I wouldn't disagree with you in principle counselor, but surely you must know that the tree of justice, as represented by our judicial system, does not avail itself to the voters in time for the primaries.
Your fruit must come for some other source. Intuition, in that respect, simply becomes one of the available tools, among others, for judging behavior.
As for myself, it wasn't these allegations that made me question Herman Cain's candidacy, although his handling of them didn't help.
That said, if Herman Cain is the man that his supporters think he is, Then Herman Cain is well aware that he only has himself to blame.
Unless I misunderstand you, aren’t you begging the question of guilt? IF he is entirely, purely innocent, then no, he is not to blame for the deeds of false accusers or the willingness of the public to believe those false accusers. Under that scenario, his only fault was being too optimistic. He foolishly believed he would be judged according to the truth of his innocence. In my experience, this is a common fault of innocent people generally. For Cain, it is a reflection of his lack of political experience, and in this extraordinary election cycle, such optimism, even if misguided, is not necessarily a political negative.
But you do make a good point. Cain is not on trial in a real court, but running for President. The judicial system is, at least theoretically, held to the presumption of innocence through a body of formal law. The electorate has a short time to make its decision, and it has only the media, the candidate and his accusers, and its own collective conscience to work with. My conscience will not let me render an adverse decision without confirmatory facts. Perhaps it is my legal training, and I do know not everybody operates that way, but that’s just who I am.
Does a healthy doubt of my own intuition put me at a disadvantage in judging candidates? I don’t think so. In fact, I think it gives me an advantage. It gives me a reason to question media authority. To borrow a Biblical idea, it makes me a political Berean, a person who diligently tries to confirm the truth of what he’s told, to willingly accept what is true, to forcefully reject what is false, and to suspend judgment on what is indeterminate. The only reason conservatism is superior to its alternatives is it’s commitment to truth. Liberalism fails because it is unfaithful to reality. If our judgments as conservatives become less and less grounded in true truth, we may win individual elections, but end up losing the greater struggle, to become a people who prosper because we are faithful to the truth.