Apparently, Herman Cain was not charmed by Rick Santorum’s move during Tuesday night’s debate when he asked the audience to raise their hands if they wanted a sales tax as would be required by the 9-9-9 plan. From ABC News:
As Cain continued to hold court in the diner, a reporter asked him to reveal which of his opponents’ attacks at the debate bothered him most. Cain grinned, turned to his campaign spokesman, J.D. Gordon.
“This will probably get me in trouble,” he began, “but as my grandfather would say, ‘I does not care.”
“Governor Huntsman and Representative Bachmann were trying to be cute,” Cain said. “I don’t get upset about that kind of stuff.”
Romney, Cain repeated, “was trying to do a put down.”
“But I think it was the one by Senator Santorum that particularly bothered me,” Cain said. “Number one, he totally misrepresented the facts.” (Cain said Santorum’s contention that his 9-9-9 plan imposes an 18 percent tax on people was “absolutely wrong.”)
“It’s a package — 9-9-9. What did he try to do? He tried to get the audience to react on each one of those individually,” Cain said. “And it backfired.”
Jon Huntsman cracked that 9-9-9 sounded like the price of a pizza, while Michele Bachmann joked that 9-9-9 upside down was 6-6-6 and the devil was in the details.






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