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Herman Cain does not have an automatic ticket to the Republican nomination. Nobody does. But Cain deserves to be heard like any other candidate, without being persecuted and witch-hunted by the mob media. Conservatives have stood by while two magnificent women candidates, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, were trashed, insulted, threatened, and verbally abused by leftist mudslingers over months and even years. Today, the radical leftist media expect to pick both candidates, Republicans and Democrats, and they will stop at almost nothing to get their way. This transforms American politics into a one party political machine. Mobocracy could injure the...

It’s Caingate Day 5, and we still don’t know what Herman Cain is supposed to have done wrong or who claimed he did it. Never have so many said so much about so little. Why is that? TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: “Since Politico first reported the existence of past sexual harassment accusations against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, that publication — along with every other that claims to have learned the identities of the women involved — has refused to publish them. Regardless of whether the allegations against Cain are true or false, or whether they land in some nether...

No one who followed politics 20 years ago will forget the night when Clarence Thomas sent an electric charge through a Senate hearing room. As liberal Democrats pushed the unproven sexual harassment charges of Anita Hill, in an attempt to destroy Thomas's chance to serve on the Supreme Court, Thomas called them out for conducting a national disgrace. "This is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves." This line packed a wallop because Hill's charges were about as proven as the old charges of perverted indecency against white women that were concocted...

A black conservative is snared in a brewing harassment scandal. Herman Cain’s settlements to avoid sexual harassment claims in the 1990s have caused conservatives to recall the confirmation fight of the other most notable black conservative – Clarence Thomas – who barely achieved confirmation 20 years ago last month. Thomas called his ordeal – accused of harassment by Anita Hill and impugned during perhaps the most bruising Senate confirmation hearings of recent memory by top Democrats like Sen. Edward Kennedy and now-Vice President Joe Biden – a “high tech lynching.” A political action committee that backs Herman Cain but is...

conservative black man from Georgia faces unproven allegations of sexual harassment as he rises to prominence. Sounds familiar to us older conservatives....but there is a generation out there who is wholly unfamiliar with the story. I urge us FREEPers to teach the kids we know about how this balderdash is really nothing new...just the same crap being doled out against someone who refuses to live on the Liberal Plantation.

Herman Cain was in the center of a firestorm, largely of his own making, yesterday. He knew before he entered the presidential race that he had a sexual harassment settlement in his past. He knew, ever since Politico started questioning his campaign, that a story was afoot. He knew he had to get the story out quickly and truthfully. And yet, by the end of the day, the business executive peddling his leadership skills and know-how looked somewhat like the hapless PBS executive who eventually got ousted for screwing up the Juan Williams firing. ... Iowans don’t need to believe...

Exclusive: Two women accused Cain of inappropriate behavior By: Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman and Anna Palmer and Kenneth P. Vogel October 30, 2011 08:00 PM EDT During Herman Cain’s tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO. The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave...

Pres. George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court on July 1, 1991. Four days later, the National Organization for Women (NOW) declared war.“We’re going to bork him,” vowed member Flo Kennedy. “We need to kill him politically.”To “bork,” according to William Safire’s Political Dictionary, is “to viciously attack a presidential nominee, blackening his name in an all-out effort to defeat his confirmation by the Senate.” The verb stems from the name of Pres. Ronald Reagan’s ill-fated nominee Robert Bork, whose confirmation the Senate rejected, 42–58, in 1987.By 1991, Republican presidents had appointed the last nine...

This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of Clarence Thomas’s swearing in on the United States Supreme Court. National Review Online asked some experts, including some former clerks for Thomas, to discuss his record. STEVEN CALABRESI Justice Thomas has had a huge impact on American law during his 20 years on the U.S. Supreme Court. He writes beautiful and well-researched opinions brimming with historical information. Justice Thomas is a consistent originalist who always follows the text of the Constitution wherever it leads. His opinions combine the textualism of Justice Hugo Black with a thorough discussion of the original meaning of the...

Herman Cain, a businessman who has recently ascended to the front of the Republican presidential field, named U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a model for the kind of judge he would appoint if elected. Cain, a former CEO of Godfather's Pizza who appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, told host David Gregory that Thomas, one of the more controversial justices of the nine sitting on the high court bench, is "one of my models." Thomas, a President George H.W. Bush appointee, has recently been dogged over his wife's work with a Tea Party group that fought...

Forty-six House Democrats have joined forces this week to ask the chamber's Judiciary Committee to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for ethics violations. The Democratic lawmakers' complaint argues that reports of Thomas' actions--including those related to the high-profile political activism of his wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas--have raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest. "Public records clearly demonstrate that Justice Thomas has failed to accurately disclose information concerning the income and employment status of his wife, as required by law," Democrats led by Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter (pdf) Wednesday to leaders of the...

Democratic ethics attack on Clarence Thomas backfiresHouse Democrats thought they had caught Supreme CourtJustice Clarence Thomas pulling a fast one. Last month, a group of 20 congressmen blasted the conservative jurist for making a simple mistake on his ethics disclosure forms. Summoning the highest possible level of feigned outrage, the members signed a letter demanding an investigation involving “possible criminal or civil legal sanctions.” They’re going to regret their hyperbole. Justice Thomas‘ lapse came to light in January when he filed an amendment to his annual financial disclosure forms noting that he had failed to mention his wife’s employment at...

Twenty House Democrats are demanding a judicial ethics investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just as the high court is poised to issue a ruling on the healthcare law that could make or break President Obama’s reelection. The lawmakers on Thursday asked the U.S. Judicial Conference to formally request that the Department of Justice look into Thomas’s failure to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars his wife has received from groups that want the healthcare law repealed. Their letter comes after 75 House Democrats in February asked Thomas to recuse himself from the case following reports that he’d failed...

What if Barack Obama served on the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas were president? What if some miracle — some “Freaky Friday” Disney moment — on January 20, 2009, the two most politically powerful black men in Washington switched jobs. What then? We know what Justice Obama would have become: Another mediocre liberal drone spitting out the predictably contradictory and vapid decisions that slowly corrode our rights and undermine our nation and our society. Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Breyer and Obama are an interchangeable lot. They want to hollow out our Constitution. But what kind of president would Clarence Thomas, a...

Obamacare and the Jurisprudence of Clarence ThomasLiberals acknowledge the threat he represents. In the glossy pages of The New Yorker, in graceful prose and with good reporting, the dreams and nightmares of the admirers of Barack Obama and his policies lie exposed. The dreams include Ryan Lizza’s report last April in which he quoted an Obama adviser as saying the president’s policy on Libya was “leading from behind.” This week, as Tripoli seemed about to fall, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, hailed Obama’s “calculated modesty.” The nightmare appears in last week’s issue, in Jeffrey Toobin’s lengthy article on Supreme Court...

In the glossy pages of the New Yorker, in graceful prose and with good reporting, the dreams and nightmares of the admirers of President Obama and his policies lay exposed. The dreams include Ryan Lizza's report last April in which he quoted an Obama adviser saying the president's policy on Libya was "leading from behind." This week, as Tripoli seemed about to fall, the magazine's editor David Remnick hailed Obama's "calculated modesty." The nightmare appeared in last week's issue, in Jeffrey Toobin's lengthy article on Supreme Court jurisprudence, titled "Partners" and subtitled "Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing...

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/29/110829fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all

Lord of the Rings aficionados know that the evil lord Sauron paid little attention to the danger posed by two hobbits slowly struggling across the mountains and deserts of Mordor until he suddenly realized that the ring on which all his power depended was about to be hurled into the pits of Mount Doom. All at once the enemy plan became clear; what looked like stupidity was revealed as genius, and Sauron understood everything just when it was too late to act. Jeffrey Toobin’s gripping, must-read profile of Clarence and Virginia Thomas in the New Yorker gives readers new insight...

For good reason, there has been serious hand-wringing over what to do about the ethical lapses of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The fact that Supreme Court justices are exempt from the code of ethical conduct which applies to the rest of the federal judiciary; the problem of bringing a sitting justice before the Congress to question the conduct of a constitutional co-equal; the reality that justices cannot easily defend themselves against news media charges; the defiant, in-your-face posture of Thomas—the list goes on but it need not. There is clear precedent for how to deal with the justice....

Who is the person LEAST QUALIFIED to lecture Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the subject of ethics? It would have to be that DUmmie fraudster best known for perpetrating the Karl Rove indictment hoax "scoop," known as WILLIAM RIVERS PITT. However, Pitt conveniently forgets his ethically challenged past as a fraudster as well as his history of posting violent fantasies to claim that Thomas is lacking in ethics as you can see in the Fraudster's THREAD, "Clarence Thomas Must Go - my argument." Yeah, and before you start lecturing Justice Thomas, how about if you MAN UP and...