| | Cain is playing his race card to grotesquely equate providing of abortion services to blacks with genocide. Yes, I saw that, but his position on abortion rights is confusing, as the following dialogue suggests: “I believe that life begins at conception,” Mr. Cain told [CNN's Piers Morgan]. “And abortion under no circumstances.”
The host pressed him on his position in cases of rape:
MR. CAIN: No, it comes down to it’s not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number. So what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not that big a number?! Then why did he equate the abortion of black babies with genocide? And if he believes that life begins at conception, then he must not believe in abortion rights? Yet he says that the decision about whether or not to have an abortion should be left up to the family. Not me as president, not some politician, not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn’t have to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive issue.
MR. MORGAN: By expressing the view that you expressed, you are effectively — you might be president. You can’t hide behind now the mask, if you don’t mind me saying, of being the pizza guy. You might be the president of United States of America. So your views on these things become exponentially massively more important. They become a directive to the nation.
MR. CAIN: No, they don’t. I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn’t be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make. I've heard Cain make other seemingly contradictory statements. He has a knack for talking out of both sides of his mouth, apparently in order to appeal to people on both sides of an issue.
He says he's not familiar with neoconservatism, but his spokespeople say that he is. He stated that he would not appoint any Muslim to his cabinet or to the federal bench. Then he said he meant only Muslim "extremists." He said, in a tone of complete seriousness, that he would put up a fence along the Mexican border to electrocute intruders. He then claimed he was only joking. He said he could imagine exchanging all the inmates in Guantanamo to win the release of a single American soldier. Then he claimed he "misspoke."
Cain also opposes vouchers for private schools, although I wouldn't be surprised to hear him say that he supports them. The more I see of him, the less impressed I am with his candidacy. But then what's the alternative? -- Romney? Guess what? Cain endorsed Romney for president in 2008.
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