Does he scare the opponents that much?
Let’s be blunt, the Democrats and the left play be another set of rules. The recent hit piece on Cain is but another example of high tech lynching of a Black man who dares to be a serious conservative and as Glen Reynolds of Instapundit observed “Would Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, Anna Palmer and Kenneth Vogel have put their names on a similar piece, with no named sources, aimed at Barack Obama? Would Politico have run it? I think we know the answer.” Professor William Jacobson added, “Whatever the source of the tip, the presentation was rolled out by Politico in a fashion to do maximum damage to Cain. The Sunday release was timed to be all over the media on Monday morning. Jonathan Martin, the lead reporter on the story for Politico, even conducted an ambush interview with Cain shortly after the story broke, receiving a muddled response from Cain.” Jacobson added that an insurgent campaign like Cain found it difficult to react quickly but this was a hit job designed to destroy Herman Cain and cripple his campaign.
Let’s understand one thing and I will keep repeating what I have been writing for the past months, there is a scorched earth policy by the left and Obama. The goal is not just to demonize and destroy the Republican candidate but to make sure that if the GOP wins, they will not be able to govern effectively with half of the nation hating the new President.
Occupy Wall Street is part of the overall strategy of the left. It is not about just winning the election but to set up an opposition movement that will oppose with street theater combined with leftist organization working with their allies in the media to viciously attack GOP. Go back to Wisconsin early this year when the left, unions and the Democratic Party tried to make it impossible for Walker to govern. The legislators left town for Illinois (and don’t you think that Illinois Democrats did cooperate with their Wisconsin counterpart in hiding the fleeing legislators?) The goal was not just to oppose but to destroy. 2012 is no different. Consider the story about Rick Perry and the rock with the N-word; the implication Perry was a latent racist and now, Cain is a sexual predator and hypocrite. Which brings us to Republicans and conservative reactions; we don’t need to cooperate in our destruction. The reaction is to examine the story as if it is a legitimate story as oppose to a hit job. My own viewpoint is that unless there are pictures of Cain having a threesome with the two ladies and a sheep in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I will consider the source and not consider it a worthy new stories but poor journalism.
Consider the story itself in which no real incident of sexual harassment reported other than the reporter saying, I can’t get into specific and a lot of third and fourth party sources with no quotes. If this was a Democrat, the media would have exposed the two ladies, have them made out as whores and James Carville would comment about bringing out hundred dollars in trailer parks. Right now, there is no real story other than Team Cain’s initial clumsy response. I am going to treat this as I treated the original high tech lynching when the left decided to short circuit Justice Clarence Thomas twenty years ago. I viewed the evidence weak then and this is just as weak.
Rubio - Another minority Republican on the chopping block.
Review the Marco Rubio hit piece in the Washington and you get a pattern. If you are a minority and a Republican; you will be targeted, for minorities are properties belonging to the Democratic Party and the left. Leave the planation and you will be high tech lynched.
As for the rest of the Party, you will be next. As one conservative pundit tweeted, “Newt Gingrich, you’re next” and Mitt Romney will be targeted. The media have been missing in action dealing Occupy Wall Street where massive arrests and real crimes being committed. One blogger observed Politico’s involvement in the Journalist scandal in which reporters, Journalists, pundits, and party operatives cooperated to put a leftist spin on the news and this is just another example of Journalist methodology in operation.
Many conservatives are divided and concerned as I, but my concern is not about whether Cain is sexual predator but whether we will allow the left to demonize our candidates and our supporters. The Tea Party has been treated as auxiliary of the KKK and the Nazis whereas a real Klansman David Duke supports the Occupy Wall Street along with the real Nazis party. Oh yea, let not forget the Communist Party who also supports the OWS movement.
Occupy Wall Street has behaved exactly in the way the left claims the Tea Party did, complete with reports of alleged rape, outright anti-Semitism, participation of racists like David Duke and enough radical leftist socialistic signs. The left has their story to tell, we have the truth. In the movie, “The Untouchables,” Sean Connery character tells Eliot Ness, “If they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.” That means we don’t cooperate in our own demise. I will conclude this with one element that needs to be pointed out. Rush Limbaugh stated, “None of us should be surprised . . . look how quickly the mainstream media goes for the ugliest, racial stereotypes they can to attack a black conservative . . . Herman Cain is somebody. Herman Cain is obviously making some people nervous for this kind of thing to happen.” A black conservative man portrayed as a sexual predator and the left says we conservatives are racists?
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Wow! Talk about not taking personal responsibility for your own actions. It appears that the Cain story (notice I did not say allegations, because they are not allegations, they are facts. The reporting is that the NRA settled sexual harrassment complaint(s) by paying money. That is a fact), was initiated by Republicans. Many on the “right” are saying that Cain is being “smeared.” I have never thought that you can be smeared with facts. You state that Gingrich may be “next.” Lucky guess, since there are so many facts related to Gingrich’s terrible conduct in past years.
The interesting part of the “Cain story” is not the facts of the matter, or even the allegations that have not yet surfaced. The American people are not so naive. The reason the story “has legs” is Mr. Cain’s poor reaction to and handling of the story. The American people tend to grade their candidates’ ability to handle stressful situations. Mr. Cain is getting a D- so far.
Dave: Insurance companies and corporations pay settlements all the time even if the allegations are not true. It is cheaper sometimes to not litigate. Remember, my background is as a lawyer and I can tell you from my personal experience as a lawyer that a $35,000 settlement in a sexual harassment case is not a lot of money. If that is all she got, her case was pretty week. Most of the time, these things go for 60,000 and up depending on how egregious the allegations are. And, remember, 99% of all sexual harassment cases are he said/she said. There is not proof other than a swearing contest between two people.
In fact, most of them if tried and not settled would probably end up in defense verdicts. So, just suffice it to say that these allegations don’t really mean much. And, for that matter, they are just that allegations.
My point was that the allegations, facts, whatever, are not the real story here. I agree that we have no idea at this time what happened at the NRA in the 1990′s, if anything happened at all. The real story is the manner in which Mr. Cain and his team are mishandling the situation today, and it appears that he couldn’t be doing much worse than he is.
Dave: I actually agree that he messed up big time. I just hope it doesn’t destroy his campaign as he seems to be the only capable at this point of beating POTUS.