Cain was the beneficiary of the support Perry lost when he torpedoed his own campaign. If Cain were gone Perry thinks he would get his support back.
This was pretty inevitable. It’s the way the Dems killed Newt Gingrich and nearly killed Clarence Thomas: unfounded charges where the mere charge is sufficient.
Cain likes Romney and had supported him in the past and probably wants to be his VP, so while this may be from the Romney camp, I doubt it. But I also doubt that this comes from the Perry camp, if only because there’d be no benefit.
I’d suspect it’s from the Dems, as usual, because it has been very effective for them in the past. What’s bizarre, of course, is that their guys can be involved in the most outrageous sexual and financial scandals, and everybody just shrugs. But even an implication that a GOPer may have looked cross-eyed at somebody seems to unleash the dogs of war.
Yikes! If Perry truly believes that, he is seriously deluded.