I know what the campaign staff said. I realise that making rational inferences from things Cain or his campaign say is a fool’s errand, it’s all we have to go on.
Your claim was that the harrassment claim was ‘out of the blue’, which is patently false. Cain knew all about it, according to his own latest clarifications. He may have forgotten it, but he should have remembered once Politico started asking questions.
Cain’s campaign has given some details of what Politico told them. Cain says he told staff on his previous political campaign — do you think he informed the senate campaign staff, but not his presidential campaign staff? If so, do you think that was a good strategy in hindsight?
“If so, do you think that was a good strategy in hindsight?”
So far, yes. The two polls taken yesterday (and yesterday only) showed a sharp INCREASE in his support. It seems that the more human he looks, the better he does.
“I know what the campaign staff said. I realise that making rational inferences from things Cain or his campaign say is a fool’s errand, it’s all we have to go on.
Your claim was that the harrassment claim was ‘out of the blue’, which is patently false. Cain knew all about it, according to his own latest clarifications. He may have forgotten it, but he should have remembered once Politico started asking questions.
Cain’s campaign has given some details of what Politico told them. Cain says he told staff on his previous political campaign — do you think he informed the senate campaign staff, but not his presidential campaign staff? If so, do you think that was a good strategy in hindsight?”
You know, for the first couple days, I think this story was helping Cain and conservatives were rallying around him. But I can’t understand why all of a sudden his campaign is throwing accusations (without proof) around at other campaigns-isn’t this almost exactly what happened to him? Why does he want to keep this story alive by playing this “who’s the leaker” game?
The best response is to deny wrongdoing and say we don’t know for sure where the story came from, then move on. But by throwing accusations out at others, I think it eats away at some of the goodwill Mr Cain has built up. And if it turns out that the leak came from someone not connected with any of the campaigns, then he’s going to look all the more foolish.