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Herman Cain: Three Principles

By: BigGator5 (Diary)  |  March 9th, 2011 at 10:00 AM  | 

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Stacy McCain is right, Mr. Cain won the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition debate.

Reader: Umm, Gator, it was a candidate forum and not a-

HE WON THE DEBATE! *slams fist on the table* CAIN WON A DEBATE THEY DIDN’T EVEN HAVE!! THAT’S HOW AWESOME HE IS!!!

Some background on Herman Cain: He is the former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. He was radio talk-show host and columnist until resently. Cain ran for Georgia’s US Senate in 2004 to replace the infamous Democrat Zell Miller, but lost in the primary to current US Senator Isakson. Herman Cain currently has a blog here on RedState.

Herman Cain also changed the debate of Clinton’s attemt to take-over healthcare back in the early ’90s:

The Clintons would later blame “Harry and Louise,” the fictional couple in the ads aired by the insurance industry, for undermining health reform. But the real saboteurs are named Herman and John. Herman Cain [was] the president of Godfather’s Pizza and president-elect of the National Restaurant Association. An articulate black entrepreneur, Cain transformed the debate when he challenged Clinton at a town meeting in Kansas City, Mo., [that] April. Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the “employer mandate.” Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. “Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate,” he told the president. “In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn’t work that way.”

Now I would like to start my comments on this speech Cain gave in Iowa, by noting the beginning about dreams. I like it, I like it alot. It underlines what was said in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That is not a guarantee to happiness. There is no guarantee that your dreams will come true. Cain states that the true tragedy is not getting to your goals or to your dreams, but having no dreams at all. I think there is so much truth in that statement, that it blows me completely away.

So, let’s get to Cain’s Three Principles. It is important to note that he states that he only has a limited time and so he’s picks only three principles. However I think these are the three most important principles anyone can have:

  • Doing the right thing.

While everyone should have this principle, it is how you go about doing the right thing. Doing the right thing, is not suing Arzonia just because they wanted to protect themselves. Doing the right thing, is enforcing and protecting laws like DOMA.

  • Strong belief in empowerment.

Entitlement is not the same as empowerment. This goes along the same lines as his notion that true tragedy is not failing to achieve your dreams, but having no dreams at all.

Government should give you the tools to get ahead and you have to use those tools yourself. You may fail for a number of reasons, but for you not to use these tools to even try is a crying shame.

I see the role of government like the role of referees in football. They are there so everyone plays by the rules. If the referees start to step in and start playing the game themselves, what’s the point to having teams and rules?

  • Strong belief that it’s not about us.

Mr Cain makes a good point here. Now granted I don’t have any kids myself. However I do want kids and I do live with my seven-year-old nephew; and I don’t want to see any of them drowning in debt or restricted from pursuing their dreams by bigger government.

We were asleep at the wheel for some 70+ years and now have a big, fat, bloated government to deal with. Sure we had people, like Ronald Reagan in there to help bring some of it down. But we have had some people, like Bill Clinton, George W. Bush*, and Barack Obama, undo all of that.

People are now fighting back for big government. Let’s not kid ourselves any longer: The Greece Protests, have come to America. Unions are up in arms over austerity reforms in several states. We have to, in turn, fight back peacefully in counter-protest.

Lucky enough for us, the Tea Party and 912 groups have not melted away. Let’s make the unions emepty their gold and treasure in fighting us on the streets, so they can’t spend it come 2012. If you are unemployed, why are you sitting here reading this article? Quick, go outside and walk, jog, hitch-hick, or whatever, to your nearest government body and say:

“Enough! I am not anti-government! I am pro-good-and-fiscally-sound-government! I want government to get out of my way should I want start my own business, or get out of the way of others so they can hire me!”

Go to your local school and ask an union teacher if they want better tools to teach kids or more money in their paycheck. Ask them if we gave them more money, how are going to buy better tools to teach kids or repair crumbling schools. Ask them how are we going to pay for better school lunches, if they are sucking the school board dry. Ask them how much more in taxes are they willing to pay for a pay raise. Ask them, ask them and you will see the greed in their words.

Herman Cain’s third principle is the most important one. Once you have that principle with you, everything else just falls into place. That is why I support Herman Cain for President of these United States!!

[Cross-Posted On Practical State.com]

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*He was a great war-time president, but let’s be honest with ourselves: When push came to shove, he sided with big government the likes of which we will pay the price for right down the road.

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  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    BigGator5, you said:

    People are now fighting back for big government. Let?s not kid ourselves any longer: The Greece Protests, have come to America. Unions are up in arms over austerity reforms in several states. We have to, in turn, fight back peacefully in counter-protest.

    You advocate going to the offices of government flunkies and talking to them. But they are just spending the money that is appropriated to them. If you want to fight back peacefully, you have to change the outcome of the elections. The best way to help change the outcome of the elections and elect more constitutional conservatives is to get inside the Republican Party as a precinct committeeman. I hope you already are one. Are you?

    As for Herman Cain’s speech, I have advised him to try to distinguish himself as soon as possible by imploring conservative audiences to get involved as never before in party politics, if at all possible, as precinct committeemen, explaining that it will take more than just voting to right our ship of state.

    I watched Herman’s speech, and it could have been much better, in my humble opinion. It could have had more “concretes.”

    And, luckily for Herman, Gingrich didn’t say a word about the Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy, either. I hope nobody beats him to the punch. Palin might.

    Herman did say at the outset that the good news was “we are fighting back.” But, he has to tell people how best to “fight back.”

    This time he decided to talk about three guiding principles. The first was, “Do the right thing.” He could have easily used that to say, “And all conservative Republicans need to do the right thing, too — they — you — need to, if at all possible, get involved in party politics: attend your local Republican Party committee and find out how to become a precinct committeeman, so you can elect the Party leaders and help get out the vote in your precinct for the best conservative Republican candidates.”

    His second guiding principle was to lead us from an entitlement society to an empowerment society. He could have also related that to the PC Strategy: “And, you, too, have to empower yourself politically. The best way to do that is to get to your local Republican Party committee meeting and become a precinct committeeman — a member of the Party — so you can empower yourself to be eligible to vote for the Party leaders and help get out the vote for the conservative Republican candidates in your precinct. It just takes a little bit of time and effort to carry out this empowering civic duty.”

    Third, he said, “It’s not about us, it’s about the grandchildren.” He went on to explain that we inherited the country from our Founding Fathers and that we all now need to become Defending Fathers. And he could have related that, too, to the PC Strategy. He could have said, “And the best way now, for each of us, to become Defending Fathers — and Mothers — is to get involved in Party politics a little bit. Carry out your civic duty if you can — become a full-fledged, voting member of our Party — become a precinct committeeman, so you can vote for the Party leaders and help get out the vote for our good, decent, conservative Republican Party candidates who will do the right thing while serving as our public servants.”

    One other candidate has said that she will get into the race if she believes that the country is ready to accept an unconventional candidate with an unconventional campaign. Maybe she will take up this appeal to grass roots conservatives to come inside the Republican Party to fill up all those vacant precinct committeeman slots — over half are still vacant, on average, in every locale.

    Thank you.

    Cold Warrior

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      If they won’t stand up to the establishment now, especially since the Reid-Dem senate won’t even avoid a shutdown with only $61B in cuts, then there is another reason for not being timid now on much larger cuts and on allowing a shutdown.

      CW, YES, we must get the right people elected, but I fear a systemic problem is addition to who we elect. And if the 70+ new House members don’t revolt now, then it cuts against just how much change can be effected every two years with electing those than RUN as conservatives.

      We must insist that they act between elections before the coming deluge, crisis…if can be avoided even now. The odds are that the economy and the dollar are going to crash and force austerity on all.

      But in the meantime we must fight on ALL fronts, incl filling positions at the grassroots for the next elections, but also by staying in the faces of the elected 24/7 365.

      I speak especially now of the ones we JUST ELECTED as tea partiers in the greatest conservative mandate election since 1948. If the newbies from that birth can’t do right, then their is something seriously wrong in the culture, body politic and DC (representative government itself) that may not be correctable by conventional means at this point.

      I advocate speech and civil disobedience and voting and filling GOP party positions.

      But suffering people will act and the economic suffering in this country is VERY REAL. I see it everyday on the ground.

      more later

  • Darin_H

    I thought Pawlenty won it, his was the best speech of the night. Roemer was weird (and really, really short FWIW), Newt was Newt, odd seeing him talking about values and morals – plus he’s the idiot who sat with Nancy Pelosi in a Globull Warming commercial. Santorum – “ULTRA!” but it was a senator’s speech, not a presidents. Cain did very well, and I really like him, but Pawlenty was fired up – something he needs to do.

    • Flagstaff

      by simply demonstrating that there is red blood instead of oatmeal surging through his arteries. When he gets animated it shows he is serious, and the Mr. Milquetoast image disappears.