He missed a chance to take on the fatuous media and knock both the incidents out of the park. "I don't know all the facts about said rock and it's probably an overblown story attempting to play a spurious race card." "Who was booing the soldier? They were booing the STUPID QUESTION."
Opportunity blown. Somebody tell Herman he's being a PATSY.
I thought this was bad, but I don’t think it was intentional.
I like Cain’s ideas, but the problem is that he doesn’t have any political experience, and he was suckered right into this and now the press is gloating. I think he should go off and run for governor or senator or something - or maybe be a Cabinet member in the next GOP WH - but I think he needs to have a little more experience in handling these “gotcha” moments.
Also, he did support Romney, so maybe there’s more here than meets the eye.
This is what primaries are for.
It is much easier for a candidate with minimal political experience to get played by the media because they haven’t gone down that road before. The question is, do they learn from it and what do they do about it, as in man up to their mistake.