Herman Cain To Deliver Tea Party Response To Obama's 2012 State Of The Union Address

Herman Cain will deliver the Tea Party's response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 24.

"Herman Cain has been a steadfast advocate for the values of the Tea Party and the practical solutions needed to solve the problems that face our nation," Tea Party Express Chief Strategist Sal Russo said in a release Thursday. "Americans want straight talk and honest solutions, and Herman Cain will deliver a pro-growth message strongly and clearly."

The White House has not outlined policy proposals that the president intends to make in the address, according to the AP. Obama will follow up the speech with stops in five battleground states.

Cain dropped out of the Republican presidential race in December 2011 and has since been touting his "Solutions Revolution" with a bus tour and a new website.

By delivering the Tea Party State of the Union response, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza is following in the footsteps of another former Republican presidential hopeful. Michele Bachmann delivered the Tea Party response to Obama's 2011 State of the Union address.

On Thursday, Cain endorsed an "unconventional candidate" for president during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, S.C. "My unconventional endorsement is the people," Cain said. "We the people are still in charge of this country, and I am endorsing we the people!"

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Comments

[Rosalee Harris]

04:22 PM on 01/23/2012

It amazes me how LITTLE respect for the office of Presidency that the opposition has. They've made it into a joke. Thank goodness we have a President who conducts himself as a President.

[jancf]

10:34 PM on 01/24/2012

I agree.

[Marla Turner]

05:37 AM on 01/23/2012

Seriously? This is the best they could do? Who's going to be interested in the guy no one was interested in voting for?

[edusa]

10:07 PM on 01/22/2012

Is this another Colbert super pac event, it will be a good laugh either way, Herman is a natural

[HiramWdwsn]

11:31 AM on 01/20/2012

It is pathetic that people like Mr. Cain can even think that they can run for President.

[Kebert Xela]

11:09 AM on 01/25/2012

The same argument can be made for all of the GOTP prez candidates!

[decat2]

11:26 AM on 01/20/2012

I'll bet this is going to be interesting.

[gochenaur8]

10:26 AM on 01/20/2012

One would think that after Cain dropped out, he would be home trying to mend things between them, rather he is on a bus, making tours for who know why, but wait, maybe his wife doesn't want him at home, I know the people of this country were not going to put him up in the white house, in fact I don't feel there will be any republican in there for sometime.

[El Duderino 791]

10:02 AM on 01/20/2012

He's reviewing hundreds of hours of cartoons to find salient quotes.

[decat2]

11:28 AM on 01/20/2012

Yes El Duderino791,and his biggest inspiration is in the White House !

[gted1954]

12:05 PM on 01/20/2012

Wrong decat2. He needs to go back one President earlier. The riches would never end.

[Bob McEntyre]

09:38 AM on 01/20/2012

Is this the best the Teabag Party can do?Which shows how irrelevent this party has become.They stand for nothing and do nothing to futher this Nation down the road.They are fading from the landscape of this Nation,but not soon enough.They are really cancer eating away at this Nation and I know who has the cure.Four more years of President Obama

[decat2]

11:30 AM on 01/20/2012

That is like "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". Four more years of Obama,and you will see the real cancer !

[laurelphot]

09:29 AM on 01/20/2012

And Bozo the OTHER Clown will trian him.

[laurelphot]

09:29 AM on 01/20/2012

Now that is SPOOKY.
Will all of the women the took advantage of be there?

[Kai Ferano]

07:09 AM on 01/20/2012

Yea! I miss the man. He was a wonderful presidential candidate. We've had plenty of presidents with too many girlfriends. It's unfortunate, but shouldn't be fatal for someone who presented good arguments in the articulate way that Cain did. It's time to stop the lame-stream media from wielding political power that they don't have the brains or integrity to handle.

[Wandaz]

08:05 AM on 01/21/2012

Yeah...999...uzbekibekibekistan...that's exactly the sort of enlightened person we want leading out nation at a very difficult time.

[clpblank]

04:38 AM on 01/20/2012

Now this is just another statement of the failure of the Teabaggers and the GOP in general. Cain whom left the presidential race in disgrace is now the voice for the Tea Party yep that makes it almost to good to be true.

[hgoodfella]

04:12 AM on 01/20/2012

I read this article, about Cain be chosen to speak for the Tea Party? May I ask WHY?

[spikedance]

03:21 AM on 01/20/2012

With a babe on each arm. Yee-ha! Get out the giant clown shoes.

[tccat4]

02:55 AM on 01/20/2012

This should be interesting, could be worse, could have current GOP running for President brow beat each other, The more they bit*ch slap each other the more they make Obama look like the vestle virgin.