Cain and Romney Buddies?

Below is an interesting excerpt from a recent article.

According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Cain and Romney currently lead the GOP field. In Facebook lingo, the two frontrunners have a “complicated” relationship. Beyond a doubt, Romney and Cain have the most extensive business experience of all the GOP candidates. They also both first ran for Senate and lost, although Romney won the GOP nomination. Romney has occasionally thrown afriendly word toward Cain; Cain, in turn, has more vigorously attacked RickPerry (including announcing last week that he would not consider being the vice-presidential candidate on a Perry ticket) than he has Romney. Underlying their dynamic is a shared interest in seeing Perry lose support: Cain is directly competing with Perry for the not-Romney candidacy in the primary. From Romney’s perspective, Cain can reduce Perry’s support — and if Cain emerges as the main alternative to him, all the better.

Let's do a little what if..What if Herman Cain got into the presidential race to promote Herman Cain and help his bud siphon votes away from other candidates. Flashback: Herman Cain SupportedMitt Romney in 2008. At the start of the campaign no one gave Cain much of a snowballs chance of rising to the top. Cain also wasn't in the attack mode against a candidate. Along comes Perry with much fanfare and skyrocketing poll numbers before his feet every hit the campaign trail. It seemed the only competition Romney had was Perry and the attacks started. Every candidate with exception of Newt started plummeting Perry. Cains poll numbers started to rise and he jumped on the bandwagon with little digs to the media. Meanwhile Romney's numbers go up and Perry's down. Now if you were Romney wouldn't you rather face a Cain and a Perry in primary election Chances are Romney would win that one and he would be the one to face Obama. Cain leaves the campaign trail to go a book selling tour leaving the campaign field open to his bud Romney. Herman Cain on Why He Supported Mitt Romney for President in 2008 be ###

Source: Newsmax