Yes we Cain--the Herminator!

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, speaking at the Howard County Lincoln Day dinner Friday night, offered no specifics about what he would do if elected the nation's leader, but he didn't need to.

Cain, 65, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, a cancer survivor and an Atlanta radio talk-show host, got a sustained standing ovation, punctuated by loud cheers, from more than 300 people at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City just for entering the room.

Some attendees confessed privately they had only recently heard of Cain, but the party faithful seemed to like his rebellious, Tea Party-style rhetoric and his disdain for mainstream Republicans.

"Herman Cain is a guy who tells the truth," Maryland Republican national committeeman Louis Pope told the crowd as he introduced Cain to the strains of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Pope described a man who "lived the American dream," raising himself from humble beginnings to earn a degree in mathematics and head several major companies and the National Restaurant Association.