# Cain has a Clarence Thomas problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 31, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387 "2011-10-31T15:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/121 "2011-11-07T20:42:21Z")
And the latest allegation gets 30 minutes of coverage before being upstaged by the Michael Jackson Doctor decision. Herman Cain has an angel on his shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/122 "2011-11-07T20:46:07Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I can only seem to find clips of the video. I don’t find it odd that the accuser was blonde, but do find it bizarre that she claimed her reaction to Cain sticking his hand up her skirt was, “Hey, I have a boyfriend!” > > Err, what? That’s your objection? Eh. People say and do (and think) weird things when they’re startled. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/123 "2011-11-07T20:46:10Z")
I think Cain is toast and his poll numbers will plummett soon. He never had much of a chance, but the timing of his flame-out does matter. The longer Cain’s surge lasted, the smaller the chance of a serious alternative to Romney. If some of the Cain voters now go to Perry that will give him a much-needed boost with still enough time left. Whether the latter can take advantage of that is another matter, of course. He has had so many advantages already but has run a staggeringly incompetent campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/124 "2011-11-07T20:51:26Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > And the latest allegation gets 30 minutes of coverage before being upstaged by the Michael Jackson Doctor decision. Herman Cain has an angel on his shoulder. Doesn’t matter. Sharon Bialek is going on at least two morning talk shows tomorrow. The story’s not going away just because something else will be in the news for an afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/125 "2011-11-07T20:55:34Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Eh. People say and do (and think) weird things when they’re startled. Eh, I’ve been in the situation, didn’t have that reaction, but okay. People are different and all of that. Also, Marley is right. MJ trial won’t bury this story like how Palin’s stupid non-annoucement announcement was buried by Steve Jobs. That was awesome, btw. Jobs was telling the world S. Palin was irrelevant even after he was dead. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/126 "2011-11-07T20:59:24Z")
So, is anyone else wondering if he flashed that fabulous shit-eating grin of his when he uttered this line: > [@](#): > > “You want a job, right?” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/127 "2011-11-08T04:10:09Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She is a lifelong Republican and a tea bagger. That is some complicated Liberal plot . I haven’t looked up every story (just the WaPost and a bit of the CSM), but I didn’t see that. Coverage somewhere else? In a transcript? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/128 "2011-11-08T04:37:40Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I haven’t looked up every story (just the WaPost and a bit of the CSM), but I didn’t see that. Coverage somewhere else? In a transcript? She said she met him again last year at a Tea Party gathering. Listen to her conference. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/129 "2011-11-08T13:19:15Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She said she met him again last year at a Tea Party gathering. Listen to her conference. That just makes her an equal opportunity media whore. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/130 "2011-11-08T13:21:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And I wouldn’t recommend taking potshots at Martin Luther King Jr. in a thread about Herman Cain, seeing as how any comparison to King is going to make Cain look bad and it makes it look like you have an axe to grind with King. Remind me what you were trying to accomplish with this? Ya, I know…I was torn between the King thing and the Clinton coverage comparison when the women started to come forward. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/131 "2011-11-08T13:31:26Z")
All in all, Perry is out of it, done in by his inability to handle simple questions on TV. Now Caine is out of it done in by his mistreatment of underlings (and underthings). So that leaves Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/132 "2011-11-08T15:51:11Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Ya, I know…I was torn between the King thing and the Clinton coverage comparison when the women started to come forward. Seeing as how Clinton was actually accused of sexual harrassment and King wasn’t, I think you made the wrong decision. But hey, it’s no worse than Cain’s response to this whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/133 "2011-11-08T16:24:34Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > All in all, Perry is out of it, done in by his inability to handle simple questions on TV. Now Caine is out of it done in by his mistreatment of underlings (and underthings). So that leaves Romney. Is it Bachmann’s turn to be not-Romney for a while? I was never quite sure why she dropped down in the polls in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/134 "2011-11-08T16:31:25Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Is it Bachmann’s turn to be not-Romney for a while? I was never quite sure why she dropped down in the polls in the first place. She already had her turn, and it ended because she’s nuts. You might recall that during one of the debates she said an STD vaccine made a child retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/135 "2011-11-08T16:41:13Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > You might recall that during one of the debates she said an STD vaccine made a child retarded. [TRELAINE] You **must** stop feeding me that kind of straight line; this is **too easy**! [/TRELAINE] ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/136 "2011-11-08T16:54:59Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > All in all, Perry is out of it, done in by his inability to handle simple questions on TV. Now Caine is out of it done in by his mistreatment of underlings (and underthings). So that leaves Romney. It was always Romney. It was always going to be Romney. I can’t get het up over Cain and his foibles, or any of the other Republican candidates who may or may not become the flavor of the month when Cain’s 15 minutes expire, because none of them will be the nominee. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/137 "2011-11-08T17:20:18Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > It was always Romney. It was always going to be Romney. QFT. The right wing has just been frantically looking for someone else, anyone else, that’s viable because they know they’ll have an issue with the evangelicals not voting for a Mormon. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/138 "2011-11-08T17:22:12Z")
It’s not just the Mormon thing, it’s Romney’s track record. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/139 "2011-11-08T17:24:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s not just the Mormon thing, it’s Romney’s track record. And it’s not going to matter. In the end the base will see the writing on the wall and fall in line behind Romney, holding their noses all the while. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387/140 "2011-11-08T19:35:13Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > And it’s not going to matter. > > In the end the base will see the writing on the wall and fall in line behind Romney, holding their noses all the while. The only real question at this point is, which poster here on the SD is going to create a post that deals with Liberal hypocrisy because any criticism of him is clearly “because he’s a Mormon”. Perhaps someone should start a poll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cain-has-a-clarence-thomas-problem/601387.md?page=8)