Being bat-shit crazy and dumb as a bed post doesn't seem to be a disqualification for the Republican't nom-nom-nomination this election cycle. (The only people who are seeking the nomination and aren't those things are Mormons, and that seems to mean they aren't qualified to lots of the Repub core.)

The top item on his resume is that he was "CEO" of the eighth largest pizza chain in North America; it was a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Pillsbury (the super conglomerate that makes those canned biscuits and has a doughboy as an icon.) Pillsbury wound up owning Godfather's Pizza because they wanted to buy BurgerKing so badly. It was bleeding money before Cain got there, and it's hard to tell what happened while he was there because of the real corporation infusing money into it (really trying to hide profits) and/or sucking cash at other times (its really hard to tell, they've got pros for this stuff), but there were fewer stores when he quit than when he started.

His political background is working for Restaurant trade organizations, ie a lobbyist who fought to keep the minimum wage obscene and unenforced, DUI limits very high, and to get smoking bans declared unconstitutional. All by 'contributing' someone else's dime to our 'statesmen' in congress.

He did that so well that the Koch brothers adopted him, which means he gets all Heritage Society, Cato Institute, and other Koch 'think tanks' (propaganda machines) clap trap for free; they gave him a regressive tax program for instance. But even the Koches only put him into the presidential field because they thought they could sell some of the books they had had written with his name on them (they don't need the money; they just like the exposure for their ideas and hatreds).

However, even though it was never anyone's plan, because the rest of the Repubs are either Mormons or so stupid they can't even impress the stupid, Cain has become a front runner fro the nom-nomination. And because apparently a lot of people can't remember which American political party fucked up the entire world's economy four years ago, and who has thrown a temper tantrum because they lost the last presidential election causing the whole country (well, really only the middle and working classes, not there buds) to suffer, someone, even one of those idiots, might win next year. (especially since the Republican'ts have managed to rob ten million people they don't like of the vote.)