Before the November 2 mid-term elections Herman Cain called out President Obama and the Democrats
for their class warfare tactics:
"The president and the Democrats have no positive accomplishments to
boast about leading up to the 2010 congressional elections. So they play the race card, the class warfare card and politics
of personal attacks."
After the mid-terms he began the shift toward candidate: 
"We must continue to support leaders like Sen. Jim DeMint who have led the charge for a permanent
ban on the wasteful practice of earmark reform. It’s time that the federal government realizes that our money isn’t
for their political games."
- Herman Cain
While we are encouraging Herman to run for president,
he would make a better vice-president than the one we currently have. And their is a growing Draft DeMint movement that cain and his allies may join if Herman does not run.
Businessman Herman Cain Lays Groundwork for Possible Republican Presidential Bid
Monday, October 18th, 2010
By: Kevin Derby, Sunshine State News
While most of the potential
Republican presidential candidates aiming at their party’s nomination in 2012 have campaigned in Florida for U.S. Senate
candidate Marco Rubio, Herman Cain has taken something of a slightly different tack with his PAC backing three congressional
candidates in the Sunshine State.
One of the most visible African-Americans in the Republican ranks, Cain, through
his Herminator PAC which is based out of Orlando, endorsed Republican congressional candidates Steve Southerland, former House Speaker Daniel
Webster and Rep. David Rivera of Miami at the end of September.
“I couldn’t be more pleased to support
Steve Southerland, Daniel Webster and David Rivera as they continue to run strong campaigns advocating for Florida’s
working families and job-creators,” said Cain.
“Steve Southerland, Daniel Webster and David Rivera
represent a real threat to the agenda of liberals like Nancy Pelosi, Allen Boyd, Alan Grayson and Joe Garcia,” he added.
“While their tax-and-spend policies are meant to reward their special-interest benefactors, Southerland, Webster and
Rivera are committed to pro-economic growth policies that will provide Florida’s job creators relief in this challenging
economy and ensure the American dream for all of Florida’s working families.
“Conservatives like Steve
Southerland, Daniel Webster and David Rivera need and deserve the resources necessary to help put our great country back on
track and to undo the damaging policies of the liberals who dominate Congress,” said Cain.
As he has acknowledged
throughout 2010, including over last weekend at a tea party rally in Virginia, he is contemplating running for the Republican
presidential nomination, possibly joining a field with much better-known candidates, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, U.S. Sen. John Thune of South
Dakota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, U.S. Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, former New York Gov. George Pataki, and former U.N.
Ambassador John Bolton.
Besides taking on a host of better-known opponents, Cain will, if he runs, also fight a
number of historical trends.
Cain’s background is in business — most noticeably as the CEO of Godfather’s
Pizza and working with the Pillsbury Corp. While Cain has never held elective office, he ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia
in 2004 — placing a distant second in the Republican primary behind eventual winner Johnny Isakson, who hammered Cain
for backing affirmative-action programs. Cain has been visible since losing that contest through his radio talk-show, newspaper
column and speaking at tea party rallies.
But history offers little solace for Cain. Throughout American history,
businessmen have tried — and usually stumbled badly — pursuing a presidential nomination.
Utilities
businessman and attorney Wendell Willkie won the Republican presidential nomination in 1940 without having held elected office
— but he was the only internationalist in the field with Hitler having just conquered France. The presidential campaign
of newspaper owner Frank Gannett, who placed eighth on the first ballot of the convention that nominated Willkie, was a bit
more typical. While businessmen ranging from banker Melvin Traylor to RCA founder and GE chairman Owen D. Young ran for the
presidency, almost all of them were complete non-factors in their pursuits.
Two prominent business leaders sought
the Republican presidential nomination in recent memory. Despite his media connections and supply-side economic ideas, Steve
Forbes did not obtain the Republican presidential nomination in either 1996 or 2000, though he won primaries in Delaware and
Arizona in 1996 and placed third in total votes both time.
Morry Taylor, president and CEO of Titan International, pulled
1 percent of the vote when he sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1996.
Cain certainly has an uphill
climb if he runs for president — but his backers point out that he has overcome the odds before, starting at Pillsbury,
making hamburgers at Burger King and ending up as the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, then serving as chairman of the National
Restaurant Association.
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Comment: Joseph Oddo
Herman’s great books on business, his support of the FairTax legislation and his sowing of the seeds via helping current congressional candidates all add up to a quick rise within the
GOP. Despite my hopes that we could see Herman in a debate with Obama in 2012, it would not be sufficient if once again any
and all qualified third party nominees are excluded. Then it becomes nothing more than a scripted infomercial as was the McCain-Obama
sleeper debates.
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Herman Cain, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, is contemplating
2012 run
The Daily Caller | September 24, 2010 | Alex Pappas
TAMPA, Fla.—Herman Cain is thinking about running for president, even
though it’s likely you’ve never heard of him. 
And that’s OK — at least right now — for the black Republican who has become a sought after
speaker on the Tea Party circuit. The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza says he’s going to build a grassroots coalition
of supporters from the bottom up, if he decides to run, and if the Tea Party movement in 2010 is any indication, Republicans
won’t be looking to nominate a household name for president in 2012.
“They’re ready for a non-establishment
candidate,” Cain, casually dressed in a blue shirt and slacks, said here in Florida during an interview Thursday after
addressing an enthusiastic crowd at a “Spending Revolt” rally. “I will run proudly as a non-establishment
candidate. I think the public has an appetite for a non-establishment candidate.”
Though he may not be well-known
on the national stage, the stage 4 cancer survivor and chairman of the Hermanator PAC is a star among the conservative grassroots.
Activists who showed up to the Americans for Prosperity’s “Spending Revolt” bus tour this week didn’t
hide their admiration.
“He’s a beautiful package,” said Bob Prescott, a Jacksonville man selling
campaign buttons, while Cain addressed an audience in Tampa. Prescott said he’s heard the Tea Party star speak multiple
times and would support a Cain bid in 2012.
