Fine? LOL. He and his campaign had 2 weeks to prepare for this and yet still managed to bungle their response. They act like they were taken by surprise, yet we find out Politico told them like 2 weeks ago they were working on this story.
Cain's campaign has handled this abysmally. Herman is a novice candidate and his campaign team are as well - and it shows. The guy is clearly winging it. I seriously doubt he ever expected to be leading any polls, and they simply don't know how to run a real campaign. And now they are directly accusing the Perry campaign of leaking the story, yet have offered no actual proof.
Oh I agree that Gingrich also mishandled these sorts of attacks in the past, but Newt is someone I wrote off long ago - partly because I have no faith in his ability to respond to this sort of thing. Sadly, out of desperation, I may be forced to back Gingrich simply because the rest of the field is so awful at this point.
He would have been a train wreck for the GOP if we allowed OUR white guilt to give him the nomination.
Where I’m torn on this whole thing is the fact that Clinton and Ted Kennedy do whatever they want and no one cares. But if Herman is the same way, it is time to toss him out. Terrible double standard by the mainstream media.
Yet at the same time, I don’t really want to condone what Cain might have done here if these allegations are true. I do like the fact that we have higher standards for our candidates.
I like a lot of Herman’s positions on things. Probably better than anyone else in the field. But I’ve had a hard time warming up to the guy on a personal level. And in politics and in life, this stuff tends to stick to most people, save for really charismatic guys like a Clinton. I just get this feeling that this will stick to Cain. I don’t think he’s got the type of magnetic personality that can overcome this with a large portion of the electorate.