Well, That Was Interesting (Block on Fox)

National Review Online ^ | November 3, 2011 | Rick Lowry

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Over the last 12 hours, the Cain controversy took a lurch toward complete farce with the Cain campaign accusing, with no evidence, the Perry campaign and specifically Curt Anderson, with leaking the story. As a theory, this at least make sense: Perry needs Cain to deflate, and one interpretation of Perry’s strange New Hampshire speech is that it was an over-the-top attempt to demonstrate the liveliness and personality that has helped Cain steal most of Perry’s support. But the Cain campaign seems only to be making a wild guess about Anderson. Incredibly enough, Cain himself made the accusation and then Mark Block went on “Special Report” to reinforce the charge with a–let’s just say–memorable performance.

Among other problems with this tack, it’s extraordinarily foolish for the Cain campaign to make this about anything other than an unfair attack on it by the media. Now, it’s a little less a story about a biased media and a little more a story about intra-conservative backbiting. Cain has been the sympathetic victim so far, but now he’s the one who’s lodged an unfair charge. While there aren’t great reservoirs of support out there for Rick Perry at the moment, Republicans have shown they don’t react well to evidence-free, outlandish attacks by one candidate on another (see how Bachmann hurt herself by going too far on the vaccine issue). The Cain campaign would be well-served to get their candidate out...

[BillM]

I have no idea what the truth is, and neither do you. You act as a demagogic fool.

[altura]

I have no illusions that Rush will even read that e-mail, much less pay attention to it.

It just made me feel better to do it.

Thanks.

[LibLieSlayer]

He should read it and that is a fact. You are a listener and your voice deserves to be heard whether he agrees with you or not.

LLS