At the risk of being flamed....She said she has had an affair with him for 13 years. He says he has known her for that period of time. There are lots of people I have known for extended periods of time that I don’t have constant contact with. I may not see, talk or communicate with them for weeks, months or years. It doesn’t mean I don’t know them.
He says he has “helped her out” financially over that period of time. It doesn’t say he was sending her a check every week or month. No one knows how much financial support was given and over what time frame.
The Fox reporter said there had been 61 phone or text messages in the past couple of months. Lin Wood said there were 17 Cain responses to her communications. Simple math says she phoned, texted, or emailed Cain 44 times and he responded to less than half. Wood also said most of the emails were pleas for financial support.
Since she was embroiled in a lawsuit with her former business partner and was also facing eviction, it is quite plausible the frequency of the emails were in direct proportion to her financial crisis.
If you don’t like Cain, fine. but I see a lot of posters on this thread that are making assumptions without any facts at hand. So for all you experts who are so quick to judge: How much money did Cain give this woman? How many times a month did he see her? How many times a month did he call her?
No one on this thread knows the answer to these questions, because the FACTS have yet to come out. So, why not wait until they do?
If Cain is guilty, the facts will come out and if he decides to leave the race, so be it. But it is the height of hypocrisy to demand Cain leave the race without knowing all the facts, yet support Gingrich who has admitted to having multiple affairs while married; who has changed his position on most conservative positions; who raked in over a million dollars from Freddie and Fannie, but was “only acting as a private citizen”, not a lobbyist.
But then, Newt is the “smartest man in the room.” He’s fooled all of you.
Let me just add to your Newt failings is that he has previously supported a national health insurance mandate.
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“Unless you have 100 percent coverage, you can’t have the right preventive care, and you can’t have a rational system,” he said in 2005 at a health care forum where he shared the stage with his former nemesis Hillary Clinton. “And so I’m actually in favor of finding a way to say you ought to either have health insurance, or you ought to post a bond.”
But, I will say he would be an easier person if Cain drops out to vote for than Romney! I still want Cain!
I’m glad I’m not the only one in the room that sees the same thing. I’m upset that Cain as I can understand it gave what money he did within the last couple of months...very stupid. Even so, I’ve seen no proof of something improper. There isn’t alot of actual proof out in the open here right now.
You make really good points. Thank you for your post.
I was assuming (like others seem to be) that he was making hefty monthly payments to her, but I certainly don’t know that to be the case. It could be just as you suggested. I understand that she has at least one child. Perhaps Mr. Cain believed he was helping the child(ren) by his financial gifts. Again, I certainly don’t know, and either does anyone else that isn’t named Herman Cain. He says he has helped others as well. I tend to believe that. I also believe that this increased activity the past month or so on her behalf sounds like a set-up. Did I hear that she is writing a book?
I am very sad because this probably will doom the candidacy of a fine conservative—no matter what the truth is.