Who Is Behind This Site?

This site is not associated with the official Herman Cain organization in any way. Nor have they given their official approval to anything on this site. It was originated by a single person: John Chambers.

I’m a pretty typical married with kids, two dogs, middle class guy. I have a bachelor’s degree in business and am a member of Mensa. I’ve worked in IT for about a quarter century in various capacities. I’m currently a quality assurance automation engineer (I write computer programs that test other computer programs). Prior to that I had a business management career in both the dry cleaning and restaurant industries. I became interested in computers when my older brother let my play around with his Osborne computer. I switched careers, and the rest is history.

I’m also the author of the book The Conservative Hand, which is available at amazon.com (the post Why We’re Not Using Alinsky Tactics is from that book). The book was born out of the frustration of watching conservatives doing the same things over and over again and acting as though “this time” they were going to get different results. How hard it is to grasp the concept that if something doesn’t work, you should stop doing it? I’ve always been told I was an imaginative thinker (and accused of having a strange way of looking at things). I admit the ideas in my book are way outside normal political strategy, but normal political strategy isn’t working for conservatives. We need to try something different.

I built this site around a couple of ideas from the book: (1) use a free market approach, and (2) be creative when supporting a candidate (just don’t think outside the box, throw the box away). That’s why the members here are expected to act as political-entrepreneurs, and why at times it will seem chaotic to the point of lunacy here. That’s fine. The point isn’t to have a smooth running, uneventful site. The site is not an end in itself, it is just a tool to get things done.