Gingrich is smarter than Cain. But, somehow he does not actually seem to exist any more, not even when he’s talking.
Looks more like 200% to me. (ETA) Also impressive. (ETA Again) And Gingrich’s 175% is impressive too, of course.
Wow. What was I thinking, or not thinking?
Looks like Cain might have a Bill Clinton problem too.
Allegedly! Allegedly! Don’t go freaking out.
No way to know if this is true either, but it’s not hard to picture Cain’s next reply: “Why isn’t the liberal media talking about all the women I didn’t harass or sleep with?”
I can’t believe he’s not going to win.
I’m thinking maybe a Secretary of Education spot on President Perry’s cabinet.
Even without the allegedly, I’m not freaking.
He’s not being accused of a crime. He’s accused of adultery. And by the preponderance of the evidence, Mr. Cain has engaged in it. The evidence of the mistress’s cell phone history, shown to a reporter who then heard Cain answering when she called him, seems to me enough to say, yes, she’s telling the truth and he’s lying.
Although a bit moralistic about adultery, lying doesn’t bother me. I think that being a liar can be helpful for a president. As for adultery, if you are going to reject presidential candidates for being bad husbands, Newt’s record of leaving two wives to marry mistresses has got Cain beat. So if I didn’t already plan to vote for the incumbent, Cain’s highly likely history of adultery and lying (and you can’t really be an adulterer without lying) would be no barrier to my voting for him.
That’s a heart warming story, but face it - he’s fucked.
I would have trouble with a candidate who’s been caught cheating. But with Cain, the bigger problem is that he and his campaign haven’t handled the various harassment allegations and now the adultery allegation at all well. That goes to Cain’s ability to properly govern, which in my view he isn’t qualified in the least to do and the way he’s been responding to these allegations is proof. Plus, he’s responding to these allegations by haranguing the media and the women and I’m sick and tired of it and want him to get major blowback for it.
As of those little bobble-head dolls, you mean?
That’s how he got into this mess in the first place.
He’s done. He knows it, as does everyone else. Just let him go slink back into the shadows with Bachmann, Santorum and the other losers.
Cain says he is considering dropping out of the race, if that matters. His campaign was sunk before. To some extent it’s unfortunate that a big portion of his undoing was his personal conduct rather than the idiocy of his ideas, the bragging about his ignorance, and the poor planning that went into both the campaign and the policies. But the end result is the same.
Black politician accused of having an affair with a white (appears) woman named…Ginger White? It’s like Boehner getting caught with a woman named Ebony Black.
The electorate has shown that it’s willing to accept a liar, but maybe not the “pants on fire” variety, at least not yet.
Cain’s problem isn’t so much that he’s a liar, but that he’s embarrassingly bad at it.
I like the hypothesis someone raised in the Pit thread, that the real reason he’s running is so he can brag about all the tail he’s getting.
Why can’t ANY of these incredibly wealthy, powerful, prominent, horny old assholes have just ONE (1) truly solid 10 (even a slutty 9 would be a huge improvement) as a mistress/whore/victim/girlfriend even just once?!?
It’s pretty mollyfocking awful, and even somewhat of a National Embarrassment when the clearly insane-looking Rielle Hunter is the Belle of the Ball, political mistress-wise…
(although in fairness, the high-priced hooker good ol’ Spitzer liked to spunk in bareback was quite hott, in a high-priced hooker kind of way)
Going back a ways, Gary Hart’s girlfriend was quite attractive.
She also became a conservative Christian activist.