there is an awkwardness there. herman cain being so awkward about it perfectly manifests the intrinsically oxymoronic nature of waning a small government, to force american women to give birth against their will. there s the political issue of whether the republican party would nominate someone who said abortion wasn t government s business, someone who s effectively pro choice. you can extrapolate it to those things. really i think the most important thing about herman cain on the abortion issue is the simplest thing about it. he does not seem to understand that if abortion is illegal, if there is a law against abortion then government is the one that makes that law. government makes law. law forces people to do stuff they don t want to do. when herman cain says abortion should be illegal but it s not the government s choice, herman cain appears to not understand why we call members of congress lawmakers. government makes law. law never mind. despite all of this, despite all
campaign. herman campaign doesn t have a campaign organization. he does not really have any organization, any on the ground staff anywhere across the country including in the early primary states. maybe he doesn t need it. herman cain is essentially a popup candidate. this is a ready made candidacy. remember the big mega-funded conservative group americans for prosperity funded by the billionaire koch brothers? that organization it turns out is the herman cain presidential campaign. herman cain s campaign manager, the guy that recruited him to run for office supposedly is the former head of wisconsin chacht of americans for prosperity, mr. cain s campaign spokeswoman, the americans for r prosperity coordinator in louisiana. mr. cain s economic adviser that came up with the 9-9-9 plan was on americans for prosperity board of advisers from 2006 to 2008. six other current and former paid employees and consultants for cain s campaign have also worked for americans for
nothing to resemble a real campaign. herman campaign doesn t have a campaign organization. he does not really have any organization, any on the ground staff anywhere across the country including in the early primary states. maybe he doesn t need it. herman cain is essentially a popup candidate. this is a ready made candidacy. remember the big mega-funded conservative group americans for prosperity funded by the billionaire koch brothers? that organization it turns out is the herman cain presidential campaign. herman cain s campaign manager, the guy that recruited him to run for office supposedly is the former head of wisconsin chapter of americans for prosperity, mr. cain s campaign spokeswoman, the americans for prosperity coordinator in louisiana. mr. cain s economic adviser that came up with the 9-9-9 plan was on americans for prosperity board of advisers from 2006 to 2008. six other current and former paid employees and consultants for cain s campaign have also worked for americans
my position is i m pro life, period. if a woman is raped, she should not be allowed to end the pregnancy? that s her choice. that is not government s choice. i support life from conception. so abortion should be legal? no. abortion should not be legal. i believe in the sanctity of life. i m not getting i m not understanding. if it s her choice, that means it s legal. no. i believe i don t believe a woman should have an abortion. does that help to clear it up? when i saw that clip on the bill maher show friday night and they moved the camera to ellis henikan and he was going like this, i thought that was something the bill maher people put in there to be funny. no, that really happened. it s possible to extrapolate too much from herman cain on the abortion issue. there s inherent awkwardness in republicans advocating small government and government big enough to intervene in every pregnancy in america. there is an awkwardness there.
craziness and herman cain and michele bachmann, although i guess bachmann is over by now. but the real problem is, i mean, we know how combative politics has become. the real problem is that a lot of the stuff the republicans are dealing with now is really harmful to individuals and harmful to the national interests overall. i mean, the economy right now is in a very delicate situation. economists tell us there s a danger of another recession coming up over the next year or so. you start throwing these people out of work in state and local governments, for example, when in fact you could do something to prevent that, that just weakens the economy more. and then, you know, i know there s controversy over the way, over joe biden s recent comments, but the simple fact of the matter is, when you start slashing police forces the way some of these towns and cities have been doing lately, you do