Herman Cain: I'd Be A Better Nominee Than Romney Because 'I Have Some Depth To My Ideas'

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Herman Cain , businessman and former Republican presidential candidate, took a shot at GOP nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday during a talk at the University of Florida. Cain claimed that he would be leading President Barack Obama in the polls today if he were his party's nominee for president. 'The reason is quite simple: I have some depth to my ideas,' Cain said.

Cain told the students that his 9-9-9 tax plan was a specific tax reform proposal and that Romney should be advocating for a similarly sweeping reform.

'Stupid people are ruining America, and we've got to take it back,' Cain told an audience of university students in Florida.

The former CEO of Godfathers Pizza also told his students that the controversy surrounding remarks Romney made before an audience of donors several weeks ago about the 47 percent was a 'non-story.'

h/t The Gainesville Sun

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• Willard is done when even Herman Cain can mock him

• The only depth the of the Koch product Cain is how far he can get with the ladies.

• '' state and payroll taxes'?'

  'apples and oranges'

  still the best/worst dodge in a recent debate!

• I'd win if I didn't lose.

  This has been one nutty season.

• Herman's right.
  We could have had 'NINE NINE NINE ' but instead, its 'WHINE WHINE WHINE !!! '

• Ouch. Imagine being belittled as having no depth by a guy whose entire campaign was built on 9-9-9. That's gotta hurt.

• Ahh that's funny coming from him. On the other hand even though he has a wretched 999 plan, Romney doesn't have one he can stick with.

• 'If even Herman Cain is ridiculing Romney's Campaign, things must really be bad!

• He's probably right, actually. Cain has far more character and personality, is a much more exciting speaker, and might even pull more of the black vote than Obama since the whole supporting gay marriage thing. And he's actually given at least a couple of specifics on his policy ideas, like 9-9-9. Not saying that he'd be a good president, but he'd probably be a better candidate, yeah.

• Too bad Pervin Cain isn't the nominee I would have totally voted for him. Remember the last time we had a total perv in the Oval Office? Balanced budget, unemployment at 4.2 % and we were at peace.

• Casey Anthony would have had a better shot .

• Cain is to the left of Obama ' he wants to create a whole new tax and bureaucracy!

• What a loser Etch A Sketch is. Pretty soon only the dead-end Republicans will be left defending him at all (Hannity, Malkin, Gloves Donahue, HopeyChangey, etc.).

• Romney's toast. Their best chance was Christie as Coulter warned.