Herman Cain

Washington, the Hermanator is back. Awwww shucky ducky. Remember him? Herman Cain steps up to microphones at the Willard hotel on Monday after a two-day meeting of a dozen black conservatives that he pulled together. Mr. 9-9-9 has come out of the meetings with a catchy name for his group. They are the ABCs — American Black Conservatives. After surging to the front of the GOP primary field in 2011 — before flaming out amid a wave of sexual harassment allegations —...

Washington, the Hermanator is back. Awwww shucky ducky. Remember him? Herman Cain steps up to microphones at the Willard hotel on Monday after a two-day meeting of a dozen black conservatives that he pulled together. Mr. 9-9-9 has come out of the meetings with a catchy name for his group. They are the ABCs — American Black Conservatives. After surging to the front of the GOP primary field in 2011 — before flaming out amid a wave of sexual harassment allegations —...

Regardless of whether Herman Cain wins the GOP nomination to run for president, he has already beaten the odds: He has survived a bout of advanced colon cancer. In 2006, Cain, now 66, received a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer, which means that the malignancy had spread beyond his colon. In Cain's case, doctors found a tumor in his liver, a common location for colon cancer to spread, Cain wrote in his new book, "This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House. " About 101,000 Americans receive diagnoses of...

After months of arduous presidential campaigning, Tuesday is the big day: Elinor Lipman will tweet her 499th political poem. On June 27, 2011, the celebrated comic novelist pledged to entertain her Twitter followers with a sardonic rhyme every day until the election. She ended up missing two for Yom Kippur, but that still makes hers the best-kept promise of the campaign season. Reading over her tweets offers a doggerel trip back through some of the weirdest moments of this zany campaign:...

I don't find comedian Stephen Colbert's involvement in the Republican presidential race the least bit funny. Oh, I get the part about parodying the craziness of campaign finance and the farce that raising and spending oodles of money has made of our politics. I understand his disdain for the GOP field. It is indeed hard to decide which candidate to dislike the least. But disgust with the corrosive effects of super PAC money and coolness toward the likes of Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich , Ron Paul and Rick...

I have to wonder what the editors of the Sept. 25 paper were thinking. Herman Cain, somewhat of an afterthought in the Republican presidential field, comes out of nowhere to win the Florida straw poll, and the news gets a small story on Page A6 ?  This is big; Mitt Romney continues to be an unexciting candidate while Rick Perry continues to shoot from the hip half the time.  Maybe all the Floridians on Social Security realized that the Chilean model that Mr. Cain wants to consider for Social Security is better than...

J ust be patient and you, too, can lead the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Witness the ascent of Herman Cain. Don't laugh. "There's a difference between the flavor of the week and Haagen-Dazs Black Walnut, because it tastes good all the time," Cain told reporters this week. "Call me Haagen-Dazs Black Walnut. " All right, go ahead and laugh. Cain will surely respond with what has become his all-purpose retort: "As my grandfather would say, I does not care.

Herman Cain searched his memory for details about what might have caused a woman in the 1990s to accuse him of sexual harassment. No, he couldn't remember her, not much at all. Then again, there was one time, the Republican presidential candidate told me, when he stood next to the woman and noted that she was about the same height as his wife. He showed me how close he was standing to her by asking a female staffer to stand next to him. It was close. Not touching, but close. This demonstration took place Monday in an office in...

This piece is part of an On Leadership roundtable on Herman Cain and whether prior politicial experience is a prerequisite for being an effective president. In running for president, candidates present not only their values and their vision for America, but also themselves as appropriate symbols of who America is and what America stands for. Candidates also make the case, based on their experience, that they are capable of leading our nation and our government. Few will disagree that Herman...

Herman Cain's sudden rise to front-runner status in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has a lot of pundits confused, including, it appears, Eugene Robinson [ "Raising Herman Cain," op-ed, Oct. 14].  Rather than seeing this remarkable phenomenon as a potential breakthrough in American racial politics, he largely echoes Sarah Palin, who dismissed Cain as the GOP "flavor of the week. " Really? How many African Americans in either party have ever been atop the polls this far into a presidential primary race?

How does a federal worker keep his or her agency out of the news? One sure-fire way is to simply not do anything newsworthy. Too late on that front for Karen Kraushaar , the spokeswoman for the Treasury Department's inspector general, who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment when both of them were working at the National Restaurant Association . So when Kraushaar was the keynote speaker at a conference for federal communications...

The American people, a small slice of them, have spoken, and they are none too pleased. The rest are yet to be heard, as the men who would be president march West , to caucuses Saturday in Nevada , where the unemployment rate is 13 percent, and then to Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday. But let's see if we can make any sense of this rambunctious story so far , and what the Republicans and independents in the first four states that held contests have told us about their hopes and fears — and...

Not everyone hooting Herman Cain at the Stephen Colbert rally here Friday was laughing with him. But he didn't mind being the butt of jokes, he said, if only Americans could learn how to take one. His message? "As I said in one of the debates, America needs to lighten up. " Colbert's message, on the other hand, was as serious as its delivery was lighthearted. Politicians in both parties promise to bring Americans together, but Colbert actually does, through comedy. And this rally...

I don't find comedian Stephen Colbert's involvement in the Republican presidential race the least bit funny. Oh, I get the part about parodying the craziness of campaign finance and the farce that raising and spending oodles of money has made of our politics. I understand his disdain for the GOP field. It is indeed hard to decide which candidate to dislike the least. But disgust with the corrosive effects of super PAC money and coolness toward the likes of Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich , Ron...

The good times — at least for political reporters and pundits — are pretty much over. It has been a wonderfully wacky GOP primary fight, with endless debates and new front-runners du jour. Conservative Republicans were saying "anyone but Romney . " Reporters were rooting for "everyone and Romney. " But the post- New Hampshire reality is setting in. Texas Gov. Rick Perry got 1,766 votes in New Hampshire. That's out of nearly a quarter of a million votes cast.

Mitt Romney may be favored in the New Hampshire primary, but the state's ballot may hurt the former Massachusetts governor's bid to meet the lofty expectations that he carries into the contest. Romney appears third from the bottom of the list of 30 candidates in the state's Republican presidential primary. It's a position likely to drag down Romney's numbers, according to research by Stanford professor Jon Krosnick. Ballot order can make a big difference, particularly when voters are undecided or conflicted...

Regarding the Nov. 4 front-page article " For Cain, troubles in earlier D.C. stint ": No matter which presidential candidate one supports, anyone could conclude that your article on Herman Cain was slanted negatively. The headline painted the picture of a trouble-ridden tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. So did the tone of the article. However, a more critical examination of the article releases the air out of that balloon. First, the article mentions only one project that Cain took over budget.

Herman Cain's craggy-faced chief of staff, Mark Block, took a drag off a cigarette, blew smoke at the camera and sent the political class into coughing fits. Theories about what Block intended have run the gamut from James Carville's "He was drunk," to amateurish campaigning, to post-modern genius. Me? I'm leaning toward accidental brilliance. For those who missed it, and who therefore probably are not reading this, the ad is a 56-second clip of Block talking about his commitment to his candidate, not unusual in a chief of staff.

HERMAN CAIN Former chief executive officer of Godfather's Pizza This year is the time to get bold. Bold tax reform must be on the lips of every politician, the media and every voter. Americans have been victimized by a tax code that has corrupted our free-market economy by doling out favors, picking winners and losers, and dividing our nation with class warfare. Likewise, they have been victimized by the idea that we can spend our way to prosperity. The bold solution is my 9-9-9 plan.

It may be true that money can't buy you love, but according to the Web site Business Insider, some women have found a way to sucker relationship-seeking men into buying them dinners so they can save on their monthly food expenses. One 23-year-old woman claims she used online dating site Match.com to find men to pay for fine dining, the Web site reported . The New York woman said she had a hard time paying her bills and buying food and meals on her $45,000-a-year salary. So she would set up dates – five nights a week – with...