I do not have to answer to any of you. I have a right to choose who I want. If I end up wrong, so what. Trust me, I am a big girl. I go my own way. I am loyal to my friends. I dont need my big brothers steering me in the right direction, but thanks anyway.
Tooner,
You do have a right to choose your own way and yes if you are wrong, you have to live with it. In this case however, your choice will be a part of a collective group and if you are wrong and thus if the group is wrong, the nation if you will has to live with the impact of that wrong choice. This is not a judgement about Cain but a reality about the entire process and the effects of the majority's choice in any given election.
I've heard several PR people talk about this whole matter (the allegations and Cain's response) from it's start and it was there that this whole thing could have gone away. It's clear IMO that the initial reports were not a result of one of the alleged victims coming forward but rather someone who went digging into the past. The initial alleged victim (make note I'm saying alleged here) stated through her lawyer that she only came forward as a result of Cain's dismissive "It never happened" and this caused a cascade effect. As has been noted here, as that day wore on, the story changed and Cain himself dug the hole deeper but had his campaign sat back and prepared a statement, he could have done so without admitting guilt while making no negative judgement of the claims of the victim or in otherwords, honor the non-disclosure agreement and thus keeping the alleged victim(s) bound by their's.
Maybe the thing would have been a 24 or 48 hour news cycle at the most and by now it would be long forgotten. I don't care for Cain because to be honest I find him a false conservative although my idea of a conservative is from a much older ideal. I don't think Cain is of the limited gov't ideal but rather like a Newt Gingrich mold who believes you can just better manage the Leviathan. For 70 years, republicans have been singing that song and dance and in the process of just making FDRism work more efficient, the State and our communities in general have gotten worse and the ill effects appear to be suffered onto the shoulders of generations to come. IMO Cain is just a Carny midway sideshow used to distract decent folk in order to pick their pockets of what little of their lives they have left. Obama, Cain and the rest are nothing but vultures who are picking the bones of a dying carcass and as H.L. Mencken once said,
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
