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Herman Cain emerged from the first GOP Presidential Debate as a statesman, a man of courage, and a leader who is in charge. Herman Cain commanded the debate stage with poise, confidence, and an articulate delivery.
Herman Cain entered the debate on Thursday night as a dark horse candidate with little name recognition and virtually no chance of winning the Republican nomination for President. Herman Cain emerged from the debate as the Republican candidate we have been waiting for.
According to Frank Luntz – Herman Cain was the landslide winner of the debate. Only one person in Luntz’s focus group considered Cain their favorite candidate at the beginning of the debate. It appeared almost everyone picked Herman Cain as their favorite candidate at the end of the debate.
Herman Cain has set the bar high, which is excellent so early in the 2012 Presidential political process.
Cain will bring out the best in all of the candidates.
In 2007 – many of us were looking to Fred Thompson to break away from the Presidential candidate pack and to take a commanding lead. Fred Thompson could not summon the personal energy to do that. In this first GOP debate, Herman Cain has shown he has the energy and the drive we have been waiting for in a candidate.  Herman Cain may be the person to make an early and decisive break away from the pack.
To get an idea of the strangeness of the first debate of the 2012 presidential cycle (the unofficial kickoff to the 2012 GOP race) consider this – Based on the Fox News focus group conducted immediately following the event, Herman Cain is about to run away with the GOP nomination.

Herman Cain.

If you’re wondering who that is, you’re not alone – The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who barely registers in national polls, has never held elected office. And he is seen as having virtually no chance to win the GOP nomination.
But the vast majority of the people sitting in with Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Cain had won the debate with his directness and straightforward delivery. This despite the fact that when asked about what he would do in Afghanistan, he replied that he would rely on ‘the experts and their advice and their input.’ The Fox News debate moderators seemed incredulous that he did not offer a position. Luntz appeared blown away by the response to Cain, which he cast as unprecedented. “Something very special happened this evening” – he said.
Perhaps. But the debate was seen as such a non-event inside the beltway that House Speaker John Boehner spent his evening not watching it, opting instead to have a few drinks at a Washington steakhouse. “I’ll read about it tomorrow” – he told Hotsheet.
The absence of the biggest-name potential candidates (Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, even Donald Trump) meant the event it generated little attention despite its status as the first debate of the cycle. Among the five men onstage – Cain, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum – only Pawlenty is seen by Washington insiders as having a legitimate shot at the GOP nomination.As this debate may have had a relatively small audience, Cain may not have a rapid rise in the polls. I predict Cain will steadily rise in popularity and recognition and will quickly be the focus of attack by both Progressive Left Democrats and Liberal Republicans. It will be interesting to watch who attacks Cain and who supports him.

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If you haven’t heard of Herman Cain, affectionately self-dubbed ‘The Hermanator,’ your vote in the 2012 presidential election could still be entirely valuable, but you are missing out on all the broad assumptions, heedless criticisms, and unfiltered slurs one might expect of the gregarious radio personality and Tea Party favorite.
The 65-year-old African American told reporters at an Americans for Tax Reform lunch that ‘Being politically correct is not one of my strengths.’
It’s an understatement considering his most recent bout with the media concerns what most citizens would term offensive remarks like – “Based upon the little knowledge that I have of the Muslim religion, you know, they have an objective to convert all infidels or kill them,” which he said in an interview to Christianity Today.
He clarified this statement in a Thinkprogress video by assuring that he would absolutely not appoint a Muslim in his cabinet or as federal judge because “there is this attempt to gradually ease Sharia law and the Muslim faith into our government.”
This complaint should not be confused as a strict adherence to the values of separating Church and State. The Christian conservative wrote in ‘Christmas and Hanukkah: Deal With It,’ one of his many op-ed column entries that “Too many Americans are guided and implicitly threatened by the misinterpretations of the Constitution’s establishment clause that found a non-existent ‘separation of church and state.” He encouraged readers to ‘Go ahead, and call the politically correct police’ if they had a problem.