Posted on 11/03/2011 10:16:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Day four of the Herman Cain sexual harassment story is all about the blame game. Team Cain blames Rick Perry for making the press aware of the accusations of inappropriate behavior Cain admits came his way when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s.
Team Perry, meanwhile, says it’s the Mitt Romney campaign who sent the story to Politico. The Perry camp denies strenuously that they had anything to do with the story which is, at its heart, about accusations Cain has admitted are real — though he says he never harassed anybody. Romney’s campaign also denied they’re the source of the story to TPM and other outlets Wednesday.
Meanwhile on the backburner bubbles the possibility that one of the accusers could make a public statement at any moment. That could send this story ricocheting into a different direction, but for now the Cain campaign seems to think they’re onto something by making the tale about who told reporters Cain was accused of sexually harassing more than one woman rather than the fact that Cain was accused of sexually harassing more than one woman.
“Perry Campaign Used Politico to Attack Cain With Anonymous Sexual Harassment Charges,” reads a press release sent out last night by the Cain team. (Of course, Cain’s campaign has admitted the Politico story wasn’t anonymous, but that’s not really important to constructing the Perry-as-leaker narrative.)
Meanwhile, the man Cain himself says is responsible for the story is totally denying Cain’s version of things. Consultant Curt Anderson advised Cain’s 2004 Senate campaign and now works for a firm that works with Perry. Cain said he told Anderson about the sexual harassment allegations during the course a meeting back in 2003, but Anderson categorically denied that this morning on CNN:
“It’s hard to leak something you don’t know anything about,” he said. Asked directly about the conversation Cain claimed they had eight years ago, Anderson said: “I don’t have any knowledge of any of this and, you know, it’s just not true.”
Then on Fox today, Anderson went a step farther.
“All this stuff about who leaked whatever, any reporter in the free world is free to say anything to anybody that I ever said to them about can Herman Cain,” he said. “I give them carte blanche to do that because I have absolutely nothing to hide.”
Perry's Arizona State Coordinator was tweeting about the smear before Politico published it. --- MNJohnnie -- post to Perry threads.
My response after research to an earlier thread
I don't "tweet" so I'm sorry not to get back to you sooner but I had to locate this "AZ State Coordinator" and THE "tweet" that you say was about this "smear."
Now, unless you know more than I do, this is your "evidence," [Oct 31 (Post #9) y af_vet_rr posted a photo of a tweet]
I went to see who she's (slmbolick) on a tweet with (victoria_29) and found an exchange between victoria_29 and "RB Jazzy" where Bolick was *pinged*
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victoria_29 @ @RBJazzy Hon Facts are NOT slime....Cain is slimy you're just too damn lazy to research or maybe just too RINO@PROUDofTEXAS @slmbolick
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victoria_29 goes on to exchange with RBJazzy Cain's flip-flops, pro-live and 2nd Amendment issues, along with his support of Pro-Choice Dems over GOP in Nebraska -- then let's RBJazzy know that talking about someone's record isn't an attack. This was a segment of exchanges in a longer list of tweets about an awful baseball game victoria_29 was watching and tweeting about.
Now I'm sure you'd like to make it that the AZ coordinator was talking about Cain's latest problems but it appears that only his previous "misstatements" and positions were being debated with the expectation more would come out when she tweeted: "This is the same thing I’m hearing in AZ! Wait until they actually do the oppo on @THEHermanCain. It’s not pretty."
Go to Red State and watch the video of Anderson's interview and see who convinces you.
There must be some special award for spin like this. It shows you will accept any candidate no matter how flawed and twist events to make them look good. Why?
Disavowing the actions of subordinates while keepign the two party in question working for Perry is highly suspect.
it’s beginning to look like descriptions of Cain as “winging it”
“not ready for prime-time”
might be true.
I don’t want it to be true, but this is freaking weird.
What is really worrisome is if the Cain campaign does continue. The outcomes are all bad. If Cain wins the nomination I don't see any way he beats obama. The women stories will keep coming out and Cain's inability to stay on message will not sit well with the independents. If he stays in the campaign for the nomination the conservative vote splits and Romney wins the delegates from take all states and in turn gets the nomination with probably less than half of the Pubs supporting him.
I'm hoping the more rational Cain supporters are starting to see the problems with their guy. He lies. He is inconsistent in his positions. He throws out the race card at the first sign of trouble. He throws out the intolerance card to hurt other candidates with no proof to back it up. He makes accusations with no proof. He has an incompetent staff around him.
Lord help us if he is the nominee. We will lose a great opportunity to roll back liberalism. As another poster noted on another thread Cain is another Christine O'Donnell.
Speak for only yourself Normy. I’m a Cain supporter, and I don’t like him and his camp pointing fingers one bit. I’ve been saying this for the past 24 hours.
It’s terrible and most Republicans don’t go for this stuff. Obviously a few do but most of us don’t.
This Herb guy has a problem. He has gone after Perry like a hit man. What’s THAT all about? Romeny gets grins and Perry gets the fork over. It’s always Cain making the salad. Is Cain every bit as interested in taking out Perry as even running for his own nomination? Looks like kook territory to me giving Romney a curious pass on suspicion, but then works as his mouthpiece. I have been WAY too generous to Cain, but boy have I bucked the bridle off now. I’m madder than a hen on Sunday! Cain is so toast.
Perry-bot? LOL! There isn’t a single candidate that has the skill, brains, or instinct to be President. I wouldn’t vote for any of these jokers if there was a gun to my head.
I think as it starts to look more and more like there really is something to these stories it's also likely we will hear there are even more women. Also, this may explain why he hasn't had more support from within the business community.
I think I might have asked why would a Christian allow such a sign on property he/she leased? Don’t think I ever got an answer to that one.
Please accept my apology.
Though it may not have been necessary, I believe Herman Cain did apologize to Rick Perry. He is a gentleman, after all.
The hunting acres leased were one tiny part of a HUGE piece of land. They didn’t ALLOW anything. Just keep milking this Paperdoll. It suits your sense of fair play.
When? Give me a quote. You can't. He didn't.
There is evidence that a man named Anderson, who headed up Mr. Cain’s campa;ign when herun for the Senate, and knew about the false charges and Company settlement, now works for the same company which is handling Rick Perry’s campaign. Maybe that is why Perry is suspect.
Herman Cain is no gentleman. A gentleman doesn't throw false accusations at people who rely on their character to feed their families.
Herman Cain is looking more like a big selfish jerk who relies on his smile and charm for fame and fortune. I do know this he doesn't regard the person he accuses falsely and how it could affect their livelihood.
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