If you don’t live in Georgia, or if you haven’t been in the grassroots events circles, you may not know Herman Cain. That is too bad for you. Herman Cain is a true patriot, and one strong-willed conservative, whose integrity is without challenge. He visited us on Bloggers’ Row at the Americans For Prosperity Annual Summit in D.C. at the end of this past August. From Herman’s latest column, as it appears in The Daily Caller:

This two-year hijacking of our government by an ultra-liberal president and Congress has put this country on a fast and dangerous path to socialism. It has been fast when you consider how fast the national debt has escalated while the economy has stalled. And even though we survived the financial meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, we are still dangerously close to a double-dip recession. Even worse, a depression is possible depending upon the actions of the upcoming lame duck session of Congress.

The first priority for the newly elected Congress is to rebuild some credibility with the American people. The new political party in control must do what it said it would do, even if it does not ultimately become law. The people are tired of being lied to, deceived and ignored. Congress’s approval rating is at an all-time low for those reasons.

The voters also want the spending and spending deception to stop in a dramatic way. A $1 trillion stimulus bill has not stimulated the economy. It has created 198,000 new federal government jobs, while private sector jobs have decreased by more than 7 million since the end of 2007. The new Congress should do something dramatic, such as ending earmarks in proposed legislation, or refusing to allow any increases in federal budgets, except maybe national security spending and homeland security.

Onerous new legislation and regulations have caused businesses to save their cash, if they have any, because of the massive uncertainty created by this administration and Congress. The new Congress should repeal, rollback and replace those policies that have brought this economy to a halt.

These suggestions are not new, and are small steps on the long road to recovery of our once energetic economy. Congress has got to establish some serious fiscal discipline, and we must reclaim our constitutional liberties.

This can be accomplished, but only if we continue the move back to conservative leadership in Washington, D.C. And it’s going to be tough every step of the way.

If you don’t know Herman Cain, I urge you to go read the rest of this article at the Daily Caller, and you can listen to him online weeknights on Atlanta’s WSB Radio, AM 750 & 95.5 FM from 7 to 10 PM. And if you want to be really impressed, check out his bio here.

And oh… Herman’s thinking about running in 2012. Yeah, you heard me. He’s in “prayerful consideration” for running. I am saying my prayers for him, too. GO HERMAN, GO!