You are dismissing an important part of this. The accusations against Cain were made, asceeded to and settled with a payoff before anyone ever thought of Herman Cain as a Presidential candidate. Furthermore, he, Cain, initially denied any knowledge of the matter.
How many people have you ever heard to say that “they never dreamed” their next door neighbor, boss or close friend” could have committed sexual crimes? In fact, most sexual predators are extremely well spoken of by their close associates. They don’t come with a notice on their foreheads.
The rights of Cain’s accusers will be brushed off just like the victims involved in the recent football scandal. Character involves not only what you do yourself, but what you will tolerate in others. Most of the comments here seem to imply that, even if Cain did what he’s accused of it isn’t so bad. There’s always someone who committed worse acts to which he can be compared.
If Cain’s denial of any such occurrances of which he is accused is enough for you, then so should Bill Clinton’s and Anthony Weiner’s denials have been accepted at face value and no further questions should have been asked.
It’s too bad that all of us have to live with the consequences when the majority decides to be blinded by charisma and smooth talking. We’ve been doing that for the past three years and it looks like we’ll be doing it again.
How about instead of engaging in the usual Leftist style sleazy politics of personal attack and lies at Cain, you quit wasting our time and try making a case FOR your candidate instead?
>> If Cain’s denial of any such occurrances of which he is accused is enough for you, then so should Bill Clinton’s and Anthony Weiner’s denials have been accepted at face value and no further questions should have been asked. >>
I’m sorry, but after reading your posts, I can’t get out of my mind that you are A: a prude and B: have zero experience being in charge of anything. And I say that because you equate all sexual situations as the same. You know, to you, sex with an intern = making a pass and putting your penis on the internet = making a pass. All Cain has been accused of is making a pass and accepting the no politely.
So even if it’s true - and I doubt it is - its not anywhere near the level of what Clinton and Weiner did.
And B, business people deal with so many BS lawsuits and such that they do become background noise after a while. You let your “legal department” handle them and they are doggoned easy to forget, at least, easy to forget the details. Ask anyone who’s been in the business world more than 15 years and you’ll get the same reaction.
IIRC, he recused himself from the whole thing, so he didn't know any of the details. Sexual harassment claims are by and large nuisance issues to companies, not something that stays fresh in the mind 15 years later, especially since there are probably plenty of other employee complaints too (ADA springs to mind).
It would, of course, be interesting to know NRA's history, say, from the 1980s, of dealing with harassment complaints (number, identities of the accused, terms of resolution). But the only source willing to spill confidential info is apparently interested in only one thing, to coin a phrase!