The last I heard, he now has a double-digit lead over Romney. It’s starting to look like the ABR (Anyone But Romney) crowd is finally pulling together. I’m guessing the reasoning is that they perceive that the Liberal Media[sup]TM[/sup] is trying to make Cain look bad, so they’re obviously afraid of them.
All I can say is, “Yes We Cain!!!”
Cain’s got a large lead in South Carolina. They’re polling about even in Iowa, and Romney is now campaigning there while Cain is continuing to avoid campaigning in the early primary states. If this makes sense to you, you work for Herman Cain. His people evidently think you win state-by-state primaries by being ahead in national polls- or else they don’t care.
But they smoke cigs, so we know they’re cool.
All campaign managers blow smoke; only one of them is upfront about it.
So harassment charges build your rep with the Republican base? If I were a woman in an office with a young Republican with presidential ambitions, I’d watch out.
Cain is now facing three cases. He believes that Perry is behind them coming out since there is no news gathering anymore. It is not about harassment. It is about who aired the incidents.
But we have bigger problems. Cain has pointed out that China is after nuclear weapons. We can not have that, can we?
Clearly, you’re not fit for elected office! 
I can see the Israel thing, actually, and many candidates have had ‘999’-type soundbites that weren’t practical in real life, but not knowing China has nukesis flat out wierd. I cannot remember a time in my life when I did not know this–well, at least since fourth grade. He sounds like he’s confusing them with North Korea–which I realize is a common affliction among American voters, but shouldn’t be an issue for a national candidate. I realize he’s running on job creation, but myopia of this degree should preclude a leader from the presidency.
His math is rather off in the linked story as well.
Most voters don’t know what the right of return means, or which countries have nukes, or that a flat tax actually raise their taxes. Since they don’t know the answer why should they expect their candidate to. Whether China has nukes is no less of a piece of esoteric knowledge than what picture is on the 20 Congolese franc*. They don’t know the answer to either question so they must be equally irrelevant. But having an affair is something they do understand and so it resonates with them.
*It’s a lion.
I can understand not knowing about India, say, having nukes, or Israel. But China? Anyone of Cain’s age who doesn’t know that China has nukes has been in a coma for most of his life.
Herman Cain Says ‘Democrat Machine’ Out to Get Him
Mr. Cain doesn’t remember Sharon Bialek, the woman who came out publicly to accuse him of unwanted sexual advances. And anyway, it’s the Democratic Machine. Maybe it’s the Romney/Perry/Bachmann Machine?
On to the battle of celebrity lawyers. Gloria Allred for the Ms. Bialek and Mr. L. Lin Wood for Mr. Cain. Allred’s speciality would fall into the woman’s rights and workplace harrassment arena, liberal though not necessarily Democratic. Wood’s speciality is libel and defamation cases; Richard Jewel, the Ramseys, Gary Condit, Kobe Bryant accuser. Heavyweights both.
He probably does not remember. In a string of blonds, why would one stand out.
If she had a great rack?
I guarantee it’s not the Dems. They would love to have Cain be the Republican nominee.
And at this point, Cain talking about what he can remember is just ridiculous. It was ridiculous starting the day after these charges first surfaced. Anybody running for President, and dealing with these questions day after day, would have checked the records and would know exactly what settlements, agreements, charges, etc. were involved.
And nobody would pay a woman thousands of dollars for discussing her height in an innocuous manner.
Maybe it wasn’t the height part, but when he sat his beer on top of her head and grabbed her ears in an innocuous manner, that things got uncomfortable?:eek:
Amazing how clearly some folks like him can speak with both feet in their mouths… or with their head up their backside
In any case, the Republicans are doing a great job on themselves without the risk of the Dems doing anything.
I’m glad I quite the Republican party a decade ago. I’d really wonder about being associated with a party many of whose members still support this buffoon.
As for China, Tom Lehrer mentioned them having the bomb in Who’s Next from 1965.
Y’know, both of those at once is really quite an amazing feat of contortionism.
There was a recent thread about Heinlein books, which made me recall that “Glory Road” was my favorite of his for a long time. In that book, the hero dispatches one of his enemies by feeding him his own feet, and then he keeps pushing until his legs and body follow, and finally there is nothing left.
Does this guy seriously expect to win the election, and if so what kind of mushrooms has he been putting on his pizzas?
Cain said he is not a reader but a leader. What the hell are Repubs thinking when they offer people like that for the presidency of the United States. Do they not care about quality at all? Just electability? They throw a bunch of crappy candidates up to see who survives. Then the huge money train they have will make him president.