I suppose I’m lowering both my IQ and the collective IQ of my readership just by mentioning this, but here is Herman Cain’s return to public life:
The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO announced plans to tour the country to raise support for the “9-9-9” plan that was the star of his aborted presidential run, hoping to rally congressional sponsors for his plan to replace the federal Tax Code with a 9 percent corporate tax, 9 percent personal income tax and a 9 percent national sales tax.
….“I started a new movement. The biggest comment I got when I ended my candidacy was to keep 9-9-9 alive. That’s what this is about, and I’m going to keep it alive with what I’m calling Cain’s Solutions Revolution,” Cain said.
What’s really going on here? I guess the obvious answer is that Cain is just engaged in the time-honored pursuit of separating fools from their money, but I can’t help but wonder if he actually believes this stuff or not. I suppose it doesn’t matter, really, but surely Cain isn’t so completely divorced from reality that he thinks the Republican Party will ever adopt 9-9-9? Even hardcore conservatives thought it was an idiotic idea.
But I guess he figures he can get a book out of it, and so the clown show continues. Sigh.
