Herman Cain Rally at the Capitol Fails Spectacularly

[brooklynite]

Slate:

Signing up for Herman Cain's "Revolution on the Hill" was easy. There were ads at the top of plenty of conservative news sites. The registration for three events -- a Sunday reception, Monday morning seminar, and Monday afternoon rally -- was free, and included a boxed lunch. Cainiacs had a full hour to get between the Virginia hotel where the seminar would be held and the Capitol lawn where they'd listen to speeches and music. Six free buses were available to move them.

Despite all that, this was the scene after the rally started.



Only 283 people signed up for the indoor seminars, and only 620 signed up for the rally. By my count, less than half of the first number honored their Eventbrite pledges; only a little more than one-third of the rally-goers actually showed up.

And to think this guy was leading the Republican field six months ago...

[MADem]

1. Hell, I can get more people at a spur of the moment family reunion! mt

[madokie]

8. Our family dinner each year will see over a hundred souls

[SDjack]

12. Probably was just a Cain family reunion. Would have been more if he had invited the Ables.

Guess that feud is still going.

[rocktivity]

59. I can get more people to a spur-of-the-moment

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round of solitaire.


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[pepperbear]

2. Notice that the sex scandals have all been forgotten. n/t

[Jamaal510]

36. That's because the GOP has low standards.

They'll fall in line behind whoever, as long as said person is willing to continue to pamper the more affluent in our society.

[Plucketeer]

3. Hmmmmmmm..... Cain Mutiny???

LOL!

[SemperEadem]

10. well played!

[TrollBuster9090]

39. Pilfering of cheese in large amounts or small is a serious problem in a pizza shop.

They laughed at my 999 plan, called me 'Spermin Herman,' and then old yellow stain. *I* was to blame them Rick Perry's incompetence and poor memory. Ah, but the strawberries...THAT'S where I had them. I proved to them with a giant rally and geometric logic that a parallel election campaign could be run!

[DefenseLawyer]

4. That poor guy is going to have to lug that "Don't Tread on Me" flag around for the rest of the day

Bummer, man.

[HangOnKids]

27. The Women He Abused Should Carry That Flag Evey Day! n/t

[opihimoimoi]

5. Reality Trumps Delusion......sooner or later...The Truth shall Prevail

[Wait Wut]

6. What the hell did he expect?

The teapers are a fickle lot.

They gave their black guy a top position.
They gave their woman a chance.
They let the delusional senior crawl to the top.
The Texas nut even got to sit on their thrown.

They're equal opportunity ADHD loons. Herman is day old pizza, which we all know is only attractive to stoners.

[TrollBuster9090]

40. Teabaggers are fickle?

I think not.
They've got plenty of unrestrained anger, xenophobia, and irrational fear to be exploited.
But if Dick Armey isn't organizing the bus rides to Washington with Koch bros. money, it's pretty hard to get them to stop polishing their guns and get off the couch.

[JHB]

7. Any questions?

ANY QUESTIONS?

[SemperEadem]

9. good thing it was free

talk about the many flavors of dumb.

[jenwilson]

11. The market for Cain is very small

There aren't many black racists. Well, other than Clayton Bigsby.

[Erose999]

63. Well theres Uncle Ruckus too. But I've never seen him and Un-Abel in the same place. I'm not

sure they aren't the same person.

[CJCRANE]

13. He didn't even get 999 supporters to sign up....nt

[TrollBuster9090]

41. At least he got 999 in cumulative IQ. nt

[pinboy3niner]

43. As memorialized in his souvenir poster...

(Old Sci-Fi movie poster updated by DUer GReedDiamond)

[Crowman1979]

14. A dead last Minor League Baseball team would have higher attendance.

[SemperEadem]

15. Ha!

This:


compared to this:


get back to me when cain can do this.

Wait, that's not even fair...

Candidate Obama in St. Louis in 2008:


yeah... get back to me.

[Botany]

22. Liberal Photo Shop!

just like the time he was in Ireland

[stevedeshazer]

28. Yup, and like this in Portlandia, 75K.

[TrollBuster9090]

42. You realize, of course, that you've just provided the graphics department for the Hannity show

with the backdrop they're about to photoshop into the Cain rally?

[SemperEadem]

47. and it will be roundly debunked within 24 hours

by Snopes, among other sites. Your point being?

Anyone can use content fill on Photoshop if they are of the mind to mislead, lie, etc., which is what hannity and others of their ilk must resort to doing because they're on the losing side of this.

and btw: those images are on the internet already and available at any time to anyone with nefarious intent, and they were provided by those who uploaded them, not by me. dont' get it twisted.

[kurtzapril4]

55. Do you have a sense of humor? n/t

[SemperEadem]

61. I have a fabulous sense of humor

I'm not obligated to put it on display for you. And there was nothing humorous about what he said TO ME.

[Broderick]

16. I have more employees I think

[Tom Ripley]

17. He's the NKOTB of politics!

[Crowman1979]

34. WRONG! He's the Kevin Federline of politics.

[underpants]

18. Glen Beck would claim it was 250,000

[marble falls]

48. Glen who? He'd like to have 620 subscribers. The seminars were held in a spacious closet.

[rgbecker]

19. You can always tell the level of enthusiasm...

by observing the space between the participants. Quite a few standing back, witholding commitment, in this picture.

[NBachers]

38. Yeah, and what kind of awkward conversationalizing was lamely being attempted?

Or did everyone just keep away from each other so they wouldn't have to say anything?

"Oh . . . god . . . someone's approaching me . . . they're going to say something to me!"

[npk]

20. To be fair, half of those people are probably just on lookers. n/t

[Sea-Dog]

37. the rest are free lunchers

[Botany]

21. Eventbrite = Americans for Prosperity = Koch Brothers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=97923

Same group that put together the "organic grass roots buses to Madison for the pro
Walker / tea bagger / Sarah Palin Rally on 4/14/12

Cain is playing this gravy train for all it is worth .... just like his "cain solutions .com"

[Dollface]

23. Guess he should have invited Stephen Colbert.

Did he really think all the people at the "Rock Me Like a Herman-Cain" rally were there to see him?

[stevedeshazer]

29. +1 for the Scorpions reference.

[Cleita]

24. I would love to see some old curmudgeon go up to them and yell,

"Get off my lawn!"

[MannyGoldstein]

25. America says nein, nein, nein nt

[chollybocker]

31. Nice.

All net.

[JoePhilly]

26. That's just sad.

[Fearless]

30. There you are... nearly every uber fundie non-racist there is all in one place.

[Historic NY]

32. They didn't even need a porta pottie.

[left on green only]

33. Do you suppose they'll try to get their lawn permit back?

logo

[ButterflyBlood]

35. Have you seen the guy's PAC trainwreck ads?

it's amazing they aren't parody.

[Permanut]

44. I say if you can't get more people than that to your rally...

Blame yourself!

I wish I'd heard about the free lunch, I might have stopped by. On second thought, since I'm in Oregon, never mind. Oh, and props for the Portlandia reference, and also for Bogart's second best movie.

[jmowreader]

45. That reminds me of another famous photo

Long-time DUers will remember the photo of the pro-Iraq War rally that had more chairs than attendees.

[Thor_MN]

46. TANSTAAFL

There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

"Monday morning seminar, and Monday afternoon rally -- was free, and included a boxed lunch."

The price was having to listen to Herman Cain.

[Doc Holliday]

50. a boxed lunch?

You'd think (or I would) that pizza would be served at these, uh, events...instead of a "boxed lunch."

(Unless, of course, the box in question is a pizza box.)

[brooklynite]

51. No, a boxed lunch makes more sense...

....see, with a boxed lunch, you can hand it out on the bus or at the hotel. With pizza, you'd have to have tables at the rally, and the lines of people waiting to pick up an individual slice, napkin, toppings, etc would run...at least 2 minutes.

[marshall gaines]

49. vice president

next repug vice presidential candidate, after convention.

[Initech]

52. Police estimate about 700 portable toilets were present.

[guitar man]

53. Ha!!

There were more people than that at my last gig!

that officially makes him a loser

[yellowcanine]

54. Looks like a Freeper rally except for the lack of flag draped portopotties.

[hourglass1]

56. eventbrite - really?

if you ... promote a rally ... and less than half your event pledges show-up ... blame yoselph!

[Canuckistanian]

57. Well, to be fair

"Herman Caine <insert any activity here> Fails Spectacularly" would work just as well.

[caseymoz]

58. Goes to show Repubs aren't completely stupid

Their "grin and bear it" attitude about their candidates from Dan Quayle, to Dubya, to this whole presidential field, is showing.

[rocktivity]

60. Upholding a decade-old tradition

of being out-attended by the porta-potties.




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[Erose999]

62. A bus ticket and a free lunch and still no takers? Man, Koch-Cain is chopped liver.