I agree. I don’t like how he’s handled these issues - and I think, well, I know, he’s assembled a very flawed team that includes a number of folks who themselves don’t understand what Cain is all about - and the notion of going into a “holding pattern” of 72 hours while you re-assess is just death by amateurism. (If you re-assess, do so in private while publicly you are full speed ahead!).
BUT, he’s a good man and a great story, and I HATE HATE HATE that anyone can be sidetracked by what is obviously a manipulated smear campaign.
To paraphrase Clarence Thomas, Cain gave them the hammer to hit him with at this point. This all could have been dealt with before he entered the race. He could have come clean with his wife so she would not get blindsided by him never having told her about giving money to a woman. He didn't. Just what was he thinking? That he could keep this buried, and all that could be insinuated from such? And I defended him against the flood of unsubstantiated allegations. But this is his own words - that he never told his wife about it.
On one level I agree with you on not publicly re-assessing, but just think what would happen if he did it that way and got out.
Right here on this forum there would be people who would accuse him of keeping up a pretense just to get more contributions when he 'knew all the time he was getting out'.
Also, he's shooting straight and open with us which is one of the things we like about him. He's not a skank politician playing angles.
We need to find a way to dismantle the filthy and dishonest personal destruction corp and I hope he stays in and leads the way!