Herman Cain Signals Reliance On Mystery Advisers -- Time And Time Again (VIDEO)

Herman Cain heads into tonight's debate in Las Vegas riding a wave of newfound hype and the polling results to back it up. He and Mitt Romney look to be neck and neck nationally, and Cain is currently riding high in Iowa and South Carolina. Those are two of the closely-watched early primary states -- win those and suddenly, you start inviting conversations about your "path to the nomination."

Of course, there are reasons that people aren't having those conversations now. Mitt Romney, as flawed as he is in the eyes of the GOP elite, has nevertheless surrounded himself with a sharp campaign team and enough financial benefactors to give him a considerable fundraising edge. By contrast, those same elites are having a hard time taking Cain seriously, because the pizza mogul has surrounded himself with... Well, that's just the thing! No one seems to know who Cain's aides-de-camp are. And Cain, for reasons well beyond understanding, seems to regard the identities of the members of his inner circle as some sort of critical state secret, to be disclosed only on pain of death.

Reid Epstein reports today that Cain is adding even more secret advisors to his campaign. Will tonight be the night that Cain starts coming clean? Well, if past performance is any indication, the answer is no.

[Video produced by Samuel Wilkes.]
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Comments

[ClaudeRaines]

10:46 PM on 10/30/2011

Oh, my bad, I thought this article started out with Romney, Perry and Cain blow opportunities to (who knows what) and I merely wanted to say Romney, Perry and Cain blow hot air lol, acutally I really would have stopped at blow - roflmao

[CASSIE60]

04:39 PM on 10/30/2011

For some one who was given a Second Chance at life beating 2 forms of Cancer, Herman Cain certainly doesn't believe in giving the America people a chance at nothing except servitude.

He beat Cancer but wants to electrify other people. I wonder if he was "whining while he was in Pain being treated for his Cancer, yet he tells the OWS to quit whining.

There are some missing links to Cain for sure!

[Boopsie2008]

12:20 AM on 10/29/2011

Yeah, Newt would just love to have those Lincoln-Douglass debates so he can fill up the studio with hot air as he puts forth all the key points in his next three books and cultivates invites on the rubber chicken speaking circuit. President Obama would be superfluous to him, and I doubt he'd even engage the President other than to lecture down to him.

[MJHammonds]

05:41 PM on 10/29/2011

I have yet to see Gingrich debate anyone without lecturing down to them...

[fgrammit]

02:06 PM on 10/19/2011

HERMAN CAIN; CHEIF PUPPET FOR DAVID AND CHARLES koch!

[fgrammit]

02:02 PM on 10/19/2011

how confidential are the KOCH BROTHERS lol yhis man WORKED for them in citizens for prosperity. and he STILL works for them.. Think of the boggoted irony of these men that they wopuld pit one black man against another to win the presidency. you have but to think back about all the allustions of the TEA party as being racists and connect the dots to the rise of Mr cain to the top level of their presidential race. Does any one else here feel this connection?

[Ravenlea]

01:11 PM on 10/19/2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/152740/as_herman_cain_surges%2C_corporate_media_ignore_his_koch_connections?akid=7721.299467.hv7j9W&rd=1&t=2

[Druudge]

12:55 PM on 10/19/2011

...

Oh No!

Cain sat in Rev. Wright's h@te-filled b1goted church for 20 years too??

Dang-it.....
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[tlgpa]

12:28 PM on 10/19/2011

Cain knows he doesn't have a snowballs chance of winning this. He merely wants to drag on this book selling publicity tour as long as possible.
The best way to do that is talk in sound bites and reveal as little as possible about your campaign. And that's exactly what he's doing.

[Gestas]

12:04 PM on 10/19/2011

At lest doesn't hear voices like Palin and Bachmann...or maybe He does...HERB,,pick up line up line one (1),,, it's David Koch.

[Djelem]

06:15 AM on 10/19/2011

Cain's "Mystery Advisers" are Thunderbird and Pink Ripple.

[Ravenlea]

03:21 AM on 10/19/2011

I'll bet they connect him to the Koch Brothers.

[Gestas]

12:02 PM on 10/19/2011

Google Herman and you'll find that He has worked for them since 1995..The Koch Bros. have one of everthing...

[fgrammit]

02:04 PM on 10/19/2011

they abosolutley have connected him to them but the media machine of the KOCHS is working over time to squelch that being broadcast.

[Ravenlea]

02:10 PM on 10/19/2011

I should have posted this with my comment last night, but I forgot.

http://www.alternet.org/story/152740/as_herman_cain_surges%2C_corporate_media_ignore_his_koch_connections?akid=7721.299467.hv7j9W&rd=1&t=2

[mightytonkatruc]

02:14 AM on 10/19/2011

My guess ... telletubbies & sim city characters are his advisers.

[OhMyBoehner]

11:13 PM on 10/18/2011

You can bet these advisors have something in common with cashiers at Godfather's Pizza.

[Javalation]

10:51 PM on 10/18/2011

Cain may be the least transparent candidate ever. He barks sharp retorts and condescending attitude when a reporter asks anything he doesn't want to talk about. If he'll adopt this attitude as a candidate, can you imagine what he would be like as a president?

[Ulalume s Ague]

12:59 PM on 10/19/2011

Francis Urquhart

[FL TallMan]

10:17 PM on 10/18/2011

Since Cain got his start in politics from the Koch brothers and his so-called economic adviser (who is not an economist) is from the Koch clan, it is very likely that his other advisers are from the same bunch. No wonder he doesn't want to reveal who they are. He knows the Kochs do not have a good reputation outside extreme right political circles.

[Milrepa]

10:11 AM on 10/19/2011

Hmm. So Koch equals bad, and Soros equals good? Your rich people against our rich people?

[1differentdrummer]

12:44 PM on 10/19/2011

Who said that? Koch equals destructive John Birch legacy, authoritarianism.

[Ulalume s Ague]

01:00 PM on 10/19/2011

No-- Koch brothers lack of concern for the average American VERY bad. Soros at least recognizes the efforts of the average American in his abilty to amass and control wealth.