Herman Cain is officially “suspending” his campaign, but it’s difficult to see why he doesn’t just drop out of the race. This is particularly true given his announcement that he would be endorsing another candidate (not Obama, of course).
Many people will look back on Cain’s failed campaign and blame the media for dredging up the sex scandals that have dogged him in recent weeks. I beg to differ. Cain’s problem is that he is clueless on every important issue. It’s not that Cain took the wrong positions on hot-button issues — it’s that he was so ignorant that he articulated fundamentally incoherent positions on several of them.
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I doubt that any pro-abortion-choice candidate will win the GOP nomination any time soon. But even less likely is a victory by a candidate who doesn’t understand that you can’t mouth the pro-life talk while at the same time saying abortion is the choice of a woman and/or her family.
On the other hand, I believe that someday Republicans will nominate a dovish candidate on foreign policy. But they won’t ever nominate anyone who doesn’t know what he thinks about Libya, or who thinks that Benjamin Netanyahu is just fine with the “right to return” for Palestinians. (And I’m even spotting Cain one on the China-nukes business, assuming his comments were misinterpreted.)
I love the idea of Herman Cain — an unabashedly conservative Republican candidate for president. We’ll get there one day. The fact that he’s also African-American makes it slightly better, because I think we’ll get there one day, too.
And one day, that candidate will be a serious candidate — unlike Herman Cain.
