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by Bill Press
We knew it couldn't last. We knew something would eventually derail the Cain Train. We just never suspected it would be this.
Herman Cain is by no means the first powerful man to be accused of sexual harassment. And, as of this writing, we don't know whether he's guilty or not. We still don't know all the facts. But what we do know doesn't look good.
As first reported by Politico, we know that two unnamed women, former employees of the
Even though one might logically surmise that the NRA would never have agreed to any cash settlement with the two employees unless their charges were serious, Cain still denies any wrongdoing. I was present at the
For now, not knowing all the facts, what is most shocking about the Cain scandal is not so much the accusations made against him as the candidate's inept response. Faced with such serious charges, you'd expect a serious candidate to lay out the facts in order to clear his name. Instead, the Cain camp resorted to the lowest of stereotypical conservative counterattacks.
First, they tried to blame it on the "liberal media." In a call to Geraldo Rivera on
Then they rushed to play the race card. The Cain campaign emailed supporters: "Don't let the media 'lynch' another black conservative." And commentator Ann Coulter actually argued that Politico would never have published their story about alleged sexual misconduct if Herman Cain had been a white man. Guess she forgot about John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, John Ensign, Mark Sanford, David Vitter, Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Eliot Spitzer and Bob Packwood.
Even those two lame excuses disappeared within 24 hours when Cain found another enemy to blame: primary opponent Rick Perry! Again, after initially insisting he had no recollection of being charged with sexual harassment, Cain suddenly remembered he had told Curt Anderson, consultant for his 2004 Georgia U.S.
But the point is: Let Herman Cain play the blame game. No matter how many times he changes his story, in the end it doesn't matter who leaked the story to Politico, Rick Perry or Ron Paul. The only question is: What really happened at the
And there's only one way to find out: for the
After all, if Herman Cain has the right to go on national television and call them liars, surely the women involved have a right to tell their side of the story. Then we'll know who's really telling the truth.
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