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We were wrong about Herman Cain and sexual harassment
http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | 11/4/2011 | By Alexandra Petri

Posted on 11/04/2011 6:26:08 PM PDT by Maelstorm

Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong.

They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all. If anything, they’ve made him stronger. A Washington Post-ABC Poll found him still nearly tied with Romney in the polls — even after the allegations made news!

The Monday after they surfaced was a banner day for fundraising Cain. More than a million dollars of donations reportedly poured in. Maybe the Rick Perry staffer who so cleverly traveled back to the past to seed these allegations more than a decade ago should have thought harder. So far, they seem to be having the opposite of their expected effect.

“We were worried that ‘sexual harassment’ might be going too far,” someone murmurs in a bunker. “It’s a touchy subject. It’s not as clear-cut as an affair. It’s like pornography — you know it when you see it, and you try to keep it out of the office. But it turns out people enjoy a salacious sideline to their daily barrage of 2012 news.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; herbcain; hermancain; sourcetitlenoturl; wapo
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1 posted on 11/04/2011 6:26:09 PM PDT by Maelstorm
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To: Maelstorm
...Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong. They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all...

You can thank Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton for that.

2 posted on 11/04/2011 6:29:14 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: Maelstorm

Who is the female impersonator with Rove?


3 posted on 11/04/2011 6:30:24 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: Maelstorm

WaPo combines incoherent half-apology (mostly for the failure of the tried-and-true lynch-mob strategem) with attempt to shift the focus to the unnamed, probably fictional “Perry staffer”...

Now, that’s FUNNY!!!!!


4 posted on 11/04/2011 6:31:22 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Maelstorm
WP is complicit as the rest of the MSM.
5 posted on 11/04/2011 6:32:03 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: Maelstorm
Maybe we were reading these sexual harassment allegations wrong. They don’t seem to have hurt Cain at all. If anything, they’ve made him stronger.


6 posted on 11/04/2011 6:32:06 PM PDT by South40 (Heartless since 1957)
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To: Maelstorm
The money quote, the rick perry staffer that traveled back into the past to feed these allegations. Mr Wilson, the perry pollster, said he was there he saw it, what a dirt bag.
7 posted on 11/04/2011 6:33:51 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Maelstorm
...But it turns out people enjoy a salacious sideline to their daily barrage of 2012 news.

Maybe people really just think you're full of $hit?

8 posted on 11/04/2011 6:34:50 PM PDT by papertyger (What has islam ever accomplished that treacherous, opportunistic, brutality couldn't do on its own?)
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To: Maelstorm

I really think this has the bitter, defeated tone of somebody staring into the bottom of a glass in an empty bar at closing time.


9 posted on 11/04/2011 6:34:51 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: ptsal

Just some lady. I don’t know. I just did a google and it looked amusing to me.


10 posted on 11/04/2011 6:34:58 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: Uncle Ike
That was a poorly constructed attempt at sarcasm regarding the Cain camp's speculations that the smear began with Perry.
11 posted on 11/04/2011 6:35:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Uncle Ike

He is not fictional, here is his statement: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801469/posts


12 posted on 11/04/2011 6:36:45 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
There was only one perry person that said he was there and this story would end Cain.
13 posted on 11/04/2011 6:38:40 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Maelstorm

uh duh.


14 posted on 11/04/2011 6:38:50 PM PDT by ken21
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To: South40

"Stay away from Cain, Sean! Cain's damaged goods! LISTEN TO ME!!! I'm the architect! I'm relevant, dammit!"


15 posted on 11/04/2011 6:39:03 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: jiggyboy

Actually, with not too much work, this could be the script for one of those “Hitler” parodies.


16 posted on 11/04/2011 6:39:31 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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17 posted on 11/04/2011 6:40:51 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: org.whodat

Yeah I thought that was really low though I don’t really believe Perry helped release the allegations at all. I believe that given the information that was referred to in the original politico report it almost certainly came from inside the Restaurant Association. Politico referenced the allegations as if they had copies of the actual aggreement.
My suggestions from the beginning was to target the Restuarant Association because their are fairly strict laws concerning release of such employee related information.

Now we know that Cain did not even sign the aggrement where a settlement was reached. I think someone realized that this scandal was going to blow back hard if the details ever really came out. Now all of a sudden the lady doesn’t really want to reopen all this. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Restuarant Association didn’t offer some more payolla.


18 posted on 11/04/2011 6:41:25 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Yeah and who had the candidate that had a DUI almost result in Al Gore being President? Some of us have long memories.


19 posted on 11/04/2011 6:42:38 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: Maelstorm
We were worried that ‘sexual harassment’ might be going too far,” someone murmurs in a bunker.

Hey! Have they made one of those "Hitler finds out about..." concerning the epic failure of the accusations against Cain yet?

20 posted on 11/04/2011 6:43:53 PM PDT by stormhill
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