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George Will On Herman Cain: ‘He’s Not Running For President, He’s Strolling For President’

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On This Week today, Christiane Amanpour pointed to David Axelrod‘s comments last week specifically targeting Romney’s flip-flops, and Will took this to mean the Obama administration is convinced Romney will be their opponent in the general election.

However, Will did take note of the latest candidate enjoying the media spotlight, Herman Cain, and dismissed the idea that Cain is a viable candidate for the presidency.

“It’s clear that Cain has staying power. He’s not running for president, he’s sort of strolling for president without an infrastructure. It’s pretty cute and nice, but whether it works can be doubtful.”

Will also laid out what will presumably be the Obama reelection strategy if Romney is the nominee: to exploit their opponent’s history of flip-flopping and “versatility of conviction over the years.”

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Will needs to get out of the Romney bubble for some fresh air.

  • ganymede

    I’m a little disappointed in Christiane who is the best thing about CNN. She didn’t mention that Herman Cain is a wholly owned subsdiary of David & Charles Koch Enterprises. Every step of his political career has been directed and financed by various Koch Bros organizations including, of course, the Tea Party. He’s a political twin to the only other prominent black sellout, Clarence Thomas, who has to be the biggest insult to black and white Americans and the most unqualified Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years. Mind you, Black Americans are the most politically astute group in America who have not been helped in the least by Republicans in the past 40-50 years. That’s why they don’t vote for them, which, of course, is logic beyond most rightwing’s understanding.

  • Darladoon

    and into the cain bubble, i suppose?

    that’s for the koch brothers and their army of polluters and hedge fund managers

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA FLIP FLOP # 42 :

    I’ll take public financing !

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Honest question how well does George Will understand/represent the Republican party? 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    WILL + ARD* = WILLARD.

    *ARD + Another Republican Dilettante

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Sigh, sniffing the Politico glue I see..

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Irrelevant to discussion, off-topic. Again! Come on, Bif Petty. You’re better than this. Well, probably not, but you still ought not to have posted this.

  • Anonymous

    LOL @George’s  “versatility of convictions” — or as we call him –  a “flip-flopper” :)

  • Mikej32

    The Koch brothers are for (GASP) lower taxes and less government spending. Oh, the horror! I can see why that would make braindead liberals’ heads explode. Meanwhile, Obama is in the pocket of millionaires and billionaires all across the country. When he tries to pay them back, we get criminal acts like what happened at Solyndra.

  • Pablo

    That’s a damned quick stroll, George. And he’s strolling all over Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Solyndra

    Arrrrrrgh!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    I’d say Will understands/represents the republican party pretty well….What he doesn’t understand is the Conservatives in the party!

  • Anonymous

    and he pwnd David Gregory on Meat Depressed today.

  • Anonymous

    and he pwnd David Gregory on Meat Depressed today.

  • koolmoedee

    Hermain Cain is a nice fellow but he is not going to be the nominee.  He fills a void in the republican psych, he gives them the ILLUSION OF INCLUSION.  That is why he will win every single poll fron now on but Romney and Perry raise 14-17 millions dollars in cash and Herman cain only has hundreds of thousands.  in the republican mindeset giving money to a black man is too much like welfare

  • Anonymous

    Has the republican party for the past decade been in the business of providing us and late night comedians entertainment in the political scene?

    Bush, Palin, Bachmann, Cornbread

  • Anonymous

    Will has the same ratty, wizened, constipated look as Kraphummer. Voices from the crypt.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed Gloves.  Obama has 10 times as many flip flops as the entire Republican field put together.

  • Texan

    idiot

  • Anonymous

    Are these the same conservatives that blew $1.5T in Iraq?  Pat Buchanan is a conservative but these others on the right are not conservative.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know, the 9.99 is simple and Republicans like simple messages even though most Republicans would get hut under this plan.   

  • Anonymous

    Robert a little prickly today . He came back to the rooming house and found a real mess . It seems his partner BFD is not as housebroken as he claimed .

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is more in depth at fixing the economy than Obama’s Hope & Change plan.

  • Pablo

    All the best conservatives are on MSLSD.

  • Pablo

    Gregory is absolutely awful. We could use a Tim Russert these days.

  • Anonymous

    Racist.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, those wonderful Democrats made sure that Blacks stayed on the plantation by being a part of destroying their lives and families. Great bunch they are.

  • Wake up America

    Boy you’re a real koolaid drinker!

  • Anonymous

    RINO

    Arrrrrrgh!

  • Anonymous

    koolaid drinker

    Arrrrrrgh!

  • Texan

    It’s Mark not Robert. Mark Schultz..”attorney” at “law.” Robert Stephenson is his co-hort.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t wait to see who the Conservatives Party runs as the 3rd party candidate! 

  • Tim Tebow

    So how does it work?

    Does the writer of the piece assume the name Texan, Pablo, and Michelle to keep the thread alive for hits and ad rev?

    There is no other explanation.

    Brilliant, Mr Abrams…

    Brilliant.

  • Wake up America

    And all the best liberals are on MSHIT

  • News Of The World

    The same Republican/Teabagger dorks on here who were in Donald Dump’s corner until it was no longer fashionable, will bail on Cain once he’s not the Bagger Du Jour.  They have no principles.

  • NBPP

    ROFLMAO

  • NBPP

    Herb Cain is a bigger joke than Rick Perry.

  • Texan

    You were an Edwards supporter, right?

  • NBPP

    Is it a surprise to anyone that the GOP party that is anti-science and anti-knowledge would have some of the most loony candidates? 

  • Anonymous

    Come on Tex! How many times are you going to use that same boring comeback. It’s just plain boring!

    ….You’ve got to bring something more entertaining.

    Why don’t you tell us how Parry is going to be the next president like you used to!

    TeaBagger Death Cult Clowns are so boring!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Don’t delude yourself. You’ll be voting for Willard.

  • Pablo

    How many times are you going to use that ridiculous TeaBagger Death Cult nonsense?

    You’re not just boring, you’re also trite and quite a bit stupid.

  • Pablo

    This from the party that doesn’t know where babies come from and thinks that CO2 is going to kill us all?

    You slay me, Malik.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    With a presidential election of this importance, Conservatives may have to bite their tongues, hold their noses and vote for Romney…..There isn’t a real  conservative who will be happy with that choice.

    i believe MOST conservatives would rather see a President Cain, but the establishment GOP will find a way to make him irrelevant…..

    Conservatives AND the Tea Party, won’t take a chance on a third party with the stakes as high as they are..

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m not fond of Gregory, far too right-leaning, and he doesn’t even try to hide it, but he did cause Herb Kane to reveal that he was a Neo-Con. That’s pretty big. And, it is very difficult for Herb to explain away.

  • Anonymous

    The only other one he has is Sock Alert

  • Anonymous

    Joe the plumber
    Tito the builder
    You betcha

  • Anonymous

    I have never agreed with George Will so much in my life as I have in the last year.

  • Anonymous

    The comments here are never going to change a right winger into voting for Obama.  Or, a Lefty voting for a right winger.  So all the digg’s and the he does this and he does that is all bullshit.  Romney will be the Repub. Candidate because that’s how the Republican Party does it.  It’s his turn.  They have always done it and always will. The TP has been hijacked by the Repub establishment.  The TP has No Say in this at all.

  • Texan

    Boring? I would call it more of a stinger!

  • Texan

    speaking of which…

  • Texan

    Apparently, he’s never met up with irony. ;)

  • Anonymous

    It would make the economy even worse. The 9.99 plan was created from a video game.  

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Now that Tollbooth is dissolving before our very eyes, everyone seems to have forgotten that Will was a shameless promoter of his candidacy.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Paulie and Michelle-in-Utah? Likely paid. Not by Mediaite. Jeff Merrill? Nope. well known cyber troll of low intelligence and even lower writing skills.

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party ? Palin? Bachman? Perry? Cain? Who will it be ? ABR …(anyone but Romney) crowd will want a different candidate!

  • Anonymous

    speaking of witch…

    http://i.imgur.com/axOlD.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Wasn’t Mitt his dog’s name?

  • Anonymous

    That.s my FAV!

  • Pious Jeffy

    RINO D.C. ELITIST!

    The mobs of TEABAGGEDS are TAKING BACK THE COUNTRY!

  • Pablo

    KOCH!
    Bwaaaahahahaha!
    Who says there’s no jobs?

  • Pablo

    You’re forgetting a little thing I like to call the voting booth.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You dwell on your prison experiences far too much, Jeff. Move on.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Sock puppet.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Troll.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Stinger.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Irony.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Irony.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Let me know if I missed anything.

  • Anonymous

    Then that illustrates perfectly how the “tea party” is just a republican brand and not a principled movement.

  • Pious Jeffy

    thanks patsy

  • Pious Jeffy

    must have hit a nerve

  • Pious Jeffy

    ROFLMFAO

  • Pious Jeffy

    olbyloon

  • Pious Jeffy

    change socks much?

  • Texan

    Rent free. ;)

  • Anonymous

    : )

  • Pious Jeffy

    Jeffy,

    Your tiny brain empty of any objects is too small to even form an echo.

    Yet your hallucinations are as colorful as kaleidoscopes using one pebble.

  • MIKE

    At least we’ll be voting. The unions and Acorn will be working overtime to get out the disenfranchised and disillusioned Obama voter.

  • Anonymous

    Because of the Christian bigots in the Republican Party, we might be in for a surprise.  If two twenty-something candidates make it all the way to the convention, they can negotiate an alliance and knock Romney off.  It’s a long shot, but don’t underestimate the power of hate.

  • Anonymous

    Because of the Christian bigots in the Republican Party, we might be in for a surprise.  If two twenty-something candidates make it all the way to the convention, they can negotiate an alliance and knock Romney off.  It’s a long shot, but don’t underestimate the power of hate.

  • koolmoedee

    why isn’t he raising more money? give me you “non racist” answer

  • Miljanamandich

    You are just so boring. Nothing you say or do can change the future for Obama: he is going into history as THE ONE who was worse than Carter

  • Anonymous

    All you TeaBaggers love the moniker TeaBagger Death Cult! It’s apropos and funny!

    You have bragged about living in a trailor in the country and having a good line of sight to shoot at the libruls that are coming for you so you obviously are ‘pro-death’! And the Cult speaks for itself.
    Just embrace your ignorance Pablo!!

    Now Pablo! Please tell us some more stories about how you’re in a union and work a union job and hate unions and union workers!!! I love those ‘stories’!

  • Texan

    Thanks for proving my point, roberto.

  • Texan

    Maybe you should switch over to ‘tbaggerrliars” or “rogerfails” or “rupertmurdick” or, hey I know, use “skippy” and nobody will even know it’s you. ;)

  • Anonymous

    What should’ve said was shuffling for President, or jigging for president or lawn jockeying for president.  All of those would be better descriptions of what he’s doing

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Technically that could mean you’ve never agreed with him before on anything, and then this year in a single column George F-ing Will found he couldn’t bridge two of his very most out-of-touch comments, and so prefaced this attempt by admitting something in usual pseudo-intellectual manner like ‘It might be suggested by some the more anatomically fixated among our daily that my analysis was more than usually embedded in my nether regions before being purged by the diuretic of reality’, at which point you thought, like any rational reader, Ya, I can certainly agree he’s accurately anticipated the appropriate response from anyone whose mouthparts aren’t totally attached to the GOP feedbag like his own are.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Romney has shown, how do I put this?.. A certain versatility of conviction.’ George Will

    Mitt Romney, the ‘rea’l Conservative Republican. 

    He may turn out to be a very bitter pill to swallow for Tea Party/Republicans…

  • Anonymous

    “Will also laid out what will presumably be the Obama reelection strategy if Romney is the nominee: to exploit their opponent’s history of flip-flopping and ‘versatility of conviction over the years.’”That sounds like only part of the general GOP strategy on Obama.  Come on, George Will, stop being so establishment Beltway for a moment.  If Cain wins Iowa (and he’s currently leading in the polls there as he returns there to do baby and ring kissing,) it is a competitive race, no matter what you say.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    He may be boring, but you live in a fantasy.

  • Texan

    Whatever it takes to get Obama evicted is fine with me.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What a deep thinker you are.

  • Anonymous

    …Of course.

    I look forward to it. Provided, that is, that he isn’t beaten to the nomination by Mr Herman ’9-9-9′ Cain. I certainly can see that happening…or maybe not!

  • Pablo

    He’s not making promises to Wall Street…like Obama.

  • B. Wreall

    It is amazing the concern about Herman Cain’s connections when 0bama’s never matter, like Bill Ayers, Rev Wright, ACORN, Black Panthers, CPUSA, Socialist Party, Frank Marshall Davis, the fact his mother and grandparents were Communist, GE’s cozy-ness, SEIU, Big Union, Wall Street $$, His LACK of experience, the list goes on….

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

  • Anonymous

    Cain has never been a politician and doesn’t have access to the money that Perry  and Romney. He has worked in the private sector for the most part. You know, where people have real jobs. He is new to runnig for office and is not well known.

    Now, explain your racist comment.

  • Texan

    Deep thoughts…

  • Anonymous

    George Will actually gets paid for making those remarkably inane statements? That’s probably why he’s not working for Fox!

  • Anonymous

    What a cast of characters!

    Darn, they don’t have a Cinderella, just Minnie Mouse and nearly 7 dwarfs ;)),

    and here the republicans thought they would glide in to the Oval…

  • Anonymous

    Wouldn’t those millionaires that own Obama want lower taxes too?

  • Anonymous

    You mean they gave the black power people what they asked for? Funny this so called slavery you allude to. It is voluntary, they do no work & get paid, the exact opposite of real slavery.

  • Anonymous

    It is easy to understand a true con, a simple minded fanatic of limited outlook and intellect and also white, One who believes Jesus & the Bible promote the same things as their self serving political platform

  • Anonymous

    Utter rubbish

  • Anonymous

    What is so pious about that jerkov?

  • Anonymous

    He gets paid just like all those so called “FOX News Contributors”, but he doesn’t hawk his latest book.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, this is the first time anyone ever mentioned any of those people or groups. Another well informed FOX bot

  • xyz

    He has been the head of the Federal Reserve in Kansas

    so yes he has been in politics before..

  • xyz

    *deputy chairman

  • Anonymous

    Similarly, Obama is strolling the country.

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain is
    taking a crack at doing what the Koch brothers is paying him to do. It is a
    calculated risk, which is part of a 10 year Master Plan, which is not going to
    work because of all the publicity which got out of control and allowed too many
    people to find out about it. Herman Cain is a nice guy but nice guys finish
    last. Some time, when these actors act, they forget they are on a Global Stage,
    in a Global Theatre and if they believe in God, they probably believe God is
    watching them. Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when at first we start to
    deceive.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    My take is that Cain is a tool of and sponsored by the duplicitously named “Americans for Prosperity.” Why do you think he’s so inattentive to fund-raising? He knows that when he gets enough of the people deluded to make a run viable, this right wing group will shovel cash at his campaign. Kocks (yep!)will be funding him. Unless they decide he’s a liability. Then he’d better stay on the ground til his bought and paid for term as prez is over. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    Gasp again, Mike. Of course they want lower taxes, on themselves especially. You are funding their empire with nearly every household product you buy. At an inflated price, in case you haven’t been shopping lately. They also give money to cancer research while spreading cancer in a small southern town with the poisonous runoff from their paper company (Weyerhauser, I think). These guys own you body and soul, so don’t feel quite so superior. It gives you further to fall when you finally see the scam they’ve pulled on you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    Nah…they own the vote counting machines. It’ll be a cakewalk for the republicans. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YJOFCUW4S62AICSGYG562VMHZY Marje

    Racist much?

  • Anonymous

    No, what gives you that idea?

  • Anonymous

    Any of the GOP candidates can and will do a better job than the AntiAmerican Worthless NonLeader, B. Hussein Obama, it wouldn’t take much, for sure.  But Herman Cain is the best thing going and I think he will win.  He would wipe the floor with Obama in a debate, unless Obama had someone manning the Teledummies with good answers, otherwise, he will be stuttering and talking off the wall.  After three years, he still has no idea how to do anything.  That’s what you get when you vote for BS and Lies, like in 2008.  I was a Democrat in 2008 and I did not fall for the Hot Air coming from Obama, so I voted for the less of two evils, McCain.

  • Anonymous

    If Romney wins the GOP nomination, then I pray Cain runs as an Independent.  The man could turn America around in two years, when the current Pontus still has no idea what to do after three years.

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