Facts need to be discussed and vetted. Lying smear jobs based on rumor and innundo are not vetting.
The fact that Politico and Rove cannot back up any of their lying smears here demonstrate this is a gutter slime whisper campaign, not vetting.
Time for the accusers to either put up or shut up. They have made an accusation, Cain has refuted it. So now their either need to document their accusation or recant it.
But a story has to be evaluated before it can be placed in the "fact" or "smear job" category.
In this case, the complaints did happen. That is a fact and it needs to be vetted.
That is a separate issue from HOW that fact was presented to the public by Politico.
Once the facts of the incident have been evaluated, then that should be that.
It is well documented. There was settlement.
The issue is NOT about whether harrassment occurred or its nature. The issue is why Cain would not know this ahead of time, disclose it ahead of time, or worst case, have a crisp and consistent response when the issue came up.
And, adding insult to injury, he kept changing his tune all day long and was not parroting the same things his campaign folks were parrating.