All-purpose Herman Cain fun thread

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Now?

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Oh, yeah, we want to elect a guy with a Koch money bottle intravenously attached to his arm . . . sign me up.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Let me rephrase: Republican primary voters who might not have before will now see him as unelectable.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Ah, I see - so like we've always suspected - if you support a woman's right to choose, you can sexually harass women and it is OK, or at the very least falls under the "THAT'S DIFFERENT" category.

Good to know.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Yes, it is. Which is why I'm supporting Governor Spitzer for president in 2016.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Not sure if it's made your WorldNetDaily or Newsmax feed yet, but the woman's story has been collaborated by a Republican pollster who worked for the Restaurant Association and witnessed it.

So you'll need to find another strawman.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Republican pollster!?! More like RINO pollster!

(Oh and the establishment GOP is now turning on Cain ... http://spectator.org/blog/2011/11/02/cain-in-trouble)

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

It's all about the settlement. The public sees a settlement, the public assumes guilt.

It's not fair, because settlements are about risk management, as well as saving litigation costs.

But the public doesn't always get that. If Bill Clinton had settled multiple sexual harassment suits prior to 1992, he would be as done as Cain is right now.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Sounds like there is a clear line to Rick Perry Campaign for the leak.
A Cain staffer who quit 2 weeks ago to join Perry.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

He's learning the same thing everyone else does in these situations: It ain't that you did it. It's that you lied about it.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

That and losing control about it. Like Dana Milbank wrote, his treatment of D.C. reporters the other day probably earned him some votes in Iowa. But the overall cost is that he came off looking like a loose cannon to the GOP establishment. If I'm not mistaken, once upon a time Michele Bachmann's media henchmen being handsy came back to haunt her, as well.

 

Re: Herman Cain's sexual harassment history

Not arguing the merits of the "Shaggy" defense, but how exactly does one come out and admit something like sexual harassment without it being incredibly awkward and making you look terrible to the people whose votes you're courting?

I guess he could've come up with some statement of how, in retrospect, he realizes his behavior was inappropriate and he's come to understand that women shouldn't have to deal with such treatement in the workplace. Come out and acknowledge your mistake, then hope it blows over quickly without sinking your campaign.

But like Clinton, who was mostly absolved from the whole "perjury" debacle (in the court of reasonable public opinion, at least) by the "Of course he lied about cheating on his wife" defense, I think it's fairly normal that Cain wouldn't want to publicly admit to being a scumbag who tried to creep on multiple women who were not Mrs. Cain.

I wouldn't admit it, either.