And yet Cain’s campaign chair is doing interviews where he says they handled this wrong, Cain and his chair are both falsely accusing other people of leaking the story, and Cain’s supporters are running around posting trivial liberal news articles about Perry as if to try to remove attention from Cain. Plus they are all over the threads continually trying to remind everybody that Cain has great poll numbers and Perry is toast.
The Cain supporters truly look desparate, a word used because their attacks are so baseless.
Perry was once where Cain is. Giuliani was once where Cain is. Fred Thompson was nearly once where Cain is.
Polls are meaningless, as us Sarah Palin supporters both knew and were always telling others. The polls that matter are when the actual primaries happen.
I have no idea if Perry will ever dig himself out of the hole he fell into (I always chuckle at that metaphor, if you are in a hole you should STOP digging). I have no idea if the Cain poll bounce caused by “rallying around the attacked conservative” will last now that he’s launching false attacks against other campaigns.
And more importantly, we have no idea how this is playing with the general electorate, which is the important thing. If Cain starts polling less well against Obama, people will re-start the questions of electability, and he’ll lose the anti-Obama mob (those voters who keep jumping from candidate to candidate NOT because they like the candidate but simply because the candidate looks like they can win — they were starting with Bachmann, then they all jumped to Perry, then when PErry faltered they jumped to Cain because of the hype on his debate performance).
If Cain can get elected, I won’t be dissappointed, although I increasingly see him as a dangerous pick because unlike his supporters, I actually want someone who knows what they are doing in the White House. I’m not a believer in “amateur Hour at the Oval Office”.
“And yet Cain’s campaign chair is doing interviews where he says they handled this wrong”
It really doesn’t matter. This will be old news in two weeks.
Eventually the media will bring it up and they will be ignored by the Cain campaign and by Cain. “We’ve answered all of the questions regarding the “baseless and false” accusations and we are now continuing the campaign.”
The media sees Romney as their next target and will move on after being ignored. Cain will survive.
Conservatives will rally around him and give more money.