Posted on 11/06/2011 7:58:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Fox News Sunday today, Bill Kristol threw cold water on Herman Cain‘s presidential candidacy, arguing that regardless of his popularity among conservative voters and whether or not his sexual harassment scandal will end up helping or hurting him, there was very little chance in the first place he was ever going to be the Republican nominee.
Chris Wallace brought up Cain’s contentious exchange with a reporter last night over the allegations over his sexual harassment controversy, and asked the panel if there was a connection between what Cain is currently going through and what Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced twenty years ago during his nomination process for the bench.
Kristol argued the cases were not the same at all, suggesting there may be more to go on in Cain’s case than there was with Thomas during the Anita Hill controversy. However, he then took the opportunity to completely dismiss the notion that Herman Cain ever had a chance of winning the Republican nomination.
“He’s not going to be the nominee, if I can just be honest here for a minute. He was never going to be the nominee. The support for him, I think, was a symbol of conservative and Republican distrust of some of the frontrunners, willingness to reward someone for being bold, for having comprehensive reform plans, for being an outsider, but I think the air is slowly going to go out of the Herman Cain bubble regardless of the sexual harassment charges.”
Juan Williams defended Cain and claimed he was being used as a “piñata” by the black liberal establishment and argued Kristol’s point that many people, himself included, did not expect Cain to come as far as he already has in the race.
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Well, now this just really makes me want to vote for Cain!
Romeny looks like a court jester in that shot...
” - - - there was very little chance in the first place he was ever going to be the Republican nominee.”
WOW! I had NO idea that Kristol had such influence with the old-style GOP Establishment! I guess we can’t rely on the GOP once we nominate Cain at THEIR GOP Convention.
BTW, how many days a year does Dr. Bill with-the-Kristol-Beltway-Belt spend > 100 miles from the mind-constricting Beltway in the District of Corruption?
Well, that’s not enough!
Hey, Bill—exit82 says Romney is not going to be the nominee and he was never going to be.
Hey, Bill—exit82 says Romney is not going to be the nominee and he was never going to be.
You’ve hit on something interesting: Romney has a 25% ceiling and to suppose that it would get much higher than
than you’d have to believe he’d get large chunks of Paul’s,Santorum’s,Bachmann’s and Perry’s and Gingrich’s votes.
He will NOT do that UNLESS large numbers of voters are scared into believing that only the moderate Lib Romney
can beat Obama. Ain’t gonna happen.
Screw you, Kristol, and all your neo-con RINO butt buddies.
Hey gang, can you imagine this. Going to the weeklystandard website to post a reply to the idiot/rino and guess what? The link does not work.I’m shocked of course.Shocked.
You know, I feel obliged to take the side opposite to the one that Juan Williams is taking in any case, which, this time around, leaves me in Kristol’s corner. I suppose it could be said that I believe Williams to be reliably wrong.
KRISTOL___” The support for him, I think, was a symbol of conservative and Republican distrust of some of the frontrunners, willingness to reward someone for being bold, for having comprehensive reform plans, for being an outsider..”
Ok. So what’s changed?
Lil’ BillyK is just channeling the will of the Leftist elite (on both sides of the political aisle) in the country and abroad.
“Between the so called “conservative” media pushing Romney as “inevitable””
Mona Charen was doing this today. Power grubbing establishment skank.
Shep Smith has pix of a senior FOX executive with a ewe, which is the only reason shep is at FOX.
Do you know what Cain’s proposals are for military retirees? as I have not really heard any of the candidates discuss the proposed cuts that will hurt the military retirement community? can you find out?
Here's an alternative theory: maybe they're both wrong.
Funny, because I am coming to the conclusion Cain is going to be the nominee.
First off, the ‘front runner” right now is Cain.
Kristol’s reference to “the frontrunners” is inaccurate the only establishment FR is Romney.
The Cain controversy sucked all the air out of Romney’s campaign and reminded way too many republicans they don’t want him.
I say this as someone willing to vote for any of them as the nominee.
It's not you. Kristol is the condescending elitist you presume him to be.
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