Community | October 02, 2011 | 7 comments

Herman Cain takes aim at GOP rivals - Thinks Gov. Chris Christie is "too liberal".

source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/2/cain-christie-too-liberal-gop/?page=all#pageb...

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Just a week after vaulting into the top tier of GOP presidential candidates with a surprise straw poll victory in Florida, Herman Cain is aggressively pressing his case, calling out rivals within his own party — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is “insensitive” to blacks, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie too liberal for conservatives — while also stepping up his criticism of President Obama.

The former Godfather’s Pizza executive capped off the biggest week of what was once considered a quixotic campaign with two new straw poll wins, an appearance on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” and a Sunday morning blitz of major news-talk shows.

On “Fox News Sunday,” the Georgia businessman and former radio talk-show host downplayed the possible impact of Mr. Christie making a late entry into the GOP race.

Mr. Christie’s positions on immigration, gun rights, civil unions and global warming will “turn off a lot of conservatives,” Mr. Cain asserted.

“I believe that a lot of conservatives … will not be able to support him,” he said.

Mr. Christie, who is reportedly considering a presidential bid, has in the past supported restrictions on automatic weapons. He also has said being in the country without proper documentation is not a crime, and that climate change is real and partially manmade.

Mr. Cain also weighed in on the latest controversy dogging Mr. Perry: A Washington Post report that he regularly hosted gatherings at a West Texas hunting camp with a racially repugnant name painted on a rock at the entrance to its acreage.

The Perry campaign said the offensive word on the rock was painted over in the 1980s, soon after the Perry family began leasing the hunting camp — a claim disputed by some camp visitors interviewed by The Post.

Asked about the story, Mr. Cain said the Texas governor should have taken action sooner.

“My reaction is, that’s just very insensitive,” Mr. Cain said Sunday. “There isn’t a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did before, I hear, that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”

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7 comments // Herman Cain takes aim at GOP rivals - Thinks Gov. Chris Christie is "too liberal".

  • Mark701
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      Mark701  

    • Too liberal? If Christie was any further right he'd be back on the left. All this makes me wonder what "conservative" really is. They're not the Eisenhower conservatives (Eisenhower wouldn't even make it on the ballot today), not even the Reagan GOP, so who are they? What do they want?

    • 8 months ago
  • bike10
  • Schnookums
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      Schnookums  

    • I always have to wonder aloud when Mr. Cain comes up in Republican conversations why they only ever tout his Godfather's Pizza experience and not the fact that he also was chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City? Do they think it won't ever come out?

      How can they possibly think that he'd be able to win over support of the racist, Fed-hating contingency of the party with a resume like that?

    • 8 months ago
  • GENERALNATTY
  • Schnookums
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      Schnookums  
    • GENERALNATTY:

      Thank you for sharing.

      I enjoyed listening to his excuses for why he shouldn't be held accountable for his time there, and laughed mightily at his assertion that an audit "wouldn't turn up anything". Awesome.

      ^'d

    • 8 months ago
  • GENERALNATTY
  • tverdell
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