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Another Cain Campaign Meltdown -- Plus: Multiple Accusers to Hold Joint Presser?
Townhall ^ | Guy Benson

Posted on 11/09/2011 9:01:51 AM PST by ventanax5

In case you aren't intimately acquainted with the cast this ongoing drama yet, Mark Block is Herman Cain's top strategist. He's the guy who lit up a smoke in that unusual viral web ad, and who went on national television to angrily accuse an individual Perry staffer of leaking the sexual harassment story to Politico -- only to retract his baseless bombast within 24 hours. Last night he appeared on Hannity, and unleashed another embarrassing whopper (click through for video):

Mark Block: "It's become quite apparent that Mr. Cain's candidacy and his rise in the poll is the -- both the left and the right's worst nightmare. You have all of these allegations coming out, you know, eight, nine days ago from Politico. You start connecting the dots and trying to figure out whether it's coming from opponents on the left or opponents on the right. I mean, just at the press conference it was brought up that the -- Karen Kraushaar come out as one of the women. So we've come to find out her son works at Politico, the organization that originally out the story out."

Sean Hannity: "Have you confirmed that? I've been hearing that all day. You've confirmed that now, right?"

Mark Block: "We confirmed it -- that he does indeed work at Politico and that's his mother, yes."

Except...it's just flat-out false.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2012election; block; cain; markblock; sexualharassment
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To: marty60

You complain about lies from the Cain Campaign while simultaneously ignoring the truth of your boy’s campaign. Illegal lover and piss poor debater.


21 posted on 11/09/2011 9:28:10 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: ventanax5

Multiple Accusers to Hold Joint Presser

Is it pay-per-view? Skankfest 2011?


22 posted on 11/09/2011 9:28:59 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: marty60
How many more lies does the Cain campaign have to tell before people figure out his whole campaign is one big lie.

How's Rick "Open-Borders" Perry doing in the Iowa polls?

Has he even broken double digits or is he still mired at 6%?
23 posted on 11/09/2011 9:29:47 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: ventanax5

Want to try an explain why he is still listed by Politico as an employee?


24 posted on 11/09/2011 9:33:09 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: LifePath

So what...Cain himself likes Romney. It’s Perry he disses and tries to blame for everything.

Would support Romney, would be on a ticket with Romney, Romney’s a good choice but the problem is his Mormonism stops him in the South (quote from Cain to Washington Times), oh, but he can’t support Perry, wouldn’t be on a ticket with Perry, and doncha know there’s that trail of bread crumbs that Cain can’t see anywhere else they might lead but to Perry’s campaign.

Romney blind spot, anyone?


25 posted on 11/09/2011 9:36:36 AM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: MNJohnnie

>Want to try an explain why he is still listed by Politico as an employee?

Why shouldn’t he be and the point is he is unrelated to her. Duh.


26 posted on 11/09/2011 9:38:58 AM PST by bkepley
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To: txrangerette

I will vote for Romney if he is the nominee, but he is near the bottom of my list of favorites. Cain, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann before Romney. He is a serial flip-flopper, the next McCain. Not for me.


27 posted on 11/09/2011 9:51:16 AM PST by LifePath
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To: marty60

You support a group a liars and grifters trying to take him down, so what does that make you?


28 posted on 11/09/2011 9:51:49 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: marty60

The real big lie here is the Perry camp claiming Perry is a conservative.

Man those poll numbers must really hurt don’t they?


29 posted on 11/09/2011 9:56:10 AM PST by montyspython (This thread needs more cowbell)
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To: Free Vulcan

Who said I supported them..My problem is with the Cain Campaign keeping this thing alive.

Now it’s an all out war with the accusers. NOT smart given the msm today.


30 posted on 11/09/2011 9:57:28 AM PST by marty60
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To: LifePath

My order

1 Bachmann

2. Newt

3. Romney

4. Cain

5. Perry


31 posted on 11/09/2011 9:58:45 AM PST by ventanax5
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To: marty60

How is Cain ‘keeping this thing alive’? How exactly is he supposed to kill it? The MSM isn’t exactly our prison bitch.

Nice try at lawyer spin though...


32 posted on 11/09/2011 10:05:54 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: marty60

If you think Cain’s campaign is a big lie why don’t you take your ACT over to DU. You’ll get more support over there.


33 posted on 11/09/2011 10:06:15 AM PST by ohioman
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To: truthfreedom
"...went on national television to angrily accuse an individual Perry staffer of leaking the sexual harassment story to Politico -- only to retract his baseless bombast within 24 hours.

That doesn't stop freeper "truthfreedom" from spamming every thread with this same lie.

34 posted on 11/09/2011 10:11:42 AM PST by MizSterious (Apparently, there's no honor when it comes to someone else's retirement funds.)
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To: ventanax5
Two problems: Josh is not related to Karen, and he works for National Journal, not Politico.

...the campaign was led to believe that Mr. Josh Kraushaar, currently with the National Journal and a former employee of Politico, was the son of Karen Kraushaar," Gordon said...

LOL

35 posted on 11/09/2011 10:13:08 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: ohioman

From the tone/content of many comments, I thought this WAS DU, minus the liberal philosophy.

And I have been here 10 years.


36 posted on 11/09/2011 10:16:48 AM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: txrangerette

Some days, it’s hard to tell the difference. :(


37 posted on 11/09/2011 10:18:27 AM PST by MizSterious (Apparently, there's no honor when it comes to someone else's retirement funds.)
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To: marty60
“How many more lies does the Cain campaign have to tell before people figure out his whole campaign is one big lie.”

I agree. To me it is making our party look bad. Tonight's debate should be good. My guess that the rest of the folks on that stage will be very uncomfortable.

38 posted on 11/09/2011 10:19:54 AM PST by Faith-Hope
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To: Faith-Hope

McCain was our candidate in the last election. How could the Republican Party look worse?


39 posted on 11/09/2011 10:23:07 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: MizSterious

Perry Operative Chris Wilson Accuses Cain Of Sexual Harassment…To Politico, Of Course
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2804047/posts

Still 100% true.

Team Cain should not have accepted Anderson’s denial. Team Cain has not been paying close attention to how the Perrybots work on FR.


40 posted on 11/09/2011 10:26:14 AM PST by truthfreedom
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