Posted on 11/07/2011 8:02:10 AM PST by Fred
I disagree.
I think Gingrich would become the frontrunner.
Here’s what I think:
While at the NRA, Cain lobbied against government’s regulations on the restaurant industry. The accuser (and I only say one, the rest could be fabricated for all we know) worked in the governmental affairs office of the NRA.
It may have been a witch hunt back then, if you think about it. He’s been ticking off dems for a long time.
Of course, that would be considered confidential information by Mz. Allred.
Her client has been so damaged by Mr. Cain's harassment that she could hardly function for the past 12 years!
Interesting.
Anyone see the irony in you spreading this kind of liberal slime while pretending you are not in the gutter?
Seriously, do us all a favor and quit pretending you have a lick of principles, and are just out to bash Cain to try in your misguided way to promote Perry.
I would defend Perry or Newt or any other conservative from this kind of liberal hatchet job.
The fact that you are picking up the hatchet yourself tells us volumes about your motivations.
I smell witchhunt and big payoff for the woman making the allegation ! Whenever I see Gloria’s name, it is something that is no good ! And she is a big part of the establishment and MSM as well ! The MSM will try to shut down Herman’s campaign for POTUS at any cost and to force Romney on us !
That’s funny, because what I see is a life of being a laughingstock for any girl that reveals herself.
"There was at least a two-fold purpose here. 1) Take out Obama's most serious contender (and it "ain't" Romney), and 2) use the old magic trick of misdirection...look over there not here."
Misdirection is used by the politcal machines almost as often it's used in magic shows.
Over the past 14 years, while serving as a director of numerous privately held companies, I have been involved in the termination of dozens of employees, including officers and executives. The decision to terminate an employee is never an easy one, and is most commonly made for lack of performance. The procedures that have to be followed and the amount of paperwork required, even for simple cases, would astonish most people who don’t spend their lives cutting through thickets of regulatory red tape just to accomplish basic tasks. Extreme care is always taken when terminating an employee that is a member of a protected class. Protected classes include women, anyone who can claim a disability, anyone over 40, and anyone who is not Caucasian.
Despite managers’ best efforts, it is all too common for a terminated employee to hire a lawyer and threaten to sue. Claims of sexual harassment by an employee about to be terminated are the easiest to make, the most difficult to refute, the most expensive to defend, and the most damaging to any executive on the receiving end of false charges. Hence, settling these charges, even when blatantly false, with a small payment and a mutual confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement is an everyday occurrence in the corporate world. Serial accusers find these agreements especially profitable as it allows them to make such charges again and again through the course of their careers.
The Politico story made a great deal of the fact that the separation agreement given to the two accusers entailed a payment in the “five-figure” range. Having approved many of these agreements myself I can tell you that five-figures is what you pay when the separation is amicable, as it is a bargain compared to defending false charges in litigation. In fact, the vast majority of the terminations I have been involved with typically included three to six months of severance pay plus medical benefits, even when such consideration wasn’t demanded or mandated by an employment contract. Hence, five-figure sums. The going rate to cover up guilt is at least six figures, sometimes even seven. Just ask former presidential candidate John Edwards.
Insinuations that five-figure payments somehow corroborate the truth of accusations are an extreme act of reckless journalism
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And echoing those insinuations in such a manner on FR is an extreme act of reckless partisanship, and should be above consideration by any principled FReeper. Those few who are running around giving this stuff any credence, without any kind of additional neutral evidence, are trolls and hacks, simply put.
I’ll guess we will find out at 1pm. At first I thought it was Romney. but after this announcement this am about Allred.
That convinces me it is the Obama Cartel.
Why would the Dummies get involved when Repubs were attacking each other. Nope, I am convinced this whole thing is a Dum op.
Brett just said that Zero’ numbers are going up. Probably an overstatement. But I hope all of us have not cut our own throats.
Insinuations that five-figure payments somehow corroborate the truth of accusations are an extreme act of reckless journalism
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And I submit that your attempts to equate Cain and Clinton, without any more evidence than what we have seen to do, is an extreme act of reckless partisanship on your part. If you had any shame, you would ask your post be pulled. But I think you have shown you lack of shame with your Little Miss Innocent routine.
My bet is that accuser(s) have stayed around D.C. and become involved in dem oriented organizations or lobbying efforts.
Yes, my voodoo friend, they did step up. Let’s recall what happened to them.
Monica Lewinsky - scorned, laughed at, derided, forever associated with BJ and bj.
Linda Tripp - the best thing anybody ever said about her was that she was ugly
Juanita Broderick - nice woman, actually raped by Clinton and threatened by Hillary. Very few people believed her or defended her.
Paula Jones - redneck spam sucking trailer trash - and those were the kind things.
Can’t remember the name of the Clinton supporter - nice looking lady - he abused while she was asking for help from him for a job — She asked for it, shouldn’t have been a Clinton supporter.
Well, the list goes on, but you can see what a wonderful fate awaits women who accuse popular men.
And Clinton - the actual criminal - walks around to this day with the silver from his hair highlighting the halo around his head, as he’s loved, respected and still idolized everywhere.
I'm sorry. They did not. Some not at all, some only under force or coercion by the press. Some refused to come forward, like Eileen Wellstone, she woman Clinton sexually assaulted when he was at Oxford. She received a restraining order to keep people away.
One of the women, Elizabeth Gracen, recanted the stories she told her friends and received a starring role in Highlander, a sci-fi series produced by friends of Clinton, conveniently shot in New Zealand. She dodged subpoenas from Paul Jones' attorneys.
One of the women refused repeatedly to come forward when she was identified in the press by incident and without her name. She even refused for an extended period to come forward when named. It was only when conservative media refused to leave her alone that Juanita Brodderick came forward.
Paula jones never reported her harassment. She only came forward after National Review identified her by first name and place of employment, and said she was escorted to Clinton's room by a named State Trooper. When friends started to ask her if she had sex with Clinton and her name was leaked to conservative media, she came forward to say the rumors of her having sex with Clinton were not true. That's what led to her sexual harassment lawsuit, Clinton's perjury, our knowledge of cigars, stained dresses, and Monica Lewinsky.
National Review's article on Clinton's sex life in Little Rock identifies a lot of women involved with Clinton - and other names leaked during his term - and a lot of those women denied the allegations or refused to speak to the media.
So 'some' of Clinton's women came forward. Some of them did it voluntarily. Some of them did it only after they were named by the media, and didn't come forward of their own choice. Many of them never came forward. Respectfully, t's not correct to say that "in Clinton's case ALL the women stepped forward and identified themselves."
There are probably more women abused by Clinton than anyone can count, but most were all too familiar with the tactics of the Clinton machine and the bimbo eruption police.
Amen!!
Meg Whitman didn’t lose because of Gloria Alred, and Nicki the housekeeper. She lost for the same reason Perry won’t get the GOP nomination...she was trying to straddle the immigration fence, and in doing so turned off her conservative base. She also peaked too soon. She started out with a strong, 3-point message, and then got mired in immigration debate.
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