Cain detractors keep saying he handled it poorly, but most people I know felt that his taking it head on, being very visible and not hiding, showed he was trustworthy.
“Cain detractors keep saying he handled it poorly, but most people I know felt that his taking it head on, being very visible and not hiding, showed he was trustworthy.”
He was on Hantity (as I call him) last week. Just my opinion, but what he said made perfect sense. His staff gets a call that says some woman from your past has said you acted naughty - what’s your response? The staff begged them for some kind of details and they wouldn’t provide them.
He’s 65 years old, there are a lot of women from a lot of decades of his past - to say ANYTHING would invite trouble. If he said that he NEVER did a thing, they would have run the story with the severance agreements and said he lies.
The way this has played out, there are three women. One of them (the third one) says he bothered her, but she didn’t complain - how does ANYONE know if that really happened. Perhaps she’s simply a liberal that doesn’t want Cain to become president - she can say whatever she wishes - no different than Anita Hill.
The other two have that severance agreement, so something is there. But we know nothing about them. We don’t know if they’ve been paid anything, offered anything, have a history of accusing every guy they run into of doing the same, have a tolerance level that’s insanely low (i.e., ‘nice dress’...ZOT). We do know one of them works pretty high up for the Obama Administration...automatically gives them a reason to push this stuff.
In the end, this whole thing looked silly. Others might not remember, but they tried this with Anita Hill - at first they kept her identity secret, and got nowhere - and then they had to bring her out. So, Cain’s people have to watch for the same thing happening in the general election, but for now, I think it’s over.
And another thing. While the Politico did check on these women (I take them at their word), who says the lawyer this week is REALLY telling the truth when he talks about them...like when he says ‘repeated incidents’ - maybe the lawyer’s simply lost it and needs to keep the story alive.