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“His [Cain’s] candidacy’s now basically an experiment to see if there’s anything he could say about policy that grassroots conservatives wouldn’t ignore/forgive in the name of nominating a candidate who’s “authentic” instead of some slick RINO Beltway insider phony”—AllahPundt.
h/t: Sullivan (who has a rather astounding round-up of reactions to Cain’s Libya flub).
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Phil Klein at Sully’s place:
It’s unclear whether Cain’s candidacy is just part of his book tour, part of an effort to land a Fox show, or some sort of mere vanity project.
Here’s what I think happened. Cain started out, as Jon Chait said, pursuing a business plan, then a whole bunch of low-wattage folks said, “Jeebus, he’s the one!” — very, very loudly — and he suddenly found himself in a role that he had never anticipated and had never planned for. And we’re seeing this play out.
Well, according to TPM, in the same interview where he forgot what Libya was, Cain also dropped that he had asked Henry Motherf**king Kissenger to be his shadow Secretary of State. This is someone who just stopped caring along, long time ago…
