[FreeReign]

Which means either he’s lying about what he understood Morgan’s question to mean or he’s so unacquainted with the most basic terms of the abortion debate that he genuinely felt obliged to reassure Americans that he won’t be sending the FBI to pregnant women’s homes to make sure they carry to term.

Thanks for the Perry-bot pretzel logic.

MORGAN: Abortion. What’s your view of abortion?

CAIN: I believe that life begins at conception. And abortion under no circumstances. And here’s why —

MORGAN: No circumstances?

CAIN: No circumstances.

MORGAN: Because many of your fellow candidates — some of them qualify that.

CAIN: They qualify but —

MORGAN: Rape and incest.

CAIN: Rape and incest. Cain is specifically rejecting exceptions to anti-abortion laws that other candidates have put forth allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest.

MORGAN: Are you honestly saying — again, it’s a tricky question, I know.

CAIN: Ask the tricky question.

MORGAN: But you’ve had children, grandchildren. If one of your female children, grand children was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?

CAIN: You’re mixing two things here, Piers?

MORGAN: Why?

CAIN: You’re mixing —

MORGAN: That’s what it comes down to.

CAIN: No, it comes down to it’s not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number. So what I’m saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make.

Cain clearly states he is anti abortion.

Cain then answers Morgan's stupid question about a mother "BRINGING UP" a baby.

[normy]

I have said I believe Cain is 100% pro-life. If you watch the interview it looks like he's stumbling over it. I actually said I think it's because he's afraid of getting tripped up.

[newzjunkey]

That's exactly what happened. Cain followed the new question asked and it was treated as a gotcha moment. A professional politician usually knows that's a media trap or a gotcha moment and instinctively avoids it.

Cain's a regular person. He thought they were having a regular conversation so he pivoted to answer the new question which he clearly recognized because he pointed out that Morgan was mixing topics.

I don't question Cain's commitment to pro-life issues and HotAir, purportedly "right-leaning" media, should be sensible enough to look at the transcript and follow the threads of conversation. Of course, that would be fair-minded and honest. It wouldn't get any site hits either and they exist to pull in ad traffic.

Most of the supposed flip-flops from Cain are down to his inexperience at speaking like a politician instead of a normal person. It's a problem because the "game" is rigged against non-politicians.