We were wrong about Herman Cain and sexual harassment

http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | 11/4/2011 | By Alexandra Petri

[Maelstorm]

Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong.

They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all. If anything, they’ve made him stronger. A Washington Post-ABC Poll found him still nearly tied with Romney in the polls — even after the allegations made news!

The Monday after they surfaced was a banner day for fundraising Cain. More than a million dollars of donations reportedly poured in. Maybe the Rick Perry staffer who so cleverly traveled back to the past to seed these allegations more than a decade ago should have thought harder. So far, they seem to be having the opposite of their expected effect.

“We were worried that ‘sexual harassment’ might be going too far,” someone murmurs in a bunker. “It’s a touchy subject. It’s not as clear-cut as an affair. It’s like pornography — you know it when you see it, and you try to keep it out of the office. But it turns out people enjoy a salacious sideline to their daily barrage of 2012 news.”

[Maelstorm]

'Oh My this is uncomfortable' -Karl Rove

[FReepaholic]

...Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong. They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all...

You can thank Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton for that.

[ptsal]

Who is the female impersonator with Rove?

[Uncle Ike]

WaPo combines incoherent half-apology (mostly for the failure of the tried-and-true lynch-mob strategem) with attempt to shift the focus to the unnamed, probably fictional “Perry staffer”...

Now, that’s FUNNY!!!!!

[boomop1]

WP is complicit as the rest of the MSM.

[South40]

Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong. They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all. If anything, they’ve made him stronger.

[org.whodat]

The money quote, the rick perry staffer that traveled back into the past to feed these allegations. Mr Wilson, the perry pollster, said he was there he saw it, what a dirt bag.

[papertyger]

...But it turns out people enjoy a salacious sideline to their daily barrage of 2012 news.

Maybe people really just think you're full of $hit?

[jiggyboy]

I really think this has the bitter, defeated tone of somebody staring into the bottom of a glass in an empty bar at closing time.

[Maelstorm]

Just some lady. I don’t know. I just did a google and it looked amusing to me.

[hinckley buzzard]

That was a poorly constructed attempt at sarcasm regarding the Cain camp's speculations that the smear began with Perry.

[org.whodat]

He is not fictional, here is his statement: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801469/posts

[org.whodat]

There was only one perry person that said he was there and this story would end Cain.

[ken21]

uh duh.

[COBOL2Java]

"Stay away from Cain, Sean! Cain's damaged goods! LISTEN TO ME!!! I'm the architect! I'm relevant, dammit!"

[jiggyboy]

Actually, with not too much work, this could be the script for one of those “Hitler” parodies.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Maelstorm]

Yeah I thought that was really low though I don’t really believe Perry helped release the allegations at all. I believe that given the information that was referred to in the original politico report it almost certainly came from inside the Restaurant Association. Politico referenced the allegations as if they had copies of the actual aggreement.
My suggestions from the beginning was to target the Restuarant Association because their are fairly strict laws concerning release of such employee related information.

Now we know that Cain did not even sign the aggrement where a settlement was reached. I think someone realized that this scandal was going to blow back hard if the details ever really came out. Now all of a sudden the lady doesn’t really want to reopen all this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Restuarant Association didn’t offer some more payolla.

[Maelstorm]

Yeah and who had the candidate that had a DUI almost result in Al Gore being President? Some of us have long memories.

[stormhill]

We were worried that ‘sexual harassment’ might be going too far,” someone murmurs in a bunker.

Hey! Have they made one of those "Hitler finds out about..." concerning the epic failure of the accusations against Cain yet?