Earth to over30withoutabrain: LOL are you pretending that since some of the calls "may have been" text messages, that suddenly it's OK? Try that line with your wife sometime. "Honey - not to worry! We were only TEXTING at 4:30AM that night!"
(Oh, you're not married so you can't be expected to know that wives don't appreciate their husbands having 61 phone/text communications over a 4 month period with a woman "friend" that they didn't bother to tell her about?)
Report also said she has harassed someone before with texts and calls to the point the person requested a restraining order.
Once again, if true, this works against Cain's credibility: why would he have a 13-year relationship (including calls/texts in the middle of the night, and apparently financial benefits) with an unstable woman?
You would be advised to withhold blind, unquestioning allegiance to any candidate, because $#%# like this happens and then you sound foolish by defending the indefensible.
You don’t even know what is in the text messages or any of the actual content. It’s utterly absurd that you’re basically making all of these fanciful arguments based on only speculation on a story that only came out today.
Obviously, I don't know the inside of the relationship any more than you do -- but no less either. IMO it may not speak against his "credibility" so much as for his Christian charity. IIRC, C.S. Lewis gave money to many people (and many of them women) over the course of his life as acts of charity; when he died, it was discovered that he had been giving away 2/3s of his income this way. Many times, the gifts were repeated and spoke of an on-going relationship. He exchanged correspondence with quite a few for years (he died before cell phones!). Does this mean he was having or wanted a sexual affair with all of them?
Also, in modern American usage, "friend" is kind of a catch-all term in most cases for someone we know and don't have an actively hostile relationship with; probably well under 1% of people referred to as "friends" describe the sort of relationship Cicero writes of in the De Amicitia!
As to the people who think it's significant that she had his cell phone number, don't most people in business nowadays have their cell phone number printed on their business cards, along with their office phone, fax, etc.? And most seem to pass out their cards to anyone who will take one!
I gather this woman too had an NRA connection, though I don't recall seeing exactly what it was. And I do wonder how that reporter heard of her in the first place. Did she call him out of the blue? What does he mean that he was "working on" the story for a week? Couldn't she predict that she too might be "reviled" or whatever like the other accusers in that her background is just as full of red flags? Is someone paying her?