Not to be crude, but it’s not that hard to imagine that sexual harassment is a real thing. A women asks for a raise, and her boss asks for a sexual favor. That’s pretty straightforward, and it’s probably still not too uncommon. Or, maybe the boss doesn’t like having a personal assistant who doesn’t want to sleep with him. Maybe he finds a replacement who will. Conservatives are comfortable with these kinds of arrangements. Most women aren’t. Of course it’s true that allegations of sexual harassment can be falsely made and used as a weapon for spite, for financial gain, and for any other reason. But it has to be fairly rare that a woman will think it’s a good use of her time to make baseless allegations against an innocent party. In any case, it’s stupid to question whether sexual harassment “is a real thing.”
What’s also stupid is for Herman Cain to deploy the wives of Clarence Thomas and disgraced former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford to defend his honor. The only thing Ginni Thomas and Jenni Sanford have in common is that their husbands are creeps. And that’s their only real connection to Herman Cain, who appears to be a creep, too.
I think Steve M. might be onto something with this:
I don’t know what to make of Sanford’s decision to throw herself into this. (Does she hate Romney, or Perry, or Rove?) But the participation of Ginni Thomas intrigues me, because she’s an apparatchik, which means her refusal to throw the seemingly drowning Cain an anvil is yet another sign that the hardcore insider wingnuts aren’t going to fall in line behind Romney with anything resembling the dutifulness a lot of observers seem to expect. In fact, I’m thinking “conservative crack-up.” Maybe it’s too much to hope that the Cain affair is going to create permanent fissures on the right, but we can dream, can’t we?
We should not need to be reminded but Herman Cain is ahead in all but one of the recent national polls and he’s ahead in Iowa and South Carolina, too. If the Establishment doesn’t take him down now, they might just have to kiss Mitt Romney’s sorry ass goodbye. So, why doesn’t Ginni Thomas want to help?
Can Cain win with out anything resembling a ground operation? Or is the GOP base going to change things because churches and other known GOPer base hangouts are doing the GOTV for him? One thing is funny though. Cain’s supporters are crying about this being a liberal plot when it is likely Perry supporters were the ones leaking to Drudgico. Which means it hurts both Perry and Romney if things backfire to Cain’s gain. Maybe Nate Silver is right that we should take Cain more seriously, but not for the reasons he thinks.
I’ll be honest: when I was thinking of a “not Romney” candidate to pick to win the nomination, as I did not think their voters would tolerate Romney to win, I had it down to Bachmann and Cain. I picked Bachmann for one reason, and one reason only (well maybe two): she was a fundraising powerhouse for her House campaign, and she’s been a pol before (even if she’s a lousy, inexperienced one). At first her fundraising appeared to be decent, as she had the Koch’s behind her, but it mostly went away when Perry jumped in (and then others abandoned her). She also appears to be really shitty at managing how her money is spent.
If Cain showed any evidence of knowing how to fundraise, I would have picked him to win over her in a heartbeat. For one he’s a dude, and that matters to these idiots. For two he’s black, and very black at that…what better way to excuse their racism than, “But Herman Motherfuckin’ Cain!” However, as things have gone on, it’s obvious he never intended to win at all, and only wanted to increase his speaking fees for a “past presidential candidate!” That wasn’t totally obvious in the beginning, given his background with Clinton and the healthcare law. Anyway, the Clowns have taken over the wheel of the car…so he might be stuck in a position he never intended to have.
Anyway, the Clowns have taken over the wheel of the car…so he might be stuck in a position he never intended to have.
That’s 110% true!!
Comment from Joe Scarboro this morning that it was as if a light bulb came on for Conservative leaders this week…let Romney lose to Obama, we’re better off in 4 years.
Then another MSM commenter tosses out, hey Obama in office is a real fund raiser for us, let him stay another 4 years.
Speaking a wives, looks like Cain’s isn’t gonna give an interview to Greta via Fox News after all.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/gloria-cain-wont-do-fox-appearance/
To quote Scooby Doo: “Roh Roh”
I saw tonight that Cain’s fundraising has skyrocketed. He’s gotten a million dollars within the last few days.
Any other chump in this kind of hot water would be facing closing pocketbooks. What is wrong with this picture? Is he the martyr of the moment for the Bagger set?
Will Cain’s wife finally come out of the wings and save his ass? I didn’t know about Sanford’s ex from Carolina putting her two cents into this mess, but again, the sight of a Supreme Court justice’s wife being partisan and getting smack in the middle of a mounting scandal? You never heard about this kind of thing even in 40 years. What is holding up any kind of coming to accounts regarding the Thomases?
Obama must be looking at this debacle from Europe and laughing his ass off.
Those $ can probably be traced back to Koch, part of supporting Cain against Romney. my bet is on Romney as the source of the harassment settlements. I read on one of the AK Palin blogs 2 years ago that Romney had bought up Levi Johnstons info. Betting Romney took out all kind of insurance on this primary
Jenni and Ginni…Herman has been tight with the GOP for over 20 years. Their support maybe out of friendship…a little moral support for the sister.
Speaking of-
Pamela Geller: `I Endorse Herman Cain. What He Doesn’t Know, We’ll Teach Him’
Sometimes you just can’t make this sh*t up.
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BooMan,
he’s a straight up Koch Brothers bought and paid for stooge. that much has been obvious for awhile now
How’s this for a theory: Ginni Thomas is motivated by a passionate, irrational determination to convince herself that her husband did not actually sexually harass Anita Hill, and this has required her to build up an intellectual edifice to explain the charges against her husband. This is a very personal thing, tied directly to her self of self, and it trumps even her commitment to the Republican establishment.