So far, conservative voters have overlooked gaffe after gaffe from their currently favored Not Romney candidate. Even allegations he paid several women hush money to keep their mouths shut about sexual harrassment during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association hasn't put them off. Herman Cain reportedly had his biggest fund-raising day ever yesterday, raking in upwards of $350,000 in 24 hours.
Now an interview with Judy Woodruff provides further evidence that is Cain an ill-informed, scandal-ridden, Palinesque buffoon who is utterly unqualified to stand for the highest office in the land. The man is not even aware that China has had nuclear weapons capability since 1964.
Transcript of the interview below:
HERMAN CAIN: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what could you do as president to head that off?
HERMAN CAIN: My China strategy is quite simply outgrow China. It gets back to economics. China has a $6 trillion economy and they’re growing at approximately 10 percent. We have a $14 trillion economy — much bigger — but we’re growing at an anemic 1.5, 1.6 percent. When we get our economy growing back at the rate of 5 or 6 percent that it has the ability to do, we will outgrow China.
And secondly, we already have superiority in terms of our military capability, and I plan to get away from making cutting our defense a priority and make investing in our military capability a priority, going back to my statement: peace through strength and clarity. So yes they’re a military threat. They’ve indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.
Unfortunately, I was unable to embed the video, but mediaite has it here.
Will evidence that Cain is dangerously stupid be enough to put the final nail in Cain's coffin? Probably not, but it should.