Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned Friday in Talladega, Ala.
A big old H/T to Shady Grady for the perfect headline for this post. I have been snickering all day watching gop, Presidential front runner Herman Cain twist in the wind due to Politico's expose of the charges of sexual harassment in his past.
Josh Marshall
I’m trying to put together a Herman Cain harassment timeline. This is a work in progress because I’m having a hard time keep track of it all. So bear with me.
1. Politico allegations are false. Story is crap.
2. Yes, there were allegations. But they were false.
3. Yes there were allegations that were false and I don’t know what money was paid.
4. I don’t know whether money was paid. And it would be wrong for me to find out whether money was paid because it’s confidential.
5. There was a in-depth investigation. And I was cleared. But I don’t know anything about it.
6. Here’s the gesture that led to my getting accused of harassment.
7. Okay, I remember some discussion of a settlement number.
Yep. Herman punk'd the republicans and the media big time. I mean, didn't they vet this guy? Or, did they honestly think we wouldn't find out about those scary skeletons in his closet?
Field Negro
I would like to welcome Mr. 9-9-9 to the world of big time politics.
It seems that my man forgot one thing while he was jigging and joking his way into the hearts of white conservatives across A-merry-ca: Your skeletons will always come back to haunt you. We all have them. But we don't all try to get elected as the leader of the free world, or, for that matter, to become a member of the most powerful "democratic" judicial body on earth.
And so here we go again; yet another black conservative is the victim of a "high tech lynching". The last one survived the metaphoric rope around his neck and ultimately found himself in a position where he can influence whether a rope is put around the neck of others.
Have the media and the gop forgotten the vague accusations of Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Anita Hill?
I wonder if the Koch Brothers are going to repossess Cain's big, nice, shiny bus?
I wonder if the Huntsville Federation of Republican women regret inviting him to dinner at the Marriott?
I wonder if Herman Cain is still Alabama State Senator Scott Beason's (r. racist Gardendale) Boy?
I almost feel sorry for the gop and the mainstream media. They thought they had themselves the perfect racist in Herman Cain.
Herman Cain has become, in many ways, the perfect racist. America lives under the interesting premise that a racist can’t be Black. That’s like believing that a man can’t hate his sibling, or that a woman can’t advocate for a man to beat his wife (as Whoopi did to Oprah in “The Color Purple”). The truth is that racism is typically most effective when you put a Black face on it, and Herman Cain has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say.
Too bad. So sad.
Not.
6 comments:
You've done a great job keeping track of Cain's several positions on the sexual harassment scandal, a scandal that Cain had to know would come back and harass him, once he stepped out on the national stage, and begin to trade pleasantries with the Big Boys.
Cain's run, and the support he's receiving from Rush Limbaugh and other staunch, if not always truthful, Republican stalwarts, is somewhat perplexing.
It makes you think that Cain was picked for the run, and that there's something a bit sinister about it all.
If this scandal isn't Cain's Waterloo, and Rush Limbaugh stands behind his man, this may all go away, and Cain will remain at, or near, the top of the national polls.
If Cain does survive, perhaps I'll blog about my suspicions.
One could almost feel sorry for Cain, except for the fact that he had an exploratory committee that had to have told him about this and he had to have known this would come up at some point. His latest nonsense was that the one female that he can now remember, he simply told her, "you are the same height as my wife", and touched her on the head or some b.s like that.
The Cain Train is derailed. It's going to be back between Magic Underpants Mitt and Bush 2.0 Perry. The black great white hope is dead in the water.
Usually, there is a defining moment in one's life that forms a core political belief.
In Herman Cain's life, could it have been the government intrusion into his personal behavior 20 years ago? When the law said his personal behavior was illegal and sexist, could this have formed his political belief in restricting regulation and the social engineering of how one is to behave?
The US is ranked 17th in functional equality between men and women. The best countries are still only at 85% equality in all aspects.
In America, we have a defacto sexism. Are the next voices we hear going to argue that there is no sexism, women have brought this on themselves, and we need to remove all legislation protecting equal rights, equal pay, etc since this is not a real issue, and it may have been a slight problem a hundred years ago when women were denied the right to vote, but none of them are alive today, so quit complaining!?
Race and sex - it's always something.
@BD Why is Cain at the top of the national polls? Who are they polling? Rush Limbauh fans? Scott Beason? The Huntsville Federation of repubLican women? The media? I mean really?
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is responsible for the run down on Cains changing story.
I think I know what your suspicions are.
@DF I wonder if they are going to change those buttons to read NO WE Cain't? Get it?
Yellowdog said-In America, we have a defacto sexism. Are the next voices we hear going to argue that there is no sexism, women have brought this on themselves, and we need to remove all legislation protecting equal rights, equal pay, etc since this is not a real issue, and it may have been a slight problem a hundred years ago when women were denied the right to vote, but none of them are alive today, so quit complaining!?
Why any self respecting woman would vote for Herman Cain or any other republican is beyond me.
Redeye said...
"@BD Why is Cain at the top of the national polls?...I mean really?"
It's his alluring smile.
"I think I know what your suspicions are."
With each day's revelations, my suspicions are hardening into reality. If that happens, I'll be denied my own little scoop.
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