Watching all the ballyhoo and the sound and fury of disintegrating candidates across the Republican board, I just have to sit down and post a warning of what I see coming down the pike. Michelle Bachmann is not 'the one to watch' in my opinion. Below the fold I'll tell you why. This diary is a restating of an opinion I expressed in a comment in someone's dkos diary that asked what do we think they have in store for us.
On this, Michelle Bachmann's day in the sun, let it no longer be said that no one could have predicted:
I think Herman "The Herminator" Cain is what 'they' really have planned for us.
He speaks at ALEC conferences and AFP events, and he was the keynote speaker as the Tea Party came to a halt on the steps of NH's capitol the night before the election Nov. 2010.
I had gone to the event because there was a rumor that Sarah Palin would be there and I wanted to witness that. It turned out that not only was the rumor unfounded, but the actual guy everyone was waiting for was the one calling himself "The Herminator" -and the crowd was not only not disappointed, they were waiting for him.
That night he teased them that he just might be planning to run and they loved it. He pre-empts all the comments about race etc, by calling himself "the self-proclaimed dark horse" candidate.
Cain is the man who will be the face of ALEC, the AFP, the Teap Party Patriots, etc. A black business man, beloved in white NH, who can go face to face with Obama on the podium, creating a different dynamic than either Romney or Bachmann would. Please don't call me racist for explaining it this way- it's the ploy he is using here to help the tea party people put on a 'see-I'm-not-racist-I-can-vote-for-him' mask while being distracted from the fact that they're actually screwing themselves with this guy.
He looks to the oil industry for his energy policy, and I understand that as a businessman there are some holes in his resume around the Enron era. But he's well-spoken and suave. Perfection in a sock-puppet. He feels like GWB 2.0 to me.
That's bad. But there is something else about him that disturbed me most- a thing that worries me that's not so commonly known, which is why I am repeating it here.
Cain said something at the South Carolina debate that I can't find a link to, but I think it was important. It seemed to me to be quite a non-sequitur, but for some reason he mentioned that he had been in NH shortly after the Sept 9/11 event and had heard Netanyahu speak.
Well I was there too, at St. Anselm's College in October of 2001, the night that then NH Sen. Bob Smith had Netanyahu flown in and spoke to us for about 45 minutes, and then he left to fly out again.
The fact that we were both there to see that means to me that Mr. Cain does not come out of nowhere, he was involved in Republican politics and familiar with Netanyahu's views from way back.
What Netanyahu said to us that night was "terrorists are hanging out a shingle in Damascus. Syria watch out, the next time I am Prime Minister, you are in the cross-hairs."
It hasn't happened yet, but this, along with Herman Cain, is what I think they have planned for us. imho.