Posted on 11/05/2011 9:19:45 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
URBANDALE, Iowa Herman Cains Iowa state director thumbed through a stack of supporter sign-up forms at the campaigns headquarters here, telling ABC News that the sexual harassment allegations that have rocked the Cain campaign this week have actually been a catalyst in this state.
Larry Tuel, who runs Cains campaign in Iowa, said that the endless stream of news stories on Cains alleged misbehavior toward women have attracted new supporters and emboldened existing ones.
The story has made some people angry, Tuel said in an interview on Thursday. We think that people want to show their support for Mr. Cain. I think the average Iowan thats supporting Mr. Cain or any candidate sees through this story, sees that there is nothing to it and that theyre out in droves to support Mr. Cain.
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This is what we need. The people haven’t been fooled.
And by the way Karl Rove, you've got an awful pudgy looking neck & double chin. You better lay off the twinkies & donuts, and lose about 30 pounds!
Cain did his Navy work and got his Purdue degree before the advent of quotas. As to his later career accomplishments, it's certainly possible he got ahead partly because of quotas, but then you have to compare his accomplishments to those of people like Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama. There's also a different kind of quota - the kind that people of privileged background, like George HW Bush and GWB, but middling intelligence, were able to tap. I'd say Cain isn't completely self-made like Sam Walton, Bill Clinton or Steve Jobs, but he's definitely done very well, given his impoverished family background and lack of social connections.
Hmmm... A “Papa Grizzly” perhaps? (a spin on “Mama Grizzly”) Your pictures make me think that Herman Cain could be a sort-of “Papa Grizzly”!
Ooooh! That is excellent!
I loved the debate, and got to see the second half of the game of the year.
What a great late afternoon/early evening!
Both Romney and Rove, not out of the closet Liberals, it’s ok Romney and Rove partners to come out of the closet, now ? go join your comrades in the DNC.
You are so right. A man of integrity will defend it, a man with none will slink away...Cain got back in their face and people understood it.
Newt as presidental candidate would not get my vote, as second on the ticket, with Cain as head yep...Newt is really not to be trusted...he talks conservative, but mouths rino...would prefer him in a cabinet position to Cain’s presidency..
One of those 2 pictures is an idiot. Idiots are always on the left, so too in that picture...:O)
“I trust my own gut, and dont believe Im much different from most other principled Conservatives. This story confirms my own reaction and reasoning.”
Yup. How many of us have worked in places and have witnessed the most innocent comments get spun out of proportion, people fired and lives ruined? I don’t know what really happened in this instance, but like you, my gut calls BS on this.
Liberals have done the same to the issue of legitimate sexual harassment that they have done to legitimate racism. They have cried wolf so often that when REAL cases actually occur, very few believe it. I see this regularly on art/music boards I frequent. (Not easy being a right winger in those environments I assure you ;)
Everything is “racism” and “Homophobia”. But when you critically look at the situation, neither is the case. Yet the charges fly over and over over a comment that is neither. And people are now numb to it.
Once upon a time callaing a man a racist led to a brawl. Accusing someone of SH got teeth busted. Today, it’s just a PC tool to shut your opponent up and damn the consequences that may to the person falsely accused.
Liberalism in a nutshell.
Herman Cain has done well in life, I give him credit for that. He seems like a fine man. I never meant to infer that.
cain is undefined too lazy to look up the definition.
Your post was a lengthy rationalization for laziness.
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