Murray guilty of invol manslaughter.
Lynch will probably win over Keating.
Sorry, Cain, you’re no longer able
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
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Herman, I was rooting for you. I was hoping you could tough it out in Tombstone territory.
But you couldn’t pull it off. I’m sticking a fork in you, Herman, you’re done.
I knew you were jammed up when you began using the third person, as in “that’s the person Herman Cain is.” Then you said it five more times.
Then you said you were running “for the children.”
Then you said, “I’ve seen situations where women attempt to sexually harass men.”
And finally, at the very end of the press conference, when you ominously warned, “There will probably be others.”
Yikes. Wasn’t it enough to say earlier, “This is not a surprise. It was expected.”
Maybe it was. Maybe there will be more. But why admit it?
I know, sexual harassment is the one crime you’re guilty of until proven innocent. Granted, it’s often cheaper to settle — excuse me, agree, to use Herman’s word — than it is to fight out harassment charges in court.
And no one’s forgotten all the Democrat sex scandals — Chappaquiddick, Juanita Broaddrick, Al Gore the lummox, the sex-crazed poodle, as the masseuse called him. Anthony Weiner, Barney Frank, Gerry Studds. The list of sleazy Democrats is endless.
Look, I like Herman Cain. How un-PC that it’s been reported that he will take a drink under extreme social pressure — in the morning. And that he stuck those snooty bureaucrats with the tab for two $400 bottles of wine — that story was in the Washington Examiner just yesterday. It’s great to see somebody up there on the debate stage with a sense of humor.
But as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” Why did Herman take all those questions? The first rule of being in a hole is: Stop digging.
Near the end, Cain asked the voters to “step back and look at the fact that there are no facts.”
So then why did you accuse Gov. Rick Perry of sandbagging you last week? Did you have any facts?
And he claimed that Monday on TV was when he saw “Ms. Allred and her client for the very first time. I don’t even know who this woman is.”
That was going out on a limb, when the Chicago Sun-Times was running a story that a month ago at a Tea Party event, Bialek was seen sneaking backstage to meet her harasser.
“It looked sort of flirtatious,” a radio talk-show host said. “I mean, they were hugging.”
I was ready to defend him as a “lady’s’ man,” to use that old-fashioned term. One of my listeners said he was just engaged in a little “Southern hospitality.”
Goodbye, Herman. We’ll miss you when you’re gone. I know, you said “it ain’t gonna happen.” But you also said, “There will probably be others.” One or two more will be all it takes.
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