I see the GOP Rovebot Establishment whisper campaign is working.
Avoid the issue but make up knowing misstatements that complete misrepresenting how Cain handled the issue. Then the GOP media bot is critical of Cain for not delivering a completely flawless response to these anonymously sourced fraudulent accusations.
Contrary to the GOP Establishment machine’s fraudulent talking point on this NO CANDIDATE would of ever responded any better to this sort of unprecedented slander attack
All the being said, we do ourselves no good when we deny the obvious..Cain has not handled this well. They had 10 days notice before Politico ran the story. What they should have done, IMHO..was hold a presser BEFORE the story ran, got it all out, which would have totally defused it..and but Politco on the defensive. They messed up. Block should not have been the one to be the point person on this..Get an accomplish, polished female to handle the press. There are many choices.Cain ain't the Pope..he's NOT infallible. And it shows..the biggest lesson.. that that despite running an "unconventional campaign, he'll need far more boots on the ground..polished political operatives..
Well, he could have started off by admitting he knew about it, he could have stopped having to acknowledge things piecemeal, he could have remembered that he discussed the matter with his advisors (as he now admits) back in 2004 during his other failed run for office, and he could stop attacking people for asking him about it and he could stop blaming his rivals for the whole thing.
He is “handling” it exactly the way Clinton “handled” the Monica problem, even though it sounds like there was far less there to worry about in the first place. Why didn’t he just admit it, say that settlements had been made, and humbly say that he regrets any impropriety or even appearance of impropriety? It would all be over by now.
But this is definitely ending in an ugly way. I think not only has he damaged himself, he has damaged all the other candidates in the race too.