Florida's Backing of Herman Cain Catching on in Rest of Country (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | I have to admit it. The latest Zogby poll has me excited. Herman Cain has blasted past former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney, by a staggering 20 points and leads President Barack Obama by two points. A surprising popularity surge that began with the Florida straw poll has caught on nationwide.
Down here in Florida, where unemployment remains above the national average, Romney's business sense could have been an asset. But in a state that's suing over Obamacare and is known for its population of retirees, Romneycare and his ambiguity on Medicare and Social Security reform will be serious liabilities.
Even though our high jobless rate has helped reduce the amount of illegal immigrants in the Sunshine State, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's job creating skills would still have been well received by the rest of us. But his commentary at the GOP debate in Orlando that we are "heartless" if we don't like paying their college tuition may explain his dismal showing in our straw poll.
Where his GOP challengers may think Cain's lack of public office experience gives them an advantage, the lesson they've forgotten from the 2010 midterms is that the absence of political establishment contamination in his bloodstream is what makes him so appealing to voters.
Where Washington continues to spew out a hailstorm of legislation that requires thousands of pages and a team of lawyers to decipher, Cain's "9-9-9 plan" is so short and snappy that even an economic illiterate could understand it.
Americans are tired of complicated things. We're tired of the partisan bickering and grandstanding. We're fed up with politicians who make decisions and cast votes based on what would best benefit their party and their own political career rather than our nation and the people who elected them.
In 2010, the GOP establishment backed Republican career politician Gov. Charlie Crist for Florida's seat in the United States Senate. Florida voters preferred a young, former Florida House speaker and newly embraced tea party candidate who -- outside of our state -- was virtually a political unknown.
Despite the endorsements and financial efforts of the Republican leadership to shove Crist down our collective throats, we instead sent Marco Rubio to Washington to deliver our message to congress. Evidently, Americans are starting to like the Floridian idea of sending a former pizza man to deliver that same message to our lawmakers from the White House.
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