Citizen Cain

[Valin]

NRO:

A successful businessman talks about his brand-new presidential campaign.
1/14/11

Herman Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, a former Senate candidate in Georgia, and a columnist. On Wednesday, he announced that he’s forming a presidential exploratory committee. He spoke to NRO’s Jim Geraghty about it on Thursday.


NRO: Let’s get this out of the way: The last person whose first elected office was the presidency was Dwight Eisenhower, and he had led the war in Europe. What is your case to Americans that they should elect you straight to the Oval Office before any other elected position?

HERMAN CAIN: I think that American voters are ready for a problem solver, and not just another politician. I think people are becoming much more aware that successful businessmen are problem solvers, and that’s how they become and stay successful. I’ve gotten this impression over the last two years. What offices you’ve held before isn’t going to be their number one criterion.

What I am hearing from people I’ve talked to is, “What are the problems you want to focus on?” I’ve identified those, as well as what I would do about them. I have identified many of the ideas that I call low-hanging fruit, commonsense solutions that resonate with people.

Let me give you a few examples. One of the first questions I always get when I do one of my talks or Cain coffees or town-hall meetings is, “What would you do about the economy differently?” First of all, make the tax rates permanent, because extending them for two years just extends the uncertainty hanging over this economy for two more years. Secondly, I would ask the Congress to lower the top corporate-tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. Why? Because we are the only developed nation in the world that has not lowered its top corporate-tax rate in the last 15 years. The other thing I would do is lower the capital-gains-tax rate, because we punish risk too much in this country. We’re never really going to stimulate the economy in a big way until we do that.

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I have to say a long shot, but go get em Herman! Why not someone who's not a professional politician?

For the record in the last ten years I have a prefect record in picking the winning candidate in the GOP primaries....100% wrong!

[Rheo]

I'm looking forward to his voice in the debate.

[Valin]

[Valin]

I'm looking forward to his voice in the debate.

 

 

I will say this, the guys got a set of pipes.