John wrote this morning about Herman Cain’s inexplicable belief that homosexuality is a choice, something that can be washed off on a whim. Indeed, just this morning I woke up and washed the gay right outta of my hair. It was back within thirty minutes, and I’m already back to making musical theater references, but y’know.
But in the same Piers Morgan interview John referenced, Herman Cain revealed that his attitudes toward choice go a bit further than that:
No, it comes down to is, it’s not the government’s role — or anybody else’s role — to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number (abortion because of rape – LHW). So what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician. Not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn’t try to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive decision.
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No, they don’t. I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to a social decision that they need to make.
Uh oh. The new frontrunner for the GOP nomination is, um, ahem!, pro-choice. As in, about abortion.
Well, that was a nice run for Herman. Back to the old pizza stone…
[h/t Blue Texan. Image: Phelan Ebenhack/REUTERS]
Herman is my age. I think I grew up listening to his line of thinking/being from many well-meaning-folks-who-harm innocents– sounds more like Eisenhower than Regan but they all lived in a world of their own pretend making…likeable Ikeables, but just plain ill-equipped for the Presidential job that requires justice for all…may I have your attention: all means all.
One point I can’t quite grasp: He says it is a personal/family decision if the woman wants an abortion and not for the government to say. Fine, except he has also said that abortion should not be legal. Well, which is it? If a woman decides to have an abortion and it is illegal, where does she go to implement her legal decision to have one? AND when asked about that obviously confusing position, he made it sound like all the listeners were the confused ones. Yea, he’ll make a good President.
He just talks in circles. I don’t know if he’s actually trying to confuse people (which I suppose is possible) or he’s just really confused himself.
In his case, I believe it is far more systemic than that. This man is a cancer to Social Justice, he would be constantly cutting the throats of the poor, the outcasts, {including GLBT persons}, and even to the point of shaking the hands of the Religious Right and telling people that he believes in Choice. He is a Black combination of GWBush and Rick Perry— whose minds are so pickled with alcohol and drugs used in college that they cannot utilized rational thought. Of course, the real reason that we are listening to his diatribes in the first place is that he has proclaimed himself to be a RepubliCON. Those who will con everyone in the country with a bunch of half-baked ideas that cannot logically work— and then to declare it as being all to the Glory of GOD, and GOD cringes every time that they declare it! JMEO
Bill Maher nailed it last night when he said ‘Cain is stupid, but good at sales pitching. He’s currently making tons of money, selling books and getting paid to make speeches.’ He probably knows he’ll never be president, but is making pizza while the oven is hot. (my line, not Maher’s)
Of course this guy is irrational on social issues, he’s a right wing Republican extremist. Could we expect anything less than insanity from such a mouth piece?