Well, Cain really won round one - the NRA statement on Friday confirmed Cain’s version of events.
We only know of one agreement between one woman and the NRA, and Cain was not a party to that agreement We have not seen any credible evidence that a second agreement exists.
Bialek is a supposed “third” case but her story is falling apart already.
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Socially conservative black pastors and free-market black businessmen are watching carefully to see how Cain gets treated. The modern Republican Party includes the sons and grandsons of some of the worst and most bigoted elements of the old Jim Crow tradition, and this is our opportunity to prove to everybody, once and for all, that the modern Republican Party has not become a racist party by accepting millions of conservative Southern Democrats.
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Well said.
I keep saying, even if Cain is not your candidate, he is one of the good guys and we should not be helping the lamestream media by spreading misinformation. Let’s stick to the facts, and if you aren’t sure, wait and see how it plays out.
Piling on, especially when all we have right now is allegation and inuendo, only helps Romney at this point. If your candidate is a better candidate, fight on the issues, don’t get in the mud like this.
It would help the other candidates if they would come out and decry this jounalistic malpractice, and a couple of them need to come out and distance themselves BY NAME by people associated with their campaigns who are clearly connected to promoting this witch hunt.
I really, really, really hope Cain manages to put this behind him. I am encouraged that you said (in a different thread) that some Freepers personally know Cain. He needs to tap into the reservoir of support for Sarah Palin that Free Republic represents.
My candidate was Gov. Huckabee, based on his evangelical Christian stances and a decade of executive experience. He's not running, and I'm very much aware of some of his negative points. Right now I don't have a candidate who I heartily support, but I do know that if evangelical Christians don't get unified very quickly behind someone, we're going to have Mitt Romney as our presidential candidate.
I still think Gov. Romney is better than President Obama, but I was shocked by Romney's flip-flopping on abortion, which simply did not get the attention it should have received in the 2008 campaign. I believe we in the conservative movement need to work as hard as possible to avoid having to make a choice between Gov. Romney and President Obama. If that means backing Cain, let's do it — but these sexual misconduct issues absolutely **MUST** get settled, and it's really hard to do that in two months.
Four years ago when friends of mine in Iowa said a young black senator from Chicago was winning white rural Democratic voters in the snow-covered fields of Iowa, I dismissed them. I used to live in Iowa, I have two decades of church-related personal contact with the Dutch Reformed communities in Northwest Iowa and Pella, and I thought the idea of white rural Democrats voting for a black Chicago senator who was a protege of the Daley machine was nuts.
Stranger things have happened. Getting rural conservative evangelical Christians to vote in the Iowa Republican caucuses for a southern black pizza executive would be one of the strangest things imaginable — but given that Romney is assumed to win the New Hampshire primary so a win there won't help him much, and the the next few major races after Iowa and New Hampshire are going to be heavily Southern, I see real possibilities for Cain.
A major win in the Iowa caucuses for Cain, followed by lots of conservative blacks and white evangelicals picking a Republican ballot to vote for Cain in the next few states, could give us our second black president and finally break the stranglehold that the Democratic Party has on the black vote.
Given demographic changes, that, combined with a similar breakthrough with non-Cuban Hispanic voters, could end up being the best way to save this country from what's facing it if we continue down President Obama’s agenda. Those of us who are traditional white conservatives need to realize our country is rapidly changing, and if we don't reach out to ethnic minorities who are religious conservatives — just as Ronald Reagan successfully reached out to blue-collar ethnic Catholics on the abortion issue who had voted Democrat for decades — conservativism is dead.
A black Republican president is probably the best thing that could happen to the future of the conservative movement, right up there with a Hispanic Republican president. I don't know if Cain is the right man for those shoes, but we need lots more minority Republicans, and maybe a successful turnaround business executive who is black is what this country — and the conservative movement — need today.