Political outsiders wanting to really change the system are not welcome by media or the current insider players. Haven’t “earned” it, put their time in, played the game to be brash enough to say the system needs to be overhauled.
That said, the thing with this gal is weird. I understand most of the calls were her to him, begging for money. She was the one who did the odd hour calling. Almost all calls except one or two from him to her were him calling her back.
The weird part was not discussing it with the wife, about a non-family woman you’re financially helping out. That’s bizarre to me.
Even weirder is that he divulged all of this to the press. Most of it is between him and his wife, not anyone elses business. But he wants the press to know all about aspects which no one would ever know about, and which imply things much worse than they (I believe) actually are.
So look at the facts - he ain't stupid, so he meant to get attacked for the implications, as he was.
Figure out WHY he wanted that, and yer onta sumtin.
Not that odd, really. Herman Cain is a very kind and generous man. He is wealthy, and has the means to help people, and has helped both men and women. He hasn't necessarily told Gloria about everyone he has helped because it wasn't a big thing to him, especially if he wasn't diverting funds that his family needed to survive. I've done that before, usually nominal amounts. There was one time when I gave the single mother next door rent money because she had been served an eviction notice in the month of December, and she had just lost her job. She didn't ask me for the money, but I had heard about it, and I couldn't just watch her be put in the street with her little boy in the middle of winter. I didn't tell my husband, but he found out anyway when she came over to thank us and he answered the door. He confronted me about it, we discussed it, and I don't do things like that any more.