Well HELLO!

ORLANDO — From the bottom of the polls to the top of the pack, businessman Herman Cain won a surprise victory at the Republican Party of Florida’s nationally watched presidential straw poll Saturday in a sign that front-runner Rick Perry is in deep trouble.

 
Granted, this was Orlando, where the local Tea Party has been an active, engaged movement since its inception, still:

Cain’s landslide victory, with 37 percent of the vote, exceeded the combined total for Perry and Mitt Romney, who only garnered 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

 
Pretty impressive!
One thing’s fairly certain, Cain’s not the GOP establishment’s guy. The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) hosted the straw poll yesterday in Orlando. Their website, enthusiastically promoting Presidency 5 as “History in the making…” featured a live webcast of the event ~

The crown jewel of Presidency 5 is the Florida Straw Poll, featuring the participation of more than 3,000 Florida Republican delegates. Those candidates who perform well at Presidency 5 this September will launch their campaigns to the forefront of the race to replace Barack Obama in the White House.

 
However, the day after the straw poll, suspiciously absent from the RPOF site, is any mention of the results. As of 4:00 pm today the “Newsroom” page was still blank. Cue the crickets:

 
And yet, true to their billing, history was made last night; a conservative entrepreneur who’s never held public office, scored a stunning upset over the GOP frontrunners. Mighty curious that the RPOF doesn’t find that historic or even newsworthy…

 
Well, too bad about the GOP One-Step-Behind-the-Socialists Establishment.
 
Although I’m still ABO (Anyone But Obama), I’m starting to like Herman Cain more and more. It was especially encouraging to see the classy way he dealt with Morgan Freeman’s name-calling earlier this week; Herman Cain, GOP presidential candidate, hits back at Morgan Freeman for calling Tea Party ‘racist’
Freeman, in typical leftist fashion, simply flings mud at the opposition to obscure the truth, claiming that the Tea Party mindset is “Screw the country, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here…It is a racist thing.”
Asked by Neil Cavuto (video 9-23-11) how he felt about Freeman’s comments, Cain responded:

“I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect – he is a great actor – has ever been to a Tea Party. Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Party about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party… I’m not offended by it, I just think it’s sad that they’re so short-sighted… Name-calling is something that’s going to continue in this because they don’t know how to stop this movement.”

 
Incidentally, if the Democrat drones were capable of rational thought, they’d realize that the lame accusation of racism is totally refuted by the strong Tea Party support of of Herman Cain.
 
If he can keep the momentum going, who knows – maybe America’s 2nd Black President can save the country from the disaster created by the 1st one!