Cain Catches Flak, but Will It Sink His Candidacy?

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/03/11 | Michael Barone

[MissesBush]

The question we have to ask as primary voters is, is Cain worth the risk of these charges getting worse and more accusers emerging should he be the GOP candidate and thus handing Obama a second term? This is ours to lose. Does Cain bring enough to the table to make him worth the risk we run of more allegations emerging, or the details of these, once he's secured the nomination?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The question we have to ask as primary voters is, is Cain worth the risk of these charges getting worse and more accusers emerging should he be the GOP candidate and thus handing Obama a second term?

Bull.

The question is, are we going to allow the MSM/Democrat/RINO-complex choose our candidate again?

If so, then it really doesn't matter who we nominate, the net result will be a Lefty.

[chris37]

im listening to herman now, and he is a plain spoken , decent , honest man. i know this bc i am too.

he is being attacked relentlessly by the filth that inhabits this sh!thole country, and that’s all i have to say about this god damn nonsense.

[Terry Mross]

Maybe Cain was at a luncheon and as he reached for his wallet to get his credit card to pay the bill he said “Excuse me while I whip this out.” This made the women at the table feel uncomfortable.

[FightforFreedomCA]

No, it won’t. As a matter of fact, I’m going to donate again righ now.

[Bryanw92]

Yes. He brings enough to the table that we wait for the whole story to come out. Primary voting is months away. We have time to make the RINOs show us the proof. We live in a society where a woman can get a boob job, put on a push-up bra, wear a skin tight shirt with a neckline down to the nipples and if a man “leers”, he can be sued and/or fired for sexual harassment. Who is really harassing who in that case? A comment is NOT sexual harassment unless there is a threat attached. This is another high-tech lynching, only it’s Republican on Republican this time.

[kevao]

You don’t think that if Cain implodes, this lawyer Bennett won’t be back in October 2012 with new anonymous clients with serious grievances to be aired against the GOP nominee, but only anonymously though him, so as not to expose their families to public scrutiny? You understand that Cain is a test case for this new type of character assassination?

[muawiyah]

Barone is actually defending his buddy Dana Milbank who reported on the crowd of reporters who crushed a father and his young son up against a wall at the hotel yesterday as if it were Cain who'd done that.

Barone knows that in the long run his bread and butter depends on covering up for his fellow MSM hacks.

I think that's what he said as he absentmindlessly wiped the blood from the tips of his boots.

[Westbrook]

> is Cain worth the risk of these charges getting worse and
> more accusers emerging should he be the GOP candidate and
> thus handing Obama a second term?

Cain is the only Republican contender who has, or had, a chance to beat 0bamao.

Face it.

None of the white boys is going to beat 0bamao. There is nobody in the Republican lineup outside of Cain that will attract the Independents and assuage their white guilt at the same time.

And the white girl isn’t even on the polling radar anymore.

I’m calling it early.

If Cain goes down in flames, or for some other reason doesn’t get the nomination, and all other things remain the same, 0bamao gets another four years as POTUS.

[PreciousLiberty]

"Does Cain bring enough to the table to make him worth the risk we run of more allegations emerging, or the details of these, once he's secured the nomination?"

Cain is the only Republican left in the race worth voting for, that has any chance of winning.

Given that, is there any choice?

So, to answer the question: "Cain Catches Flak, but Will It Sink His Candidacy?"

No!

[Ingtar]

If Cain is not worth the risk, then who do you suggest we run third party?

[org.whodat]

I agree with you, these perrywinkles are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill with plastic spoons. There is no there there.

[fwdude]

Michael Meathead has been piling onto Cain on his "conservative" talk show along with the rest of the liberal media. But what else is new?

I can't stand that idiot.

[org.whodat]

How many years did Cain work at the NRA, after this women received her severance agreement. She has told her attorney to sit down and shut up, according to RUSH, end of story.

[lwoodham]

It won’t sink it with me. He is a conservative with a vision for betterment of our nation based on comon sense and business discipline principals. Forget the human nature issues. He can lead and that is what we must have.

[ejonesie22]

PS, vote Mitt...

You left that off...

[TexasFreeper2009]

If Rommey somehow gets the nomination, I am all in for a draft Palin movement.

[Riodacat]

Actually, the timing of the Cain allegations at this time is fortuitous.
The MSM, Obama camp and some of his GOP contender camps will now give Cain's past life a colonoscopy and anything that can come out will come out long before the primaries.
If Cain hangs tough (and I think he will), he will be bullet proof when it comes to the general election.

[Gideon7]

In October the New York Times will just make something up out of whole cloth, like they did with their page 1 reporting on McCain's 'affair' with a lobbyist.

[MissesBush]

PS, vote Mitt...

So if I have concerns about Cain, including the fact all our taxes are going to go up under this guy's 9-9-9 plan unless you're wealthy, that means I'm for Mitt? Ooooo-kay. Unless you haven't noticed, there are 7 other candidates in the race.

I'm asking serious questions here that serious people should be asking as well. What does Cain bring to the table besides a few snappy come back lines in debates? If a worsening of this scandal doesn't kill him in a general election, the fact Dems will attack his 9-9-9 plan telling middle class voters under Cain's plan you'll be paying the same percentage income tax as Exxon Mobil, and oh by the way your grocery, gas and clothing bills along with everything else will be going up 9% will kill him.

That said, I haven't picked a candidate. But I've studied political scandals for decades and can tell you this one is not survivable for Cain, even if he makes it past the primary. You guys are dying to hand Obama a second term in supporting Cain--and you don't know why you support him other than you like that he seems fiesty.