Posted on 11/11/2011 10:56:59 AM PST by villagerjoel
Investigations into the background information of women lobbing charges at Herman Cain reveal a potential smear campaign that may result in a damaging backlash against democratic operatives...
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excellent point.
10 years ago this tactic would have worked in the first week.
It’s a modern world. The media and the est. politicians keep forgetting that.
According to Ann Coulter’s article on the same topic, it seems to have worked very well recently for Obama and his team:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47438
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2805774/posts
There is always someone to curry favor with the boss no matter how misdirected.
Another reason the Demonrats would want to attack Cain now: Once Cain is nominated, his rivals in the GOP will no longer have much motive for attacking him themselves. By attacking him now, they get at least veiled help from the rivals (notice how Mitt, Gingrich, et al. were lecturing Cain on how “these were serious allegations and he needed to get everything in the open ASAP?). Also, once he is the nominee, he will have access to more resources to fight the smears. Right now, he’s using his own funds.
The trouble with Axelrod’s death squads is that they’re a one-trick pony - sexual misconduct allegations. They’ve kept going to the well and now the well has run dry.
I was watching Ken Burns’ Prohibition, and this historian was talking about how if the drys had permitted reformation of the Volstead Act (which implemented the 18th Amendment of no likker), they could have kept much of what they wanted; but by adamantly refusing to give an inch, they created a nation of scofflaws (which we’re still dealing with to this day), and guaranteed that everything they’d worked for would come crashing down.
I think this bunch of progressivists is about to learn the same bitter lesson as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League. And Al Capone, for that matter.
Agreed. The RATS would have waited until after the convention when named our candidate. However, this was an early strike which smells highly of one of the other R candidates wanting him out before the primaries and clearing the field for themselves.
These people are not going away. They’re going to keep on going until he can’t stand any longer. If it’s not sexual harrassment charges, then it will be something else. Look what they did to Sarah Palin. They are unrelenting until they get what they want. And they want Cain out of the race.
Beyond that, picture the effect if those racist Republicans (or so the democrats claim) nominated a black man for president. That would fly directly in the face of one of the most oft-repeated democrat talking points.
It needs to be far more than that. Bush got 11% in 2004.
It makes perfect sense. The Obama camp is salivating at the thought of Romney being the GOP nominee. After Perry's implosion, all they needed to do was destroy Cain, and in their mindset, they would have the election settled a year early.
It makes perfect sense. The Obama camp is salivating at the thought of Romney being the GOP nominee. After Perry's implosion, all they needed to do was destroy Cain, and in their mindset, they would have the election settled a year early.
If they don’t expose smears from the DNC, this will backfire on Cain, big time. He will have overplayed his hand. That would be worse than a disaster, it would be a blunder.
Yes. See getitright post @ 44
You need help. Democrats are extremely stupid. Once you know their game, they are nothing but sad little pond scum.
Saul Alinsky has has been effectively Alinskyed.
I like it.
I'm not following the logic of the question but it was good for a laugh.
It makes perfect sense to me. The Dems are terrified of Cain because his nomination would take the race card right out of their hands. Further, they think Republicans are as racist as they. Throwing a few accusations around was supposed to knock Cain out of contention with no questions asked.
” and in their mindset, they would have the election settled a year “
I watched the CNN coverage (so shoot me - FNC wasn’t available to me at the time..) of the Iowa Caucuses in 1996 - the tone of their coverage all-but declared victory for Clinton on that day...
(And, of course, ‘we’ nominated Bob Dole, because “it was his turn”...)
>You need help. Democrats are extremely stupid.
Democrats in general, yes. Democratic operatives. I don’t think so.
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