by GottaLaff
So much for Herman Cain being an “outsider”. Not only was he a DC INsider, he also advised Bob Dole and Jack Kemp’s failed presidential campaign, failed as a 2000 presidential candidate himself, and then became co-chairman of Steve Forbes’s failed campaign.
Can’t get much more not-outsidery and faily than that, now can you?
You know what he was good at? That’s right, hawking pizza and lobbying for all the most unhealthy, destructive, self-serving groups and causes.
The New York Times:
But the role that helped propel Mr. Cain into politics was that of an ultimate Washington insider: industry lobbyist.
From 1996, when he left the pizza company, until 1999, Mr. Cain ran the National Restaurant Association, a once-sleepy trade group that he transformed into a lobbying powerhouse. He allied himself closely with cigarette makers fighting restaurant smoking bans, spoke out against lowering blood-alcohol limits as a way to prevent drunken driving, fought an increase in the minimum wage and opposed a patients’ bill of rights — all in keeping with the interests of the industry he represented.
It was a role that gave him an intimate view of the way Washington works, putting him in close proximity to Republican leaders at the time, including Newt Gingrich, now one of his presidential rivals, and John A. Boehner, now speaker of the House.
See? He’s just a regular outspoken guy who hates the very government he lobbied and now wants to run.
His credibility? A big zero-zero-zero.
Link:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/10/23/herman-cain-the-outsider-was-an-ultimate-washington-insider-industry-lobbyist/
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