Three reasons Herman Cain should oust Mark Block

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/09/2011 | Matt Lewis

[martosko]

By the time most people knew the name Mark Block, Herman Cain‘s campaign was already on the rise. And with the release of a bizarre web ad showing him smoking, Block became a full-blown political celebrity. (At the time, I remarked that it was a mistake for a strategist to seek the limelight. After all, the campaign should be about Herman Cain.)

Then, the scandals started to hit. And in the week or so since the allegations of sexual harassment first surfaced, Cain’s team has failed to put out a series of fires. What is more, Block threw fuel on the fire, alienating some conservatives by publicly accusing Rick Perry’s campaign of being behind the leak (before walking it back) — and later — falsely claiming a former Politico reporter named Josh Kraushaar was the son of Cain accuser Karen Kraushaar. These are the kinds of accusations that one does not cavalierly make without being sure the facts are correct. And yet Block made them on national television.

For obvious reasons, some have concluded that for Herman Cain to have any shot at turning things around, he must dispatch Block. Here are three reasons Cain should consider making the move:

[Java4Jay]

YES! ... Block must go, yesterday not soon enough

[PizzaDriver]

Almost 20% of working Americans are “evil smokers” another 25% are EX-Smokers. Does any campaign really want to vilify that large a group?

[CharlesWayneCT]

I won’t say if Block should go. But Block can’t go.

Cain has no public office record. He has little to show on how he would surround himself with competent people to make up for the areas in which he has no experience, which are many.

If he fired Block, it would be an admission that, in his first real decision he had to make as a public official, he picked the wrong person.

Some might argue that he also picked people for his senate run. But he lost that race pretty soundly.

[Scythian]

I've got connections, people in high places, I can get Cain elected, one way or another ...

[org.whodat]

Oh, oh, oh, my little sensitivity hurts, oh, oh, oh, take an aspirin and grow up.

[Recovering_Democrat]

While we’re at it, can we demand POLITICO fire their chief of staff for allowing that Kardashian kid, or whoever the hell he is, to remain on their web site listed as a “reporter” when he no longer is employed?

I mean, they’re a NEWS site, right? And they cannot even get their own STAFF pages accurate? Makes one wonder what else on their site is totally wrong.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t think Cain wants to reprise the Obama Model where everyone goes under the bus the second they become politically inconvenient.

[org.whodat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2804047/posts

[ReveBM]

The campaign is being driven by forces greater than Mark Block or no Mark Block right now. Switching from Block to someone else is only a hypothetical benefit and has the downside of integrating someone new into this situation. There will be plenty of time to add additional advisors if Cain survives and wins Iowa. Block would become a smaller part of a larger team in that event. Block just needs to control himself more. You don’t dump your friends in the middle of sh*t like this. Block should stay, warts and all.
All Cain needs to do is to listen closely to his new advisor, L. Lin Wood’s advice on how to handle the allegations and for Block to stay on message.

[bobk333]

The Daily Caller and Tucker Carlson have been Rick Perry henchmen the whole time. (Britt Hume on Fox has been the most prominent henchman.)

Herman Cain should not be taking advice from his enemies, who have been acting like a pack of wolves. They have been calling for Herman Cain to “come clean” when he has been wrongly accused. This pack of wolves have also been overblowing Cain’s slightly slow reaction to the first allegations, trying to make Cain and his campaign look incompetent, when in reality they have, overall, run one of the most brilliant campaigns we’ve ever seen.

To all Cain supporters: We cannot waver.

We can’t let the Establishment politicians like Rick Perry and Mitt Romney and their friends in the media beat down an outsider and a good man like Herman Cain. If they do, we in the Tea Party have little chance of achieving our goals.

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[Beagle8U]

“All Cain needs to do is to listen closely to his new advisor, L. Lin Wood’s advice on how to handle the allegations and for Block to stay on message.”

I'm not too sure L. Lin Wood's advice is all that great. Didn't he read Cain's statement notes before he went on?

Cain stressed the point that he had never even seen the blond bimbo that just came out and accused him. He then went on about how he always remembers faces, names, even voices of people he meets.

As soon as the presser is over, Bret Bair comes on ‘Special Report’ with the ( 1/2 day old ) story about Cain hugging the lady a month ago at a rally. The story claims there are pictures/tape of it.

That IMO was pretty pizz-poor advice from a high dollar Attorney.

[Cicero]

I think the smoking ad was terrific. Personally, I gave up smoking 50 years ago. But I really liked the way it kicked political correctness in the face.

As for the Perry blame, that was probably a mistake. But there was (and still is) some reason to suspect that Perry may have had some input. There are connections. No, the charge shouldn’t have been made without more proof, but it wasn’t totally out of bounds.

I agree. If Mark Block is as good as he seems to be in most of his work, then it would be foolish to throw him under the bus because the liberal press is complaining about him.

Cain will make it or not make it on his own efforts. And presumably Block will be a bit more careful about making similar charges in public. Maybe he can use proxies and distance himself a bit, like most of the other political operators do!

[Java4Jay]

As soon as the presser is over, Bret Bair comes on ‘Special Report’ with the ( 1/2 day old ) story about Cain hugging Bialek a month ago at a rally. The story claims there are pictures/tape of it.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Cain-Accuser-I-Didnt-Hug-Him-133541363.html

as reported by Amy Jacobson who has a troubled past also

http://www.therightscoop.com/witness-cain-accuser-hugged-him-during-tea-party-meeting-a-month-ago/

This is all too goofy

[Cicero]

Cain does have a good memory for people. Apparently he got the Godfather’s Pizza managers together for meetings and expected them to know everyone’s names. I presume he also knows names and faces of organizers he meets with at fundraisers and the like.

But even the best guy at remembering people might forget someone who happened to run into him at one of a whole series of large gatherings of different people all over the place, which is what he has been involved with these past few months.

So, he’s supposed to remember meeting a woman whom he happened to run into a month ago at a large gathering? Who had not been working directly for him at the NRA, and who was not fired directly by him, either, as I understand it?

[Java4Jay]

Conflicting stories;

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Cain-Accuser-I-Didnt-Hug-Him-133541363.html

http://www.eurweb.com/2011/11/witness-sharon-bialek-was-hugging-herman-cain-last-month/

Where is Cain’s handlers and security team on this, should be lots of witnesses on this matter.

[mosesdapoet]

Party members who don’t believe in social issues and support a given candidate (Romney) opposed to Cain will be using material developed by liberal MSM this to advance their guy..

Charlie Sykes a conservative talk show host at Milwaukee’s WTMJ am 620 8:30 till noon daily slot has spent his second week setting a segment of his time going after Mark Block, Cain’s chief of staff as arrogant,and inept and warns Block will wind up embarrassing Cain because of Mark Block’s alledged mishandling of funds here in Wisconsin ..

Sykes citing some personal problems he’s had with Block opened up on Block 10/26/11 and claimed the ad depicting Block smoking a cigarette was pure ego and the focus would be on Block. Sykes is the kind of guy who doesn’t see smoking bans as a goverment intrusion.

Now Sykes was very helpfull in uncovering the shenanigans of the WDPO (Wisconsin Democratic Party Operatives) and to a great extent highly influential when Wisconsin voters went to the polls and threw out the democrats state wide.
Without his efforts the Wisconsin result may have turned out differently .

But Sykes is a middle of the road eliteist. A kind of Repbulican Blue Blood. He may claim he isn’t but he is.

Sykes is one of several talk show hosts and RINOS who are infulenced by MSM positions particularly on social issues. When the subject of the Keyes vs Obama race for Illinois US senator, Deleware’s O’Donnell or the Nevada Sharon Angle US senatorial races comes up he will decry the conservative position on social issues these candidates took ..

Sykes will never bring up the disasters in California where most of those statewide and US candidates took middle of the road positions and sunk like lead balloons to the bottom of the water closet.

While not yet openly endorsing Romney, in the 08 presidential Sykes endorsed NY mayor Rudy Giuliani . Sykes was almost a loss for words when Romney refused to reply to the Ohio union question raised by a reporter. Needless that lack of support went as they say viral. In fact Sykes reaction was amusing to those who loyally follow him but have a pretty good idea where this Charley is comming from.

[MayflowerMadam]

Yeah; Block has done a terrible job, as evidenced by Cain’s weak performance in polling. /sarc/