At Tea Party Event, Rick Scott and Herman Cain Take Aim at Obama

Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott led a parade of Republican and conservative candidates -- including one possible 2012 presidential hopeful -- at a tea party event on Saturday, making one last pitch to conservative Floridians, encouraging them to get out to vote on Tuesday.

While most eyes on the First Coast were fixed on the football game in Jacksonville between the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs, Scott told a cheering crowd of around 1,500 in Middleburg, in Clay County, that they had changed America by standing up against government spending.

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During the health-care debate, you changed the debate, Scott said to the crowd. Scott, with a length background in health-care management and investment, rose to political prominence in 2009 by opposing health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama.

Accompanied by his family, Scott took aim at his opponent, Democratic candidate state CFO Alex Sink and continued lashing out at the Democrats for backing the health-care measures. Polls show that race is very close with several of them showing both candidates leading in the margin of error.

My opponent thinks Obamacare is good for us, he insisted, linking Sink to Obama whose popularity continues to decline in the Sunshine State.

But while the crowd was appreciative of Scott and other Florida Republicans and conservatives, they treated businessman Herman Cain, a favorite of the tea party movement, like a rock star. Cain, who hosts a radio show in Atlanta and rose to become CEO of Godfathers Pizza, said he was praying on whether to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 -- with more than a few members of the crowd encouraging him to run.

The American Dream is under attack and we are going to take it back on November 2, said Cain.

While Cain, an African-American, slammed critics of the tea party movement who called it racist, he focused on getting out the vote and attacking Obamas policies.

Were going to alter control of Congress, starting with the U.S. House of Representatives, said Cain. Then were going to start working on 2012.