UPDATED: Some thoughts on the upcoming Cain administration

So I go to New York for one day and I come back and Herman Cain is the 45th president of the United States?

Please fill me in...I'll have more to say about Cain a little later, once I actually think about this a little.

UPDATE:  Yesterday, I caught some of Dom Giordano's conservative yakking en route to the Trenton train station and I was stunned to see how Cain was getting bashed for having the termerity to sound like the liberal media and, wait for it, Al Sharpton, in calling the now infamous "N-word-head" rock on the Perry family's happy hunting grounds as "insensitive." On the way home last night, I picked up from Rachel Maddow that this was actually a meme among right-wing pundits. Oy.

Don't be shocked to soon see a full airing of this 2003 snippet I pulled from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution off the Nexis:

At his July rally, he declared his satisfaction with the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action. "I support affirmative action, but I do not support one-size-fits-all applications," Cain said. He likes Florida's system of guaranteeing a college slot for the top graduate in every high school.

He later repudiated that somewhat but that doesn't mean the modern right-wing pundit machine won't use it against him anyway.

The bottom line is that the GOP establishment will go to great lengths to ensure that Cain doesn't get the nomination. The way I see, there are three reasons for not nominating Cain (who, by the way, has an amazing life story and is probably the smartest person in the 2012 race): 1) The real right reasons, such as his ridiculous comments on Muslims and his tax plan that would soak the working class 2) the traditional right reason, which is that he's never held an elected office before or 3) the wrong reason, which is that he's black. Of course, 1) doesn't matter for GOP primariy voters so it will be interesting to see how the party elite takes him down in favor of Mitt Romney.

But trust me, they will.