I’ve been listening to Rush and he has totally gone overboard defending Cain.
I just sent him an e-mail explaining to him why I distrust Cain.
In fact, I’ll post it here, if nobody minds or even if they do.
The subject line was: Cain CAN lie
Dear Rush,
I’m a Perry supporter but I was furious when the charges against Cain came out. The charges themselves seemed puny… I mean, what man in business hasn’t offended somebody…men and women.
It was a painful reminder of what happened to the great Clarence Thomas… still a blot on our history.
I think almost everybody was on board with Cain when this first came out. However, it should have been over in 24 hours.
The person who’s most to blame for keeping it alive is Cain, in my opinion. You can blame that on political naiveté or the fact that he’s never been a major candidate and therefore never had to deal with attacks, but he’s handled it so badly.
Sometimes he refuses to talk about it and sometimes he talks too much.
The final blow, to me, was when he, through his odd campaign manager, accused Perry of being the source of the leak.
Cain has had a strange hatred of Perry for a long time, first demonstrated on Meet the Press when he took the bait on The Rock story and came very close to accusing Perry of racism based on the rock. Talk about bogus hit pieces.
Then he made the unnecessarily and weird announcement that he was open to be veep for any candidate except Perry. Since there was no other viable candidate, that sounded like a shout out to Romney.
Then he accuses Perry unjustly of leaking this story.
He’s crowed a bit about the increase in donations since the story broke.
Sorry, you think you have no influence (ha,ha) but I attribute that increase directly to you and your very great (and mostly valuable) influence on the public.
Your fan and admirer for many years,
LLS