Posted on 11/02/2011 8:23:04 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
I am open to other candidates who might enter late, but both Romney and Perry are on my vote write in if nominated list.
Cain seems to be weathering this well.
You think Bush handled the media right?
Really?
No. I mean. Really?
I said handling a crisis. If you think he bungled 911, then I don’t know what to tell you.
"It was very uncomfortable," said the pollster,
Just what I thought. You can supply of full quote from Wilson saying that he was present.
You’re right on that.
But the media ate him for lunch, every other time, on every other issue.
Because he chose not to respond. That was a big mistake. Our side doesn’t seem to have learned from that, except for Palin, and now Cain. Those two seem to relish pushing back.
Which is why the left is afraid of them.
If this drags on and Herman Cain falters in his bid for the GOP nomination, I think the majority of his supporters will turn to Newt. I think that Newt is the closet thing to Herman Cain in the field. I dunno.... just sayin’ . I hope Herman survives and comes out of this stronger than ever.
Guessing, deflecting.
Your flailing again. We have one year to go. Cain is no distance runner and has a past in the corporate world with women, which has resulted in permanently putting his butt in some dark hole doing a radio show. Now do you have the brains to wonder why? Cain fell apart in the pizza bread and Pillsbury dough career and turned flakey. We are seeing why he had to leave it and take up flaking a radio show in a padded room. The guy is suspicious. Eventually he folds, or it comes out something is going on with him.
Rick will be the train at the station, on time, in the end.
I don’t think Romney “escapes clean” from this. I think if Cain and Perry end up destroying each other’s campaign, the likely candidate to pick up their support wouldn’t be Romney. I’m thinking Newt; maybe Bachmann or Santorum.
I have to agree with Sullivan on this. Frankly, it was very disappointing to see Cain first charging Steve Anderson, then his campaign charging Wilson, when no one knows for sure who leaked the story originally.
If the story was as well known as Wilson says, and apparently it was, the ‘source’ could have been any of dozens of people. I was told 2 weeks ago that some ‘stuff’ about Cain was going to come out, and that by someone with only tertiary connections to the NRA. So if that person knew, there were already dozens of people in DC who were aware of this. Could have been a Republican or a Democrat.
Cain is learning the hard way that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. But HE should not be hurling unfounded accusations.
Chris Wilson who is claiming he was present when Cain was over the top sexually harassing someone is a Perry Pollster.
link to American Spectator just one of many links now that confirm Wilson is a Perry Pollster:
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/11/02/perry-pollster-linked-to-cain
“And what is Mr. Wilson doing now?
He is polling for a client named Governor Rick Perry.
Doubtless developing.”
..... people think Rick Perry was drunk when he made that bizarre speech in New Hampshire the other night.”
Well that’s another thing. Does ole Herb jog? Rick Perry jogs. I have never seen Rick take a drink. Maybe he does, but it sure as heck never got him tied up with a sexual harrassment scandal that cost anybody $35,000, with two other women coming out with complaints. And Rick Perry was not stuck in corporate world, but out front for ten years. Forget it. Rick was drunk with enthusiasm and had a blast in the NH appearance. The standing ovation at the end of his speech was not for his chug a lug ability.
Depends what you mean. He didn’t deny adding it to the required list, but he accurately noted that the plan included a no-fault opt-out clause, which required only that the parent fill out a form online that takes 30 seconds, and then checks off a box on the paperwork the state sends to them pre-printed with all the other information, and signs it and takes it to school the first day with their student.
So it wasn’t “mandatory”. It was “required”, but with an opt-out for any reason, making it optional at the choice of the parent.
You need to lay off the coffee. Have you ever seen a Perry interview? Watch Hannity tonight. Perry has a very shallow mind. He took a long time deciding to run for president cause he had to learn to spell it without a “z”.
Obumo is not very intelligent but he’s gonna make Perry look like he just fell off the turnip truck.
Cain has the creds to blow holes through Obumo’s socialist venier and do it with class.
I think Cain should have just said “so what” and dropped it. With all the important issues to debate, who gives a crap about a decades old incident - one that occurs frequently in our PC sensitized litigionous culture.
And really - white wine at breakfast is that big a deal to you? Ya know, there was a day when champagne breakfasts, bloody mary’s in the airport, and 3 martini lunches were du jour. That was in the good ol’ days when Type A personalities got together and built successful companies.
If that’s what we can expect from Cain, I say bring it on!
That is an excellent response, and kind of mirrors a response I gave earlier as an example of what Perry should have done with the original charges.
This whole thing has been hilariously sad, because the charges themselves are meaningless. Cain could have said “Two women in the 90s misconstrued something I said or did, and felt they were harassed. An independent investigation found no wrongdoing, and the women were offered and took a payment with severance. Out of deference to the privacy of these women, I will not discuss details, and so long as the women remain anonymous, I will not discuss details. Instead, I will continue to focus on how to fix this country’s real problems.”
And that would be that. Instead, we are at the third day, and despite the concerted effort of every conservative talk show host, and untold hours of breathless typing by supporters on blogs, Cain still has not gotten hold of the story, and instead is now throwing around false attacks on other candidates, and getting into fights with the media.
Yes Block is the “smoking man.”
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