It seems Herman Cain isn’t a professional politician. But he might just be a sexual predator. Don’t touch Herman!!!
Herman Cain’s Long Odds Get Lengthier After Sex Harassment Report
Categories: 2012, Republicans
09:00 am
October 31, 2011 by Frank James
The heretofore surging Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was lifted by news Saturday that he was tied with Mitt Romney at the top of the Des Moines Register’s poll of likely Iowa caucus attendees. Then he was hit by heavy turbulence when Politico reported that, as head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, he was at least twice accused of sexually harassing behavior by women who left after receiving payments from the trade group.
By the time Halloween ends, Cain will have had at least two high-profile chances in front of TV cameras and audiences to answer questions about the charges at two previously arranged events.
He had scheduled appearances at the American Enterprise Institute to talk about his 9-9-9 tax plan and another at the National Press Club. (And probably many other chances, too, since anytime reporters see him, they’ll surely put relevant questions to him.)
Cain’s spokesman, Mark Block of the viral “smoking” video, told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on MSNBC Monday morning: “Herman Cain has never sexually harassed anybody, period. End of story.” We don’t think so.
Obviously, we can’t know now how this will all play out. There’s evidence some conservatives are rallying around him, viewing the revelation as a dirty trick by liberals. Some see similarities to sexual harassment bomb that went off during the Senate confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas
But there’s also the suspicion that Cain is on the receiving end of oppo research by one of his rival Republican candidates. Opposing campaigns would clearly have a motive for wanting to burst the Herman Cain bubble.
Then there’s the possibility that someone just thought the public had a right to know that these allegations existed and that there wasn’t a political agenda per se.
Of course, it could be some combination of the above.
Whatever the case, Cain faced long odds to win the nomination even before the harassment allegations surfaced. Those odds have obviously gotten even longer.
One problem for Cain is that most voters still don’t know much about him. They know about his tax plan and they know that he’s the charismatic black Republican with the stentorian voice.
They may know he once ran Godfather’s Pizza. But he hasn’t been in the public’s consciousness for all that long. They don’t have a long experience of his character. So the report that his behavior made some women so uncomfortable at the restaurant association that they left and that the organization gave them money going out the door gains more traction than it would with a well-known candidate long viewed as having high character.
How much Texas Gov. Rick Perry or any other anyone-but-Romney candidate will benefit from the disclosures is obviously on the minds of many as the new work week starts.
While Cain appealed to some of the same Tea Party supporters as Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, those candidates have some serious weaknesses in voters’ eyes also.
So it’s not so straightforward that any Cain loss of support would automatically mean significant gains for Perry or Bachmann.
Persnickety says:
I hear that there’s a senior position open at the CDC…
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31st October 2011 at 11:19 am
Axel says:
Ha ha. Clever headline.
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31st October 2011 at 11:21 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Oh sure, Frank James, a big time leftie from National Public Radio who originally hailed from, drum roll please, the Chicago Tribune. Wonder who he got his marching orders from? Perhaps the Obama campaign which is, drum roll please, HQ’d in Chicago?
Yup,NRP, the same outfit whose former boss thought that Juan Williams needed a psychiatrist.
Any time a black person goes off the Democrat Plantation, they are subjected to a high-tech lynching.
Funny, how this “information” surfaces just as Cain is surging in the polls, about something that happened, oh how conveniently, 20 years ago.
Look, there are several reasons why Cain should not be president, not the least was that he had Stage IV colon cancer 5 years ago, but this ain’t it.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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31st October 2011 at 11:33 am
Administrator says:
Sorry Hope. Scorning the messenger doesn’t work. Google the story and you get 2,895 stories from every news agency. So Solly.
USA Today:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/10/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-charges-/1
Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1031/Herman-Cain-denies-report-of-sexual-harassment
Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/30/herman_cain_s_sexual_harassment_story.html
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31st October 2011 at 11:38 am
Administrator says:
Cain is a dumbass douchebag.
He’s the Marie Antoinette of this revolution: “Let them eat cake”.
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31st October 2011 at 11:41 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
So Admin, because there are many different news feeds handling this story that there must be some truth to them?
So I can then infer because there are thousands of stories, and first hand accounts, of the craziness surrounding the OWs movement, that they are also telling the truth about it?
Shooting the messenger cuts both ways.
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31st October 2011 at 11:45 am
TeresaE says:
This will only gain legs if the MSM reports it, as in the networks.
At this time in the Obama campaign, all sorts of rumors, videos and lie-detectors were flying and not ONE MSM “journalist” looked into any of it.
We’ll see where this one goes.
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31st October 2011 at 11:49 am
Persnickety says:
I wouldn’t vote for Cain given his association with the Fraud, err I mean Fed. But HZK is quite right that seeing one accusation in multiple news outlets means nothing. Let’s see how this one plays out.
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31st October 2011 at 11:53 am
Administrator says:
HZK
I posted the story just like the other outlets. I didn’t say the accusations were true. It’s a free country isn’t it? For now.
You are the one who accused the NPR dude of a hit job. He reported the same story as the other 2,895 sites. It seems you were the one jumping the gun on the liberal press. Tsk Tsk
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31st October 2011 at 12:10 pm
Administrator says:
RUT ROH
Hmm. If there was no wrong doing, why the payments to the two women? I think Wall Street banks do the same thing when they pay fines of $100 million but then say there was no wrong doing. What a great society we live in.
In an exclusive interview on Fox News Channel’s “Happening Now,” GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain acknowledged being accused of sexual harassment by two female employees in the 1990s but vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
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31st October 2011 at 12:28 pm
flash says:
Neocons say don’t be rude to da’ blackman unless of course he’s half-black and a democrat.
Just Be Respectful
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=102017
Home – by Claudia – October 31, 2011 – 11:00 America/New_York – 5 Comments
Herman Cain Tells Rude Ron Paul Loons: “Be Respectful!”
by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit
Republican Herman Cain told rude Ron Paul supporters to be respectful during his speech in Alabama yesterday. The Ron Paul loons wouldn’t let him speak and repeatedly interrupted him.
At a family gathering this weekend , I had a conversation concerning POTUS candidates with a cousin’s husband who is a retired ass.chief of a local pig force.
He let me know early on that he despised Ron Paul and when I queried him why, he could only say that if Paul where elected we’d all be speaking Chinese and even whe I pointed out to him that when Paul presented a bill to end foreign aid to China no other congress critter would support it.
Simply put, neocons are ignorant shitstains on the decaying corpse of the dead Republic
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31st October 2011 at 1:05 pm
Administrator says:
Flash
Don’t hold back. What do you really think?
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31st October 2011 at 1:15 pm
flash says:
@JQ
LOL…by the time the gathering was over, ass clown parasitic thug and I were no longer conversing.
To put it mildly, my tolerance for dimwitted assholes who get 100% of their news and views from Lame Stream Media have permanently waned.
And it often shows when maroons let loose with their ignorant opinions.
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31st October 2011 at 1:22 pm
Stucky says:
In case you all don’t know ……… I despise Cain.
But if RP were every so fortunate to become the front runner, I guaran-damn-tee you that some story will surface where he had sex with a minor, an animal, or whatever. American Politics at its finest.
Not saying the story isn’t true. It might be. I just don’t give a fuck enough to research it cuz Cain will not be able to wint he nomination anyway.
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31st October 2011 at 2:18 pm
howard in nyc says:
yeah, colin powell, condi rice, jc watts, alan keyes, michael steele. they all suffered horrific high-tech lynchings. too bad no one lynched frank raines, high-tech or otherwise. would’ve saved taxpayers a few billion dollars.
herman cain’s character as an evil, predatory scumbag is well established in the public record–he served as president of the board of governors of the federal reserve bank of kansas city.
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31st October 2011 at 2:40 pm
Persnickety says:
Stuck: if RP got the nomination, I’m sure we’d get dozens of stories about the rape-murder of kittens and puppies, each and every one of them named “America”, and all done because he was a closeted gay Muslim suicide bomber wannabe from Iran.
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31st October 2011 at 2:40 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@howard: you’ve proved my point.
Raines made off with millions personally and cost the country billions by his greed and incompetence. Rep William Jefferson was caught with $100K in his freezer. These two were firmly on the Democrat Plantation, hence, little to no media scrutiny, and no allegations of sexual stuff.
But let it be a black conservative, well, the MSM/liberal blogosphere pulls out the “dat ole black buck be cummin after the white wimmins” meme. Look at the vitriol heaped upon Lloyd Marcus, who is a conservative black man and headliner at the Tea Party events, for example, by the folks at daily beast/huffpo/firedoglake.
Sorry, but as a women who has been working (successfully) in a man’s world for almost 26 years, I take these claims of “sexual harrassment” with a huge grain of salt. Perhaps I am too much of a “man” and wear sensible clothes and shoes, and come to work to work, just get the g-d job done, but I can count on the fingers of 1 hand the number of times I could say someone “harrassed” me. Usually I give it right back, with the appropriate hand gestures. Most of the times I’ve seen this card pulled is some ninny-headed feminazi who can’t cut the mustard or thinks that she isn’t being treated “special” enough and pulls this crap. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just that I think it is way way way overblown. It is the ultimate “victim card”, IMHO, about as bad as the race card or the “you’re a nazi” card.
We’ll see. Cain has been in business for a long time and has bound to piss off a few folks.
I just think it is very sad that we can’t talk about his career on its merits instead of this personal crap.
Anita Hill, anyone???
Which reminds me of another high-tech lynching, this one by Joe “Hair Plugs” Biden during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas. (Joe Biden is also pleased that Obama is a clean, nice spoken Negro, a fairy tale, man.) So this Cain smear is a two-fer for the Democrats: Knock Cain down a peg and bring up the Thomas smear. I told you guys that there was going to be a concerted effort to get Thomas to recuse himself from the Obamacare case, now that it is going to the Supremes.
There are NO coincidences in politics.
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31st October 2011 at 3:12 pm
Administrator says:
HCES
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31st October 2011 at 3:17 pm
Administrator says:
I just heard on MSNBC that Rick Perry likes to dress up in a pink ballerina outfit and dance on his tippy toes. Pictures to follow.
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31st October 2011 at 3:20 pm
Administrator says:
I’m sure glad the Neo-con Network Fox doesn’t do hit pieces on Democrats and peaceful protestors. Thankfully, they are the voice of reason in this mixed up liberal world.
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31st October 2011 at 3:22 pm
flash says:
Make no mistake, while the MSM cries sexual harassment, the real dirt on Mr. self-labeled outside DC business suit gets swept under the rug.
Sure there’s a few far left sites covering Aquila and Cain’s involvement with that scandal, but I bet it never sees the light of day on any dumbed down Lamestream news networks
Oh ,BTW Cain was appointed to the Kansan City fed by none other than POS repug G.Dubya Bush.
Time for Herman Cain’s close-up
12:30 pm May 23, 2011, by jgalloway
So begins the scrutiny of Republican presidential campaign Herman Cain.
Mother Jones, a decidedly liberal publication, says the metro Atlanta entrepreneur was involved in some funny business while on the board of directors of a Midwestern energy company named Aquila:
According to five lawsuits filed in federal court in 2004, Aquila’s board of directors—which Cain joined in 1992—allegedly steered employees into heavily investing their retirement savings in company stock. At the same time, the company shifted its business model from straightforward energy generation to risky energy trading, an unregulated market made infamous by now-defunct Enron. The suits, later folded into a single, massive class action, alleged that Cain and top company officials violated a 37-year-old federal law requiring that employers manage employees retirement programs responsibly. (Cain’s presidential exploratory committee did not respond to a request for comment.)
The legal action was settled in 2007 for $10.5 million.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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31st October 2011 at 3:38 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Admin: Glad you have had your Come to Jesus Moment about Fox News. Now just relax and listen and all will be well. (snark off)
I’m just sayin’ that while the liberals yammer on about how open and fair and balanced and inclusive they are, they are totally full of crap with their (breathless) “indignation” about the “venom” from the right.
They need to all look in a mirror sometime, they are ALL full of shit.
@flash: Bring it on. Let’s get all the dirt. We can start with the Obama scandels, Nancy Pelosi increasing her net worth by 5 million $$$ while as Speaker, Barney Frank’s boyfriend running a dating service from their Geotown appartment, etc etc. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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31st October 2011 at 3:50 pm
flash says:
@HZK
I don’t need to throw dirt on either pseudo side of the bi-factional ruling party , they do enough of that on their own..
You’ll know them by their fruit..
And, basically that’s all you need to know.l
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31st October 2011 at 5:21 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Hope, did he do it? That’s the question. WHO CARES who broke it. I’d like to know if there were really payoffs, if so, F this bastard. Whatever gets the sheeple off of this Fed tool works for me.
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31st October 2011 at 5:25 pm
Welshman says:
Flash,
I feel your pain at family gatherings, I have my Mormon Xmas party coming up soon, and some of the shit I have to listen too makes my eyes cross.
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31st October 2011 at 7:09 pm
John says:
If Herman Cain harasses women, does that meanRP is a racist? I “read” that he was.
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31st October 2011 at 8:30 pm