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Subscribe to RSSBack in March, Herman Cain reassured conservative bloggers in a conference call that there weren’t any skeletons in his closet.
“They’re gonna find that I have a 20 handicap, and it has never gotten lower,” he joked, according to audio posted by The Daily Caller. “They’re gonna find that in my closet. Other than them finding that I have a mediocre golf game -- I play just well enough in order to be able to enjoy it.”
But note as he goes through the litany of things one could look for in a closet, he’s very specific and never mentions a sexual harassment financial agreement. In fact, he says, “If they come up with something and try to damage my reputation, they will have made it up.”
That’s one way he has tried to swat away the allegations in this current controversy.
Cain said on the call in March that other than his mediocre golf game, “I can assure you, I have an original copy of my birth certificate. I don’t have any illegitimate babies. I don’t have any mistresses. You know, you tick 'em off, and I can tell you. … I have never been arrested. I’ve never gotten a DUI warrant. Uh, absolutely none of that…”
“So, no, I don’t have any of those kind of skeletons in my closet and what I have told people, if they come up with something and try to damage my reputation, they will have made it up.”
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'Please pay NO attention to the 800# gorilla hiding in there'... Cain said lol
Yah, Hermie!...but MSNBC just reported that there is a $45,000 woman!
So, either open the closet door wider.....or go inside and close the door, take some pizza with you!
Feisty,
That's a 999 lb gorilla....or maybe he's down to 909 now that Cain's campaign has gone bananas...
Nothing to see inside Cain's closet ... and even less inside Cain himself.
The popover candidate is simply a hollow shell puffed up with hot air
He says he doesn't need any substantive policy positions, either foreign or domestic. He'll worry about that when the time comes, he said.
Yeah, like at 3 a.m. .....
He displays astonishing ignorance of the job of the President, and the concerns of the world - and by brushing that off, displays astonishing arrogance.
That same arrogance now leads him to brush off a spreading scandal and disrespect the entire nation with his denials, retractions, and "clarifications."
Although the election junkies howl with glee at the prospect of Cain getting the Republican nomination, I can't join them. His continuing participation in the electoral process only increases public disgust with our institutions and further alienates many from participating.
Herman Cain is an abomination.
Call your GOP Senators
They are voting on the infrastructure part of the JOBS BILL.
BUILD BABY BUILD
Herman Cain lied. That is the bottom line. He knew this was out there but prayed no one would discover it. Politicians have to understand you just can't get away with this stuff anymore with 24/7 news, internet, videos, etc., etc., etc..
What's in your closet, Feisty?
We already know what is in your wallet...money from George Soros.
Wouldn't you like to know... ;o)
Bob 1887910,
Whatever is in Feisty's closet, I'm sure it wouldn't fit you, so just move along....Victoria's Secret is having a sale, though.
Bob-1887910
What's in your closet, Feisty?
We already know what is in your wallet...money from George Soros.
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What kind of silly question is that? Feisty is not running for President of the US. Cain might as well be claiming a technical difference on the definition of "is".
I don't know if First Read existed when Bill was crushing the cheeks in the White House, but I'm certain if it was folks would have been on him like stink on doodoo.
Cain is doing nothing different with all these weird answers/non-answers.
Yo Bob, why don't you just ask Feisty what she's wearing? It seems to be a thing with you conservatives!
Maybe Bob & Sniffy can 'swap' their size 15EEE shoes...
You BETCHA Allen - it wasn't Clinton's escapade that pissed me off it was his LYING about it!
One of the main reasons I could not support Hillary for President was her staying with Bill to ride the 'Clinton' coat-tails!
Booby is a typical creepy conservative pervert always lurking in the shadows... ;o)
Watching the Republicans run for the GOP nomination is a hoot! We've all got front-row seats!
It's like a nationwide turd contest. In the end, Republicans will be left running a piece of s**t they don't believe in with Romney. Obama will easily clean the floor with the previously defeated Romney, who by now, must feel like the ugliest girl at the dance.
This really isn't even a serious race. The GOP candidates are all losers. Everyone hates the tea baggers now too. I'll even bet that Democrats gain the house back.
The real good news is, that Hillary Clinton gets to be our President from 2016 through 2020. She is immediately electable.
Then, Republicans may have a chance, if they've found a decent candidate by 2020.
John A
Chill!
You are seeing the inside of the most magnificent political sausage factory in the World. Sure the big money special interests are able to field their candidates. But their picks are not protected from the unrelenting scrutiny of the media and political investigators. And if the media misses a detail, the opposing candidates are more than happy to point it out.
The result is that most of the warts and pimples are painfully exposed. More importantly, how the candidates handle the sometimes petty harassment gives us critical insight into their characters. The voters ultimately make the final decisions about whose indiscretions will be forgiven or ignored.
A brutal sand blasting to be sure, but necessary to vet the candidates hoping to assume the leadership of the Free World.
Mr. Cain's participation in the contest is a legitimate display of the effectiveness of public and media scrutiny of the candidates. It is still up to the voters to decide the import of these issues.
The meteoric rise and fall of three GOP candidates (Donald, Michelle, Cowboy Ricky) and now maybe Mr. Cain only demonstrates that nobody is getting a free pass.
Celebrate this unique American ritual, don't be disgusted by the process.
He forgot to take out the paper shredder.
Cain is going down!
Ron Paul 2012
And that's the naked truth.
I don’t have any of those kind of skeletons in my closet
Hmm, three women from your past say otherwise.
Amy,
do you think it is fair that none of these accusers are going public?
or are you just filled with hate at your political opponents and anything goes?
I don't hate Herman Cain, Bob. I actually like the guy. I just find it fun watching Republicans kneecap each other the way they swiftboated Kerry, prosecuted Clinton, and hounded the first African American President to release his long form birth certificate.
Hey Bob, Anita Hill got wackamoled for months. If I were them, I would not break that confidentiality agreement. The real story isn't what he did in the 90's. The real story is that he is handling this very poorly and keeps changing his story. Is that "presidential?"
Gee Bob, if the women "go public" with their names, you know what will happen to them (as though anything ANY woman says now against Cain would be believed by his supporters?). There is a paper record of these accusations that led to the payoff in at least two of these cases, in exchange for their silence. That should be released by the association with their names redacted and the association can verify the reports themselves. (not that any of that would be believed by the extremists, but for the majority of people who would like to know just what happened, that would certainly be informtive.) (and what Democrat in their right mind would want CAIN out?? He's the best thing that's happening to the further implosion on the right since Sarah Palin took offense at being asked what she reads.)
Bob,
sucks that he lied doesn't it. You can't defend that or make that go away. Too bad.
So true. They will have someone from the Cain campaign discrediting them and saying things about them like: "Drag $100 bills through trailer parks, there's no telling what you'll find" (James Carville). "She's a liar" (Robert Bennett). "It's just sex" (Carville again), be called "stalkers" (Sidney Blumenthal).
Oh, wait . . . .
Yeah, and we just had ol'President Blue Dress have a big birthday bash the other day where Lady Gaga shook her butt in his face. The standard has been set by the Democrats AP, and no one cares.
Gee, JoannaSmith, I thought Republicans were better than those immoral, degenerate, craven Democrats?
You mean you're not?
None of these Radical Right Clowns are ever going to be President. Huntsman is the best choice for the GOP, but he is not crazy enough for these people.
I don't know about Cain, but after seeing Rick Perry's speach from last week I think he has something trying to get out of his closet.
Bob, you said,
I don't think it's fair, but that's the way that Herman wanted it. I would venture a guess that they are now receiving even more payments from Cain and his supporters, to stay silent, because five figures was OK when you were an administrative person at the National Restraurant Association, but now that you've been sexually harassed by a GOP Presidential candidate, the price goes up. It's free market- free enterprise, the GOP Holy Grail, coming back to bite them in the ass.
Why, if I was Barbara Walters or Oprah, there's no telling how much I'd pay to get these women on camera. More than what they got as hush money from the NRA, that's for sure.....it's coming....
The ironic thing is that compared to Rick Perry's closet Herman Cain's closet is relatively empty.
Just wait until Herman fades out and Perry becomes the default anti-Romney candidate. Perry has enough closet issues that are barely hidden that he stands no chance in the general election. It has recently been shown that the big Republican money from Texas is NOT going to Perry, it is going to Romney. Why? Because Rick has issues.
More nasty smears from the 'compassionate" Democrats.
Obama cant win a real election, which is why they pay slugs to slander and smear his opponents.
HAte to break it to you Bob, but this is as real as it gets. You just have no candidates. That's not Obama's fault (not that you won't find someway of making it about obama as always).
What thugs Bob? Obama said he is doing nothing until some more of these characters get kicked off of the island.
Gee, Bobbers...Cain is now blaming Perry for the sexual harrassment story this week. Why is that?
Bob
Cain called in and said he would like it if you would stop trying to help him out....he said he can screw this up all on his own without your help...
The media has to slander anyone who may be able to beat their annointed candidate. What else can this current leader of the administration do, run on his record?
Hey, whinemaker, if the allegations are true it's not slander.
Bob, don't say I didn't warn you.
Go ahead, pick Perry and prove me wrong. I double dog dare you.
Bob, don't say I didn't warn you.
Go ahead, pick Perry and prove me wrong. I double dog dare you.
Winemaker
"Slander"?
The story Politico broke on Friday stated:
1. Two women had made sexual harrassment claims
2. That there was a cash settlement
Since Cain has admitted that "claims were made" and "there were cash settlements"..thus validating the story..
Exactly where is the "slander"....
Let me guess: Perry is gay, right...you slimeball nisl?
Bob, at least try to keep to the subject. This last post, very middle school. You really shouldn't start rumors like that. That is slander.
Poor Bob#### all the great one fall at sometime, just did not expect them to go all at once. Oh well keep the faith Bob, you still have Bachmann.
I don't believe Rick Perry is gay, maybe he just likes gay sex.
Bob you wish he was gay. you would have a chance to ride the bull!
Seriously, is it just me???
Cain: "I didn't harass them women. If I did I don't' remember it."
Perry: "I wasn't drunk and I didn't take no drugs. I was just being my dumb self"
Romney: "Yes…I mean No….well actually I meant Yes. Which do you prefer?"
Bachman: "See, I've been telling you all along, I'm not the craziest of the bunch."
Santorum: "Pay attention to ME dammit. I wish I could have broke the news on Cain"
Paul: "See, if we eliminate government we wouldn't have all this nonsense. Wait, does that mean me too." Â
You just can't make this stuff up. Nobody would believe it.....oh, and by the way, Michelle, you are the craziest of the bunch!
Memo to Herman Cain:
It's not the skeletons that we're concerned about. It's the real life women that you've silenced with money. It's saying that those defenseless women were lousy employees, but not accepting responsibility for hiring them or employing them in the first place. It's your snooty attitude to the press and your condescending attitude to the poor. It's your crazy 999 plan that leaves the federal Treasury shorter of funds by 265 billion dollars and raises my taxes, while lowering the total taxes on the wealthiest Americans. And then it's the switching to the 909 plan to make everything even worse, once the lower income people got a whiff of what you were doing. It's not knowing the names of the leaders in countries that the US has a vested interest in.
Those are the things that concern us. Not skeletons and golf scores.....
MkeMike,
Notice not a single conservative could argue your post. Not a single one of the ditto heads here had anything to say. Good job.
MkeMike--you are on a roll this week. Well said.
Hypothetically, if Herman Cain were elected, do you think the people on the right would complain every time he played golf?
Only if he asked Vice President Bachmann to kiss his balls for good luck....
How soon the left forget the ones in thier ranks. I will compare clintons closet to cains any day and see who is news worthy.
this is about cain ....with the recent past do you conservatives want to go down the larry craig, mark foley, ensign,,,,vitter sanford road....or trail in the case of mark sanford.....lets' see gay gay , sleeping with employee of his ,,,prositute scandal and avid hiker dumping wife and kids for mistress on state money...or newt telling his wife that had cancer in the hospital he wanted a divorce....family values bunch...really want to throw clinton 15 years ago or your guys from the last 3.....
Has obama denounced the violence in Oakland and the rapes at other OWS venues yet.
Or is he still in the "feeling their frustration" phase?
Why would anybody want new leadership for the country?
Look, SQUIRREL!!!
focus bob this is about cain....not oakland,,,that's another issue don't attempt to distract
The reason Mr. Cain hasn't come clean is because he can't possibly come clean. There is no plausible explanation for three separate women claiming sexual harassment and having to be paid off, and Mr. Cain's unwillingness to discuss it, except that Mr. Cain is an indiscriminate lecherous bully.
But, irregardless of that fact, he is an incompetent boob and deserves to be rejected by virtue of his public policy positions alone on 999, or 909, or whatever this week's sham economic proposals are.
That being said, I hope he wins the GOP nomination.
The third woman never filed - she only appeared yesterday and said she had thought of filing but never did.
The other two both received what is known in legal circles as "nuisance fees" - $45,000 and $35,000. For sexual harassment cases these payments are considered tiny.
tiny or not i would say three allegation says pattern of behavior not a accident....how about that.....
Monetfan,
Those payments were only tiny in light of the fact that they were administrative personnel at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990's. Given Herman Cain's largesse since, these women may want to reconsider and tell their side of the story now that they are being portrayed as incompetents. I hope they do get a chance to clear their names. My guess is that Herman, or his campaign supporters will make a few more payments to keep them quiet.
What they can't cover over are his ridiculous public policy statements and plans. In the meantime, we need to give GOP supporters some things that they can understand, sex, violence, and mindless slogans.
MkeMike,
What's more, they cannot cover over the fact that he LIED about his knowledge of the allegations and the settlements as he walked his story back.
Irreversibly tarnised integrity? You betcha.
See, Republicans? See how much the Democrats are scared of Cain? Based on the level of reasoning I've seen on political message boards, that ought to be reason to nominate him right there! :)
Scared?? LOL..that's hilarious. The guy who didn't know the name of the President of the country we're fighting a war in? Doesn't know China has nuclear weapons? Thought when Republicans said pro-life they were including the lives of WOMEN?? My my...I'm sure some of those contributions to keep this clown in are COMING from the D's...(just in case there are any independents left in this country who are still looking for someone to vote for in this field of ridiculous lightweights...it is very helpful to remind them of just how low the bar has gotten) Keep him in, PLEASE.
Paul
Shouldn't that read:
See Democrats - see how much the Republicans are afraid of Cain becoming their nominee....
come on paul really a southern based republican party electing a black to be the nominee,,,okay paul,,,yes obama scare of that don't confuse disbelief with fear and that disbelief is that a republican party doesn't have a clue to who it's base it....wow paul wake up wake up you re dreaming again..
I believe my sarcasm meter just went off. PaulM?
Sarcasm? Me?
Politico finally reported what the second woman received as a payment - and had to clarify what the first woman got.
Both - in legal circles - are known as "nuisance fees" - because of their tiny $$ amount. If a sexual harassment charge is considered to have merit the award is in the six figures - if not more.
Woman #1 received $45,000 and Woman #2 received $35,000.
Herman Cain has consistently failed to be truthful. This situation continues to deteriorate for Mr. Cain. The scandal is clearly worse than we currently know, or that Cain is letting on. The media has a duty to pursue this story until we know the full truth. What's worse, the Republican Party and its voting base seems to have no conscience and treats these disturbing incidents at the hands of Herman Cain as something to be laughed off, or fingered as a liberal smear. Sexual harassment is serious business. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
Pizza Man is digging his own political grave. He knew this was coming more than 10 days ago and wasn't even the slightest bit prepared for the on-slot. If he can't handle something like this, he sure can't handle being president. This is the big leagues Pizza Man -- and you're not even ready for the instructional league.
"Nothing to see in his closet"
Isn't that the same thing J Edgar Hoover said?
closet, herman cain's gay now, was it because woman kept turning him down....
Where is Mrs. Cain, btw? Hmmm?
so cain's a serial harrasser.....three....ones and accident two's a mistake three's a pattern wasn't once....that's a bigger problem.....
and for all you conservatives that can't take a woman's word for it...charlie wilson a staffer of perry i saw on t.v. admitt he witnessed one incident at a bar while he to worked for nra. charlie's a guys name and not a money grubbing whore like the three woman....wow you guys are special,,,,,,special needs
cain's new slogan ,,,,,you come here often....///// or joey from friends,,,,,,,,how 're you doin////////what a guy
Well, Well well! Mr. Herman Cain, now you are beginning feel just 10% 0f the pain that the first black president is feeling. Didn't you know that you was on the wrong side of the fence. They will let you go to the fence, but that is as far as you can go over. What made you think you could cross. Well brother let me educate you. When Obama, took office, from day one they had already made up there mind, that they was no t going to let him lead, and they have toss everyone road block they could toss at him. He was given one of the biggest messes of any president in the last 100 years, and they are scared that he just might get it right and they can't have that, because every president before him, was white, and for him to come into office and get things done that couldn't get, or didn't want to get done. No! they can't let that happen. Did you really think, they would let you of all people, have a chance at the nomination. Well if you did, you are stupid than I through you were. You saying things, like all black people are brainwashed, you are the one that been brainwashed, on a promise. So I say to you Mr, Cain, take your 6 million, and go and buy you some sense, and while you at it, get educated, because you're you are a F@@@ing idiot. I'm a black man, and I grew up on a farm, and pick cotton for a living. I served my country for 20 years, and raise four children, and they are all college graduates, my oldest graduated from Harvard, and I'm also a college graduate, and the government haven't given me one thin dime, so if you call that being brainwash, then I am. So Mr. Cain go back and make some more pizza, because you have let everyone know that's the only thing you would be good at. President! you must be kidding.
OK - read the article again. Back in March, ole Hermie knew that these sexual harrassment issues were going to surface. "So, no I don't have any of those kind of skeletons in my closet, and what I have told people, if they come up with something and try to damage my reputation, they will have made it up." Haha, of course he was trying to do a "cover my a$$" thing, because eventually someone was going to dig up this story. And sorry, you rightie wingnuts, it wasn't the lamestream media. It was the Republicans eating their own.
First Read's balanced journalism:
Herman Cain posts: 45?
Jon Corzine posts : 1
Boo hoo....another whiney right wingnut post from Bob!
Rational/relevant Posts by Bob - 1887910 = 0
Newsflash for Bob,
The difference is : John Corzine is NOT running for President.....although this year he probably could if he were a Republican....
It all depends on the meaning of skeletins!
When Cain said don't look for any skeleton's in the closet, he forgot all about the pile of used rubbers he has.
That's because Cain keeps his woman locked up under his bed, not in the closet.
So WHY not open the door to your closet and let us take a peek Herman?
Look, Cain can spin it any way he wants
When his victims come forth and give us their side of the story ...that is what will determine what Herman has in his closet
what if cain paid off one person then was stupid enough to do it again....that's presidential....
That is not much different than what the authority in the Catholic church does with Pedophile priests
They pay the victims off .... and chuffle those child molesting priests around to mother congregations or parishes