The declared candidate on that stage who most closely espouses the tea party ideals is not Rick Perry or Mitt Romney or Michele Bachmann or Rich Santorum and definitely not Jon Huntsman or Newt Gingrich. It's Herman Cain. Strange isn't it. Maybe no one noticed he was black.
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This is true: Cain is closer to the Tea Party than any of the rest of them: less a religious kook than Bachmann, and ignorant of foreign affairs and economics, just like the 'baggers.
He is useful the the GOP because they can put him on the stage and say "See? A Negro! We have us a Negro. We aren't racists like they say we are!"
He has no chance of getting the nomination. This is a good thing. One cannot really run a country like a delivery Pizza business. It one could, then Papa John's might be better than Cain.