It still smells of Romney and Rove.
After thinking about this, I think it has Team Obama’s fingerprints on it. They have the time and resources. They don’t even have to make a big deal out of it if they are caught.
I believe that Obama has a strategy to deal with Romney, and the the OWS stuff is part of it. If they have something on Romney’s time with Bain that looks bad, they can try to ride that to victory. In Perry’s case, they would try to paint him as the second coming of George W. Bush. Neither of these work with Cain.
Smells of LBJ Texas style politics.
Good. I despise Romney, but even so I can’t imagine him doing something like this, and I definitely can’t imagine Perry doing it.
On top of that, even leaving aside ethical considerations, there’d be no benefit in it to any of the top runners. I suspect that Cain has peaked and his inexperience is becoming a little too apparent, so simply letting him go on and make a few more silly statements will probably be sufficient to make him evaporate during the nearly 2 months between now and the first primary.
Also, the people who are fervent Cain fans are like the really rabid Palin fans, they’re very personally oriented and it’s not likely that they would transfer their affections to anybody else at this point.
Actually, the only person who stands to gain from this is Cain, who will get a lot of sympathy. After all, he had three weeks (from the time that Politico told him that they were going to release this and asked if he had any response) to prepare or even to preempt it by coming out first. But he didn’t, meaning he was either very naive or pretty certain it wouldn’t affect him with his followers.
That said, I think it’s an Obama attack. This is exactly what Bambi did to a rival in Chicago: he leaked dirt about the man’s ugly divorce just before the election. And I can see Obama being both vindictive enough and short-sighted enough to do something like this.
I bet that Romney is behind this...
Its just his style...
The knowledge of the Perry lease was known and it was true but the real story behind it was unknown. People knew of the lease as did Perry and it was coming out sometime.
This accusation actually happened and had a paper trail. Doesn't mean Cain did it but the accusation happened with some kind of small payout with the understanding this would be kept quiet.
This was not an underhanded move by anyone but just another nothings really there story on a skeleton Cain had in his closet.
Cain’s sin is being black and republican. Anita Hill redux. She was a fraud also.
It reeks of Romney.
Don’t want to get into an argument here but it was the republicans who tried to destroy Perot with a bogus story that his daughter was lesbian and that he was paranoid that the Viet Cong was trying to kill him. None of the leaked stories were true. Just saying I wouldn’t put it past a republican elite.
As for obama, he doesn’t need a research team. He has the media in general.
It sounds to much like what the libs did to Justice Thomas. It’s like the Anita Hill complaint, except that the women were bound the settlement to never discuss their complaint again.
The fact is that many men, who are in a position of power, are faced with this type of complaint on a routine basis. For some women, it’s a way of life.
My husband used to routinely document encounters with women that he would interview for jobs because he knew that a lot of them were more interested in filing a law suit than they were in the job that they were applying for. It happened, especially in the nineties.
This thing has Romney written all over it.
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Why is there even a story in the first place?
Romney’s getting nervous not being the front-runner anymore.
I think Romney did this.
The stench of Romney is all over this. Round the clock Fox News and the National Review reporting makes me believe this is definitely Romney. Romney is known for sending contacts out to destroy his opposition. He can get the benefit of the smear without having to do the smearing himself. If this is the work of the democrats, it is at Romney’s prompting.
They are scared shiftless over this because they know that the only GOP Candidate who can beat Obama is another Black Man ... not “just” a black but an AMERICAN black ... a man with a truly resonating AMERICAN story to tell.
The MSM and the rich and powerful on all sides ... GOP, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, etc, ... are afraid of a debate between Cain and Unable-Obama because it will illuminate the ignorance and un-Americanism of Barack Hussein Obama.
I've said elsewhere ... the rich and powerful want to remain that way ... and they think that by having Obama in the White House four more years will maintain their status quo if not make them richer.
We The People will not allow the Media, the GOP, the Democrats, the community organizers, Donald Trump, Ron Paul, etc, to choose OUR Candidate.