Posted on 11/01/2011 7:53:42 PM PDT by bullypulpit
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.
"Hes not inquisitive. He wants to be in front of the adoring crowds, but he doesnt seem to be interested in the issues," said Zeiler, a former regional field director for Cains 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 isnt '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.
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.
By the way, unlike the Cain staffers trolling Free Republic, I am real. Joe Hyde on LinkedIn.
See if any Cain staffer will put their name on a post here.
I know, it's unproductive to sit around and wait until hell freezes over.
Much ado about nothing, really.
Illegal lover? is that the same as a sexual harasser?
And explain to me how Perry is a racist AND and Illegal Lover?
He’s a xenophobe and a racist according to some.
Hard to say. Who was Clinton’s VP??
I’m not talking about this thread. This thread is fun. And it started with an really mean and nasty attack on Cain which was awful but which I admitted enjoying.
I’m talking about Perry threads wherein someone posts a link to a Perry speech or statement ... usually something great that Perry said or did, and then the vultures attack.
If you haven’t been there, don’t judge those of us who’ve had to suffer the abuse. Fortunately, we still seem to be standing.
“This is a non-serious forum full of non-serious Cain supporters ...” Then just go away, stinky.
The bottom line is that Mr Cain was aware of this for 20 years and took over 24 hours to even start responding.
He got soft balls for two more days and here we are.
Did anyone see Herman on Bret’s panel and BOR tonight? I found his answers to be somewhat vague and hard to understand. When Ted Baxter asked why he didn’t get a campaign rapid response team going on answers for the possible exposure of this scandal, did he say they didn’t have time?
For instance, when one of the panelists(forgot her name) asked him about whether he was pro abortion in cases of rape and incest, he said no, absolutely not.
But then he again said that the woman and her family could choose in “extraordinary” circumstances..but was unable to give an example of what that would be.
Bret, Krauthammer, the rest of them looked uncomfortable. Kraut was leaning away from Cain. Tanya(body lang. expert): where are you when we need you?
That wasn't my intent. And I have no clue what you are feeling inside or what you have been through. I wanted to let you know that despite our different points of view that I respect you and your service to our country. Unfortunately the tactics that work so well on bombing runs are not necessarily as successful at winning people over to your point of view. Attempting to destroy every candidate other than your own might even be counterproductive.
Perry has exposed himself, but you want to cover it with lies about Cain.
I am itching for the purge of you idiots.
Hah! mid-nineties? How far back do you people go in calling Rick Perry a democrat.
I think Cain is a good man and conservative socially. The abortion fiasco seems to have died down and well it should, but I still wonder how conservative he would be regarding entitlement and such issues involving blacks.
After all, he sat in the amen corner of that church for years where they preached affirmative action.
AMEN
Well the reason I don’t know about the history on those Perry threads, is that I don’t read them.
Last time I went deliberately onto a Perry thread I think, Palin was still in the running. Somewhere around the time of her speech at Indianola, when she spend an hour after the speech milling with her supporters, and it was all covered on CSPAN.
Funny thing is, what you’re saying here about Cain supporters, is almost exactly what was being complained about then, about Palin supporters.
:D
Proof?
Not a lot of people seem to be offended by the hatchet job that has been done on Perry
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we were disgusted by the attacks on Perry....I truly think zero is afraid of him...and karl rove as well.
That you choose to mischaracterize something like that says more about what a dead soul operative you are, and frankly, I don't believe Rick Perry would appreciate your filthy innuendos. I don't think Jim Robinson would either and that's why I pinged him. You stink, buddy. You stink of sulfur
Despite all the innuendos and allegations made against Perry, they cant bring any sexual harassment scandals against him. Perry never used his CEO status to sexually harass anyone, and if anything was in his past we wouldve learned of it by now. A few months ago, Michael Moore offered $1 million to any woman who would come forward with details about having bedded Perry or had an affair with him.
The victim in the Cain case is going to come forward, and sooner or later we will hear from her. She is trying to get a release from the confidentiality clause which under the settlement agreement obligates her to remain silent. Yet, Cain has gone from network to network changing his story, but also badmouthing this woman as a gold digger who wanted a huge amount of money for something he never did, or at worst for something as innocuous as comparing her height to his wifes height. Such profoundly stupid statement insults my intelligence. There is no sexual harassment in comparing someones height to another person's height. I found that not only to be patronizing but utterly unbelievable. Perhaps it is the kind of comment that his followers will offer as 'facts' since they cling to every word he utters.
I want to hear the other side of the story, and I am sure most Americans want to hear it as well.
It is illogical to suggest that these women went after Cain some 15 years ago for political reasons when no one knew at the time that Cain would one day run for political office. Im interested in finding out if Cain, as the CEO of a big company, exercised his power over subordinate female employees in an unlawful way.
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