Analysis of Herman Cain’s press conference on the attacks launched against him
Check back in a bit for video of the press conference as soon as it becomes available (and include a link to it in the thread below if you don’t see it posted here).
I watched the press conference as it aired live, but will have more to say after I’ve had the chance to review it again.
Here are my initial thoughts — and I invite you to add yours in the comments below.
First off, I’m struck by how presidential Herman Cain seems. I am riveted when I listen to him and I applaud his directness. In my lifetime, we’ve never had a president like this — and that’s a great thing. He talks and acts like a CEO, which is who we need to run the country right now. I pictured a President Cain delivering a State of the Union Address and for the first time in many years I bet that speech would actually mean something and be worth watching. I want Herman Cain in office and I believe in him…as well as believe him.
Regarding the allegations lobbed at him, it’s clear to me the agenda-driven media decided Herman Cain was too much of a threat to Barack Obama and thus needed to be destroyed before the first voting contests in the Republican primaries.
I also think the timing of this attack on Cain was decided upon in the “JournoList” circles because Willard Mittens Romneycare needed attention taken off of him the last two weeks. Remember, today is the day that Ohioans voted on the Issues 2 and 5 ballot measures, and on October 25th Romneycare flip-flopped on his support for curtailing public sector union power (before reversing his position yet again on October 26th).
If not for the attacks on Cain this week, scrutiny would have been applied to Mittens in the lead up to this vote…instead, the public forgot all about the Ohio Union ballot measures and focused on the attacks on Herman Cain.
Don’t you think that’s too much of a coincidence to NOT be intentional?
The only thing I didn’t like about Cain’s press conference was the deference she showed Willard Mittens Romneycare. I still have this nagging suspicion that Herman Cain could be in this race to divide the anti-Romney vote, so that Mittens can squeak through to a win in the Republican nominating contest. There is a small part of me that is afraid that Herman Cain is really running to be Vice President for Mittens — and that concerns me greatly.
I’ve talked to people I respect greatly who were part of the Tea Party Express and had a great deal of interaction with Cain and they have assured me that Cain is serious about his presidential run and is not aiming to be VP. But, I still don’t know, especially when Cain deliberately refuses to punch back at Mittens…on a day when Mittens took a shot at Cain. This is vexing and believe me, it’s something I am watching closely in the days to come.
I believe 100% that the Romneycare campaign was behind prompting the Politico story to drop when it did, because if Politico was left to its own devices this story would have broken in December right before the Iowa Caucus…or it would have been held in reserve for October 2012 when Cain was the Republican nominee. The only person who was really helped out by this story dropping now was Willard Mittens Romneycare. Therefore, I think it’s highly likely that his campaign had something to do with this — and I also believe those same operatives did their level best to pin the attack on the Perry campaign, as a way for the Romney guys to damage two rivals at once. This is precisely the sort of move the Cocktail Party GOP establishment would make, since it’s the sort of thing they’ve done in the past.
I find it interesting that the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment forever use sex scandals to attack black men. This is similar to what was done to Clarence Thomas, and something that keeps popping up whenever a black conservative needs to be destroyed because he is threatening the Left’s hold on black voters.
I also find it very interesting that sex scandals are the weapon of choice to destroy men that Barack Obama does not want to run against in an upcoming election.
Remember back to 2006 when Jack Ryan was on course to win the Senate seat here in Illinois. Mysteriously, his sealed divorce records were released and his campaign was destroyed by claims from his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan (from Star Trek), that Jack Ryan wanted to have exhibitionist sex with her in public and she refused. So, the whole scandal involved a Republican man who was on track to beating Obama in the election expressing a sexual fantasy to his wife that she objected to in her divorce filing. The media turned that into a major scandal for Ryan — and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment in Illinois cowardly cut Ryan loose and made him withdraw from the race because of it.
I need to put the following in bold so that the importance of it registers: IF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT HAD NOT ABANDONED JACK RYAN BECAUSE OF THAT MANUFACTURED SCANDAL, THEN BARACK OBAMA WOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT TODAY.
This is important because here we go again.
Herman Cain would do more damage to the Democrat Party as the Republican nominee than many of you realize.
In debates, he would clean Obama’s clock…and he’d convince a great many black voters to just sit home on election day, since they’d be fine with Cain winning the presidency (even if they couldn’t buck their cultural conditioning to always vote Democrat and would thus be reluctant to pull the lever for a Republican). Cain would no doubt win more black votes than any Republican in history…but more importantly, he would keep at least a million blacks coast to coast home on election day next year since they’d think “we win either way, with Obama or Cain…we’d have a black president no matter who wins, so why should we bother going all the way down there to vote?”.
This is critical because black voters (and the urban Democrat elite who like to paint themselves as being very attuned to the black community, even though they have a general NIMBY attitude towards interactions with actual black people) are such a key part of the Democrat Party’s Jenga-tower identity bloc makeup. If blacks don’t turn out in numbers greater than 2008 for Obama, he’s toast in the general election.
Herman Cain would pull black votes while simultaneously convincing other black voters to just sit home next year.
The Left can’t allow that to happen, so it wants to destroy Herman Cain.
The agenda-driven media won’t allow Barack Obama to lose because the media invested so much into his election, so it wants to destroy Herman Cain.
The Willard Mittens Romneycare campaign and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that backs him know Herman Cain would thwart their plans to install Mittens as the latest “it’s his turn” nominee, so they seek to take Herman Cain down before he wins a primary.
That last one is the most important, because you need to remember what the Cocktail Party GOP establishment decided to do to Jack Ryan in 2006.
Yes, the Left attacked Jack Ryan with a sex scandal using sealed documents that somehow the Obama campaign got ahold of.
Yes, the agenda-driven media ran with that story to destroy Jack Ryan to benefit Barack Obama.
But, it was the Cocktail Party GOP establishment that sank the Ryan campaign and demanded he withdraw from the race. In his stead, the Cocktail Party ran an “it’s his turn” candidate that didn’t connect with voters and that no one on the ground here in Illinois wanted as the nominee.
Just look at what the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is doing to Herman Cain…and think about how much the Cocktail Party wants Willard Mittens Romneycare to be the “it’s his turn” nominee to lose to Barack Obama in the next election. This is Alan Keyes all over again.
For anyone who thinks Herman Cain should just bow out because the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Romneycare campaign have ginned up this controversy against him, I’d love you to respond in comments below and answer this question: Do you, in retrospect, think it was smart for the Cocktail Party establishment to demand Jack Ryan resign from the 2006 Senate race?
Do you also think it was a good idea to take Jack Ryan out of the race, when Obama was afraid of running against him, and giving Obama what he wanted in that race resulted in Obama’s positioning for the presidency in 2008?
Do you see how obviously and directly the Left, the agenda-driven media, and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment conspire to destroy people who are a threat to Barack Obama?
© 2011, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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I missed the presser and look forward to your synopsis. After reading too much about the accusations and accusers of Cain, I think he needs to attack back from a canted angle. False charges cheapen the very real sexual harassment experienced in the workplace by women and men. Too many people already believe victims contributed to the crime, that they were "asking for it"
or that the complaints are simply attempts to snag a quick settlement. False charges make it more difficult to solve the problem
Kevin,
I found the statement credible. I'm very interested in what you have to say about Mr. Cain. I've gotten more respect for him since seeing him in the Cain-Gingrich conversation.
I am hugely against letting the media pick our candidate.
BREAKING NEWS:
Herman Cain announced that he has changed his party affiliation to Democrat. MSNBC starts investigation to find out just who these racists are that are making these unfounded allegations and ruin the reputation of a fine man.
I think the person who benefits from a Cain meltdown is Newt. It will be interesting to watch his numbers this week…
some interesting stuff I didn't know Kevin! Thanks! I concur! With this new evidence, yeap! verrrry fishy
Agree with your analysis, Kevin. Cain is the target of a triangulated attack by BO/Obamacrats/the left, the cocktail party GOP and the agenda-driven media.The core questions I keep asking are why Cain's accusers were all from the National Restaurant Assn, and why they waited 15 years before speaking out? Cain worked other places over his many years as a businessman. If there's any truth to any of the allegations, why did no women from his other work places have similar claims? If there's any truth to any of the claims from the NRA women, why did they not speak out immediately? If there really was any truth to their claims, if they believed Cain represented some sort of harassment threat to other women, why did they not speak out immediately to not only vindicate their own claims, but to prevent other women from being harassed? Why would they wait until Cain was a POTUS candidate? He is innocent until proven guilty. So far, no one has offered any actual proof.
A month ago the accuser did not look like an assault victim:
http://www.suntimes.com/8592168-417/sneed-witness…
VERY interesting!!! Another piece of the puzzle.
Ms. Bialek has had problems with other men as well – see info regarding the paternity suit:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/ite…
Great Article, thanks Kevin
JoeBob – the woman in the pic is NOT Sharon Bialek – easy to make that mistake though – they're both blonde. It's the woman talking about her – Jacobsen I think.
If this is the Amy Jacobson claiming to have seen Bialek and Cain hug at the TeaCon convention, I would seriously doubt she's a very credible witness for much of anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Jacobson
I'm continuing to stand in support of Cain, but I think his campaign manager is hurting him by not verifying his information.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/08/mark-block-…
Kevin – Things may yet be looking up:
http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2011/11/08/a-lat…
Kevin – Kudos!
This election will be / is a scortched-earth campaign. The Dems will burn down every building in America if they believe that it will help them win the election.
Manufacturing "witnesses" is easy… Judas was bought and paid for.
The "October Surprise" tactics are coming out early.
Stupid rock-ribbed conservatives… The Bush DUI story on the eve of the election almost cost him the Presidency. That DUI was a long-time earlier, and Bush had repented, sobered up, and become a devout Christian, but because the knee-jerk reaction of the moral majority, they didn't vote for the hypocrite Bush, when their Christianity should have DEMANDED that they accept his long-standing repentance and so vote for Bush.
If today's Republicans can't see that the lying-cheating-stealing PRESS are doing everything they can to scuttle anyone who may threaten Obama's 2nd term, then they deserve to be defeated and have Obama oversee the final destruction of their remnant of America.
The PRESS are LIARS. Liberal Dems are happy to help them destroy candidates. The Cocktail Party Reps are in bed with them, too.
The Cocktail Party is to the Democrat Party like the Washington Generals are to The Harlem Globetrotters; they make a good living by always losing to the "home team" after making it look like they tried hard.
Gloria Allred showed up in the last days of the 2010 California election to throw an illegal-alien maid under the bus to service her beloved Democrat Party. It may have contributed to the Republican loss.
Now Allred is showing up with accusers who have no court case, not even CIVIL courts, so where is the money? Somebody is giving out $B$I$IG$ to lots of people to make it happen.
OWS? It's a stage magician's distraction to get people's eyes off Obama and the Dems so they can operate more freely. Now ask yourself where the $M$O$NE$Y$ for the gourmet catering in all those cities is coming from? Somehow, the LYING PRESS is not curious about it.
How do all these Cain accusers find the money to do things like fly to California and be in press conferences with Allred? Who is paying the freight?
If the Republicans allow themselves to be tricked into swallowing the lies of the PRESS and the Dems, that Cain, or any candidate, is bad / immoral / what ever, then the Reps deserve to lose everything, and be taxed 100% while Dems get paid government money in several more rounds of Porkulous.
Decide who you want to believe:
(1) the PRESS who always is surprised at the high unemployment numbers (3 years running) but predict a good outlook next month, only to be surprised by the disappointing unemployment numbers again, but next month will be better
(2) your own eyes.
Like a jealous teenager, the PRESS and the Dems will do and say anything to ruin a candidate who the Reps may like that could beat Obama in the 2012 Presidential Election.
Don't be stupid!
Don't fall for it.
This was toooo goooood to remain a mere comment, so it will run tomorrow as a post. Thanks, Newt!
Quote of the day, Newt!!! Ding Ding Ding–You win!!!! Most excellent post BTW
"The Cocktail Party is to the Democrat Party like the Washington Generals are to The Harlem Globetrotters; they make a good living by always losing to the "home team" after making it look like they tried hard"
Thanks, Kevin. I do hope your take is the right one. Right now, Cain is my choice.
But I'll confess my worries. I wonder why he went out and accused Perry when Progressive fingerprints are all over this.
Today he had all kinds of kind words about Romney. Did you notice?
I have wondered for some time if Cain is really campaigning for the presidency. I hope so. But in the back of my mind I wonder if he is really campaigning to be Mitty's veep.
I hope I'm wrong.
Accuser filed complaint at next Job:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-accuser-filed-…
I think, until proven wrong, this is a combination Republican and Democrat Party hatchet job.
The Republican Party, early on, picked Mitt as he is a "good RINO" and the Dems, lead by Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz are up to their, every election year, dirty tricks.
Mr. Cain resonates with Americans and this is why it takes both parties, in concert, to perform this dirty feat of un-Americanism. Hopefully, I will be proven wrong☺
Juan Williams defends Herman Cain http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/04…
And just this morning on F&F, Gretchen Carlson wondered why Cain hasn't left the presidential race yet. Absolutely disgusting.
I'm convinced this scandal is a scam. One of the women has a son that works for Politico. Another just so happens to work for the Treasury Department while a third hired a well known "feminist" and liberal political hack for a lawyer. To many "coincidences" for this kid.
It's all part of a major effort by the Left to take down a true conservative. And a black conservative at that who has defied the liberal plantation and has a realistic chance to win the Presidency. We must not fall for this pile of garbage. Everything the left spews these days is either a vile lie, an outrageous slander or ignorant BS.
I think you're wrong about Cain not addressing Romney's comment. I thought he was at his best with this one – he seemingly gave Romney the benefit of the doubt but what he was really doing was saying to Romney "OK, I interpreted your stupid comments in such a way that it appears you're actually supporting me and if you say that's not what you meant then you sound like even more of a jerk." This is corporate hard ball at its best.
The lack of experience is seen in Cain's way to address the public. The man looks and tallks just like a southern Black pimp. Obama can be called a lot of things but the guy KNOWS how to talk to the masses. This is a characteristic few politicians have: Reagan, Palin….
Cain is just a poor clown using his Black race and fraudulent party affiliation(Caijn never defends the GOP or ever talks about the GOP principles and platforms) to get the maximum white guilt possible in the primary season.
Go home – or downstairs or where ever it is that people who hate themselves and everyone else go. I'm tired of wasting my time on your comments. There's a reason you never get a response. Kevin and HB warn us about your type of destructive comments.
Funny how, after the number of years Cain has been in the business world, the only women who were "harassed" were from a less than 2 year period, none of them filed police reports (as Bialek should have if her accusations really happened), one has subsequently filed harassment claims against her next employer, and one has repeated bankruptcies and former colleagues who state she is a troublemaker. This thing stinks to high heaven, and the part that pisses me off is that whoever is behind all this thinks we are stupid enough to believe it all.
I can see it going both parties. Kevin makes a lot of sense. Romney WANTS that position more than anything…but, you have to remember it seems that there is a LOT of Chicago people involved here.
Remember that Rahm was mentioned at the very beginning by Drudge. That is just TOO coincidental.
#2 works in the Obama administration – for tax cheat Gietner, no less.
The "witness" at the TEA Party event, as pointed out by cjwk, is not really a Tea Party member but rather a wannabe member of the press trying to get any kind of dirt on the attendees.
Based on other "finds" by commenters here, there is no doubt it is a setup. Cain should sue these fools so that they have to actually testify in court.
I hope Cain is able to survive until at least the Iowa caucus. If so, it may very well be Cain & Gaingrich at the top.
Not only is Bialek suspect because of her background (paternity suit, multiple bankruptcies, etc.) but another accuser seems to have a pattern of making allegations about employers and then suing: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-accuser-filed-…
Why don't the reporters follow up on a paper trail about the hotel stay and dinners involved which couldlead to more conclusive info.