Come one now ... give Herman a break.  Libya was so 2011 ... oh wait.

I read somewhere on teh twitter that his press guy used to be his foreign policy adviser.  Methinks he should be fired ... right before Cain quits the race.

In what sense, Charlie?

Deer in the headlights.

I never thought it was possible, but I think he’s even dumber and less informed than the Grifter from Wasilla. She would have said some nonsense about “Obama, terrorism, our allies, common sense conservatism and Ronald Reagan” without any hesitation.

Another day, another teatard moron.

Hey, at least he’s not using a teleprompter!

Art Buchwald titled one of his books (I think it was just after Watergate), “I Think I Don’t Remember.”  Uh-huh.

I never thought it was possible, but I think he’s even dumber and less informed than the Grifter from Wasilla. She would have said some nonsense about “Obama, terrorism, our allies, common sense conservatism and Ronald Reagan” without any hesitation.

Ding.

“Got all this stuff twirling around my head… it’s kinda like a toilet.”

Word verification “pay99”... damn, Cain’s team monitors Rumproast!

I disagree with Anya.  I don’t think this is a case of dumbness.  It’s a case of (as gimmeabreak says) absolute bullshit bullshitting absolutely.  He says:

1. I would have done it differently.
2. But I’m not criticizing Obama.
3. I would have gathered all the information on the opposition.
4. Although I don’t know how much information on the opposition they DID gather.

He wants to take exception to something even he knows that he knows nothing about.  What he should do is openly dodge those questions.  “I can’t say.  I wasn’t privy to the secret intelligence, etc., that the President has.  My strength is as a businessman and in running the domestic economy.”  All this would have the virtue of being either true or defensible. 

Palin is an idiot because she cannot articulate a single coherent, knowledgeable position on issues she SHOULD know something about.  (Also because she thinks everyone ELSE is stupid, and will, like a panel of beauty pageant judges, wordlessly accept any bullshit answer to any question.)

Cain’s idiocy resides in offering knee-jerk anti-O positions on things neither he nor his questioners can be expected to have informed opinions on.  So when challenged he has to backpedal immediately, and openly contradict what he just said.

In other words: as always, the cover-up gets you in more trouble than the crime.

Give Hermancain a break. Libya is just one of those insignificant Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan countries, isn’t it?

Dance, Cain, dance.

“I’m a much more deliberate decision maker”. This coming from someone who thinks there should be a 3-page-limit on legislation.

Jesus. The jokes don’t just write themselves. They go to open-mike night at comedy clubs and tell themselves.

Meanwhile The Onion’s writers are desperately trying to come up with ways to snark on this nonsense.

A manly man don’t want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza.

Good luck with that.

Shorter Hermancain (h/t QinaB):

Libya.  Leebya.  Lib-leeb-leeb-ya-ya-ya.  That the country we’re talking about?  And what was the question?

The title of this thread reminded me of Hedley Lamarr:  “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”

Man, some people will go to any lengths to get cast in a Twix commercial.

I’m leaning toward Rachel Maddow’s theory: Cain’s whole “campaign” is just one big, long performance art piece; he’s never had any intention of actually running for president.

Ann Coulter might want to reconsider this whole thing.

To follow up on HTP:
The jokes don’t just write themselves, they go to the comedy club and do their own standup, get stoned with their groupies, have insane group sex, and go back to the comedy club and do the political version of the Aristocrats before dropping dead from overwork.

aimai

Origuy: Ditto!

On the subject at hand, not to worry. Pam Geller’s <a >got his back</a>.

Lord, did Jon Stewart harpoon this! lol

While Cain is pretty dumb, Mr. Wonderful is right that the defining factor is that he’s a bullshitter.  He’s hardly unique in that.  Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin have all played this same game: 1) criticize Obama and the Democrats, 2) assert that s/he and the Republicans are better, and 3) avoid any substantive discussion whatsoever of the issue at hand.  Many politicians do a little of this at some point in their careers, but not constantly and on every goddam issue.  The Republican Party is so completely divorced from reality and anything approaching responsible governance that every debate is about 90% bullshit, with the occasional bouts of sanity from Huntsman, Paul (and more rarely, one of the others).  Gingrich is predictable: he’ll attack the media, attack Obama and the Dems, praise his fellow candidates, and basically sneer at the question itself to avoid answering it.  Gingrich and Romney constantly assert their superiority while trying to avoid actually saying anything.  They can’t compete if substance matters, but hey voter, if you’re uncomfortable with that black fellar in the White House, well, then, here’s your new if admittedly three-rate Reagan: a white daddy figure to screw you over but make you feel smugly superior your own self.

It’s really sad that a candidate as unqualified and shallow as Cain hasn’t been bounced before now, but every election, the Republicans lower the standards, and their current crop is astoundingly abysmal.   

Also, a killer comment by aimai, like that’s a shock.