Are not in fact electing someone who can just make policy however he or she would like. but we are typically sort of choosing a package of values and ideas. in this context part of what choosing herman cain for president would mean is choosing simplicity over recognition of how complex something like the faction code is, so saying look, i don't care what 999 means, i just know it's simple and i can understand it. it would also mean saying we value sort of the wealthiest americans keeping more of their money while burdening the poorest americans really on the consumption end. so burdening them ...