Posted on 11/18/2011 7:07:44 AM PST by no dems
The great media toaster isn’t broken, exactly, but it doesn’t work like it once did. By all accounts, Herman Cain should be toast now, served hot, a bit scorched around the edges and left unbuttered. But try as they might, his tormentors have not yet had him for breakfast.
The tormentors, journalists, lawyers and an assortment of ladies who appear to have been around the block a few times, have so far failed to destroy him and thus his candidacy. They still have to come up with lower-mileage ladies to make the accusations stick with the Republican base.
Mr. Cain’s remarkable—and unexpected—resilience has upset Democrats trying to find hope for change in their 2012 prospects in a reading of Tuesday’s off-year elections and referendums. The easily persuaded are even finding a little. Politico, the Capitol Hill tabloid that sometimes channels a Democratic party organ, concludes that “the Democrats are not dead yet.” But nothing has changed for President Obama. “For many Democratic candidates who will be sharing the ticket with Barack Obama in 2012,” quoth Politico, “the president is not going to be an asset. And in some states, it’s clear he is going to be a dead weight.”
These Democrats take comfort in two referendums, one in Ohio and another in Mississippi. In Ohio, a state with large and well-financed unions, voters repealed a reform law intended to curb unions’ abuse of workers, and in Mississippi voters overwhelmingly rejected the so-called “Personhood Amendment,” which would have effectively prohibited all abortions anywhere in the state. The amendment was supported, at least tacitly, by nearly every elected official in the state, Democrat and Republican, black and white.
However, Gov. John Kasich, who opposed repeal of the union-reform law in Ohio, remains popular with Republicans, and in Mississippi, Phil Bryant, the Republican, was elected governor in a landslide. Results were similarly mixed on election day across the nation.
The most telling phenomenon this year is the rise and improbable survival of Herman Cain, and what it says about the cheerful goodwill of an oft-maligned American public often accused by liberals of racism, bigotry, indifference, nativism and maybe even mopery. He has done almost everything wrong, as conventional politics is played. He offered conflicting details of his recollections of the allegations against him, and continued to rise in the public-opinion polls in the face of relentless mainstream-media coverage, which has taken everything said against him as gospel and treated his defense as improbable and even a little wicked. He blamed his Republican rivals for leaking misleading accounts of things that happened more than a decade ago. He blamed hacks of the press, who deserve it, but such criticism always sounds like whining. “I am not a creep,” even when true, sounds too much like “I am not a crook.” The checkered history and motives of the anonymous accusers were left unexamined by indifferent editors and lazy reporters posing as gallants and gentlemen.
Still, he has so far escaped the toaster, even when his Republican rivals began to think it was safe to start piling on. Mitt Romney, discreet at first, hinted that it was time for Mr. Cain to come clean. Newt Gingrich, ever the professor unable to stifle a runaway mouth, lectured his “good friend” that he has to “have an answer [to all the questions] and it better be accurate because if it’s not accurate it won’t stand.” You might think that the professor, with the history of emotional abuse of several wives, would have avoided the subject of the sins of others.
The real story here is that racial politics is dead, if the left will allow it. You might think that the prospect, unlikely as it still may be, of a black challenger, nominated by a white conservative party, against a black incumbent president, would be an occasion for cheers, or at least applause. Here’s evidence that the bad old days are swiftly fading into the past. But Mr. Cain is the wrong kind of black man. Some Democrats sneer that the Republicans only found a black man who “knows his place,” employing an insult from an earlier time and place.
The emergence of Mr. Cain as a credible conservative candidate undercuts the liberal canard that the Republican Party is a hopelessly racist party. That was the sub-text of the Democratic campaign four years ago and reprising that for 2012 was nearly all the hope Barack Obama had. Herman Cain’s escape from the toaster, even if temporary, changed that.
The reason is obvious...Cain’s supposed transgressions wouldn’t amount to one minute in the life of Dead Ted or Bubba.
The media has clearly drawn line for sexual conduct standards...and that line is around one light year below where Cain would be - even if the allegations were true.
And - given the ignorant sluts that are both accuser and attorney - I don’t give any more credibility to those multiple accusations than I do to Dan Rather.
born December 13, 1945 in Memphis, TN (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Luther Cain Jr., born March 16, 1925 in TN, died March 29, 1982 in Atlanta, GA
Lenora Davis, born July 27, 1925 in GA, died August 20, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Herman Cain is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Click on the cane, (America is Ready.)
I think the voting public has grown tired of the liberal ranting by the mainstream media. It’s always the same tired message, all conservatives are bad, liberals are good. The people just aren’t buying it anymore.
While I expect no politician to now the answer to everything.
He better brush up on his delivery of how and what he would have done different. He may not know all the answer but he sure as he11 should know how he would proceed and the things he would be looking for in his decision making.
Cain/Gingrich 2012
But Mr. Cain is the wrong kind of black man. Some Democrats sneer that the Republicans only found a black man who “knows his place,”
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Yes Herman Cain knows that his place is in the Whire House...
White House
It remains to be seen if any real support has been lost, those people in Iowa are like a flag on a flag pole, they flap in the breeze a lot. When they figure out newt is a moderate like willard, they will flap in another direction.
He’s a decent guy and I don’t think the sex thing is hurting him that much....it’s the lack of understanding of some pretty rudimentary foreign policy facts. I don’t think he is out but he needs to bone up a little and stop making these gaffes.
The only real negative I’ve racked up for him is that painful Libya response. But I’ve seen stuff like that from all the candidates, and in spades from Obama.
I think Iowa is still in Cain’s column. The more people Cain can meet, the more hi support will grow. I think his bodyguard’s statement put it very well. The Cain you see is the Cain you get. He’s the same off camera as he is on camera. He’s genuine.
They know pretty everything about Newt Gingrich and they have decided he is looking pretty good. Now you might not agree and that’s your right but they aren’t going to change their mind because they suddenly realize they didn’t know who Newt Gingrich is.
“Whire House”
Man, you JUST missed a Freudian slip by one vowel!
(Just kidding ...I know you corrected it ...and I’m a Cain supporter!)
That’s a good metaphor.
quote-I think the voting public has grown tired of the liberal ranting by the mainstream media. It’s always the same tired message, all conservatives are bad, liberals are good. The people just aren’t buying it anymore.—end quote
SmileRight, you hit the nail on the head. The lamestream media ALWAYS calls anyone who doesn’t agree with them “stupid”. No originality whatsoever, BTW!! And I also agree that the voting public is getting tired of it.
Even some of the people I know who rely on the lamestream media for their information are noticing it, and are getting fed up with the constant cries of “He/She is just sooo stupid”!
I know I’m setting myself up for the flames, but what the hell...
Cain’s surge seemed to be fueled by conservatives pushing back on the media—it wasn’t about him, it was about them (the MSM).
Now that he’s not under fire constantly, and he’s left to talk about foreign policy and such, it looks like his numbers are falling again. While I like the guy, that’s not enough to get my vote.
I’m starting to wonder just who was behind the attacks, since when left on his own, he doesn’t seem to be a threat to Romney.
The media smear machine is now attacking Newt Gingrich, and will only attack Newt more intensely until he falls precipitously in the polls.
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