Texas,
My point has never been about someone making a sudden allegation, my point is his former employer paid out money over an allegation against him, years ago, and he had NO IDEA! How do you have NO IDEA?? You are running for the Presidency, if you are serious about it, you know your life is going to be picked over and you should have your house in order. Do you think George Bush didn’t know about the DUI that the Gore Camp pulled out of their pocket in October of 2000?
This was an event his name was tied to in his past on the RECORD, not just something someone said.. it was documented and known! He should have known this was going to come up as a potential issue and should have been ready for it.. He was clearly blindsided by it, flailed around for days, lashed out and accused folks who had nothing to do with it, then backtracked. The guys not ready.. if he can be put into this sort of disarray over something that is out there in his own past he should have known about, how the hell is he going to handle a true crisis?
You keep trying to say he couldn’t have known, and that’s not true.. he not only could have known about this payout, he SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT IT.
To cut Cain slack, he is a political novice and knows little about the process. He chose to have minimal advisers, and the one he has, Block, is a total doofus and should have been dumped sometime ago. He is totally out of this league at this point.
He didn’t know, he wasn’t involved in the investigation, all he knows it was REALLY happened (which was nothing) he had no idea what ELSE was alleged to have occured, and the company not him decided as a business decision it was cheaper to just pay the lying ho than to take it to court, none of the exact details were known to Cain, he may have in one case learned after the fact that the company paid her a severance, but he had no details and since he didn’t actually DO anything, how was he to know that something was going to come up? nothing came up in the investigation, and he KNOWS he did nothing wrong.
All your statements assume he did something wrong he knew was out there and could come back to haunt him.
All my statements assume he did NOTHING and thus knows NOTHING about what supposedly happened, because it NEVER HAPPENED, and he never saw exactly what he was accused of and had to wait to see exactly what lie was being told against him in order to respond to it.
Again if you approach this as ... he did nothing, and all this is lies, then everything makes more sense.