because he was Reagan, but far more so because he exemplified those values and attitudes held by a vast majority of Americans; values and attitudes that had been utterly ignored, scorned, by his predecessor.

It was the mood, not the man.  The man who won, won because he appealed to that mood.

Me?--I've always said I'm supportive of whoever the Republican presidential candidate is--even Donald Trump, even Newt Gingrich; Hell, even John McCain a second time--because even the worst possible Republican candidate is stratospherically better than what the Democrats have been giving us since January 2009.

Of course, at least in my own opinion, Herman Cain is a five-star blue-ribbon candidate; I just haven't been behind him simply because I plan, as always, to support the better Republican alternative to the lousy Democrat selection.....and so any (R) was fine with me.

I'm starting to think Herman Cain's going to be the one.

It'd be great if he picked that congresswoman from Tennessee as his running-mate.

[Rebel]

It'd be great if he picked that congresswoman from Tennessee as his running-mate.

Marsha Blackburn? She's hot, for a Mississippi State grad, (The sexist coming out in me   ) but due to today's politics, any running mate probably won't be from the South. I can see Michelle Bachmann as his running mate. He's not going to get the Pacific anyway. Any group of people that elect Governor Moonbeam still isn't ready to accept reality. Right now the battleground states seem to be Ohio, Michigan, WVA, Minnesota, Florida, etc. to name a few. I think both would play well there, with Bachmann giving him a lot of help in the Midwest states. The South will go overwhelmingly for Cain in a general election.

[franksolich]

Marsha Blackburn? She's hot, for a Mississippi State grad, (The sexist coming out in me   ) but due to today's politics, any running mate probably won't be from the South. I can see Michelle Bachmann as his running mate. He's not going to get the Pacific anyway. Any group of people that elect Governor Moonbeam still isn't ready to accept reality. Right now the battleground states seem to be Ohio, Michigan, WVA, Minnesota, Florida, etc. to name a few. I think both would play well there, with Bachmann giving him a lot of help in the Midwest states. The South will go overwhelmingly for Cain in a general election.

Well, I'm wondering, though, if some sort of geographic "balance" is as important now, as it used to be.

It used to be very important--the Massachusettsian Kennedy picking the Texan Johnson, the Californian Nixon picking the Massachusettsian Lodge, in 1960, for example.

But given the nature of communication and culture, one supposes it's no longer that important.

We had the westerners Reagan and Bush, the southerners Clinton and whatshisname, the Great Plainsians Bush and Cheney, recently, after all.

I wouldn't write off Blackburn for geographic reasons.  Maybe there's some other reasons yet unknown, but not geographic.

[Rebel]

Well, I'm wondering, though, if some sort of geographic "balance" is as important now, as it used to be.

It used to be very important--the Massachusettsian Kennedy picking the Texan Johnson, the Californian Nixon picking the Massachusettsian Lodge, in 1960, for example.

But given the nature of communication and culture, one supposes it's no longer that important.

We had the westerners Reagan and Bush, the southerners Clinton and whatshisname, the Great Plainsians Bush and Cheney, recently, after all.

I wouldn't write off Blackburn for geographic reasons.  Maybe there's some other reasons yet unknown, but not geographic.

Clinton/Gore and possibly Bush/Cheney, although I think Cheney claimed Wyoming. Reagan/Bush was a little different. Bush was considered Texan as well as having roots to New England. Texas, when it's not identifying itself as just Texas, generally identifies with the South. Yes, the western part probably identifies with AZ, NM, etc., but the majority of the population is on the eastern side. Texans don't, however, identify with Californians, at least none that I know.

It may not matter, but remember, any Republican candidate is going to have the MSM working against him/her. This may mean limited exposure for Cain in the rest of the country, though I think FB is doing wonders. This does seem to have a sense of a grassroots campaign and the respondents on his page span from California to Florida to Maine to Washington State and everything in between. Even seen some Alaskans on there, though they'll probably vote for whatever Republican candidate wins the primary.