Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:27:47 AM
Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign. According to his campaign manager, that just means that they are looking at campaign strategy, not whether to stay in the race. I hope Herman Cain does stay in the race and that the allegation of an affair is not true.
On the surface, it does appear like Herman Cain did have an affair with Ginger White. She has a cell phone with his private cell phone number on it. When she talked to reporters, they called the number and Herman Cain called back a short time later. That establishes that she knew Herman Cain well enough to have his private number. For me, there are very few who have my cell phone number. I would assume that the same would be true for Herman Cain.
The second thing that Ginger has to prove the validity of her story is that she has phone records that show phone calls between Herman Cain and her going back some time. The earliest call listed was at 4:26 am and the latest at about 8 pm. This also establishes that she knew Herman very well. It does not prove an affair, but it does show that her relationship with Herman Cain was not just as an acquaintance. .
Herman Cain says that she has been a long-time friend, nothing more. That will be difficult to prove. She says that there were extra-curricular activities involved, he says no. Who is telling the truth? Is it possible that the real truth is somewhere in between what each is saying? We will probably never know.
One thing that remains troubling about all the allegations from women is that they all happened when Herman Cain was President of the Restaurant Association. That was a three year period in his life, yet all the allegations come from this time period. Did something happen during this time to change him into somebody different? How can he be a Boy Scout type before being President of the Restaurant Association and again after he was President of the association. But, while he was President of the Restaurant Association, he was a womanizer. Something here just does not look right. If he is what these allegations are saying, then the behavior would have been repeated prior to the Restaurant Association and after. But, it seems that incidents only happened while at the Restaurant Association. Of course, the Democrats have a source very close to the Restaurant Association who is connected to David Axelrod. Their sources before and after are not as connected to David Axelrod so therefore not able to come out.
For those who have forgotten, David Axelrod is the man who manufactured the sexual harassment charges against Barack Obama’s Senate primary opponent and his Republican challenger in the general election. Those charges were eventually found out to be false, but the political damage had already been done and Barack Obama was in the US Senate. All these charges are just too neat and the connections to David Axelrod too close for me to truly believe them. They sound credible, but that is because David Axelrod has learned how to put out better sexual harassment charges.
What Herman Cain needs to do is step forward and articulate a coherent foreign policy plan that removes the disasters that Obama has created. If he does this, he can regain some of the momentum that he lost with the bimbo eruptions manufactured by David Axelrod. Herman Cain is a much more reliable conservative than Newt Gingrich. If he starts to regain the momentum, Newt’s support will drop like a rock. Newt is just getting the "anybody but Romney" support right now. They will go and support anybody who they think can defeat Romney.