[9YearLurker]

This is so lame. If Gingrich had Cain’s poll numbers and Politico got wind of his being the cause for two sexual harassment settlements they’d have pounced just as well.

Clarence Thomas? Yes, that was race based. But this? This is what was out there, not something that Politico specifically targeted because of Cain’s race.

The race card is no more becoming on our side than it is when flashed by the other team.

[miss marmelstein]

I think you are naive. In the 1980s-90s, I worked for one of the most liberal think tanks in the country (it's what turned me conservative). Highly politicized libs think VERY little of most blacks - rich, poor, Democrat or Republican. They thought of them as stupid but good athletes - and dancers! as I heard one big lib (my boss) say. While I never heard them say the old trope about black men being sexually rapacious, I'm sure they thought it.