The highly popular Tea Party candidate, black conservative Herman Cain, is just not yet ready for prime time.  A recent example of why he is not was his appearance this past Sunday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.  Wes Pruden, in his "The Washington Times" column today entitled "No grandeur yet in this old party" says that "Mr. Cain, like most newcomers to major-league politics, stumbles when he strays from what he knows."

"When Chris Wallace of Fox News asked what he thought of the Palestinian 'right of return,' one of the fundamental obstacles to peace in the Middle East, the prospective candidate was clearly befuddled.  'The right of return? The right of return?'

"The interlocutor explained, gently, that he was talking about the off-the-table Palestinian position that refugees should have the right to return to territory lost with the establishment of Israel. Mr. Cain hesitated again, and then compounded innocent ignorance with unforgivable folly. 'I don’t think [the Israelis] have a big problem with people returning,' he said. 'The issue is there are some things they simply do not want to give in on.'"

Wrong answer!

Herman Cain's answer obviously would not ring a bell with the overwhelmingly number of Members of Congress who this morning gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing ovations and interrupted his speech some 55 or more times.  They obviously liked Netanyahu's highly-publicized admonition of the president in the Oval Office last Friday regarding Obama's demand that Israel return to its pre-1967 War borders.

It gets worse for Herman Cain who seems not able in the arena of foreign policy.  Wes Pruden continues:  "He doesn’t have a coherent position on Afghanistan, either, he said, but he’s working on it. 'I am developing more specifics on foreign policy as it relates to Afghanistan even as we speak. There are some experts, some former military generals that I am meeting with on a regular basis.'"

Unfortunately, the motto of the Middle Atlantic trucking firm, Kane Freight Lines, "Kane is Able," just does not yet apply to this attractive presidential candidate.  Herman Cain would make a very fine complement to a Republican presidential nominee such as Tim Pawlenty or Rick Santorum.  A Michele Bachmann/Herman Cain ticket would probably be too much of a stretch considering a possible bias against a first woman president/first black vice president on the same ticket, especially since they are both conservative Republicans.  Herman Cain's time is still in the future.