-By Warner Todd Huston
For most Americans the question isn’t whether or not Herman Cain would make a good president but is, rather, “who the heck is Herman Cain?” Well, let this serve as your introduction to the businessman, turned radio talk-show host, turned 2012 GOP hopeful.
Cain has been a Tea Party mainstay since the early days of the movement and can give a heck of a rally speech. He’s able to easily invoke good business sense, low taxes, Tea Party principles, and highly patriotic themes in speeches that always brings conservatives to their feet in applause. But outside the Tea Party circuit he’s not as well known.
Cain is a little beter known in Atlanta, Georgia, at least by 300,000 listeners of WSB radio where he hosted a radio show for several years (until Feb. of 2011). From this platform Cain got involved as a Tea Party speaker.
His earlier life, though, is what he points to as his proving grounds making him qualified for being president…
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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