I bet this is a combination of Obuggery and Myth Remulak.
Mitt and the vichey. They’re going to Clarence Thomas him. It’s not whether it’s true, it’s the seriousness of the charge. Mitt and the old guard are Anita Hill.
This is going around the Blaze, Facebook, and other sites right now. It seems a staffer in an opponents camp magically knew this was coming a few days before it hit and, shock, tweeted about it.
http://www.twitter.com/#!/slmbolick/status/129770632018788352
Why bring up a Republican rival?
Is he trying to imply something?
Someone needs to dig into Politico and find out.
It could be Romney. It could be the RINO Establishment. It could be any of Cain’s other opponents. And it could be Gang Obama.
Obama might do it if their internal polling shows that Cain would wipe the floor with him in the general election.
I suspect the Rovebot GOP Establishment is behind this. They have been doing everything they can to derail Cain. This sort of sleazy tactics is right up their ally.
On one side (Politico) you have this:
We have a report where we know nothing about the accusers and the specifics of the accusations from a dozen years ago.They, at this point, are simply reported very vaguely by Politico: “episodes that left the women upset and offended” and “physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable," and that, "they regarded as improper in a professional relationship.”
We have allegation of payoff in the five figure range, but again, nothing specific. IMHO, until the accusers come up with something much more specific, like names, dates and places, it is going to continue to be nothing more than an attemted smear campaign from my perspecitve.
Maybe Politico has more...time will tell, but at this point, it's not out there.
Ron Magruder, Denise Marie Fugo and Joseph Fassler, the chair, vice chair and immediate past chairman of the National Restaurant Association board of directors through the entire time of Cain’s position at the Restruant Association, said they hadn’t heard about any complaints regarding Cain making unwanted advances.“I have never heard that. It would be news to me,” said Fugo, who runs a Cleveland, Ohio, catering company, adding such behavior would be totally out of character for the Cain she knew. “He’s very gracious.”
Fassler, who helped bring Cain on board as CEO of the restaurant association, said that any inappropriate behavior was not brought to his attention and that he would be upset to learn it had gone on and he was not made aware of it.
“That’s a shock to me,” Fassler said. “As an officer during all of Herman’s years there as a paid executive… none of that stuff ever surfaced to me. Nobody ever called me, complained about this, nor did I ever hear that from Peter Kilgore, nor did I ever hear that from Herman Cain.”
Fassler — who ran a Phoenix food-service company and finished his term as chairman the month before Cain’s June 1999 departure but remained on the board’s executive committee — described Cain as treating men and women identically and asserted it was “not within his character” to make unwanted advances. “It’s not what I know of him,” Fassler said.
Much like Fassler, almost all board members remember Cain fondly and say he left on good terms.
Cain was “extremely professional” and “fair” to female staffers at the restaurant association, recalled Lee Ellen Hayes, who said she “worked fairly closely with” Cain in the late 1990s, when she was an executive at the National Restaurant Association Education Fund, a Chicago-based offshoot of the group.
Cain’s treatment of women was “the same as his treatment of men. Herman treated everyone great,” said Mary Ann Cricchio, who was elected to the board of the restaurant group in 1998. She said Cain left such a good impression on the organization that when he spoke at a group event in January of this year, as he was considering a presidential bid, “he had unanimous support in the room.”
So, at this pont, who you gonna believe?
And, at this point I do not believe it was the DNC that did this. Too soon. They would have held it for the general. I believe some RINOs, afraid of what Cain represents and his climb in the polls, are taking shots at him.
But, they will have to be a LOT more spoecific than this, and Cain's responses today have been forthright in denial. He said the accusations were flat out false, and everyone who knows the man and has worked with him indicates such accusations are not believable.
This is exactly how Mitt Romney’s political aides work.
This guy needs to wake up and smell the petunias. If this were a rival, they would have waited until AFTER the primaries and convention. If Cain won, THEN you dump it out.
Hard to believe? Really?
DC establishment red/blue, don’t matter, they’ll try to keep out anyone that might not play ball.
I was involved in a crowded Republican primary for Congress. Most of the opposition research wasn’t used, but all the candidates and their campagns had a fair idea of what was out there on everybody else.
That’s basic prep. Don’t be caught off guard.
Silly and bad message discipline for a Perry op to hint at what’s to come, but that doesn’t mean that the Perry camp is behind the story. At this point, the accusation of republican fratricide is as serious as the story itself, and shouldn’t be made lightly or without evidence.
We should deal in facts. They’ll come out.
I really hope Cain doesn’t do days of denails on this story. He gave one and that is enough unless something else surfaces that contradicts him.
I really like Cain even though I am not committed to him as a candidate, but I know a slime job when I see one. This is despicable stuff.
Go Herman.
So, could Politico be making it up?
We should assume they are until they out their sources. Then we can fairly evaluate the sources ...
Some of Cain’s trailer-park-trash supporters are accusing Christian gentleman, Rick Perry. No doubt the same ones who reacted with excitable fervor over Cain’s remarks/’joke’ about electrocuting Mexicans.
