Raising Cain.......

 

1 --- Herman Cain is a big brother type, very likeable and a square shooter. This space (me) initially thought Cain would have his fifteen minutes of fame and then fade away. Wrong as wrong could be. He is certainly in this race and a real player. He has outlasted former Minnesota Governor Tim Paulenty and may have outdistanced a few more over the coming weeks.

"With 9-9-9 (his tax plan) guess what? How many loopholes?" Cain said, tapping his fingers on the table like a drum roll. "None. Everybody gets treated the same. What a novel idea."

What experience does Herman Cain have? Far more than the incumbent and any of the other Republicans, including Mitt Romney.

He’s a black guy who had to fight and scratch for everything he has. He’s tough but compassionate. Herman Cain is a hands on management type with proven ability. To pull himself up by his bootstraps and he first needed to make the straps.

I like how he thinks and recently called B O’s rhetoric oomgalagala. Give ‘em heck Herman. Cain is Able…..

Which of the candidates would you want in a foxhole with you covering your backside?

2 --- In nearly 30 years in radio I made just about every gaff conceivable. I must however, tip my cap Big Barry O who managed to confuse a Jew with a janitor. ( I can hear my program director pulling his hair out and screaming at the top of his lungs if I made that gaffe on air.)

Most of my verbal gaffs came about because we seldom had a script to work from. Big B O uses a teleprompter to order breakfast for gosh sakes. How did he mess this one up.

Big B O has messed up many lines. Frankly he’s on a level with Vice President Joe “The Lip” Biden who seems to misfire each time he flaps his gums.

Only 482 gays left of this pair.

3 --- Question of the day, is Chris Christie a conservative or just another pretender. We certainly have enough of them beginning with Mitt Romney.

As we have discussed in the past, GOP primaries generally breakdown to conservatives versus moderates. After some mud slinging and blood letting one of each side will emerge.

4 --- We can thank Big B O for creating a healthy distrust for politicians in general.

I recall asking my granddad about some politicians and whether he trusted certain ones. A sheepish grin flashed and he answered my question with a question. “Is he alive?”

In that response he said it all: A resounding no.

Grandpa Lauzier was the proprietor of a small grocery store on Brightman Street in the north end of Fall River, Massachusetts. He gave credit to his customers who worked I the local mills. He granted credit and kept a complete set of books on who owed how much. In language that sounded remarkably similar to Ronald Reagan’s “Trust but verify” philosophy Arthur Lauzier explained counting the change regularly helped his clerks honest. He said it was better to create an atmosphere where dishonest behavior would not be tolerated.

Sadly we have not learned that philosophy. Most crooked politicians think their lies are OK because we (the voting public) want things belonging to others. Crooked pols and voters are cynics.

Where’s my grandpa when we need more like him.

C Ya tomorrow.

Ciao…….Moe