Herman Cain CPAC Speech: 'Stupid People Are Ruining America' (VIDEO)

Herman Cain, who has already formed a presidential exploratory committee for the next election cycle, alleged "stupid people are ruining America" on Friday at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.

"It's sad," he said in a speech at the annual event before going on to take aim at the left side of the political spectrum. "The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country. The objective of the liberals is to make America mediocre."

Cain also addressed the issue of race at the conservative gathering. The Hill reports:

"They call me racist too because I happen to disagree with the president," Cain said at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday. "If you disagree about their liberal leader you must be a racist no matter what color you are."

Cain said his disagreement with Obama was based on policies, not race. "Some black people can think for themselves," he said.

He told the crowd: "You are not racist."

Joshua Green at the Atlantic caught up with Cain at the conference and asked him whether he thinks the president was born in the United States. Here's what Cain had to say about the matter:

I have no idea. The fact that it has become an issue, or a controversy, does raise a question that I can't say that I feel one way or the other because I have not reviewed all the various "proof" one way or another.

Just hours before his speech at CPAC, Cain told Hotline on Call that he wasn't entirely sure what he was going to say when he addressed the conservative crowd.

"I have some idea of what I'm going to say, of course," he said before the speech. "I like to get a feel for the audience and read their reaction to certain things, and based upon their reaction I'll decide where to go next."

The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently reported that Cain is on "hiatus" from his radio talk show as he mulls a campaign for the White House. According to the National Journal, the potential presidential contender plans to spend more time making appearances on television and at Tea Party events.

Via Right Wing Watch comes a clip of Cain's speech:

Comments

[Cabo600]

08:28 PM on 03/30/2011

I agree with the title of the article, and that's why Herman Cain shouldn't run.

[AwShucks]

03:21 PM on 03/09/2011

Heck of a presidential speech there, Cain.

And your prep work on it was , well, let's just say, that it looks like Bristol googled for you also.

[Mrs Truth]

11:53 PM on 03/07/2011

Cain is right. He is not just "right wing", he is "right on". His reported statements on liberals and blacks demonstrate a talent for the heart of a matter. Cain in '12! LOVE this guy!

[RockyMissouri]

12:10 AM on 04/04/2011

Fox is not doing right by you..... You should get your news from somewhere other than Fox...

[Xacomo]

01:11 AM on 04/04/2011

"Stupid People Are Ruining America." He should know.

[Ptama]

01:45 PM on 02/28/2011

Be proud to be a Liberal
Liberals have been on the right side of history, going back to the founding of this nation. It was a liberal idea, even a radical idea to speak of independence from England. It was the conservatives that wanted to keep the status quo, not rock the boat.
Skin color is irrelevant. Black or white you can still choose to ignore history as Cain has proven. What you can not ignore is that conservatives and conservative attitudes have done little to move this country forward. From our founding, to the abolishment of slavery ( Lincoln’s ending slavery was a liberal act), to Women’s right to vote, to Child labor laws, Civil Rights, to an integrated military, to Gay rights, etc, etc, the credit has to go to liberals.
Be proud of that and fight against those on the right that will tell you otherwise. Let’s keep progressing.

[Blanch Tyler]

10:35 PM on 03/07/2011

Sooo...all the Union soldiers were liberals and all the Confederates were conservatives? How long ago did you graduate from public school?! j/k! lol

[RockyMissouri]

12:15 AM on 04/04/2011

Mind your manners! Liberals are not nearly are rude as baggers. Public School is a good place to get an education....
Separation of Church and State...! Our nation was founded by a bunch of progressive-minded folk, who pledged their lives and fortunes to their new nation!

[Mrs Truth]

11:22 PM on 03/07/2011

Our country was founded on conservative values. Conservative to the point that our liberties were given to us by God and not some beaurocrat. Lincoln's involvement in ending slavery was not a "liberal" idea at all, but merely in accordance to the values we should hold dear. A woman's rights are as conservative as they get, unless a liberal has changed the laws of nature, Same goes with all your posted arguments. It is those who wish to mold mankind into something He is not that are "liberal", and are thusly responsible for many social injustices.

[RockyMissouri]

12:27 AM on 04/04/2011

Our nation was founded by a bunch of forward-thinking, progressive-minded people who, unfortunately owned human beings..... That you don't know that it was Lincoln who effectively ended slavery, is sad...along with the fact that you don't know how to spell 'bureaucrat'. Me and my rural, small-town, public school education know that. Human rights, and liberties make advances under democrats..... they REGRESS under republicans... Wonder where all the jobs went??? The corporations and our Chamber of Commerce sent them OUT of the country.!

[NER2]

09:48 PM on 02/27/2011

Unbelievable. Does this guy really think he has even the slightest chance of becoming President given that a number of the whacked people who would comprise his base have their hoods stuffed in their pockets?

[Mrs Truth]

11:59 PM on 03/07/2011

Obama won with a huge number of people with their heads up their ....

[RockyMissouri]

12:36 AM on 04/04/2011

Where did you learn those manners...?
'You must be carefull taught to hate, before you are 6 or 7 or 8...
to hate all the people your parents hate, you must be carefull taught,' - South Pacific

[Parsifals]

08:22 PM on 02/20/2011

I am so sorry I am not a registered CPAC member. This conference or whatever it is called must have been a hoot to attend.

I could have put my hand over my mouth as I cackled as so many clever men and women said virtually nothing about everything and then cheered for each other.

They really didn't need a claque, they are the claque.

[nygenxer]

04:04 AM on 02/20/2011

I love how liberals are "intellectual elitists" who are also "stupid."

Reality: the more intelligent one is, the more likely they are to have liberal views. ("Reality has a liberal bias," as noted "stupid" person Stephen Colbert once said.)

http://www.businessinsider.com/20-scientifically-proven-signs-youre-smarter-than-average-2010-12#youre-a-liberal-2

[Mrs Truth]

12:10 AM on 03/08/2011

For being so intelligent, you sure have a narrow minded approach. That's reality. Who told you liberals were most intelligent? Colbert? Hardly an authority. He probably got that attitude from some prof. Ask a homeless guy about liberal ideals. Try to get a home loan for him.

[RockyMissouri]

12:40 AM on 04/04/2011

There's that nasty- mouth, mean girl...

[LCdruid]

11:31 AM on 02/18/2011

Herman Cain, you're a brave American, you keep telling them!

[hmfwic]

12:12 AM on 02/17/2011

OK, if stupid people are not running America. Then smart people are making stupid decisions.
Which one works for you?

[RockyMissouri]

12:39 AM on 04/04/2011

People who watch Fox 'news' are stupid people..!

[brux]

09:04 PM on 02/15/2011

So much for black people having any better idea or more integrity than white people or anyone else.

[meanguy]

09:28 AM on 02/16/2011

how DARE any of 'them' stepping off the Democrat Liberal Plantation?

[dlbnext]

05:46 PM on 03/29/2011

yea, obama is bad

[brux]

08:11 PM on 03/29/2011

> yea, obama is bad

It is not so much good or bad, it is that he is ineffective, and seems to not be trying. He is penny-wise and pound foolish with his time in the White House with the power and bully pulpit. He just sits there and lets himself get hammered by the Republicans.

[Dukedraven]

01:41 PM on 02/15/2011

Try looking into the mirror. People who live in glasses houses shouldn't throw stones.

[RockyMissouri]

12:42 AM on 04/04/2011

Excellent idea..

[La Elle]

09:22 PM on 02/14/2011

Georgia will never support him in a run. Too many racists there. He already tried to run for state senate and lost badly to the lily white Johnny Isakson.

[Tails]

11:44 PM on 02/14/2011

I can hear Virginians laughing too themselves.

We enjoy a good show.

[MEDASI]

04:58 PM on 02/15/2011

yet this fool is still in love with MASAH!!! there's always 1 out of 100,000!

[Mrs Truth]

12:13 AM on 03/08/2011

Get that chip off your shoulder. You'll be better off.

[spytheweb]

06:17 PM on 02/14/2011

"The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country."? If it were not for democrats there would be no middle class which the republicans are trying to destroy. Reagan was anti union and they know if you destroy the unions, you destroy the middle class. Republicans want 2 classes, the rich and the working poor.

[FGW]

02:07 AM on 02/18/2011

Been trying to say that for some time now. Two class of people

[Ptama]

01:25 PM on 02/28/2011

American Conservatives are trying to create (consciously or not) the same kinds of conditions that have caused the Middle East to erupt. Money and power in the hands of the very few, a shrinking middle class, and the majority the working poor getting poorer. It could happen here.

[dlbnext]

05:48 PM on 03/29/2011

thanks to obama's friends and contributers

[bereasonable0]

06:13 PM on 02/14/2011

Hey ! You are talking about your mindless minions sir !

[TriChronos]

05:52 PM on 02/14/2011

"The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country."

I didn't realize the liberals had changed course in such a drastic way, did I miss the memo on that?

References please.

[Tails]

11:45 PM on 02/14/2011

I believe he was quoting a chalkboard.

[Mrs Truth]

12:23 AM on 03/08/2011

Look up Ted Roosevelt, W.Wilson, L.B.J. , Marx, Stalin, Castro. They all changed course for their countries.