Cain knows what he is doing.
Cain’s strange smoking ad is the best known ad of the campaign so far. It went viral. It was unconventional but it worked.
What else could Cain have done before the primaries to generate this kind of fundraising and publicity that also caused him to rise in the polls.
Maybe being vague and making ambiguous statements was part of the plan to keep it going and designed to get the media to blow it out of proportion and then he would release the signed paperwork and affidavits that vindicate him. Then he gets to say “See, I told you so.” and all future attacks on Cain by the media will be questioned.
A few anonymous accusers will not succeed. Look at Kobe’s accuser. She stayed hidden for a long time and by the time they leaked her name it was too late. If she had gone on national TV immediately and tearfully said “He raped me” then Kobe would have been finished. Every woman in America would hate Kobe. There would have been protests everywhere Kobe went and the Lakers would have released him. Tiger’s accusers came forward and there were photos of white women and we all knew his wife was the victim. He was done.
Charges that Cain made faceless nameless women uncomfortable will not stick. If they come on TV today and start crying that they only got $35,000 and they deserve a million dollars now because Cain ruined their lives it just wont have any affect except to help Cain even more.
According to the first story from Politico there were 2 anonymous accusers. Then the lawyer (for both women coincidentally) says that neither he nor the woman can find any paperwork on the case and they don’t even know if the accused was even Herman Cain! That detail was scrubbed by the Washington Post as Rush pointed out. Why? because it didn’t fit the narrative. We are now down to 2 anonymous accusers, not 3. One filed a report, one didn’t and she said he invited her to his apartment.
Who can’t remember who they filed a sexual harassment complaint against at work and if that person was the CEO? Either she files harassment complaints against every male over her at every job she has ever had or Cain happened to be out of town when the alleged harassment took place and was a proven lie. The company let her go with severance to protect against future false claims.
Again, the first anonymous accuser would have ruined the narrative for the media so they had to drop her fast but keep the numbers up to 3.
Then the media still gets to ask Cain about 3 separate instances that have 3 separate sets of facts and they get to treat it as one total instance and accuse Cain being inconsistent in his answers.