Herm Cain Breaks Through, Rick Perry Boldly Follows

Herm Cain has peaked. Maybe.

But what a peak. His claim to faim, (it wasn't the deep dish Thursday specials at Godfathers...), was his tax plan, unrealistic though it is.

Now Rick Perry says "me too!"

A Flat tax is not the best idea, but its simplicity and lack of places to hide invites support, and Rick, seeking the proverbial port in the storm, has signed on.

His yet to be enunciated plan is rumored to be a flat 17% and excuses business from taxation, (Social Security has not been mentioned yet), and puts more of the national budget on the working poor and lower middle class, but lets not spit hairs right now.

The point is that the dam has broken.

Herm Cain did it.

update 1: Newt Gingrich has become a flat tax wannabe. More will follow is Herm can keep his momentum until December. I half expect a Romney tax proposal.

Just for the record, none of these ideas will happen, but they do translate well to media time and donations in the mean time.