I guess maybe we’ve been reading different threads. I’ve been pretty disgusted by what I’ve seen.
I don’t know whether the claims against Cain were true and frankly I don’t care. I think the claims were probably fairly standard “harrassment” complaints which are often very subjective, and it doesn’t sound as if either of the women was interested in getting a huge settlement, filing a criminal or civil suit, or going any further with it. They only even suggested they wanted to tell their side of the story after they had been vilified by Cain’s supporters.
So I don’t know why they are being attacked so violently - unless people are afraid that there really is something behind the complaints.
And frankly, Cain’s credibility has in no way been helped by his evasions and his attempts to claim that it was all just a vast left-wing, anti-black conspiracy.
As have I. But from what I've seen it's come from the Perry camp. Like this statement of yours: "I don’t know whether the claims against Cain were true and frankly I don’t care."
If you don't care, then why are you on threads making statement like "These were not criminal complaints but employment claim settlements, and probably Cain could have taken the dignified way out and just acknowledged that they existed, apologized for any real or imagined impropriety, and then gone on to something else."?
Cain fought the complaint because it was fatuous. He wasn't party to the agreement because the NRA paid the woman off as part of a severance. What's hard to understand about that? Yet here we are, after all this has come out in support of Cain, and yet Perrybots are still on the attack.
I've been accused of Misogyny, I've been called an asshole, I've been derided because I'm fed up with Perry supporters who can't give an honest benefit of the doubt because they see an opportunity to bring down another Republican candidate. That's disgusting, that's divisive, that's collusion. And the fact they continue to do this after the facts have come out constitutes harping. And I make no apology for calling it what it is.
If you want to understand what's going on here, step back, take a deep breath, and take an honest assessment of what your cohorts have accomplished. Since his tanking in the polls, Perry supporters have pulled out the stops on attacking Herman Cain and his supporters. Enough is enough. I'll not apologize for what I've said to magritte. It was not misogynistic, but an accurate example of how Perry supporters have displayed themselves. Both men and women. It's how I see them now. And they're completely to blame for that opinion. They've earned it.