As a matter of fact, Cain could easily put these most recent allegations behind him fairly easily. It just requires he sit down with the media and answer all the questions people are going to ask.
What is this woman to him exactly? How did he meet her? What kind of friendship was this that went on for 13 years? How often did he communicate with her? Did he take her out to sporting events and other places as she has claimed? Why was he providing her financial support? Are there any other women he is providing financial support to that might be a problem going forward?
Good grief, how hard is it to just get all this stuff out there? Cain is providing financial support to someone who appears downright shady. Why? How many others like her are running around?
Ain't that the truth. Get mad...fight back!
He's acting like a bank auditor confronted with a run on his bank. He wants to get back to checking the books when he REALLY needs to deal the screaming depositors or there won't be a bank.
It could be argued it just uses up more oxygen to talk about these claims, and encourages yet more. Sitting down with the enemedia in itself is certainly not going to help, since they are only looking for a "gotcha" from the interview to spin something else. But maybe a packaged announcement with the kind of checkable details you suggest, "for those of you in the press who are interested in this kind of thing," would be helpful. But it needs to be part of an offensive that essentially changes the subject—say, if they found a direct link to Axelrod or Obummer.
The question is whether Lesbo eruptions like this one will wear thin by themselves. I agree I will be more satisfied, on behalf of the whole field, if Cain finds a way to do something dynamic about this category of Dem-smear—which is irrelevant on so many levels. Because, as John Donne might have said, "Ask not for whom the bimbo erupts . . ."
Excellent post.
Cain called her a “friend” whom he had helped financially.
That’s enough, right there, for people to fairly ask the questions you posed.
Cain said she wasn’t acting like a friend whom he had helped, by revealing her identity and claiming an affair, and he denied they were having an affair.
So, for years he was fine with her as a “friend” and with financially helping her, until she claimed the affair, but now all these people including our talk radio hosts attack the woman and don’t even deal with what Cain admits.
They make me sick.