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Herman Cain is Reckless and Arrogant
Rick Perry Report ^ | Nov 1, 2011 | Joe Hyde

Posted on 11/01/2011 7:53:42 PM PDT by bullypulpit

Rick Perry Report

If you read between the lines of the various news reports about the Cain operation, the picture becomes clearer to me every day. The latest dust up about the sexual harassment of employees confirms it.

Leading up to the sex scandal, we had the clues. Now I know it to be so, that Herman Cain is an ass, and he's reckless.

The first clue came just after Cain placed poorly in the Iowa straw polls. We heard from disgruntled former Cain staffers:

Jim Zeiler, the regional field director who was one of the five disgruntled staffers who left, explained his decision with a devastating assessment of Cain, saying the candidate was more interested in jet-setting than running a campaign that incorporates traditional grass-roots techniques.

"He’s not inquisitive. He wants to be in front of the adoring crowds, but he doesn’t seem to be interested in the issues," said Zeiler, a former regional field director for Cain’s campaign.

(Source: Politico, "Cain's campaign crash continues at Ames")

Mr. Zeiler was a disgruntled former staffer. This kind of tripe is expected in today's coarse society. No one gets asked to leave, or quits in anger, without throwing the former boss under the bus. If you've ever employed people, you know this. A good friend of mine, an employer in the retail industry, told me that his strategy when interviewing potential new hires is to ask himself "How long will it be before this person screws me," not if he/she will screw me. The "screw" is inevitable.

So, it's easy to dismiss this accusation as the disgruntled ex-employee getting his last jab. The "screw."

Since Cain staffer Jim Zeiler has left, however, we have seen how Herman Cain isn't very sharp on the issues. He certainly isn’t 'presidential material smart.' I only posted five gaffes here. I have 10-20 more. Electric fences, anyone? Do you think he's serious about learning the issues? I don't. My radar was still searching, though.

Next, we hear that Herman Cain doesn't want staffers to speak to him unless those staffers are spoken to them by Cain first. Apparently this rule is enforced when staffers are chauffeuring the candidate around. The New York Times sources that accusation from an intercepted email in the reporter's hands that originated from campaign leadership. Was it from "The Smoking Man"?

For goodness sake, the poor drivers for Cain are probably star-struck young interns or volunteers. Do barely paid, or volunteer campaign workers deserve to be treated that way?

To be fair, Cain explained that he does tell people driving him to shut up when he's preparing for a speech. In this Right Scoop video, he's all chuckles about it. I thought that it was reasonable. Maybe. My radar was honing in, though.

I re-read the Times article tonight, in light of the sex scandal. The article details more arrogant behavior.

  1. Two staffers said they were asked by Cain's campaign to sign non-disclosure statements. What?
  2. Despite having a skeleton staff, Cain spent no time organizing with them, or communicating with them (was he too good for them?)
  3. Campaign staff expressed disillusionment over Cain's preference to promote his book instead of tend to basic campaign tactics. Once again, a problem of communication with his skeleton campaign staff.
  4. Lack of commitment to campaign workers. It costs nothing to procure email addresses for campaign staff. Cain wouldn't do that. What kind of team building is that? Apparently Cain didn't want to communicate; he refused to supply nearly free email addresses from which he could communicate with staff. Maybe he thought the people on his staff were throwaways, and insignificant to him?

  5. Then, there is the witness of supporter Bill Hemrick, who organized a campaign meet-and-greet for potential donors, all eligible to give the Cain campaign the maximum $2500 gift. Cain didn't bother to show up, and,
  6. After courting Hemrick to join his campaign, Cain completely dismissed him, after Cain embarrassed this potential supporter by ignoring his meet and greet. He learned that he'd been passed over for the position in the campaign from a newspaper report.
  7. At the Iowa Faith and Freedom forum, Cain barricaded himself in his tour bus before and after, failing to work the crowd like his opponents did. Cain apparently has a rock star attitude.

Does this sound like someone who should be leading in the GOP nomination polls?

After all of the staff revelations, we now have the sex scandal. Viewing the scandal in a vacuum, it's easy to run to Cain's defense. My initial reaction was that this was Clearance Thomas 2.0, and we cannot let this stand. This is Herman Cain, a conservative black man deserving of our support against the evil marauders in the mainstream media.

However, when viewed through the prism of earlier reports of Cain's egomaniacal behavior, the sex scandal makes perfect sense. My radar locked on.

Cain is arrogant and reckless. He mistreats people working for him. Why would not Cain's penchant for employee mistreatment also include sexual harassment? This is especially true of the powerful, arrogant CEO versus the weak, insignificant female employees.

What is more, regardless of Cain's waffling denials of the sex scandal's ingredients, there are not one, but two incidents. One would think that a powerful, calculating CEO would figure out what went wrong the first time, and avoid a second accusation.

Two accusations reinforces my point, that Cain is arrogant and reckless. He doesn't believe the rules apply to him. Why not invite a young employee to his hotel room?

Radar locked. Fox One!

Herman Cain is not ready to be our Republican standard bearer.

Read more at The Rick Perry Report



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It's about time someone on Free Republic has the gonads to tell it like it is. The Herman Cain campaign is starting to resemble the storyline of the great Robert Earl Keen's song, "Mr. Wolf and Momma Bear." If you don't know what I'm talking about, listen to it here.
1 posted on 11/01/2011 7:53:45 PM PDT by bullypulpit
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To: bullypulpit

Too bad for everyone else, he’s lapping the field at this point. He is heads and above everyone in the race but possibly newt.


2 posted on 11/01/2011 7:55:46 PM PDT by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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To: ilgipper

Cain or Perry?


3 posted on 11/01/2011 7:57:12 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: bullypulpit

Is the reason that Herman Cain cannot be the nominee is he is not from the Eastern and Washington Establishment ? Obama is definitely the Eastern Establishment. The only other person that wasn’t part of the establishment and was witch hunted was Ronald Reagan and he was the best POTUS we had !


4 posted on 11/01/2011 7:57:59 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: bullypulpit

Projection.

The one person who’s DEFINED “Reckless and Arrogant” is Perry, and we’re still PO’d with his Heartless comment, and his attitude that HE KNOWS BETTER than 75% of AMERICANS and therefore we should coddle Illegals, and likely give them Amnesty, if he ever got into office.


5 posted on 11/01/2011 7:58:29 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Gingrich is a vote for Romney)
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To: bullypulpit

Sort of like Slick Willie and Barack the Kenyan?


6 posted on 11/01/2011 7:59:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: bullypulpit

Too bad your guy can’t debate. Seems like we’re all screwed.


7 posted on 11/01/2011 7:59:44 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Mitt Romney, a piss poor choice)
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To: bullypulpit

Ya think Perry’s camp gave Politico the alleged sexual harassment story, as a desperate “Hail Mary”, going into Iowa?


8 posted on 11/01/2011 7:59:56 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: bullypulpit

Not a lot of people seem to be offended by the hatchet job that has been done on Perry.


9 posted on 11/01/2011 8:00:26 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bullypulpit

10 posted on 11/01/2011 8:00:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I won't vote for Romney. I won't vote for Perry.)
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To: mylife

Not a lot of people seem to be offended by the hatchet job that has been done on Perry.


Conservatives were.


11 posted on 11/01/2011 8:02:26 PM PDT by magritte
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To: bullypulpit

I don’t agree with all of this article, but Mr Cain has received a different level of scrutiny than Mr Perry.


12 posted on 11/01/2011 8:02:27 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bullypulpit
"sex scandal"?!?

This is not even remotely close to a sex scandal.

13 posted on 11/01/2011 8:02:43 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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14 posted on 11/01/2011 8:03:05 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: mylife
Not a lot of people seem to be offended by the hatchet job that has been done on Perry.

It is hard to be offended at a self-inflicted hatchet job.

15 posted on 11/01/2011 8:04:36 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Sybeck1

Mr Cain couldn’t even deny the harassment suit for 24 hours even though he was aware of it for 20 years.
There are chinks in the armor appearing.


16 posted on 11/01/2011 8:05:07 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife; All
If you guys can speculate, so can a lawyer from Virginia. Source: . http://northernvirginialawyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/former-president-of-national-restaurant.html

According to the October 2011 FEC report for ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT INC. a gentlemen named Steven C. Anderson gave $1,000.00 on July 14, 2011. FEC search function here.

Steven C. Anderson is the same gentlemen who took over the helm as Chief Executive Officer at the National Restaurant Association (after a brief intermission) upon Herman Cain's departure in 1999. As CEO it is highly likely he would have been privy to details of litigation and threats about litigation from the immediately previous tenure of Herman Cain.

There is little more than a coincidence between the support for Mitt Romney and the likelihood that Mr. Anderson knows the background of the sexual harassment threats.


17 posted on 11/01/2011 8:05:07 PM PDT by bullypulpit (Developer of http://rickperryreport.com/)
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To: mylife
Perry took the hatchet to himself, all by himself.

No one had to make up how moronic he was at the debates, or how pathetic (and revealing about his own beliefs) his line was about all of us being "heartless".

18 posted on 11/01/2011 8:05:13 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: bullypulpit

But Perry isn’t? This Texan has one thing to say, “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”


19 posted on 11/01/2011 8:05:20 PM PDT by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: PhiloBedo
Ya think Perry’s camp gave Politico the alleged sexual harassment story, as a desperate “Hail Mary”, going into Iowa?

My gut feeling is that it more likely came from the Romney campaign.

20 posted on 11/01/2011 8:05:34 PM PDT by freespirited (Stupid people are ruining America. --Herman Cain)
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