Cain’s campaign doubles down on their false, baseless charges. Why Cain thinks the right response to being attacked by an unsubstantiated charge is to make his own false charges is beyond me.
I also liked how the story threw in that the Cain campaign knew their press release was lying about the politico story as well, but treated that as simply normal now for Cain.
When did Cain’s campaign turn from the cheery, upbeat campaign to the one most likely to level false accusations?
Then there is this: ““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.”
That is going to sting. Politico can now verify that Anderson wasn’t their source, and never talked to them. And since Cain and Block have both publicly claimed the KNEW he was the source, when Politico says no, they will be publicly caught in a bold-faced lie.
And while many conservatives have no trouble believing that a harassment charge was trumped up, or just a misunderstanding, we all know that lying is serious, especially a lie told NOW.
How will Cain handle this? Will he simply say Politico is lying to cover for Perry? Will his campaign make more false charges? Will their attacks on the women coming forward prompt other women to come to their defense? Will more conservative talk-show hosts and other conservatives come forward with stories, now that Cain is showing himself to NOT be the nice guy people thought?
This was all easily avoidable, with a single solid press release on Sunday night. Cain might not have ever had to discuss this publicly, or if he did, it would be a 1-day story.
But he pretty much forced the women to defend themselves, he made the story about how he was reacting, and now he’s made the story about his own inability to tell the truth. Which makes no sense, because while he is clearly amateur-hour and increasingly reveals his lack of qualifications to be the leader of the free world, up until now he had largely avoided problems of personal veracity, even though he has been caught in other lies and had to apologize (like his false attack on Perry over the rock).
It appears not only to be a false, baseless charge, but at this point it seems hardly a word Cain uttered in that first day after the story broke wasn’t a lie.
In his morning Fox interview, he was blinking more than twice a second—a reliable sign of lying. In his evening interview with Greta he was controlling his blinking, but repeatedly licking his lips: another clear sign of lying.
Now virtually everything he and his campaign said in that timeframe is revealed as a baseless lie: that he had ‘confessed’ to Curt Anderson in 2003, that he didn’t remember the allegations, wasn’t aware if there was any settlement or if the second woman made any explicit charges, and of course that he could hardly remember the complaints, given that they were all as innocent as his commenting on hist wife’s height.
I’m done with Mr. Cain and I don’t want him anywhere near the GOP ticket or a possible GOP administration.
>>>>>>"""Cain’s campaign doubles down on their false, baseless charges. Why Cain thinks the right response to being attacked by an unsubstantiated charge is to make his own false charges is beyond me.""""
That is very interesting, and one can theorize a lot about that one. Something is just not right in the Cain camp, JMO. Why didn't he go after Romney, maybe because he wants to stay on Romney's good side for VP. I dunno.
Let's KNOCK out Perry, and all it would take is a simple accusation. Now that Cain has seen that the people still LOVE and adore him, he is free to behave and speak as he wishes. If that is the case that man is a true politician.
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.