Yep. Exactly. And I’ve been saying it for months... Conservatives have a problem with EVERY candidate in the field. The most consistantly conservative was Bachmann (and Palin but she never dove in).
We couldnt nominate Perry because he has poor debate skills and is soft on immigration. We can’t nominate Newt because he’s too liberal on global warming. We can’t nominate Ron Paul because he’s a kook with foreign policy. We can’t nominate Cain because he cheats on his wife and is inexperienced. We can’t nominate Santorum because he voted constantly for earmarks and bigger government. We can’t vote for Romney because he flip flops on abortion and supports Romneycare/Obamacare.
I understand conservatives are angry at this field. But the reality is that none of these guys are perfect. We are not going to have a perfect candidate. We are going to have to punt on an issue somewhere.
As far as I know, no concrete evidence exists that Cain ever cheated on his wife. A collection of well-timed hearsay might work well for much of the electorate, but not for those with their wits about them. I spoke with a good friend who happens to be black and he based his easy willingness to believe the Cain slanders entirely on his view of black culture, with no foundation in specific, objective facts about Cain, and his certainty crumbled to nothing when I challenged it.
Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying Cain was perfect. I am saying that as an electorate we have lost so much of our critical thinking apparatus in the last thirty years that we are now way too easily led. The media pulls the ring in our nose and we follow it, then they pull us another way and we follow it. Rush and many other conservative thought leaders have labored hard and prevented an all out collapse, but the damage is severe, and this election cycle, even more than 2008, is shining a bright light on just how bad it is.