195. Watching via FoxNews his appearance as a non-politician at the first Republican debate early May in South Carolina I did get the feeling that Herman Cain was the best one able to defeat Barack Obama, for two reasons:
- His impressive career as a hands-on executive who turned around broken entities, and
- His charismatic preparedness to disarm any victimization effort to be put in place by the reelection campaign of the incumbent
My enthusiasm grew when I saw him coming to the leading tier by October. Not surprisingly, likewise grew the desperation of the Chicagoan machine led by David Axelrod, and soon we all learnt about the sexual misconduct allegations which -weirdly enough- were initially reported by he Chicago Tribune.
When accusations mounted, Mr. Cain showed to have been hit by e.g. not being able to master challenging questions around world events like the one affecting Libya.
Everything came to a unavoidable tailspin as Ms. Ginger White went public with stories of adultery, causing a notorious drop in the polls and a stark drain in donations, which prompted the promising candidate to suspend his campaign.
Mitt Romney may be a highly qualified opponent or Newt Gingrich a superb debater; but they as any Republican nominee will have more difficulties than Mr. Cain to counter the underdog strategy to be put in place by the chief political campaigner of Mr. Obama.
