Well, I’m disappointed that Herman Cain dropped out of the Republican presidential race. Several thoughts come to mind.
First, what was he thinking? The accusation of the affair was apparently true, in spite of the fact that the woman is a known stalker. I can only ascribe the fact that he didn’t disclose the information to his staff as proof that you have to have a really big ego (and sense of invincibility apparently) to run for president.
Second, it’s pretty obvious that the revelations, coming spaced as they were for the greatest news impact, were orchestrated probably by Democrat party operatives. Why was it so important to knock Herman Cain out of the race, once he began to score high in the polls?
Because there could be no greater threat to Democrat orthodoxy than an African-American presidential candidate who is Republican and conservative. The holy writ of the Democrat party is that Republicans are racists and do everything they can to hurt “the poor” (read “black people”). The truth is quite different, of course.
The Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression as it’s known here in Georgia) broke out because the first Republican president was elected. The Southerners correctly deduced that the election of a Republican president would signal the end of the enslavement of the Negro, because the Republican party was the child of the abolitionist movement. The overwhelmingly Democrat Southern legislatures promptly voted to secede. The slaves were indeed freed by the Republican president and, when the war ended, Republican union generals imposed martial law on the Southern states until they voted to approve the Constitutional amendments ending slavery and giving blacks the right to vote.
After martial law was lifted, the solidly Democrat South systematically imposed Jim
Crow laws to prevent African Americans from voting and also established the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize and execute African Americans it judged didn’t “know their place”. Storied Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a prominent member of the Klan.
For 100 years this was reality in the South. I myself risked the ire of the law in Arkansas by allowing my black friends to stay in my dorm room in a county where it was illegal for blacks to stay within its borders overnight. This got me called a “n****r lover” for the first (but not the last) time in my life. I also witnessed Klan rallies in Mobile in the 1970s and a young black man was lynched while I lived there.
In the 1960s, more than one Democrat governor stood in the door of state college administration buildings to prevent black students from enrolling. Segregation was the law in the South and African Americans who traveled found it difficult to find food and lodging — even water.
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, but only congressional Republicans voted for it as a bloc. The Democrats were divided between the “Solid South” and the rest of the country, with Democrats such as the aforementioned Byrd, Al Gore, Sr., and many others voting against it.
So why do 95% of African Americans always vote Democrat? And why would the nomination of Herman Cain as the Republican presidential nominee have precipitated a crisis of biblical proportions in the Democrat party and especially in the African American community?
The answer is that Democrat presidents introduced and pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including LBJ, who being from Texas, might have voted against it if he had still been in the Senate. Johnson also implemented the “Great Society”. A War on Poverty that has drained trillions from the Federal treasury since it established Food Stamps, Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, and Work Study. By this means the Democrats convinced African Americans that their party was the party of the people; the party most compassionate for the poor. And of course, “poor” was the black race’s “place”.
Herman Cain’s candidacy would have unmasked the largely hidden fact that the African-American community is actually conservative. In spite of welfare programs which have decimated the African-American family, African Americans are overwhelmingly fundamentalist Christian (unless they’re Muslim, which is even more conservative). The soaring illegitimate birth rate in the community is directly attributable to Liberal Democrat programs for the poor which obviate fathers. And abortion was initially promoted as a way to limit the birth rate of the black community.
They are also conservative fiscally as a rule, the excesses of hip-hop artists and basketball stars notwithstanding.
A self-made man like Herman Cain, who didn’t go hat-in-hand to the NAACP, the SCLC or the Black Caucus, not to mention the Democrat Party, all the while promoting a small-government, rugged-individualist philosophy, would explode the myth of the Democrats’ unshakable support of the Black community. But growing numbers of African Americans are straying from the Democrat plantation and asserting that conservative policies which encourage economic development within the Black Community are the best way to improve the lot of the poorest of the poor.
The prospect of TWO African Americans facing off with philosophies poles apart would have shattered the hold the Democrat party has had on the Black Community and shattered the old Civil Rights orthodoxy as well. Cain would have necessarily drawn a percentage of the Black vote away from Obama, something that would have certainly prevented his reelection.
So with Cain’s withdrawl, the crisis has been averted. For now.
