So I guess for you, a WashPost hatchet job against Perry ... bad. A Mother Jones hatchet job against Cain ... good.
Principled FReepers realize both are assumed to be hatchet jobs, given the source, unless proven otherwise by running down the facts, and will not use them as an attack on a candidate until that vetting is done. Principled FReepers realize we need to vet the stories, not just the candidates.
And BTW, I think Cain should have waited to get the facts before running with the N-head story against Perry. So he was wrong there, as you are wrong here. Two wrongs don't make a right, just a mud pit.
Actually, both bad. I googled "Cain-2nd amendment" and some were less flattering than MJ.