Posted on 11/08/2011 1:21:28 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Newt Gingrich, who has stayed out of commenting directly on the sexual harassment allegations facing Herman Cain, urged the businessman to respond to the claims against him and to make sure he’s accurate and forthcoming with the truth because he “owes the American people.”
“I think when you move from anonymity to a person standing up in that setting and saying something, so now there’s a real – there’s a person. It’s not just some anonymous tip. Clearly Herman Cain has to answer the charges . He has to explain what happened. He has to do so in a way that’s convincing, and I think that that’s unavoidable,” Gingrich said in an ABC News/Yahoo interview today. “I think he both owes her that but he also owes the American people that and I hope he can do it well. He’s a good friend, and I hope he has an answer that satisfies people he has to have an answer and it better be accurate because if it’s not accurate it won’t stand.”
Gingrich has experienced a recent rise in the polls, placing fourth with 12 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last Friday. The former speaker of the House acknowledged Romney will make it to the final two in the race for the GOP nomination, but Gingrich said his eye isn’t on the Massachusetts governor but instead he’s focusing on snatching the undecided voters.
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We’re watching the DVRd press conference right now. He’s great! Love it that he’s taking it to the MSM about harassing his family with questions. Hubby just noted that when he’s talking seriously, he sounds very Presidential!
Not charges . . . allegations.
These women have less credibility than a backfence gossip.
And Newt's right: Cain needs to be clear and believable.
Lately I'm not finding Cain to be either.
So when did a "charge" equate to a "conviction"??? Anyone can take a bribe to get up in front of a mike, and hundreds of salivating reporters, and say that Herman Cain drowned kittens, but that doesn’t make it true.
Why are so many of you so eager to believe this media smear? I’m beginning to think that there is still closet racism in America. Anyone who worked through the ‘90s knows that sexual harassment charges were as common as traffic tickets, and were based on anything from opening a door to looking over a woman’s shoulder to observe their work. Any father who went through a divorce in the last 30 years of the 20th Century knows that he is automatically assumed to be a wife and child beater, only deserving of two hours a month visitation, and forced to live in poverty due to the child support payments, while the ex moves in with her new boyfriend. Are you all blind to the feminization of America and diminution of the importance of fathers, and men in general, in our society?
If this obvious high tech lynching can succeed with so-called conservatives here on FR, then our country is really lost!
Did you see his press conference? He was fantastic. And no, I am not a Cain supporter...
Mr. Cain did just that today, and masterfully, in my opinion!
Oh, what? You're getting *PAID* to post here, C.W.?
Then you'll just have to negotiate over price...
Is it per post or per vote?
Cheers!
That’s not what she says.
Another report says “diagnosis of possible MS”. Whatever. She was ill.
Omigosh. Poor Newt. He’s gonna be thrown under the bus so fast he’ll never see it coming.
Just a couple of days ago, he was everybody’s kinda guy when he sat down with Herman and had a friendly chat.
Now, he’s heading back for his rightful place as the devil incarnate.
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