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Herman Cain is out but he’s not.

I’d like to take a moment and tell you a couple of things Cain is not…

• Cain is NOT Ross Perot. We all wanted to love the little general but in the end he turned out to be a ticking implosion device on a short fuse.
• Cain is not Alan Keyes. Keyes was, in his way, the pioneer black conservative. We all wanted to love him, but in the end he turned out to be a ticking implosion device on a short fuse.
• Cain is not John Edwards, for he has no hair.
• Nor is Cain a William Jefferson Clinton. If he were, he would be a democrat and his wife Gloria would be running his Bimbo Eruptions unit, and he would be in the lead for president.

Cain IS an American tragedy. Falsely accused, or at least accused and convicted without proof by the media.

Frankly, if Herman Cain had not been targeted and disposed of, it would eventually boil down to a two man race, Cain and Newt But in the end, Newt’s unconventional campaign would have triumphed Cain’s unconventional campaign.

That being the case, Cain is a new American tragedy for not being allowed to at least see the finish line over the rim.

And one thing Cain IS…

Cain is one more thing. Cain is the living proof of the lie that all white southerners are racist. White southern conservatives do not like Cain. They LOVE Cain. On the other hand, white southern democrats HATE Cain. Make of it what you will.

For the voters who count, the conservatives, Cain was blown away by Newt… Not by the ginned up lies perpetuated by the media. If they want to believe otherwise, let them. You can’t stop them anyway…but you don’t have to buy into it.

If Cain did anything wrong, it was to be a gregarious, amiable male leader, in the presence of strange, mean, and dangerous females at the apex of the PC office phenomenon. And perhaps to be helpful to those who do not deserve help. (You can bet he’ll never make that mistake again, so don’t ask him for money, especially if you wear a dress.)

Cain would have been better off to be born or made into a stone faced, humorless, non committal CEO of the type you have probably met or known. But then he wouldn’t have been..Herman Cain.

In a strange, but pivotal point in the life of the nation, a time of conservative plenty quite unknown in living memory, we were blessed to have had this man, Herman Cain, to consider for the office of the most powerful man in the world. Truly blessed. We could do worse.

A man pulls on his life experiences to understand the current situation.

In 1998 I was in Brazil on business. I found myself riding on a rickety old elevator to the 10th or 12th floor of an older condo building on the beach in a northeastern Brazilian city.

After the elevator grudgingly halted, I walked down the narrow hall to a door. It opened into a spacious room with the a full picture window and doors across the room open to the balcony facing the sea, the curtains blowing lazily in the wind. It was very humid.

 
I was meeting with a retired secretary of state of the region. It was a social call. I don’t think he had much liking for me one way or the other, but I had brought the gift of an assortment of American beer, and he was a most hospitable host.

 
The man, whose name I won’t mention, began his career as a newspaper journalist in Rio, and later moved north. He was a cagey fellow, and extremely wise in the ways of Brazil politics.

Before you visit Brazil you need to realize that it is on the other side of the equator. Thus, everything in that country is upside down from what you’re used to.

 
For politics, Brazil is basically socialist in nature, but there are no Americano type conservatives for balance. The loyal opposition there are more your typical dictator worshipers. So, in effect, you wind up with two versions of the left, and no right. It’s all upside down, or at best, sideways.

 
Brazil had fallen into bed with leftists, communists, socialists…some kind of ists earlier on, after making a stab at democracy.  The country was about to fold when they had their revolution, and my host had joined in that movement. He was a wheel in the new military dictatorship.

 
After a time, the military turned the country back over to the people. My host, I gathered, longed for the days of military rule, which he felt was best for the people. Actually, he had done quite well for himself, monetarily, under the regime.

 
I don’t know if his government post ended with the coming of the new democracy, or later. Either way, he was  a much loved and still powerful figure in northeast Brazil.

 
After a time, the talk turned to President Clinton. My host, I felt certain, held about as much confidence in my political opinions as he would those of a trained monkey. I wasn’t offended, because this guy WAS POLITICS. I was looking for an education from him…not the other way around.

 
Still, I waded in and tried my best to explain to him that it wasn’t the fact that Clinton had sexual relations with that woman…It was the fact that he lied about it that was getting him into trouble.

The old man was incredulous.

 
In Brazil, one learns, to run for office is an indictment of character to begin with. The people expect their officials to be crooks and liars, as surely as they know water swirls backwards in the drain. In their view, politics is a dishonorable, but necessary evil. They expect the worst from their elected officials, and most often get it.

 
So he was truly incredulous that Americans would be mad with Clinton, whom they should have expected to be a womanizer and liar.

I had managed to stump the pro.

 
The old man is still around, these years later, and I’m sure, mortified at the socialist state of the country. Brazil will continue on in like manner for a time, then it will become so corrupt that the military will once again take over. That is the way of Brazil.

 
In America at the end of 2011 , Herman Cain is in trouble, once again. The talk yakkers are all piling on, friend and foe alike.

 
Of Herman Cain… If my friend in Brazil pays any attention to gringo politics, he would surely  be mystified once again, and amused at the antics of the press and Cain followers.

But most of all, he simply would not understand. Os Americanos loucos.

I invited Newt to respond to my open letter…ummn a week ago. I expect he has been busy with his Mexican turkey.

In the meantime, Gingrich got real close to the Perry Zone with his comment that he can’t believe that conservatives are so mean and heartless as to give illegal aliens a bus ticket home if they have been living illegally in the good old USA for 25 years.

When I heard him utter those words, my thoughts harkened back to my imperious open letter where I axed Gingrich if he’d do something dumb despite the wishes of his electorate. I expect this is just such  a thing.

Newt says that it makes him real mad whenever anyone uses the word “amnesty” in his presence.  However, if they can think of some other word that means the same thing, then that’s perfectly ok. (Ex: Amnistía)

As Rush pointed out last week, suppose an illegal alien from Mexico, Guatemala, or Uranus has been here for 24 years and 11 months. Do we put him and his muchachos and muchachinas on the next mail rocket home?

All that said, I have some news for you. Here is what will happen. Most illegal aliens who swam the Rio Grande, or dropped from a hovering flying saucer will stay in America, if they choose to.

Actually, a lot won’t. They dropped in to make a quick buck before heading home. But those who want to stay…will stay.

Here’s the problem…

If you happen to live in a part of the country where there are no illegal aliens, you have an easier time to say,” Dump ‘em all into a one way freight car south.”

It gets a little more dicey for those of us who have more experience.

Many of us have neighbors, good neighbors, who just happen to be from some other country or planet. Or our kid’s or grandkid’s best pals say ola instead of hello. Many of us have a conflict of interest.

Once you have some heart invested with these pesky invaders, it’s not so simple as to say, “Send ‘em all packing!”

Besides, how do you ship 11 million alien people back to where they came from? There aren’t enough boxcars, Greyhound busses, or spaceships to do it. You can forget that line.

The problem Newt has with me, at any rate, is the way he put it…. You’re heartless if you don’t agree with his cockamamie 25 year plan.

Besides, we ALL know that the courts will, in time, screw it over so badly that everybody who is OUTSIDE the country and doesn’t try to slip into America will be in VIOLATION of the law. Can you imagine 6 billion people being held incommuacado in Gitmo?

Generalissimo Newt’s current plan is unworkable in the extremis. El grande unworkable.

The question arises… Will Newt do something completely stupid and make us live with it? That’s my question.

I submit this 25 year thing is example #1, and he hasn’t even been nominated.

We had three years of really bad medicine from Obama to swallow plus the eight previous of soppy pro illegal legalization with Bush. The LAST thing we want is for another bad medicine giver to get the top office.

Newt has a heap (el grande pile) of explaining to do, and calling conservatives heartless and bad won’t cut it. (Whether he believes it or not.)