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Herman Cain is Reckless and Arrogant
Rick Perry Report ^ | Nov 1, 2011 | Joe Hyde

Posted on 11/01/2011 7:53:42 PM PDT by bullypulpit

Rick Perry Report

If you read between the lines of the various news reports about the Cain operation, the picture becomes clearer to me every day. The latest dust up about the sexual harassment of employees confirms it.

Leading up to the sex scandal, we had the clues. Now I know it to be so, that Herman Cain is an ass, and he's reckless.

The first clue came just after Cain placed poorly in the Iowa straw polls. We heard from disgruntled former Cain staffers:

Jim Zeiler, the regional field director who was one of the five disgruntled staffers who left, explained his decision with a devastating assessment of Cain, saying the candidate was more interested in jet-setting than running a campaign that incorporates traditional grass-roots techniques.

"He’s not inquisitive. He wants to be in front of the adoring crowds, but he doesn’t seem to be interested in the issues," said Zeiler, a former regional field director for Cain’s campaign.

(Source: Politico, "Cain's campaign crash continues at Ames")

Mr. Zeiler was a disgruntled former staffer. This kind of tripe is expected in today's coarse society. No one gets asked to leave, or quits in anger, without throwing the former boss under the bus. If you've ever employed people, you know this. A good friend of mine, an employer in the retail industry, told me that his strategy when interviewing potential new hires is to ask himself "How long will it be before this person screws me," not if he/she will screw me. The "screw" is inevitable.

So, it's easy to dismiss this accusation as the disgruntled ex-employee getting his last jab. The "screw."

Since Cain staffer Jim Zeiler has left, however, we have seen how Herman Cain isn't very sharp on the issues. He certainly isn’t 'presidential material smart.' I only posted five gaffes here. I have 10-20 more. Electric fences, anyone? Do you think he's serious about learning the issues? I don't. My radar was still searching, though.

Next, we hear that Herman Cain doesn't want staffers to speak to him unless those staffers are spoken to them by Cain first. Apparently this rule is enforced when staffers are chauffeuring the candidate around. The New York Times sources that accusation from an intercepted email in the reporter's hands that originated from campaign leadership. Was it from "The Smoking Man"?

For goodness sake, the poor drivers for Cain are probably star-struck young interns or volunteers. Do barely paid, or volunteer campaign workers deserve to be treated that way?

To be fair, Cain explained that he does tell people driving him to shut up when he's preparing for a speech. In this Right Scoop video, he's all chuckles about it. I thought that it was reasonable. Maybe. My radar was honing in, though.

I re-read the Times article tonight, in light of the sex scandal. The article details more arrogant behavior.

  1. Two staffers said they were asked by Cain's campaign to sign non-disclosure statements. What?
  2. Despite having a skeleton staff, Cain spent no time organizing with them, or communicating with them (was he too good for them?)
  3. Campaign staff expressed disillusionment over Cain's preference to promote his book instead of tend to basic campaign tactics. Once again, a problem of communication with his skeleton campaign staff.
  4. Lack of commitment to campaign workers. It costs nothing to procure email addresses for campaign staff. Cain wouldn't do that. What kind of team building is that? Apparently Cain didn't want to communicate; he refused to supply nearly free email addresses from which he could communicate with staff. Maybe he thought the people on his staff were throwaways, and insignificant to him?

  5. Then, there is the witness of supporter Bill Hemrick, who organized a campaign meet-and-greet for potential donors, all eligible to give the Cain campaign the maximum $2500 gift. Cain didn't bother to show up, and,
  6. After courting Hemrick to join his campaign, Cain completely dismissed him, after Cain embarrassed this potential supporter by ignoring his meet and greet. He learned that he'd been passed over for the position in the campaign from a newspaper report.
  7. At the Iowa Faith and Freedom forum, Cain barricaded himself in his tour bus before and after, failing to work the crowd like his opponents did. Cain apparently has a rock star attitude.

Does this sound like someone who should be leading in the GOP nomination polls?

After all of the staff revelations, we now have the sex scandal. Viewing the scandal in a vacuum, it's easy to run to Cain's defense. My initial reaction was that this was Clearance Thomas 2.0, and we cannot let this stand. This is Herman Cain, a conservative black man deserving of our support against the evil marauders in the mainstream media.

However, when viewed through the prism of earlier reports of Cain's egomaniacal behavior, the sex scandal makes perfect sense. My radar locked on.

Cain is arrogant and reckless. He mistreats people working for him. Why would not Cain's penchant for employee mistreatment also include sexual harassment? This is especially true of the powerful, arrogant CEO versus the weak, insignificant female employees.

What is more, regardless of Cain's waffling denials of the sex scandal's ingredients, there are not one, but two incidents. One would think that a powerful, calculating CEO would figure out what went wrong the first time, and avoid a second accusation.

Two accusations reinforces my point, that Cain is arrogant and reckless. He doesn't believe the rules apply to him. Why not invite a young employee to his hotel room?

Radar locked. Fox One!

Herman Cain is not ready to be our Republican standard bearer.

Read more at The Rick Perry Report



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To: bullypulpit
This is silly. He was at cpac fl and the Florida presidency 5 debate and worked every gathering large and small. No one connected with the individual attendees even 10% of what he did. These accusations are absurd.

As far as this ‘scandal’ countless people are on record saying this hot job is ridiculous and not how he behaved, and it is becoming more and more obvious that this was a disgruntled employee who got a minimal payoff much cheaper than litigation would have cost. There is no there there.

If perry folks want perry to win, they need to focus on their guy, not the others. I had high hopes for perry, but he withered on the big stage. It will take a huge turn around on his part to win this race, not supporters tearing down conservatives.

21 posted on 11/01/2011 8:06:19 PM PDT by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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To: PhiloBedo
It was Romney that did that. Former President of National Restaurant Association has Ties to the Mitt Romney Campaign
22 posted on 11/01/2011 8:06:40 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: BobL
The one person who’s DEFINED “Reckless and Arrogant” is Perry, and we’re still PO’d with his Heartless comment, and his attitude that HE KNOWS BETTER than 75% of AMERICANS and therefore we should coddle Illegals, and likely give them Amnesty, if he ever got into office.

Amen to that. Perry is the arrogant ass, with a brain the size of a pea. Obama could debate him asleep. Pathetic.

23 posted on 11/01/2011 8:07:20 PM PDT by montag813
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To: bullypulpit

Wondering what the sex scandal is...have only heard that any claims made over 12 years ago were the subject of confidentiality agreements, so the fact that they are out in the public means that someone is either making it up or they have violated the agreement.

Maybe the author could fill in some details.


24 posted on 11/01/2011 8:07:57 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota (Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)
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To: bullypulpit

Rick who? Oh that guy who is polling in 4th or 5th place? Was he the Governor of Utah?


25 posted on 11/01/2011 8:08:07 PM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: BobL
Herman Cain is Reckless and Arrogant

Obviously so true because that's how a poor southern black man, whose family had nothing, makes it to the top of the corporate ladder: by being "reckless and arrogant"

Does this sound like someone who should be leading in the GOP nomination polls?

Should he be leading the '(Beltway-establishment) GOP'? NO. Obviously Cain should just fade away because he can't tow the establishment line.

/SARC

They just can't wrap their establishment RINO brains around the fact that this 'incredible' scandal isn't killing Herman Cain's campaign.

Well, killing it YET. The general public is S.T.U.P.I.D. if they start trotting out all kinds of made-up victims it could sink him, but we'll just have to wait and see.
26 posted on 11/01/2011 8:08:08 PM PDT by brent13a (Freerepublic is a great sight for conservative news, if you can stomach the cop hating.)
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To: bullypulpit

Perry just shot himself in the foot with this attack. I’m really beginning to dislike Perry and this isn’t helping his cause at all.


27 posted on 11/01/2011 8:08:25 PM PDT by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: bullypulpit
I only posted five gaffes here. I have 10-20 more. Electric fences, anyone?

Ok by me, but I'm more of an alligator/moat type of guy. Plus a brick wall from Tijuana to El Paso, using illegals as slave labor to build it before unceremoniously dumping them over on the other side. Admittedly "heartless", but what the hell.

28 posted on 11/01/2011 8:08:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: bullypulpit
It's about time someone on Free Republic has the gonads to tell it like it is.

OK I'll start. Today I put my first Cain 2012 bumper sticker on my vehicle. I was surprized how genuinely proud I am to have it there, and think you should probably go make marshmallow smores. You know, be useful. Feed somebody or something, attacking conservatives won't go very far here.

29 posted on 11/01/2011 8:09:15 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America First)
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To: bullypulpit

Wow, what a heartless article.


30 posted on 11/01/2011 8:09:15 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Deefintely not a weather balloon.)
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To: bullypulpit

There are more coming down the tubes on Cain...so his supporters better be prepared.


31 posted on 11/01/2011 8:09:54 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: bullypulpit
Then, there is the witness of supporter Bill Hemrick, who organized a campaign meet-and-greet for potential donors, all eligible to give the Cain campaign the maximum $2500 gift. Cain didn't bother to show up, and, After courting Hemrick to join his campaign, Cain completely dismissed him, after Cain embarrassed this potential supporter by ignoring his meet and greet. He learned that he'd been passed over for the position in the campaign from a newspaper report.

No one likes to be passed over for a job. But someone always is. Usually many people are. Using their sour grapes as "EVIDENCE" is just silly and amateurish. And btw, going to a meet-and-greet for a handful of people likely to give you $1000 a piece is simply not worth Cain's time at this stage. Cain raised $650,000 online since Monday morning. Get it?

32 posted on 11/01/2011 8:10:11 PM PDT by montag813
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To: bullypulpit

If open borders Perry believes that accusations made decades ago should pull Cain down to his level in the eyes of the voters then I’ll tell you what;

Let the two of them prepare their positions for three days and debate them before the public.

I’ll watch the show.


33 posted on 11/01/2011 8:10:35 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: mylife

It truly breaks my heart to see rick perry divide the populace of the great state of Texas.

I really thought Texas was on the right track.


34 posted on 11/01/2011 8:10:57 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Hang in there Herman, conservatives love you!)
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To: bullypulpit
It must be the "Dirty Tricks" of Karl Rove.

35 posted on 11/01/2011 8:10:59 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: ilgipper
He is heads and above everyone in the race but possibly newt."

Slowly and precisely Newt is coming along.

36 posted on 11/01/2011 8:11:47 PM PDT by Spunky (Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
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To: Ingtar

He Made ONE heartless comment that I disagree with.

All the rest of it has been fine with me.
10th amendment rights, limited Federal Gov,Independent energy, cheap energy, jobs,strong border,strong America,Lower taxes on business.......


37 posted on 11/01/2011 8:12:01 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: shield
There are more coming down the tubes on Cain...so his supporters better be prepared.

You're in on it, obviously.

38 posted on 11/01/2011 8:13:05 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: bullypulpit
Cain campaign launches internal investigation
39 posted on 11/01/2011 8:13:20 PM PDT by smoothsailing (FUMR-FUBO)
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To: Lakeshark

Well, Mr Cain seems to be searching for legal legs at the moment.


40 posted on 11/01/2011 8:13:20 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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