Actually Cain has not lost any voters in the GOP They don't seem to believe the stories
On Friday, November 4, 2011, THE ANNOINTED ONE <[email protected]> wrote: > The fact that you consider it an issue at all.... handled or no... > Says you need to crawl out from the slime and into the real world.. > > "The REAL issue here is how Cain handled -- or rather mishandled -- > the matter" > > On Nov 3, 7:24 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> The REAL issue here is how Cain handled -- or rather mishandled -- the matter. >> Regard$, >> --MJ >> "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. " -- Marcus Tullius CiceroAt 05:51 PM 11/3/2011, you wrote:The fact that voters would care at all about this issue makes me >> sad... and makes them really stupid. If every man (or woman for that >> matter) was held to account for their machisto(a) attitudes throughout >> their lives there would be no candidates for anything... The fact that >> a supposed "Author"/"Journalist would take time to write about this >> shit makes it even worse...GROW UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!! >> On Nov 3, 2:43 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> > November 3, 2011 3:00 P.M.Who Dropped the Dime on Cain?It could be someone in the Republican family.Fred Thompson >> > In a case of an untimely death, the first thing the cops do when they arrive at the home of the deceased is to try to determine whether the death was the result of a self-inflicted wound and, if it wasn t, whether a member of the family did it. Statistics show that these are good places to start looking. If the recent events surrounding sexual-harassment allegations against Herman Cain sink his campaign, the same postmortem may be appropriate. >> > First, Cain s self-inflicted wounds. When the allegations became public, he started defending himself with an unloaded gun. Even an admirably unconventional campaign cannot defy certain principles. One would be never to eat at a place with an Eats sign in the window. Another is that when it hits the fan, you should get your recollection and your facts as straight as you can before you start talking. You can t outwit the media at their own game if you don t know the game they re playing. Now it s not just about whether he was overly friendly with Miss Molly at the Fourth of July picnic it s also about catching him in inconsistencies. >> > There s a type of guy well known to every defense lawyer. He s a very successful man, usually a businessman, politician, or other public figure, who owes his success in large part to being a forceful communicator as well as very smart. Often you cannot persuade him that he should not go before that grand jury to just answer a few questions. He cannot believe that he can t persuade them of his innocence. >> > I seriously doubt that Cain did anything that merits the stop the presses treatment this story is getting, but that won t matter if he has to spend many more days talking about what he knew and when he knew it and the difference between an agreement and a settlement. As Herman himself might say, the situation is complex, but the solution is simple. He must get some advice from somebody who has been to a rodeo before, get it all straight, lay it out, and move on. >> > Actually, Cain has a good chance of weathering this storm for several reasons. People like him, and they want to believe him. More important, most primary voters intensely dislike the media, which they see as trying to bring him down. I m not sure Herman will appreciate the reference, but that is one of the main reasons that Bill Clinton survived. >> > To many people, not just Republicans, this is just another instance of dirty Washington politics indulging itself, obsessing over trivia while Rome burns. Cain, a very intelligent conservative, upsets the liberal paradigm of what African Americans are supposed to believe. Many Cain supporters involved in the tea-party movement have themselves been called racists in the recent past. Now, with the economy in the tank, the nation broke, the European Union on the verge of throwing the entire Western world into recession if not worse, and former Democratic senator and governor Jon Corzine s company having misplaced $200 million of investors money, our burning national issue is whether Herman Cain made some improper remarks over a decade ago. >> > Moreover, people are on to the sexual-harassment scam. In typical fashion, Congress took a situation where women had no protection for legitimate grievances and created a solution rife with unintended consequences. Now businesses are regularly making payouts for the flimsiest of reasons. It s obvious that these alleged victims and their lawyers no matter what they may say publicly are champing at the bit to come forward for their day in the limelight and the inevitable book deal. Who can pass up being the new Anita Hill, who to this day periodically receives glowing newspaper profiles? >> > Yet people today are watching the Cain story unfold, looking at the timing of it, and writing checks to the Cain campaign. Who knows what may come out before it s over, but it better be some pretty powerful stuff if it s going to fit the mood of the American people these days. People expect presidential politics to be rough and tumble, but times are different, and so are the circumstances of this campaign. Republicans are looking for someone to believe in. They won t all vote for Herman Cain, but right now, he symbolizes something they want to protect. Hisfellow Republicancandidates try to take him down at their own peril. >> > This brings us to a> > Most of us have long since given up on adherence toReagan s Eleventh Commandment, but Republican candidates do enough damage to each other out in the open these days. They shouldn t get away with peddling stuff they re ashamed to be associated with, and that can be used... >> >> read more ยป > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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