Growing questions about Herman Cain

Growing questions about Herman Cain
June 11, 2011 4:32 pm ET
Anthony Martin

One of the goals of this writer has been to thoroughly investigate the views of GOP Presidential candidates in the run-up to the 2011 campaign season. As a result of such investigations it can now be reported, albeit reluctantly, that there are growing questions concerning the acceptability of former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain.

During the past week Cain has made several remarks on highly critical issues that have raised the eyebrows of conservatives who up until now have been willing to lend him at least some support. First, Cain stated that he would not push a move to audit the Federal Reserve . He claims it isn't needed. But how can he know that? Nobody has ever seen the books in order to intelligently evaluate how the Fed is managing the money supply and potentially contributing the present economic meltdown.

Many conservatives believe that the Fed needs to be abolished altogether. It would be highly unlikely that Cain would support such a move, given that he was once employed by the Federal Reserve system in Kansas City.

In addition, Cain stated during the debate in South Carolina, when asked about Afghanistan, that he could not second-guess Obama's handling of the war and had no opinion concerning the way forward.

But perhaps the most troublesome statement of all was made by Cain during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. During that interview Cain stated that he supports gun control. As if that isn't bad enough, he went further to claim the issue of gun rights is a matter 'for the states to decide.'

In order to be certain as to what the candidate was actually saying, Blitzer asked him to confirm no less than 3 times his view that he supports gun control and would leave the issue of Second Amendment rights to the states.

First of all, the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution is not subject to state approval. Those rights override anything and any law a state may pass. Laws that states approve are often declared unconstitutional by the courts. Although the 10th Amendment protects the rights of states in a plethora of issues, there are some things that states cannot do if the country is to remain a free republic. The Bill of Rights supercedes all laws in all states.

Second, the U.S. has more gun control laws on the books than just about any other subject. Guns are controlled to the hilt. In fact, the U.S. has practically rendered the Second Amendment useless by the mountain of laws it has passed which restrict the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The Founders insisted that guns are the foundation of freedom.

If this is, indeed, Cain's stance on this most important subject, then conservatives can in no way support him.

This fact led National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea to write an open letter to the candidate, asking him to clarify his statements by taking Codrea's Second Amendment questionaire, a tool by which Codrea has evaluated numerous candidates for public office for years.

No doubt Herman Cain has many attractive qualities that make him one of the favorites of conservatives around the country. It is critical that he clarify his statements and answer Codrea's questionaire in order to potentially alleviate the deep concerns of conservatives, or, confirm their worst fears about his candidacy.



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