Herman Cain Speech at the Values Voter Summit FULL VIDEO and TEXT TRANSCRIPT

Herman Cain Speech at the Values Voter Summit Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. 10/07/11 FULL VIDEO and TEXT TRANSCRIPT.

Remarks by Herman Cain. Location: The Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. Time: 4:31 p.m. EDT. Date: Friday, October 7, 2011.

(Cheers, applause.)

HERMAN CAIN: Thank you. Thank you very much. Now as I was backstage and I heard Ted finishing up his remarks, did I hear you all saying: Yes, we CAIN? (Laughter, cheers.) Was I hearing things?

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: (Off mic.)

MR. CAIN: I want to thank Tony Perkins and his organization for inviting me, but more importantly, I want to thank you for being here, because that means that you get it. You know how important this upcoming election in 2012 is, and you're not going to let the liberals take this country down. (Cheers, applause.)

One of my heroes, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, used to remind the young men of Morehouse when he said: "Let it be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach for. It's not a tragedy to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity to have no dreams." (Applause.)

The American dream is under attack. The American dream is under attack because we have become a nation of crises. And that shining city on a hill that Ronald Reagan talked about has started to slide down to the side of the hill because of all of these crises.

We have an economic crisis. We have an entitlement spending crisis. We have an energy crisis. We have an illegal immigration crisis. We have a foggy foreign policy crisis. We have a moral crisis. (Cheers, applause.) And we have a severe deficiency of leadership crisis in this country. (Cheers, applause.)

You know, I may not have ever held a high political office, but I know what leaders do. Leaders make sure that they're working on the right problems, that they'll find the right priorities, that they surround themselves with the right people in order to put together the right plans, in order to fix stuff instead of to continue to talk about stuff. That's what leaders do. (Applause.)

And I happen to believe -- I happen to believe that even though the American dream is under attack, the Founding Fathers got it right. Those same principles, those same values that they had when they envisioned this great nation with the Declaration of Independence, when they envisioned our laws with the Constitution, they got it right when they said we are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They said certain unalienable rights, that among these. I happen to believe they were talking about some others in addition to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Applause.) I kind to believe that they had in mind that one of these other unalienable rights was the right to protect yourself, protect your family and to protect you property. We call it the Second Amendment. (Cheers, applause.) Unalienable rights. (Cheers, applause.) Herman Cain Speech at the Values Voter Summit FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT in PDF FORMAT

TEXT CREDIT: FRC Action The Cloakroom 801 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 Toll-free: 1-877/372-2808

VIDEO and IMAGE CREDIT: AntichristComes

Ron Paul placed first in the 2011 Values Voter Straw Poll

LAKE JACKSON, Texas–2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul placed first in the 2011 Values Voter Straw Poll today garnering an impressive 37 percent of the total number of votes cast.

In placing first, Dr. Paul placed ahead of Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry who placed second, third and fourth with a mere 23, 16 and 8 percent, respectively.

Held annually each year since 2007, the Values Voter Summit presidential straw poll is seen as a benchmark for how well Republican candidates will appeal to Christian conservative activists. Endorsement by this core activist community is likely to energize voters nationwide that identify with family-friendly issues such as parental decision-making concerning children’s education, less government interference in local communities, and the sanctity of human life.

“Dr. Paul’s standing among Christian conservative voters is growing as people become more familiar with the man as well as the message,”said Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.

“Dr. Paul is a humble man of faith, who has personally delivered more than 4,000 babies, so he’s well acquainted with the sanctity of life. And importantly, he never fails to connect the worthiness of the liberty message he champions with that system’s moral superiority over schemes that promote coercive government activism leading to the breakdown of the American family,”said Mr. Benton.

Speaking of Dr. Paul’s speech earlier today Doug Wead, a born again Christian and former adviser to two U.S. Presidents, said he was blown away by Dr. Paul’s command of the scripture. ”He offered a scriptural rationale to every position and moved from one passage to the next without hesitation. The man knows the Bible.”

Mr. Wead says that the rising numbers of born again Christians turning to Dr. Paul shows that, “For many of us, the best way to assure our own religious freedom is to get back to the Constitution and defend everybody else’s freedoms too.”

To view Dr. Paul’s statement of faith, click here. To view his positions on abortion and homeschooling click here and here, respectively.

###

TEXT CREDIT:Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee 8000 Forbes Place, Suite 200 Springfield VA 22151 Headquarters Phone (Toll-Free): 1-855-886-9779 Fax: 1-703-563-7330