Pop quiz, hotshot: Your meteoric rise to the top of the Republican nomination for president is derailed by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, an economic plan from a decade-old video game, and a string of foreign policy gaffes that could wrap around Ubeki-beki-stan-stan twice. What do you do? What do you do?
If you’re Herman Cain, naturally, you put out a Christmas video message so over the top, you need a Newt Gingrich space mirror to see it.
The video, entitled It’s Christmas In America, features a kitchen sink approach to manipulation, with Cain and wife Gloria doing a synchronized, soft-focus Bible reading with a family of sweater catalog models, intercut with iconic Christmas/Fourth of July imagery, and segueing into a music video of “It’s Christmas In America” sung by a woman who, apparently, couldn’t find a babysitter.
It’s all very treacly and sweet, and sends the unmistakable message that Herman and Gloria Cain are going to be just fine, thank you. They really lost me, though, when two of the Three Wise Men in the video’s nativity scene sparked up a couple of Pall Malls. (Just kidding)
Since suspending his campaign earlier this month, Herman Cain has faded from the national media spotlight, but this video serves as a reminder that, for a brief, beautiful couple of weeks, Herman Cain was the early media Christmas gift that kept on giving.
Here’s It’s Christmas In America, from Friends of Herman Cain:
(h/t WWR)
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