[Politicalmom]

Oh, sure, none of the other candidates will benefit if they smear the front-runner so he gets knocked out.

That’s ridiculous.

[mountainfolk]

Until the primaries are finished the current front runner is in flux and Herman Cain was only front runner in polls which change by the day. Trying to turn this Cain attack into some kind of advantage for other candidates is what is ridiculous. None of the candidates is immune to opposition attacks from vested interests, political and apolitical, founded and unfounded attempts at scandal. Reality has always been lurking for all of the candidates and is probably the biggest reason we have the slate of candidates now running. Cain should have dealt with this at the very beginning of his run because it was an inevitable given that it would be used eventually. The other candidates had best wise up and get ahead of whatever they may be vulnerable to.