# Herman Cain: Action Hero **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 11, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947 "2011-09-11T16:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/201 "2011-10-07T20:15:53Z")
Put it this way, **AbloyProtec** : Are _you_ rich? If not, why not? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/202 "2011-10-07T20:45:55Z")
She’s working on it… ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/203 "2011-10-07T21:11:35Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > She’s working on it… Clearly not. If she was, she’d make $100 easy off my by betting on Cain. All talk, no walk. All hat, not cattle. All sauce, no dough. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/204 "2011-10-07T22:22:40Z")
I’m a dude… As for being rich. I’m 24, I make $65,000 a year with expenses just over $18,000. The rest I rat hole away. I can’t remember the thread but I’ve detailed my frugality on this forum, such as washing my clothes manually which apparently no one could believe. If you consider that rich, then yes. If not, that’s fine too. I’m not satisfied with that money either, I’d like to earn more and I’m doing my best to upgrade my situation (primarily through experience and education). But cut me some slack, I entered the work force in the midst of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/205 "2011-10-10T00:32:18Z")
> [@AbloyProtec](#): > > And Chris Christie is going to be the Republican nominee, right? Your predictions have always been spot on. The REpublicans were begging him to run. I wonder how good the offers got. He knows his best shot is 2016. This election would be tough . He would not win. But they were begging him. All Christie had to do was say yes. ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/206 "2011-10-10T00:36:06Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > The REpublicans were begging him to run. I wonder how good the offers got. He knows his best shot is 2016. This election would be tough . He would not win. But they were begging him. > All Christie had to do was say yes. You mean the Koch Brothers? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/207 "2011-10-10T03:38:33Z")
> [@](#): > > But cut me some slack, I entered the work force in the midst of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression. See, this is the thing. _We’re_ willing to cut you some slack for that (that’s pretty impressive, in fact). But Cain isn’t. According to him, the reason you’re not rich has nothing to do with the recession; it’s just because you’re not trying hard enough. ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/208 "2011-10-10T10:53:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > See, this is the thing. _We’re_ willing to cut you some slack for that (that’s pretty impressive, in fact). But Cain isn’t. According to him, the reason you’re not rich has nothing to do with the recession; it’s just because you’re not trying hard enough. Having talked to the man first hand and basically relaying just as much as I did to you, that’s not the case. You know, this is the same guy that considered $20,000 as rich in the late 60’s and early 70’s and his vision of the American dream. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/209 "2011-10-10T15:25:08Z")
> [@AbloyProtec](#): > > You mean the Koch Brothers? The entire Repub establishment including the Fox network talking heads and the internet gurus. I am sure the Kochsuckers were involved. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/210 "2011-10-10T15:53:08Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > The entire Repub establishment including the Fox network talking heads and the internet gurus. I am sure the Kochsuckers were involved. In the future, keep epithets like this in the Pit. I don’t want to see them in this forum and I don’t think other mods want to see them in forums that are reserved for polite-ish conversation. ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/211 "2011-10-10T23:27:29Z")
> [@](#): > > A new Gallup poll finds Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain all but tied with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. Romney comes in at 20 percent; Cain is at 18 percent. Texas Gov. Rick Perry is at 15 percent. In a new poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters, Cain also came in second — at 20 percent to Romney’s 38 percent. Shit just got real. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/212 "2011-10-10T23:31:59Z")
Well, if he gets nominated, will he shave that soup strainer on his upper lip? We haven’t elected a president with facial hair in over 100 years. (William Howard Taft, 1908) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/213 "2011-10-10T23:34:57Z")
You know who else had facial hair? William Howard Taft. It’s right that last post, ferchrissakes ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/214 "2011-10-10T23:37:15Z")
> [@AbloyProtec](#): > > Shit just got real. [On this date in 2007](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2012_2008_gop_presidential_race_4_years_ago.html), Rudy Giuliani lead Fred Thompson by 8 points, who in turn lead McCain by 8 points. I forget, how’d that turn out for Giuliani? Or Thompson? ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/215 "2011-10-10T23:40:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Well, if he gets nominated, will he shave that soup strainer on his upper lip? We haven’t elected a president with facial hair in over 100 years. (William Howard Taft, 1908) I hope so. The reason you don’t see facial hair anymore is because everyone since Taft has realized that you couldn’t achieve the amount of awesomeness that 'stache projected. ---
**Author:** ![AbloyProtec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@AbloyProtec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbloyProtec)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/216 "2011-10-10T23:51:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [On this date in 2007](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2012_2008_gop_presidential_race_4_years_ago.html), Rudy Giuliani lead Fred Thompson by 8 points, who in turn lead McCain by 8 points. > > I forget, how’d that turn out for Giuliani? Or Thompson? I’m sorry, are you actually equating the former New York City mayor AND Tennessee Senator to little ol’ Herman Cain? This is getting better and better by the day. Now, all Cain has to do to follow Guiliani’s failure is forget campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina and put all his chips in Florida, as well as hire a campaign manager who will indicted on multiple counts of tax fraud. Fingers crossed. OR He can follow Thompson’s approach and basically just show up to the debates and answer when called on. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/217 "2011-10-10T23:55:18Z")
> [@AbloyProtec](#): > > I’m sorry, are you actually equating the former New York City mayor AND Tennessee Senator to little ol’ Herman Cain? Not at all. I’m just saying a poll taken thirteen months before the election has a very low confidence level for predicting who will be nominated. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/218 "2011-10-11T00:33:25Z")
> [@AbloyProtec](#): > > I’m sorry, are you actually equating the former New York City mayor AND Tennessee Senator to little ol’ Herman Cain? > > This is getting better and better by the day. A nothing and a lesser nothing is ‘getting better every day’? OMG, Trump is gunna git it! He was blowing everyone away for, like, a week! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/219 "2011-10-11T00:38:56Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > A nothing and a lesser nothing is ‘getting better every day’? Well, it IS the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947/220 "2011-10-11T00:52:35Z")
Herman Cain has three years of radio shows that are going to be examined very closely by his adversaries, Democrat and Republican. I don’t doubt there will provocative embers that will fanned to flames, and Cain will return from whence he came. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herman-cain-action-hero/595947.md?page=12)