My explanation for why Herman will, and should pick Newt is at this short piece’s end, but the few paragraphs leading up to it are essential to understanding it – We’re witnessing a profound political earthquake, gang, through which a new paradigm has appeared on the landscape. From this collision of ‘old’ & ‘new’ politics, we will see the ticket born – and win the White House.
The Left & Right Establishment are FUNNY to watch vis-a-vis Herman.
Know why? Because Herman is to them is like oil is to water. They’re utterly, fundamentally, foundationally opposed, and the one does not know what to do with the other.
On the Left it’s because he’s off the liberal plantation and is a walking, talking refutation of every lie they’ve been peddling since The Great Society.
On the Right, it’s cynically simple: THEY CAN’T CONTROL HIM. They know they can’t co-opt and corrupt him.
On BOTH sides, they simply can’t wrap their heads around the possibility that there may actually be a man of principle in Oval Office – really. They really, truly, honestly, cannot, even if they tried hallucinogenic drugs, picture such an honorable man in the Oval. They just can’t do it.
Look – Herman’s going all the way. Meet your next President, America. He’s touched something deep in the electorate that simply can’t be bought.
I’ll tell you something else. He’ll pick Newt for a VP. It will be a perfect out of the box exclamation point to a record-breaking, paradigm-busting campaign, because it’s never been done before (or maybe only once or twice ages ago) that the President & VP are both from the same state (Georgia). It will be an inspired choice, because there’s nothing Herman lacks AS A MAN & PATRIOT OF DEEP PRINCIPLE that he can’t learn from a briefing book. And there’s nothing he can’t get done legislatively when he’s got Newt navigating the Hill.
The GOP will ‘forgive’ Newt for his (significant) sins because he wont be in the #1 spot and because of Herman’s blessing.
People always say GOP don’t ‘fall in love’ they ‘fall in line.’
This time, it may be both.
UPDATE: I just had a very, very dark thought. Remember during the campaign when Michelle said ‘As a black man, Barack could get shot at the gas station.’ ? I don’t doubt for a second that the forces surrounding this President are dark enough to asassinate Herman Cain if he’s the nominee.
Not for a second.
Pray, as always, for the safety of the Obama family and the Secret Service who protect them – but pray too for Herman.
Hard.