Herman Cain’s Top Iowa Organizers: ‘The Story Has Made Some People Angry’

ABC News ^ | 11.4.2011 | staff

[American Constitutionalist]

I don't see how anyone can say that any successful black person ever got ahead with affirmative action, affirmative rewards failures, those who use the system to get ahead.
Cain should be the example why affirmative action does not work, that he managed to get ahead and be successful without affirmative action.

[Maelstorm]

This is what we need. The people haven’t been fooled.

[TheCause]

Dear Karl Rove, Herman Cain has cleared the Death Star and survived! TTFN Loser!

[rcrngroup]

Karl Rove's hit has backfired. Will he give a refund to Mitt Romney?

And by the way Karl Rove, you've got an awful pudgy looking neck & double chin. You better lay off the twinkies & donuts, and lose about 30 pounds!

[Zhang Fei]

After looking carefully at his record, I have decided that Herman Cain got where he is today thru affirmative action. He has no real experience in foreign relations or decision making policies at all.

Cain did his Navy work and got his Purdue degree before the advent of quotas. As to his later career accomplishments, it's certainly possible he got ahead partly because of quotas, but then you have to compare his accomplishments to those of people like Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama. There's also a different kind of quota - the kind that people of privileged background, like George HW Bush and GWB, but middling intelligence, were able to tap. I'd say Cain isn't completely self-made like Sam Walton, Bill Clinton or Steve Jobs, but he's definitely done very well, given his impoverished family background and lack of social connections.

[dsutah]

Hmmm... A “Papa Grizzly” perhaps? (a spin on “Mama Grizzly”) Your pictures make me think that Herman Cain could be a sort-of “Papa Grizzly”!

[dixiechick2000]

Ooooh! That is excellent!

I loved the debate, and got to see the second half of the game of the year.

What a great late afternoon/early evening!

[American Constitutionalist]

Both Romney and Rove, not out of the closet Liberals, it’s ok Romney and Rove partners to come out of the closet, now ? go join your comrades in the DNC.

[goat granny]

You are so right. A man of integrity will defend it, a man with none will slink away...Cain got back in their face and people understood it.

[goat granny]

Newt as presidental candidate would not get my vote, as second on the ticket, with Cain as head yep...Newt is really not to be trusted...he talks conservative, but mouths rino...would prefer him in a cabinet position to Cain’s presidency..

[goat granny]

One of those 2 pictures is an idiot. Idiots are always on the left, so too in that picture...:O)

[Norm Lenhart]

“I trust my own gut, and don’t believe I’m much different from most other principled Conservatives. This story confirms my own reaction and reasoning.”

Yup. How many of us have worked in places and have witnessed the most innocent comments get spun out of proportion, people fired and lives ruined? I don’t know what really happened in this instance, but like you, my gut calls BS on this.

Liberals have done the same to the issue of legitimate sexual harassment that they have done to legitimate racism. They have cried wolf so often that when REAL cases actually occur, very few believe it. I see this regularly on art/music boards I frequent. (Not easy being a right winger in those environments I assure you ;)

Everything is “racism” and “Homophobia”. But when you critically look at the situation, neither is the case. Yet the charges fly over and over over a comment that is neither. And people are now numb to it.

Once upon a time callaing a man a racist led to a brawl. Accusing someone of SH got teeth busted. Today, it’s just a PC tool to shut your opponent up and damn the consequences that may to the person falsely accused.

Liberalism in a nutshell.

[Segovia]

You really hit the nail on the head with that post! I really had good feelings about Cain before all this came down, I KNOW he didn't get where he is through AA, I have a degree in mathematics and believe me AA won't get it— the first skill you acquire when you are truly educated in math— is critical thinking and reasoning. Cain is what we desperately need at this time. When all this crap started hitting the news, I thought, oh, no, he's done; but unlike your typical Republican, he did stand and face his accusers and fight back! Just think how wonderful life would be if the rest of the Republicans learned a lesson in this!!

[mickie]

Herman Cain has done well in life, I give him credit for that. He seems like a fine man. I never meant to infer that.

[bilhosty]

Not so fast. Cain is an undefined candidate.Just like Nixon in ‘52 and others on the vice president tickets, Agnew, Dole in ‘76, Quayle, and Palin. Only this time it is a Presidential candidate. Who defined these previously undefined candidates. You got it was the MSM does anyone think it will be any different this time? If a GOP candidate is undefined he has to have a lot of Gravitas that is past political job history and an all around heavy weight persona. I don't think Cain passes the test. The rest of the field is probably asking for trouble as well.

[bert]

cain is undefined too lazy to look up the definition.

Your post was a lengthy rationalization for laziness.