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After many months of “prayerful consideration,” Herman Cain, the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza and the conservative host of a popular talk radio show in Georgia, has formed an exploratory committee to run for president as a Republican.

I am confident enough to be president… After I go through this phase and the decision is yes, trust me, I’m running to win.” Cain on “Top Line,” January 2011.

Age: 65
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee
Family: Gloria Cain (wife); Children: Melanie and Vincent.
Religion: Baptist
Current job: Newspaper columnist
Previous experience: Has never run for president
Most Recent Book Written: “They Think You’re Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It” (2005)
PAC: The Hermanator
Total 2010 Receipts (from Dec. report): $221,945
Cash on Hand (from Dec. report): $2,246

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The announcement came on his website, where Cain wrote:

“The American Dream is under attack. In fact, a recent survey found 67% of the American People believe America is headed in the wrong direction. Sadly, this comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched an out-of-control federal government that spends recklessly, taxes too much and oversteps its Constitutional limits far too often.”

Cain, an African-American Republican, holds a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University and was a corporate vice president for Burger King before running Godfather’s Pizza. Previously, he served as chairman of the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City — and was chairman of the board for the National Restaurant Association.

He has never been elected to public office, but he did briefly run for president in 2000.

In 2004, Cain ran for U.S. Senate in Georgia, coming in second place to then-Congressman Johnny Isakson in the Republican primary (many believe that had Cain forced a runoff, he would have defeated Isakson in a head-to-head match-up). During the campaign, Cain was criticized for having previously donated money to former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat.

Speaking of money, Cain’s challenge will be to raise the kind of funds needed to run a serious presidential campaign. In prior conversations, Cain implied to me that he would not self-fund his campaign.

But though Cain has himself admitted that he would be a “dark horse” candidate, he will be greatly aided by the fact that he is a full-spectrum conservative with solid fiscal and social credentials. Christian conservatives love him, and The Club for Growth endorsed him for Senate in 2004. Cain is also close with fiscal conservative and two-time presidential candidate Steve Forbes. Depending on the field, there is great potential for him to rally conservative activists and bloggers to his cause.

For months now, Cain has been rumored to be seriously considering a presidential run. Perhaps not coincidentally, RedState’s Erick Erickson recently announced the launch of a new radio show, “The Erick Erickson Show” on Atlanta’s WBS radio — a station which also broadcasts Cain’s popular radio show.

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Herman Cain grew up in a loving, working class   environment in Atlanta, Georgia, with strict Christian parents who worked hard   to put their children through school and gave them a chance at the life that   they never had. Unlike some other candidates, his success was self-achieved   through his drive and remarkable   intelligence.

Jim Kane
Stop the division of America. Quit blaming Bush. Quit blaming Obama. YOU are to blame America! Blame the years of ignorance, apathy and subsidies of the American people. This moment is the inflection point in our history. The intellectual revolution is at hand. Don’t ever let complacency win out over the regaining of our liberty. Get out there and show your community that REAL patriots are alive and well.

The clash came as Obama was intent on
wrapping up the meeting in the shadow of a red country barn draped with an
American flag, as the sun set on a rural corner of Iowa.

“I know it’s not going to work, if you stand up, and I asked everybody to
raise their hand… I didn’t see you, I wasn’t avoiding you,” the president
said, but later circled back to answer Rhodes’s question.

“I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric,”
he said, before going on to detail some of the more explosive charges that
conservatives have laid against him.

“In fairness, since I have been called a socialist who wasn’t born in this
country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms because I passed
a health care bill, I am all for lowering the rhetoric.”

Obama and Rhodes later engaged in an animated conversation as he greeted
supporters on a rope line after the event, and the activist later told reporters
that he believed that Obama was indeed a socialist.

The president was on the first day of a
three-state bus tour in which he is sympathizing with Americans dismayed and
frustrated by the slow pace of the economic recovery and trying to repair his
battered political standing.

Rhodes backed winning candidate and Tea Party favorite Representative Michele
Bachmann in last weekend’s Iowa Straw poll, and is regarded as a founder of the
anti-big government movement in the state.

The Tea Party lacks a centralized national leadership but emerged in the 2010
congressional election cycle as a powerful influence on conservative Republican
politics, with its message of low taxes and cutting spending.

The movement was also seen as a key driver of
Republican leadership tactics in a debt showdown with Obama, and some Democrats
accused Tea Party activists of holding the country hostage over raising the
government’s borrowing limit.

Who Is Rick
Perry?He is a fifth generation Texan, the son of
hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers. Democrats but conservatives through and
through. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so
hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother
sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.

He is an
Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School, he attended Texas A&M,
graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130
pilot.

Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different
offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a
Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th
governor of Texas, a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of
any governor in the nation.

He has never lost an election.

Rick
Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the
office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won
gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a
field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an
Independent.

Since he became its Governor, Texas, a right to work state
that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains, has added more jobs than
the other 49 states combined. In the last two years, low taxes and little
regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation.
Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in
Texas. People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are
available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration
growth.

Perry signed ground-breaking, loser pays tort reform and medical
litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000
doctors have since moved to Texas.

Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500
companies, more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its
pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of
Columbia have done that.

Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value.
California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far
in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas.

In this year’s Texas legislative season,
Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state
budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states
around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit
borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud
and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and
attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous.

Perry scored points
even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned,
Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration
status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called
anti-groping bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration
agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a
pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports
and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA
employees living in Texas.

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