"Racist" Tea Party picks black guy in straw poll

[Dave]

It's funny how such a racist group of people as the Tea Party is suggested to be can select a black gentleman to be a potential presidential candidate. While the odds of some of these picks can be pretty long (Ron Paul's history in presidential campaigns is an obvious example... he has plenty of grass root support but it doesn't translate into votes when it counts), the fact that Herman Cain's name was both mentioned and a winner says something. Of course the fact that there really has been no solid evidence of the alleged racism of the tea party past a few pictures of a few signs that were brought to events by people who were removed shortly there after goes without saying.

 

By DAN HIRSCHHORN | 2/27/11 3:00 PM EST Updated: 2/28/11 9:42 AM EST

Herman Cain and Ron Paul won a pair of tea party straw polls Sunday, a show of strength among grassroots activists for the long-shot presidential hopefuls.

Each captured a different straw poll at the close of the Tea Party Patriots policy summit in Phoenix. Paul, the longtime Texas congressman, easily won a larger online poll of tea party activists with 49 percent of the vote, followed by 12 percent for Cain and 9 percent for Sarah Palin. Cain, the Atlanta businessman, won the straw poll of activists taken at the summit itself, taking 22 percent of the vote. Tim Pawlenty won 16 percent of the vote in that poll, and Ron Paul had 15 percent.

Cain, Pawlenty and Paul all addressed the summit over the weekend. It was just the latest straw poll win for Paul, whose supporters have become savvy at engineering straw poll wins and powered him to another victory in the recent CPAC poll.

Pawlenty nabbed a major speaking slot at the summit Saturday, and his fiery speech amounted to one of his first pitches to the conservative movement on a national level.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50280.html#ixzz1FIDBpuDY

[J.B]

The far left will mark him  as a uncle tom.  not a black man just a white one with paint on him

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

I have listened to Herman Cain. I'll tell you what too, I would vote for him in a Chicago minute. The guy has executive experience, very little baggage that I can find and I think he could come up with witty one liners and not be blind sided my liberal press. 

I am not one to vote for someone just because of the fact he is a minority (as it appears to me the reason Obama won the nod in 2008). This guy is a definite minority, which may make him more acceptable ( for all the wrong reasons) to some. But unlike Obama's experience as a community cheer leader. Cain has effectively balanced budgets and worked through adversity in the world of business.

 

[J.B]

Guido    I agree with you I have enjoyed when he has spoke.   Have learned several new things.   Please do not link him with Chicago in any way.   (LOL)

[Dave]

Now Guido, you know we can't have someone in office that actually knows what they are doing, specially the presidency... they will get things are mucked up... lol

[Guidothesemipsuedocaptitalistpig]

Yeah heaven forbid we put someone in office who could actually make "change we could believe in" not just a slogan.