[onyx]

A front runner would have to be stupid to pull a stunt like this.

There’s too much to lose and not much to gain.

This is much more likely the work of a trailing campaign.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Anyways, the truth will come out and who planted this story will in fact be exposed, all in due time. Tick, tick, tick.....

[rodguy911]

At this point the only thing we know for sure is that the dems cannot stand to have a strong black candidate shining the light of day on ozero. The reflections would be disastrous for them.

[CharlesWayneCT]

What is the risk of a campaign mentioning to a reporter that there is something interesting if they look at the records of the NRA? It’s not like the campaign is sending out the story.

But since this story is based on verifiable facts, there really was little reason for any campaign to be involved. The media always go after front-runners, like the Perry Rock story, and would have no problem learning of this settlement as a normal course of questioning people associated with the candidate over the years.

If I ran for President, I would assume that every person I had ever had contact with who had a gripe with me would be found by the media eventually — it wouldn’t take another campaign.

Normally, the “campaign fingerprints” become an issue when individuals are found who come out with NEW allegations. Then we care if they came forward because a campaign contacted them.

But in this case, the harrassment complaints were filed in the 1990s, the settlement happened in the 1990s, and lots of people knew about it. No campaign had to drum up women to “come forward” — the women had already come forward, and it was all on the record.

I’d say a front-runner would also have to be stupid to directly accuse another person of wrongdoing without any evidence, but clearly it’s not, because Cain is kind of the front-runner and that’s exactly waht he did, and had his campaign manager do.