Posted on 11/02/2011 8:23:04 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry says his campaign didn't provide the media with information about sexual harassment allegations against his GOP presidential rival Herman Cain.
In an interview with the conservative blog RedState on Wednesday, Perry said he and his campaign learned about the allegations in a Politico story published Sunday.
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“Yet, even with the story and the terrible way the Cain campaign has handled the response, I don’t see any polls showing it has damaged him.”
It would be too early for any polls to be out showing the fallout (if any) of this incident. I think the first day or two of the story he was helped because conservatives were rallying around him and his fundraising went up.
But, the longer this story lingers on-and if it turns out that the Cain campaign is making unfounded accusations against other campaigns, this thing might start to hurt him. I just think people voting in the GOP primary don’t want to hear about this for days on end.
I think we expected Mr Cain to issue a firm denial of wrongdoing and get back to the serious issues facing our country. That clearly has not happened. I think idle speculation about who the leaker might be not only keeps the story front and center, but makes (some) voters start to wonder if there’s not something to this after all.
” I think Cain should have just said “so what” and dropped it. With all the important issues to debate, who gives a crap about a decades old incident - one that occurs frequently in our PC sensitized litigionous culture.
And really - white wine at breakfast is that big a deal to you? “ <<<<<
Hey, if you’re buying what Herb is selling with no clue why this guy Cain is all “crickits” for the 72 hours that Romney fell under suspicion, well I say enjoy the koolaide.
He is toast. Give it time. Who else would hire Herb after all the women problems anyway? Settling down in a padded room with a smart mouth, a microphone and radio show was all that was left. Wake up.
” If you think someone who was truly sexually harassed is going to be bought off for a mere $35,000, you are delusional. “
They say that’s a pretty good chunk of change for the ninties. If you’re not impressed with thirty five grand for just one of three women who were sick of his shlick, I can’t help you. The guy may have leaked it himself, if he thought it would give one opportunity to rag, again, against Perry. Ole Herb can’t seem to let go of Rick Perry. It’s become an obsession, far more than minding his own business and running a race.
None of the Perry un-supporters have addressed Qui Bono? Who benefits from Cain’s crash?
The forensics aren’t settled yet. So we have to ask, who was Cain most damaging on his ascent?
Zero, because he’s peeling off black voters (and I’m sure his ‘fry them on the fence’ policy had NOTHING to do with that).
Romney? Everybody hates him and only voted for him to get rid of McPainLettuce, and look where that got us. Rove, the Bushes, and most of the establishment RINOs want Mitt. They are chagrined as the RATS about Nov 2010 and what Nov 2012 is going to look like.
Perry? He’s busy taking down Zero - in an electoral ground game nobody is giving him credit for - and of course he’d like to harvest Sarah’s votes who fell to Cain. If Perry chose to bulldoze Cain, his signature would be all over it.
If my political acumen is right (and I know it is), Perry will make conciliatory moves towards Cain once Sarah also nudges it.
We DO have a commie POTUS to dethrone, and we’re going to have to do it together. But Cain has to detatch from the Romney/Rove and I hate to type this BUSH machine if he is serious about effecting change.
The train to derail zero and his beuropolitik needs to be simply a much bigger train ramming him head-on, and we can’t do this if we don’t unite soon.
They say that’s a pretty good chunk of change for the ninties.
Who is “they”? And you’d better stop listening to “they” because “they” are ignorant.
To put the $35,000 in context, the average annual wage in 1990 was $21,000; in 2010 it was $41,700. (http://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html) So, no, $35,000 was peanuts as far as a settlement goes even back in the 1990s. And we are not talking about settlements; these women received *severance packages*.
I have had enough experience with this kind of thing to know *exactly* what a severance package of roughly one year’s salary means. It means the dismissed employee has got squat.
And all your silly “BWHAHAHAHA!!!”, “RIIIGGGGHHHHT”, “LOL!!!”, and “Gawwwwd” do not dissuade me from what I know from personal experience. Sorry.
” I have had enough experience with this kind of thing to know *exactly* what a severance package of roughly one year’s salary means. It means the dismissed employee has got squat. “ <<<<
Thirty five thousand may be squat to you, standard somewhere and even called “severance pay”, but to the conservative base in the real world ninties, that would be a truck load of money, a “settlement” straight up, and
certainly suggesting there was a problem. When a woman, er, women, (times three) avoid the guy like the plague there is a problem. The smoke here smells by now.
So you think that Cain is the pup of the Bush/Rove/Romney machine? Well, it seems to me Cain is lagging back for some reason and maybe that’s it. For sure, that trio has the legs for opposition research on anybody and how to use it, time it and market it, and the smarts to use Cain to ticket up with Romney and split the black vote, even by around 30% and Obama would be toast. That would also explain why Rubio is so firm about NOT running as VP for anybody this cycle. Rubio and Jeb are tight and Mark’ knows how to do the “talk” thing to the Right with the best of them, but would work a moderate, concilliatory, and compromising crossplay with the moderate/liberal wing like the entrenched establishment require to keep their power. It is very convoluted, but I do not trust Herb Cain. Not the way he has been dogging Rick. It has become more important to him than the race itself to smear Perry. I don’t see Rick, in the end, having any use whatsoever for the Cain model of treachery, however.
That's what I want to know.
If he's going to make an accusation like that, he'd dang well better be able to back it up.
Just wonder, given how easy it is to make “allegations” - who’s now digging to see what Newt, Perry, Willard, Santorum, et al might have in their past
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They’ve been on Perry a while now.
Larry Flynt Offers $1M for Dirt on Rick Perry
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Larry-Flynt-Offers-1M-for-Dirt-on-Rick-Perry-130436608.html
Ron Paul Supporter’s Ad Asks, ‘Have You Ever Had Sex With Rick Perry?’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/rick-perry-sex-ad_n_930250.html
Absolutely!
I always placed these at Romney's feet. I see now it's Cain and his sleazy ass campaign manager.
I have seen the Cain supporters treat this woman like Carville and those guys treated Clinton's woman. I have been very troubled by the accusations thrown out at the woman. I am glad Rush has backed off this a bit. Hannity is such an ass kisser I doubt he has.
Any more questions?
By the way did you know Curt Anderson denied to Politico he was the source. Wouldn't Politico know this? Wouldn't Politico deny his claim?
Cain is a nasty SOB playing like a Cheshire cat. I have been putting alot at Romney's feet over the weeks but this is Cain and his nasty campaign manager. If Cain and his camp can falsely accuse Perry (while saying he was falsely accused!!) in order to derail Perry's campaign he is capable of anything in my book.
Very well said. Glad someone remembers all his shenanigans.
What the hell are you talking about, the article is sourced, I've given it to you twice. He says he was there, if you don't believe him that's your issue. The man is a know pollster in the GOP community, to lie in print would ruin his career and open him up to a liability suit from the NRA and Cain, I find it unlikely that he is being dishonest.
I asked you for a full quote from Wilson with him saying he was "present". What the "H-E Double Hockey Sticks" is so hard to understand about that.
You. Did. Not. Supply. That.
And that's your issue if you have a problem with that.
My point stands.
Do you thank Herman Cain for his service to this nation, serving the US Armed Forces in the Department of the Navy as a member of the team and mission in civilian status?
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