Posted on 11/06/2011 7:58:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Fox News Sunday today, Bill Kristol threw cold water on Herman Cain‘s presidential candidacy, arguing that regardless of his popularity among conservative voters and whether or not his sexual harassment scandal will end up helping or hurting him, there was very little chance in the first place he was ever going to be the Republican nominee.
Chris Wallace brought up Cain’s contentious exchange with a reporter last night over the allegations over his sexual harassment controversy, and asked the panel if there was a connection between what Cain is currently going through and what Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced twenty years ago during his nomination process for the bench.
Kristol argued the cases were not the same at all, suggesting there may be more to go on in Cain’s case than there was with Thomas during the Anita Hill controversy. However, he then took the opportunity to completely dismiss the notion that Herman Cain ever had a chance of winning the Republican nomination.
“He’s not going to be the nominee, if I can just be honest here for a minute. He was never going to be the nominee. The support for him, I think, was a symbol of conservative and Republican distrust of some of the frontrunners, willingness to reward someone for being bold, for having comprehensive reform plans, for being an outsider, but I think the air is slowly going to go out of the Herman Cain bubble regardless of the sexual harassment charges.”
Juan Williams defended Cain and claimed he was being used as a “piñata” by the black liberal establishment and argued Kristol’s point that many people, himself included, did not expect Cain to come as far as he already has in the race.
Watch the video below, courtesy of Fox News:
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In 2008 Bill was McCain’s Monica Lewinsky—guess he’s hot to do the nasty with RINO Mitt this time.
. . . and the horse you rode in on, Billy.
Romney, and not because I like him.
Yeah and I remember him saying Bill Clinton wouldn’t last a week after the Lewinsky scandal broke,
I would have liked to see John Bolton run, but no such luck.
For me on the issues I mostly agree with Bachmann.
So, the little turd who worked so hard to promote John McCain and “national greatness conservatism” (ie big government fake conservatism) sticks his smug little head out. Where’s my whack-a-mole mallet?
So in keeping track, we now have kristol, rove and perino coming out in attack mode against Cain. Heads are exploding all over the place now aren’t they........
Just exactly what we expect from a neo-con idiot like Kristol.
yea, like I thought WE selected the candidates.....and if we decide on Cain, Cain it will be .....
When has anything Kristol said - come to pass ?
Eleanor Clift said the same think on ‘’The McLaughlin Group.’’ People know that our little Republican primary voters know nothing but ratifying the choice of the grand poo-bahs.
Apparently, Bolton is a (NY, ?) social liberal.
“he was never going to be the Republican nominee”
A telling statement from a Washington inside the beltway RINO. Hey Bill, lets see what the people have to say.
I remember when McLame was in single digits 3 years ago, completely out of the running and all of the sudden he was our nominee. I pray this does not happen to us again...last thing we need is RINO ROMNEY popping up on our screen.
Sometimes I wonder if we even have any say over these matters....or are they made for us? (tinfoil hat time...sorry)
Is it me or is Kristol the condescending elitist I presume him to be? I am willing to be he crosses over to the dark side within 3 years.
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