[bullypulpit]

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.

[ilgipper]

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.

[CORedneck]

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 !

[BobL]

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.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sort of like Slick Willie and Barack the Kenyan?

[Sybeck1]

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

[PhiloBedo]

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

[mylife]

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

[ClearCase_guy]

[mylife]

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

[comebacknewt]

"sex scandal"?!?

This is not even remotely close to a sex scandal.

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[bgill]

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

[ilgipper]

This is silly. He was at cpac fl and the Florida presidency 5 debate and worked every gathering large and small. No one connected with the individual attendees even 10% of what he did. These accusations are absurd.

As far as this ‘scandal’ countless people are on record saying this hot job is ridiculous and not how he behaved, and it is becoming more and more obvious that this was a disgruntled employee who got a minimal payoff much cheaper than litigation would have cost. There is no there there.

If perry folks want perry to win, they need to focus on their guy, not the others. I had high hopes for perry, but he withered on the big stage. It will take a huge turn around on his part to win this race, not supporters tearing down conservatives.

[LachlanMinnesota]

Wondering what the sex scandal is...have only heard that any claims made over 12 years ago were the subject of confidentiality agreements, so the fact that they are out in the public means that someone is either making it up or they have violated the agreement.

Maybe the author could fill in some details.

[Solson]

Rick who? Oh that guy who is polling in 4th or 5th place? Was he the Governor of Utah?

[Bullish]

Perry just shot himself in the foot with this attack. I’m really beginning to dislike Perry and this isn’t helping his cause at all.

[Mr. Mojo]

I only posted five gaffes here. I have 10-20 more. Electric fences, anyone?

Ok by me, but I'm more of an alligator/moat type of guy. Plus a brick wall from Tijuana to El Paso, using illegals as slave labor to build it before unceremoniously dumping them over on the other side. Admittedly "heartless", but what the hell.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It's about time someone on Free Republic has the gonads to tell it like it is.

OK I'll start. Today I put my first Cain 2012 bumper sticker on my vehicle. I was surprized how genuinely proud I am to have it there, and think you should probably go make marshmallow smores. You know, be useful. Feed somebody or something, attacking conservatives won't go very far here.

[Rennes Templar]

Wow, what a heartless article.

[montag813]

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.

No one likes to be passed over for a job. But someone always is. Usually many people are. Using their sour grapes as "EVIDENCE" is just silly and amateurish. And btw, going to a meet-and-greet for a handful of people likely to give you $1000 a piece is simply not worth Cain's time at this stage. Cain raised $650,000 online since Monday morning. Get it?