Posted on 11/02/2011 3:49:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
A spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign is adamantly denying that members of the GOP presidential candidate's staff leaked a story has swamped Herman Cain's campaign this week. Instead, the Perry camp is pointing a finger at the campaign of another rival Republican, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, as a possible source of the report about the sexual-harassment charges levelled a decade ago against Cain by female subordinates at the National Restaurant Association.
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Well next weeks debate should be entertaining.
Paul Ryan and Gov. McDonnell (+ Ron Johnson and Rick Scott) will be ready in 2016.
The most ironclad case against Mitt Romney
Read it. Know it. Share it. Link it. Its damning.
Doesn’t make sense for Romney to do that. Heck he said in a debate paraphrasing “if you can’t support me, support Herman Cain.”
Hoping that conservatives will split their vote between Cain and Perry and leaving him standing. In any “crime” you look for a motive. I don’t see it.
Read the Forbes article.
Cain leveled the accusation himself.
Block parroted it on FNC tonight.
“This is rapidly turning into a made for TV Lifetime movie”.
You’re right, Raebie. But one thing we all have to remember is that most people aren’t paying any attention to this stuff.
There are those non voters or Obamabots who aren’t engaged.
But many who aren’t drones are also among the uninformed right now.
They are taking their kids to piano lessons, working, watching TV, reading People mag., googling the results of Dancing with the Stars or raking leaves.
My nephew who is a “stauch Republican” has never heard of Cain(not kidding)...much less that this scandal is going on.
FOX news reported a small blurp about the GOP,
Members should be careful and not back up Cain.
It was a 3-sec sentence and then a "Back to You".
divide and conquer - look in democrat cesspools for the culprits
I did read the Forbes article. In it, Cain fingered Curt Anderson. Nowhere in the article did Cain mention Perry or the Perry campaign.
Wilson denies the leak, and Anderson demands an apology from Cain.
You are correct, Richard Miniter said Cain accused Perry.
Cain accused Anderson directly and Perry by association.
No matter which campaign leaked it, what they did was the worst kind of political slander and destruction of your political opponent that I’ve ever seen. This is unconscionable, especially for the GOP. This is something I would expect the Rats to do.
I am still with you, I think, except if that is the case, accusing a guy who worked on your campaign in 2004 of being a racist makes no sense. Charging him with leaking a story without any evidence makes no sense.
We are now supposed to believe that Cain, who claimed he had no real remembrance of anything, not only remembered this in 2004, but briefed his campaign. Or did he only brief this ONE GUY? If he briefed his whole campaign, how does he know that it wasn’t one of the other people? And how has he determined that it wasn’t one of the two women who actually think they were harmed by him, or one of their friends? Why would he assume it was a guy who worked for him before, and why call him a racist?
(By “call him a racist”, I mean that earlier Cain said this was a racially motivated attack, although he had no evidence for it, and now he’s named a specific person he said leaked it — which means he’s accusing that one guy of a racially motivated attack on him).
I know, I’m not supposed to ever parse words for Cain, or make any inferences based on what he has said, or expect that what he says in the morning is supposed to match up with what he says at night.
But I’m still pretending we should be able to put together 4 conversations from a candidate, and have them make sense together.
In your case, is it bad if I agree with you?
You don’t need proof for a suggestion, just evidence of some sort. If you had proof, you could say it.
There have been multiple threads posted here, some by Cain supporters, saying that they believed Romney was behind this. You couldn’t have missed them. SO obviously, there is some evidence for it, even if there isn’t an e-mail tying them to it. Not enough to accuse them directly, but certainly enough for one campaign to question why Cain is pointing at Perry and not at Romney (which appears to be the point).
Yep,sad but true. This is turning into a political version of the Gong Show.
On the other hand, Cain’s campaign manager was on TV tonight directly charging Perry with having done this. He wouldn’t do that without the Cain’s knowledge and permission.
And one of Perry’s people is pointing at Romney tonight, which also must have been done with Perry’s knowledge and permission.
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