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

Mediaite ^ | November 6, 2011 | Josh Feldman

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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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[haroldeveryman]

“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.

[Persevero]

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

[haircutter]

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.

[dixiechick2000]

Ha! Kristol is just being Kristol.

He cain’t hep it...lol

[joelt]

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

[Do Be]

Thanks for the information.

[Do Be]

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.

[TigersEye]

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

[SuziQ]

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.