This doesn’t warrant an ATMB thread, but do the rules actually require posters to be civil and act like an adult? I didn’t think so based on - well everything else. I think your first instinct was correct, posting and moderating in the same thread is bad form.
From the FAQ:
Civility, as Jas09 beat me to the punch in saying, is mentioned in the FAQ. “Act like an adult” isn’t a direct quote from the rules, but I think it’s a reasonable summary of what they require posters to do- at least in a serious, non-BBQ Pit discussion.
Well, he is living in government housing.
That said, I can’t see Cain winning much of the popular or electoral vote, even if he IS the GOP candidate, which I doubt he could become.
On the back of that poll showing Cain in second in Iowa comes this from PPP (D): http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/cain-leads-in-iowa.html
Top line: Cain 30%, Romney 22%… Perry 9%.
So requirement number 1 for me to consider Cain a serious candidate has been met. Now just show me either institutional endorsements (like the one Romney got today from Christie) or a big fundraising haul and I’ll happily grant him the “serious candidate” label.
One grain of salt from the poll:
Sorry to disrupt the discussion, but AbloyProtec has been banned.
Well, crap. Now we need another Cain evangelist. Maybe I’ll take up the mantle: “Cain is Able!” “Yes, We Cain!”, “Hope and Cain!”
Obama is already preparing for a Cain candidacy:** “Shellac Cain 2012!”**
Our long national nightmare is finally over. 
I’ll ask my mom if she’ll log on …
lol, Cain’s primary economic advisor is Rich Lowry.
So I wonder if Herman makes him all tingly like Sarah did.
Wrong Rich. It’s Lowrie, not Lowry. A Wells Fargo “wealth manager” (not an economist), not the National Review editor. I’m honestly not sure which would be worse…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65713.html
I know, I’m not being a very good Cain booster - where’s furt’s mom when you need her?
Lowry’s like 8 times funnier.
I don’t know, I kind of like the idea that Cain’s primary economic adviser is his banker.
Probably the cute chick at the drive up window.
I realize AbloyProtec is no longer among us, but I want to correct this math.
The “9% corporate tax” is actually a 9% value added tax, which would mean an 18% total national consumption tax. So the hypothetical family would pay $9360 in taxes on those purchases, for a total tax liability of $13860, nearly $1000 more than they’re paying now with that income/payroll tax liability and a 6% state sales tax on those purchases.
I see Mr. Cain is the feature guest on Meet the Press this weekend. That should pretty much finish him off.
Perry raised about $17 million between mid-August and the end of September, and for the full third quarter, Romney brought in $14 million and Paul around $8 million. Cain hasn’t disclosed a fundraising total, but says his campaign has hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand. Yes, there’s no stopping the Cain train.
The Hermanator will have to be a little more careful in choosing metaphors: