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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

Hello, Perrybot. At least Cain’s not an open borders guy.

This is a smear and it borders on racism. It shows how desperate you and your candidate are getting. But RINOs are like that.


301 posted on 11/01/2011 10:18:55 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: mylife

I don’t believe in Affirmative Action. They want to be equal? They’d better accept the consequences.


302 posted on 11/01/2011 10:19:47 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Allegra
Paul is beating Perry in the loony UTA poll ☺
303 posted on 11/01/2011 10:20:09 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Lakeshark

Could be, but that’s why I want to see all the facts. What if the women are right?


304 posted on 11/01/2011 10:20:20 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul
I don't think he is lying at all. His life and history BE-lie your summation. You really should take care in how you malign a good man based on stories put out by the new American Pravda Press. You have decided to place a good man (which also tortures his family and loved ones) in limbo whilst the rats in the press decide how they shall sort it out. Shame on you and on others here who claim to be conservatives.

How do you like it if I say I think you are a liar based on nothing more than your posts on this forum? Not a great feeling is it? Imagine if this were in a public forum and your personal life, family and livelihood were at stake... even worse...isn't it?

305 posted on 11/01/2011 10:20:39 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: bullypulpit

What’s Perry paying you?


306 posted on 11/01/2011 10:20:43 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: txrangerette
I know, his NH speech was funny.

Anyway, gotta work tomorrow.

Nighty night, all.

307 posted on 11/01/2011 10:21:13 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: magritte

Hatchet job on Perry? There was none, as far as I know.


308 posted on 11/01/2011 10:21:18 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: bullypulpit

How long does it take you to assume an upright position?


309 posted on 11/01/2011 10:21:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: smoothsailing

That was exactly the right thing to do.


310 posted on 11/01/2011 10:21:43 PM PDT by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: TBP

Hey Chum. Perry is not for open borders.

We live on the border and know the truth.


311 posted on 11/01/2011 10:21:46 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TBP; bullypulpit

How on earth does this border on racism?

Now, I’ll say something you won’t like: Cain voted for the first black President (that was the name given to Clinton by all the liberals):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801221/posts


312 posted on 11/01/2011 10:22:09 PM PDT by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: Reagan Man
And that is my biggest concern with Cain. No governing or legislative record to judge him on and not much direct political experience to speak of.

I don't know if you've noticed, probably not, but having more professional politicians going to Washington, it's not exactly working out for us. It seems like the more we send to Washington, the worse off things are. But what do I know, we should look through photos of Tea Party rallies, I'm sure there are tons of signs that say "WE NEED MORE PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON" and "THE SOLUTION IS TO ALWAYS SEND MORE CAREER POLITICIANS TO WASHINGTON".

But you're right about the anti-Perry opposition forces. They've been swift and relentless with their endless gratuitous attacks on the Texas Governor. Bunch of juvenile delinquents if you ask me.

Do you remember the pro-Perry supporters who were pushing the bullshit about how if you don't support Perry, you're supporting Romney? I do. You talk about a relentless bunch, and juvenile delinquents doesn't even begin to describe them. Those people got even more relentless when Perry started dropping in the polls.

The way things stand, anybody but Romney is good at this point - there are 3-4 non-Romney candidates that any of us should be able to get behind - Bachmann, Cain, Perry, even Gingrich, for starters.
313 posted on 11/01/2011 10:22:49 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: buccaneer81; Religion Moderator

Our Religion Moderator is also an Admin Moderator. Was an Admin Moderator before volunteering to take on the RM duties after our original RM retired from FR several years ago. We just happened to be blessed with two of the very best religion moderators on God’s creation.


314 posted on 11/01/2011 10:23:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: hocndoc

And your boy worked for Al Gore.


316 posted on 11/01/2011 10:23:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: TBP

Cain has reverted to Perry’s exact position on the border.


317 posted on 11/01/2011 10:23:56 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Jim Robinson

Understood. Thanks for the heads-up.


318 posted on 11/01/2011 10:24:52 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: fightinJAG
Since we're throwing out theories, I have one that's just as good as yours. The HR official, seeing the coming firestorm, did not want to get dragged into the fray, and endure the expense of hiring a lawyer. HR people are very risk averse creatures. On the other hand, in The National Journal yesterday, it appears that some of the bolder higher ups were willing to assess Cain's performance at the NRA, if given anonymity:

But there was more. Several weeks ago, word started circulating that Cain’s business record was not quite as impressive as he claims, specifically as it relates to his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. Some of his peers privately said that they were astonished at how he was being portrayed. They said that his less than three-year tenure (rather brief in the Washington trade-association world) was rocky and that the restaurant folks couldn’t get rid of him soon enough—possibly because of sexual-harassment allegations. They said it took some time to get the association back on sound financial footing after he left. Some who worked with Cain said that he spent considerable time running around the country giving speeches and that he was a policy lightweight, both internally and externally. But they hesitated to be more specific.

(Source: National Journal (in new window)


319 posted on 11/01/2011 10:25:07 PM PDT by bullypulpit (Developer of http://rickperryreport.com/)
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To: mylife

Wrong.


320 posted on 11/01/2011 10:25:41 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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