by Herman Cain
Monday January 23, 2012
I made my much publicized unconventional endorsement at the Southern
Republican Leadership Conference last week in Charleston, South
Carolina. As predicted, the media did not like it, but the people loved
it.
I endorsed “the People”. We the people!
The media did not like it because it did not fit their desire to have
another quick hot scoop news story that would have about a hot
minute-long news cycle. Just look at the endorsements of Jon Huntsman
and Rick Perry. They were not stories very long and their impact on the
endorsees was questionable.
A single presidential candidate is not going to save this country.
“We the People” are going to save this country from its current path of
collapse. Yes, collapse is a strong word, but if one honestly considers
the facts, that’s the only conclusion one can make about the direction
we are headed.
Facts: The national debt is out of control. The economy is not in a
recovery. We have an energy crisis. Our space program no longer leads
the world . The world is not safer. Our military has been weakened. Most
people are not better off than they were three years ago when President
Obama took office.
Big government liberals don’t consider the facts. They can’t even
handle the facts because the facts do not validate their preconceived
emotional motives and objectives. They don’t always know what those
objectives are, such as the ill-purposed “Occupy Wall Street” protests.
They just want to protest and distract attention in the media from the
failures of this administration, and from the need for real solutions to
problems.
Our nation is broke. Washington is broken.
It is clear that we are not going to change Washington from the
inside. We will have to change it from the outside and from the bottom
up. The people!
That means we will have to get specific commitments about specific
solutions from candidates before they get elected. The heat must come
from that candidate’s constituency, which is hereby endorsed and
empowered to take the heat to them. Asking them to adopt the 9-9-9 tax
reform plan would be a good start.
But regardless of who is elected, neither he nor the next Congress
will take the steps that are necessary to turn this country around
unless the people demand that he do so.
I was encouraged by some students at the College of Charleston during
a rally with Stephen Colbert last week, when they shouted out “thanks
for endorsing me”. Endorsing the people is a wake-up call to action.
Several reporters kept asking me during interviews what endorsing the
people means. This shows just how insulated and out of touch with the
people they are. The media class and the political class believe they
are in charge.
Endorsing the people was a reminder that elected officials work for us, and that we are in charge if we assert our collective power. They forget that, so we have to remind them.
We the People are coming. We want our power back.
January 24, 2012
January 16, 2012
And Now, for My Unconventional Endorsement
Monday January 16, 2012
by Herman Cain
I have been hounded in media interviews to give them the scoop on which Republican presidential candidate I ‘m going to endorse. When I respond that it will be “unconventional,” they go nuts because they cannot conceive of what that means. That’s not the way they think.
So they try to guess what it means based on conventional political
practice. You will be endorsing yourself getting back into the
presidential race, they guess. Nope. You will be endorsing someone
that’s not in the race, they suggest. Nope. You will be endorsing two of
the remaining candidates instead of one. No again.
I was an unconventional Republican presidential primary candidate who ran an unconventional political campaign, and achieved unexpected results before I ended my quest for the position of president. Most of the people interviewing me did not get it. Namely, it wasn’t about the position as much as it is about the mission. I am still on a mission to help defeat President Obama, and to make the “9-9-9 Economic Growth and Jobs Plan” the law of the land.
An unconventional endorsement is part of a bigger message. It can also be two-dimensional, a specific candidate and a specific cause. We already know the specific cause. I’m still looking for the right candidate to “adopt” the 9-9-9 plan. If that does not happen, the cause will still be part of a bigger endorsement message, which is to make sure we defeat President Obama in 2012, and that we transfer power out of Washington and back to the people.
Besides, I’m not convinced that one-dimensional endorsements make that big a difference in the outcome of how people vote. They probably do to some extent, but in today’s political climate most of them are not game-changers.
I want to change how voters think about candidates, not in terms of their media-focused flyspecked negatives, but to think of them in terms of their positives and their relevant experiences. I also want to change how voters think about solutions to our national crises.
Namely, stop accepting the usual political rhetoric of “what’s wrong,” because most of us already know what’s wrong. We also know that there is more than enough blame to go around for how we got so screwed up as a country. I want voters to focus on how candidates are going to fix stuff
I want people to focus on real solutions and real leadership.
I know that’s unconventional political and media thinking, but the conventional thinking, the conventional approach, the conventional compromises, the conventional promises, the conventional rhetoric and the conventional endorsements are not going to save this great country.
We need a Solutions Revolution.
We can’t just think outside the box, as the saying goes. We must redesign the box and fill the box with what the people want, not what the political class and the media class want.
We want our power back.
That’s unconventional.
by Herman Cain
I have been hounded in media interviews to give them the scoop on which Republican presidential candidate I ‘m going to endorse. When I respond that it will be “unconventional,” they go nuts because they cannot conceive of what that means. That’s not the way they think.
I was an unconventional Republican presidential primary candidate who ran an unconventional political campaign, and achieved unexpected results before I ended my quest for the position of president. Most of the people interviewing me did not get it. Namely, it wasn’t about the position as much as it is about the mission. I am still on a mission to help defeat President Obama, and to make the “9-9-9 Economic Growth and Jobs Plan” the law of the land.
An unconventional endorsement is part of a bigger message. It can also be two-dimensional, a specific candidate and a specific cause. We already know the specific cause. I’m still looking for the right candidate to “adopt” the 9-9-9 plan. If that does not happen, the cause will still be part of a bigger endorsement message, which is to make sure we defeat President Obama in 2012, and that we transfer power out of Washington and back to the people.
Besides, I’m not convinced that one-dimensional endorsements make that big a difference in the outcome of how people vote. They probably do to some extent, but in today’s political climate most of them are not game-changers.
I want to change how voters think about candidates, not in terms of their media-focused flyspecked negatives, but to think of them in terms of their positives and their relevant experiences. I also want to change how voters think about solutions to our national crises.
Namely, stop accepting the usual political rhetoric of “what’s wrong,” because most of us already know what’s wrong. We also know that there is more than enough blame to go around for how we got so screwed up as a country. I want voters to focus on how candidates are going to fix stuff
I want people to focus on real solutions and real leadership.
I know that’s unconventional political and media thinking, but the conventional thinking, the conventional approach, the conventional compromises, the conventional promises, the conventional rhetoric and the conventional endorsements are not going to save this great country.
We need a Solutions Revolution.
We can’t just think outside the box, as the saying goes. We must redesign the box and fill the box with what the people want, not what the political class and the media class want.
We want our power back.
That’s unconventional.
January 8, 2012
Join the 999 Revolution!
January 8, 2012
by Herman Cain
Our nation is plagued with crises. We have an economic crisis, a spending crisis, a big government crisis, an energy crisis, an immigration crisis, a foggy foreign policy crisis, an assault on the Constitution crisis and a moral crisis.
President Obama blames the Bush Administration, the Republicans in Congress, big business, rich people and even the American people by saying in essence that we have lost our optimism. That’s what happens, Mr. President, when we have a leadership crisis in the White House.
Sadly, polls consistently show that President Obama has about a 45 percent job approval rating. These 45 percent must be some of the most clueless people on Earth, or they have been living in a cave for the last three years. The other option is that they have drunk so much of the Obama Kool-Aid that they do not want to know the truth.
The truth is the people of these United States are fed up, just as the colonists were fed up with King George and his abusive treatment of the colonies. The colonists cited those specific abuses in the Declaration of Independence, and showed their defiance with the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Ten years later (1783) we had the start of the American Revolution. We won!
It’s time for another revolution. This time it will not be bombs and bullets. It will be brains and ballots. In 1773, it was taxation without representation and other abuses. This time it’s too much taxation, regulation and legislation. Period!
A recent Gallup poll determined that nearly two-thirds of the American people say big government will be the biggest threat to the country.
We need another revolution!
Let’s start with the biggest domestic crisis we have – an economy on life support.
The best solution on the table is my 9-9-9 economic growth and jobs plan. All of the other proposals are just rearranging the deck chairs on the proverbial Titanic.
9-9-9 the Revolution is not a Republican, Democratic, conservative, liberal or libertarian movement. It is a “We the People” movement. It rises above the political rhetoric, candidate attacks and the president’s blame game.
This is a Solutions Revolution that you can find at www.cainconnections.com
The strategy is straightforward and simple. We will mobilize citizens by congressional districts to obtain commitments from candidates running for Congress before they get elected to co-sponsor or vote for the 9-9-9 legislation.
We will partner with like-minded organizations and use media, rallies, bus tours and speaking opportunities for yours truly and other strong voices to promote our mission of making 9-9-9 the new law of the land. We have all been abused by a broken tax code, a broken Washington and deceptive politicians for way too long.
Let’s transfer power back to the people. That’s the way this country was founded, and that’s what it will take to save this country. We must save it from the outside in order to bring about the right kind of changes inside Washington.
It will not be easy, just as it was not easy 235 years ago.
Remember, it’s not about us. It’s about our grandchildren.
I will not be guilty of doing nothing.
Join the Revolution!
by Herman Cain
Our nation is plagued with crises. We have an economic crisis, a spending crisis, a big government crisis, an energy crisis, an immigration crisis, a foggy foreign policy crisis, an assault on the Constitution crisis and a moral crisis.
9-9-9 the Revolution is not a Republican, Democratic, conservative, liberal or libertarian movement. It is a “We the People” movement. It rises above the political rhetoric, candidate attacks and the president’s blame game.
The strategy is straightforward and simple. We will mobilize citizens by congressional districts to obtain commitments from candidates running for Congress before they get elected to co-sponsor or vote for the 9-9-9 legislation.
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