DailyKos poster jamess has composed a report outlining the multiple connections of Herman Cain to the Brothers Koch. While I am usually not keen to assign guilt by association (after all, people on a reform mission have to associate with the souls they aim to save), Koch and Cain hiring on the same help makes it hard to conclude anything but that their agenda is the same.
So, in the interest of perspective and throwing a light from a different angle, let me suggest some other commonalities below the curlicue.
The brothers Koch can, I think fairly, be identified as Sons of Cain. The Sons of Cain practice human husbandry. That's a kinder/gentler variation of predation. Instead of killing the prey outright, husbanders exploit the prey first, for all it's worth, before putting it out to pasture. Humans preying on their own kind is, of course, peculiar to the species. It's what makes humans exceptional, don't you know? That, and speech.
Normally, the ability to communicate enables a species to co-operate, like the bees in a hive or even ants and termites. Humans reverting to predation, a more primitive mode of sustenance, seems to prove that evolution is not necessarily progressive. Turns out that even fungi in the soil know how to cooperate with other species for their mutual benefit.
The designation of the Koch boys as "patriots" by Herman Cain is sort of a half truth. They do perceive themselves as patrician and paternalistic. But, motivated by the milk of human kindness to dominate those less favored by mother nature than themselves, they aim to do their own father one better. Instead of stables, they keep their herd in milking parlors and have the dung removed mechanically. So, it would probably not be correct to say that Herman Cain is out of the Koch Stables, as the Clintons were, for example, out of the Stephens Stable.
For the Kochs, keeping a string of presidential candidates is probably more gratifying than keeping a string of polo ponies. The losers put themselves out to pasture and let someone else curry them in old age.
By the way, Cain did not arrive out of nowhere in 2011. He was an also-ran in 1999 (for President) and in 2003 (for Senate). His hubris has been growing for a good long while. But, we've all heard of the Peter Principle accounting for people being promoted beyond their capacity. In this case, social promotion may have been applied to well-spoken individual whose talents are not commensurate with his words. Up may look like the easiest way out, when we're dealing with people like Addison Grey Wilson, John McCain and now Herman Cain.
'Up and out' may also account for how Clarence Thomas ended up on the Supreme Court.
Whether Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, calling out the equestrian troop to charge his own citizens in Times Square prompted my recollection of politicians kept in stables, I do not know. The mind works in mysterious ways while we lie sleeping.