Using an urban phrase used to convey a sense of excitement, radio host and businessman Herman Cain emerged to throngs of supporters on Saturday and formally announced his presidential bid.
"Awww shucky ducky," the conservative Republican joked with the crowd in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park as he stepped out to applause and adoring chants.
Moments later, he turned to the more serious announcement.
"Right here, this day, this hour and this moment, I have looked inside of me. I came here to declare my candidacy for the Republican nomination for president of the United States of America," Cain said.
"And just to be clear, in case you accidentally listen to a skeptic, let me say it again, I'm running for president of the United States. And I'm not running for second," he added.
He's telling the truth. He's not running for second. He's running for dead last. That may or may not be easier with yet another Republican too scared of Obama to throw his hat into the ring: Indiana's GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels is taking a pass.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a former top aide to George W. Bush, ended his very public flirtation with running for president early Sunday with an e-mail to supporters that narrowed the field of plausible 2012 Republican challengers to President Barack Obama.
"The counsel and encouragement I received from important citizens like you caused me to think very deeply about becoming a national candidate," Daniels said in the message distributed through the Indiana Republican Party.
"In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one, but that, the interests and wishes of my family, is the most important consideration of all."
Once again, if President Obama is so vulnerable on the economy that he's easy pickings, and the Republican plan to unravel the social safety net of Medicare and Social Security to give more tax breaks to the "job creating" wealthy is so great, and Republican governors are so respected as serious political chief executives who have tamed their state's economic issues, then why are the serious candidates who are in Governor's mansions already refusing to take on Obama?
Indiana's Mitch Daniels is now out. New Jersey's Chris Christie doesn't want to go anywhere near the 2012 presidential race. Texas's Rick Perry? No thank you, he says. Former Governors Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin? No way and who cares? The only "young gun" who seems to want to run is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (who is expected to announce tomorrow), and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is just a glutton for punishment.
If Obama is so weak on economic issues and the GOP is so strong, and the Republicans have such a deep bench at the state level, then shouldn't these high profile governors be flocking to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina right now?
Or are they in reality so unpopular in their own states already that a major backlash is underway even after a few short months past the 2010 elections that supposedly gave the GOP such a huge mandate at the state level?
Think about it. If Obama's so toast in 2012, shouldn't these social program destroying Republicans be lining up to take him on?
But they're not. And that's because the Republicans have already blown their 2010 lead.
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