Herman Cain is Reckless and Arrogant

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.

Two staffers said they were asked by Cain's campaign to sign non-disclosure statements. What?
Despite having a skeleton staff, Cain spent no time organizing with them, or communicating with them (was he too good for them?)
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.
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?
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,
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.
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

“Every post you make to me, you end in a snide remark, and try to belittle me.”

Sorry if it came across as snide. Just trying to determine what your assumptions are.

Actually, state schools set aside a certain number of slots for nonresident students and even foreign students. But there are only a certain number of slots total — basically every class must have professors and teacher’s assistants, and class space. These are real limitations, and not everyone who “qualifies” according to their grades and SAT and ACT scores can be accepted. Every year, thousands of students are rejected from their choice in state schools and are left to attend a “community” college and hope for a transfer at a later date. If they never get that transfer, they are screwed. They’ll never get the degree they want from the school they want, and that can mean never getting the job they want.

How would you feel if your kid’s slot was taken by an illegal alien, they ended up with a community college degree instead of a UT degree, and the companies they wanted to work for wouldn’t even consider your kid because they don’t hire from community colleges ? When weeding through a stack of resumes, what school the candidate graduated from is IMPORTANT. Especially for that first job out of school that sets salary history and expectations for an entire career.

Where do I live ? I’ve lived my whole life in CA. I went to the University of California, Irvine. One of only three UC schools in 1983 that had good study programs in Information Theory and Computer Science. Out of 20,000 students, there were only 200 slots for my major. I got in and a HS friend didn’t. Neither of us could have afforded to go to school if we couldn’t commute, so being bumped to San Diego or Berkley was not an option. My UCI degree landed me a job making 40% more than my friend who had to go to his ‘fallback’ school of Fullerton State College with a mediocre ICS program. Ten years later, the salary gap was even wider. Your salary history affects the salary offers on your next job.

These is what irks me when someone acts like this is no big deal for Perry. I get the distinct impression he — and all those other politicians — figured to buy votes among latinos and never considered the effect on the citizen students these illegal aliens would displace. My own governor, Moonbeam Jerry Brown, did the same this year, but he’s a Lib. I expected better from a supposed Conservative like Perry.

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