Wednesday, October 5, 2011

YES..WE CAIN!!!!!!!


Published: 12:31 AM 10/05/2011 | Updated: 7:31 AM 10/05/2011
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 03: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks to the media outside of Trump Towers before a scheduled appearance with real estate mogul Donald Trump on October 3, 2011 in New York City. Cain, a fiscal and social conservative, won a recent Florida straw poll of Republican candidates. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Though Herman Cain’s success is regularly dismissed as a passing fad, Republican campaign strategists tell The Daily Caller that a narrow but navigable path to the GOP nomination actually exists for the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO.
The most likely scenario is for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to stumble and for Cain to firmly grasp the anti-Romney mantle within the party.
“A path exists but it lies in the elimination of Governor Perry as a candidate,” Republican strategist Chris LaCivita told The Daily Caller. “The only way Herman Cain in my opinion can emerge as a serious contender, is to surpass Governor Perry and demonstrate that he has the endurance to match the organization of Governor Romney.”
Republican political advertising consultant Dan Hazelwood echoed LaCivita’s suggestion that Cain’s path to the nomination is dependent not only upon his own performance, but on the failure of other candidates, particularly Perry.
“Cain’s great challenge is not only does he need to perform well, but he needs selected opponents to under-perform,” he said.
Hazelwood explained that in order for Cain to win the nomination, he needs to place in the top three spots in both Iowa and New Hampshire while Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Perry falter, making himself the “social conservative front runner after New Hampshire.”
“From that point, depending on the calendar, he needs to come in a strong 2nd to Romney in the next state followed by a first place win in the next,” Hazelwood laid out. (RELATED: Cain once wanted Tiger Woods to run for president)
“So after New Hampshire he needs to coalesce the anti-establishment forces around his campaign as the primary challenger to Romney. He can’t do well in these early states if Perry is viewed as the primary challenger to Romney.”
The last few weeks show Cain surging: he pulled off a surprise victory in the Florida Straw Poll on Sept. 24, prompting a much-needed infusion of money from donors.
Polls now also show Cain placing in the top tier, and Gallup on Tuesday said Cain’s current positive intensity is the highest Gallup has measured for any GOP presidential candidate to date.
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Many Republicans, however, express skepticism about how far Cain will go once he faces the scrutiny contenders like Perry, Bachmann and other candidates have endured.
“Unfortunately for Herman, rhetoric can only get you so far,” said longtime Republican consultant Diana Banister.
Banister said “the American people and Republican activists are simply fed up with Washington politicians” and Cain connects well with them with his “soaring Southern Baptist preacher oratory.”
“While he can learn the issues on the way, more scrutiny of his policy positions will be forthcoming, just as they were with Gov. Perry and Rep. Bachmann when they were surging,” she said. “How he handles that scrutiny will determine how far he can take his campaign.”
But while nearly all of the eight political strategists who talked to TheDC about Cain said that his path to the nomination was at best rocky, many added that a Cain triumph was certainly not inconceivable.
“I think the climb is steep,” said Rick Tyler, a former press secretary to Newt Gingrich. “The fact is we’ve never had a businessman go from being a businessman to the presidency.”
“But we’ve never had $14 trillion in debt, we’ve never had sustained unemployment this long since the depression, and so the mood now is such that people are looking for an alternative to politicians,” Tyler said.
“Herman Cain does have a chance of winning the Republican nomination just like anybody else that is attracting strong conservative grassroots support throughout the nation,” said David Bossie, president of Citizens United. “I think winning Iowa for Cain is a must. If he is able to win in Iowa, I can see his simple innovative economic message resonating with New Hampshire voters as well.”
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Wall Street Protesters are demanding...????


‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters are demanding … something

Published: 1:12 PM 10/04/2011 | Updated: 11:07 PM 10/04/2011
By Caroline May -- The Daily Caller
Rafael Franco, from Puerto Rico, holds up a sign on the corner of LaSalle and Jackson during an Occupy Chicago protest Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in Chicago. "Occupy Chicago" protests started Monday near the Federal Reserve Bank and Chicago Board of Trade, as demonstrators speak out against corporate greed and social inequality. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
With protesters impeding traffic, shouting slogans, holding signs and generally disrupting financial centers across the country, most notably Wall Street, the logical question is, why?
The answer is less obvious than might be expected, as there is no “official” list of demands or leader. Indeed, even big-name supporters of the movement have cited incoherent reasons when trying to spell out what has made these young people eschew their sofas, coffeehouses and showers to take to the streets.
Michael Moore suggested Monday that they want to see justice, or in his words, “perp walks” for bankers. Actress Roseanne Barr speculated that “reeducation camps” and “beheadings” for bankers might be good goals. And according to former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, “Occupy Wall Street” is a movement to save the “middle class.”
While the establishment scratches their heads in curiosity at the movement which has attempted to model itself after the Arab Spring, the motivations and demands that are cropping up on message boards and forums are far-reaching and disparate.
On the “unofficial, defacto online resource for the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests,” there is a proposed list of 13 demands, including immediate debt forgiveness for all, free college education, elimination of free trade, a $20 an hour minimum wage, guaranteed “living wage” regardless of income, open borders, $1 trillion government spending on infrastructure, $1 trillion government spending on ecological restoration, a racial and gender equal rights amendment and easier unionization voting procedures.
“These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy,” “LloydJHart,” the drafter of the online demands, asserts. “LyoydJHart” lists his hometown as Vineyard Haven, a Massachusetts town on the island of Martha’s Vineyard — a favorite summer vacation spot for the president.
The demands listed by “LyodJHart” are more specific than the general dictate of these protests. As one Internet forum poster, “GandhiKingMindsetResist,” put it, “The one demand in New York is: ‘Shut Down Wall St.’ Why are we shutting down Wall St.? ‘Because Wall St. is hurting Americans, hurting citizens of the world and ruining our environment.”
Business Insider has reported on what an n+1 magazine writer discovered during his foray into the protests: That outside of the aforementioned demands, the protesters also want full employment, negative income tax (in which the government actually pays people below a certain income bracket), repeal of the Citizen’s United campaign funding Supreme Court ruling, universal health care centers, a Tobin tax (short-term tax on currency conversions), reinstatement of Glass-Steagall banking regulation, paid sick leave and pay-as-you-go military intervention.
Of course the demands are by no means comprehensive. As more people, and now institutions, join the protests, the demands are growing. Currently, there are gatherings occurring in New York City, Boston, Portland, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Time will tell how this movement shakes out.
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