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Bill Kristol: Herman Cain Is Not Going To Be The Nominee, He Was Never Going To Be
Mediaite ^ | November 6, 2011 | Josh Feldman

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.

Watch the video below, courtesy of Fox News:

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: billkristol; cain; hermancain; kristol4romney; mittromney; neocon; neocons; neoconservatism; neoconservatives; polls; rinos; romneybots; romneylovers
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To: sargon; ICE-FLYER

“Bill Kristol: Herman Cain Is Not Going To Be The Nominee, He Was Never Going To Be”

From a recent poll: Cain 25 percent, Romney 14 percent. That leaves us with two possibilities. Either Bill Kristol is an elitist, or he thinks he’s God.


61 posted on 11/06/2011 11:05:13 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: TigersEye

I appreciated Juan’s comments. Sometimes I think there is a little bit of hope for Juan.


62 posted on 11/06/2011 11:35:33 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And Bill Kristol is why I canceled my subscription to the Weekly Standard...

he still sends me emails and I've requested to be removed and I still get them...

Bill Kristol is his own worst enemy.

63 posted on 11/07/2011 12:33:57 AM PST by haircutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha! Kristol is just being Kristol.

He cain’t hep it...lol


64 posted on 11/07/2011 12:52:13 AM PST by dixiechick2000 (Proud barbarian TEA Party SOB and, apparently, an evil Capitalist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess this means Bill thinks we are all going to line up for Huntsman as he thought before.


65 posted on 11/07/2011 3:59:38 AM PST by joelt
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To: katiedidit1

Thanks for the information.


66 posted on 11/07/2011 4:40:34 AM PST by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It wasn't just Krystal. I don't usually watch these shows or keep up with this crap, but I had tuned in to hear what Ron Paul had to say and lingered long enough to actually see this. There were three other experts, besides Krystal and Chris Wallace, all of whom agreed that Cain was not a serious contender. They were very smug and sure of their expertise.

By the way, if you missed it, and from the sound of it most did, and rightly so, Ron Paul was his usual brilliant self.

67 posted on 11/07/2011 4:57:58 AM PST by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Persevero
I appreciated Juan’s comments. Sometimes I think there is a little bit of hope for Juan.

And then he'll say something real stupid. lol

68 posted on 11/07/2011 10:35:20 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, Bill, since you only have ONE vote, I guess it all depends on how many of the other Republican voters vote for Herman Cain.


69 posted on 11/08/2011 2:46:53 PM PST by SuziQ
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