Line of the Day (Cain Experiment Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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“His [Cain’s] candidacy’s now basically an experiment to see if there’s anything he could say about policy that grassroots conservatives wouldn’t ignore/forgive in the name of nominating a candidate who’s “authentic” instead of some slick RINO Beltway insider phony”—AllahPundt.
h/t: Sullivan (who has a rather astounding round-up of reactions to Cain’s Libya flub).
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Phil Klein at Sully’s place:
Here’s what I think happened. Cain started out, as Jon Chait said, pursuing a business plan, then a whole bunch of low-wattage folks said, “Jeebus, he’s the one!” — very, very loudly — and he suddenly found himself in a role that he had never anticipated and had never planned for. And we’re seeing this play out.
Well, according to TPM, in the same interview where he forgot what Libya was, Cain also dropped that he had asked Henry Motherf**king Kissenger to be his shadow Secretary of State. This is someone who just stopped caring along, long time ago…