What didn’t happen? What was he supposed to admit to?
Cain was screwed no matter how he answered the question. If he had said that he knew them, it’s basically an admission that he had intercourse with them and had them bear his children, as far as politics goes. Even if he had only known their first name and nothing else.
Without context, the admission of knowing somebody means nothing. She said she sent him the texts. She didn’t say that she received any texts from him. Once the info on the texts is released, we’ll have a better basis for evaluating as to what happened.
I have a few women who text me all the time, I don’t send any suggestive texts. They are casual friendships. According to you, I can’t be a Republican unless I admit knowing these women and if I did admit knowing them, I can’t run because my admission of knowing them automatically means I’m sleeping with them. At least according to the Republican standard of accepted behaviour, as defined by many Freepers.
I swear, Jesus Christ himself could not run as a Republican, if you were to hold Him to this impossible standard.
Your Republic wouldn’t even have gotten off the ground if you were to hold the Founding Fathers to the same standard, I guarentee that.
He said the POLITICO story http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html "Herman Cain accused by two women of inappropriate behavior" was a hit piece with no truth in it. When the story broke his first response was that the story was false and that he was never accused of sexual harassment.
That was a lie. He was accused of sexual harassment at least twice while at the National Restaurant Association.
After those facts surfaced he said that 'yes he was accused of it, but it was investigated and found to be unfounded and no settlement was ever paid'.
That was a lie. There were at least two women who were paid settlements that amounted to a years salary for both of them.
Cain was screwed no matter how he answered the question. If he had said that he knew them, it’s basically an admission that he had intercourse with them and had them bear his children, as far as politics goes. Even if he had only known their first name and nothing else.
He should have told the truth when the story first broke. The truth being that he was accused by two women while he worked at the NRA and they were both paid a settlement by the NRA.
At that point he could have spun it however he wanted and would have been credible but instead he lied twice by the time all the facts came out so what he said after that was no longer believable.
Without context, the admission of knowing somebody means nothing. She said she sent him the texts. She didn’t say that she received any texts from him. Once the info on the texts is released, we’ll have a better basis for evaluating as to what happened.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/ginger-white-claims-affair-herman-cain-20111127-es Go to the link, you can watch the video or read the transcripts. Her cell phone bills show text and calls out going and incoming. The sex doesn't matter, what matters is that he hid it from his wife for 13 years, he has admitted that himself. It shows poor judgment for a man, who has at least twice been sued for sexual harassment, to engage in another relationship with a woman he met while working putting himself in a situation that could get him sued again. For the sake of the argument let's both say he never had sex with any of the women. That does not change the fact that he lied to the American people twice and did not have enough sense to avoid putting himself into a relationship that could hurt his wife, himself and his employer.
I have a few women who text me all the time, I don’t send any suggestive texts. They are casual friendships. According to you, I can’t be a Republican unless I admit knowing these women and if I did admit knowing them, I can’t run because my admission of knowing them automatically means I’m sleeping with them. At least according to the Republican standard of accepted behaviour, as defined by many Freepers.
Are you hiding it from your wife? Because if the answer is yes then I would question your judgment too and wouldn't vote for you either.
I swear, Jesus Christ himself could not run as a Republican, if you were to hold Him to this impossible standard.
My standard is not to lie to the American People and not to engage in secret relationships that are harmful to you, your family and people who trust you.
Your Republic wouldn’t even have gotten off the ground if you were to hold the Founding Fathers to the same standard, I guarentee that.
It was held to that standard, it worked out pretty damn good.