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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
Wow, you get all that from the fact that a woman whose complaint was investigated and found unsubstantiated wants to waive her confidentiality agreement so she can yammer on and maybe even lie about things that happened more than a decade ago — and, to repeat myself, which were already investigated, unsubstantiated, and she got a payoff to go away?

That's just weird.

BTW, what is that you like about Perry?

321 posted on 11/01/2011 10:25:51 PM PDT by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: fightinJAG

LOL... way to cut to the chase.


322 posted on 11/01/2011 10:27:00 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: buccaneer81

Not in 1992, and not Bill Clinton. There’s no comparison. We already knew about the women in 1992, we knew that Clinton was pro-abortion.


323 posted on 11/01/2011 10:27:01 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: mylife

Perry is against the fence and he’s for in-state tuition benefits for illegals. I’m sorry, but that’s an open-borders position. He’s a “path to citizenship” guy.


324 posted on 11/01/2011 10:27:11 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: NavyCanDo
Re: What’s Perry paying you?

Nothing. I'm paying him to run.

325 posted on 11/01/2011 10:28:00 PM PDT by bullypulpit (Developer of http://rickperryreport.com/)
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To: bullypulpit

LOL.

Pretty good answer.


326 posted on 11/01/2011 10:28:45 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America First)
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To: hocndoc

In 1988 your boy worked for Gore. Man up and admit your hypocrisy. You sound like a Ford supporter in 1976.


327 posted on 11/01/2011 10:28:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: TBP
I didn’t think racism was allowed at FR.

What part is racist?

328 posted on 11/01/2011 10:29:04 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: TBP

Apparently Mr Cain is no longer down with electric fences on the border that will kill and machine guns nests with 999 .999cal machine guns.

I know only Perry deserves scrutiny, but Cain is in this stuff deep.


329 posted on 11/01/2011 10:29:40 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bullypulpit

Oh, please. Hiring an independent counsel to look into allegations is not “ducking questions.”


330 posted on 11/01/2011 10:30:35 PM PDT by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: TBP

No, YOU are wrong. He has retracted from all that bluster.

With NO scrutiny.


331 posted on 11/01/2011 10:31:23 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bullypulpit
bullypulpit (Developer of http://rickperryreport.com/)

I bet you bragged about spending three years in third grade too. If I wrote that piece of trash I certainly would try to keep it a secret.

332 posted on 11/01/2011 10:31:34 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: mylife

He has said he was kidding about the electric fence (too bad), but he hasn’t retreated from supporting a fence.

You just can’t stand that a black man is doing better than your RINO candidate.


333 posted on 11/01/2011 10:33:09 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: buccaneer81

Newsflash! You know what, it’s all over my Web site that SUPPORTS Rick Perry, about that unfortunate period of Rick Perry and Al Gore.

And you wanna know what else? Ronald Reagan was a democrat.

But neither of these explain why Hermain the sexual harasser Cain supported Bill “Jennifer Flowers” Clinton in 1992. We are starting to see a pattern. Ya think?

I ruined your evening, didn’t I?


334 posted on 11/01/2011 10:33:47 PM PDT by bullypulpit (Developer of http://rickperryreport.com/)
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To: TBP; mylife
You just can’t stand that a black man is doing better than your RINO candidate.

You're the one sounding racist there, TBP.

335 posted on 11/01/2011 10:36:05 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: TBP

Hahaha! Just like he was kidding about the naggerhead rock and the sexual harassment claims.

I wanna like the guy but he is getting a pass.


336 posted on 11/01/2011 10:36:11 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

“Texas is on the right track.”

As late as 1980 70% of Texas were Anglos. By 2020 Hispanics will out number Anglos. By 2040 projections are that 70% of Texans will be Hispanic. In 15 years Anglos will be migrating from Texas to Michigan and Ohio looking for a better life

http://dallasfed.org/research/pubs/fotexas/fotexas_petersen.html


337 posted on 11/01/2011 10:38:53 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: bullypulpit
And you wanna know what else? Ronald Reagan was a democrat.

And you sound exactly like a Rockefeller Republican in 1975.

But neither of these explain why Hermain the sexual harasser Cain

So you have judged Cain guilty.

That says all we need to know about you.

338 posted on 11/01/2011 10:38:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: TBP

Soory, the credit on your race card is all used up. Try something else. ... And I doubt Herman would approve of such foolishness as you just tried.


339 posted on 11/01/2011 10:39:03 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Allegra

Sure, anyone who disagrees with you Perrybots MUST be a racist.

Go away, liberal.


340 posted on 11/01/2011 10:39:18 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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