Woman alleges affair with presidential hopeful Cain

Cain needs to change his whole strategy to "I'm an ignorant scumbag and I don't care what you think".

Its the only way he can continue.

In terms of waiting for the next shoe to drop, this is a bit like hiding in Imelda Marcos's closet during an earthquake.

Many women are coming forard. And he cannot put all Jeanies (women) back into a bottle. He needs to do lots of explainings to do.

He must have a wonderful wife, or she really loves his big bank accounts.

I would rather believe in Cain than this mother "expletive deleted". Cain says what he means and he means what he says.

Cain says what he means and he means what he says.

Cain is running for president. That pretty much ensures that candor is off the table.

You would think Cain had learned the lesson the media wanted taught to him.

Even if this is should be completely irrelevant for a political campaign, he is done for. I wonder what sort of dirt the busy media/democrat party sleuths have compiled on any other republican candidate in case he gets strong.

Democrat candidates, of course, need not worry. Their background will never be investigated.

Probably it was only 12 years and 9 months, therefore Cain does think it is different.

WilliB - You must have a VERY selective memory. Democrats' backgrounds are not only investigated, but then the facts skewared if nothing juicy is found. i.e. Obama is a radical muslim, never graduated from college, and finally not even a US citizen. John Kerry went from honorable war hero to a supposed liar in 2 weeks. Very funny stuff, Willi

CrazyJoe: "Cain says what he means and he means what he says."

You mean when he says something? or when he admits he wasn't telling the truth later and contradicts his previous statement?

Straight up - I'd like to congratulate President Obama on being a faithful husband, a loving father and someone who - at least in the family department - every American should look up to.

Sad the same can't be said for certain males in the GOP presidential candidate lineup.

WilliB - "Democrat candidates, of course, need not worry. Their background will never be investigated."

When did you last read the news? 1960?

Five women and counting that he claims are lying.

WilliB: "Democrat candidates, of course, need not worry. Their background will never be investigated."

Said by a guy who probably STILL doubts Obama's nationality after it was proven and proven, and then proven again when the GOP wouldn't stop crying about it. Next you'll be saying it's just the Liberal media and the Republicans never engage in media coverage like this. :)

I can almost hear the moral Christian conservatives in the States breathing a sigh of relief - "It's only five women... "

Straight up - I'd like to congratulate President Obama on being a faithful husband

Straight up ! You muss be comin straight from da streets.Word!

Back on topic please.

When did you last read the news? 1960?

@SushiSake3: I would say he stopped reading newspapers back in 1992. Remember all the women who came forth with accusations against Bill Clinton? Of course it was a "right wing conspiracy" but none of the allegations were proven false. Even made a few of the accusers "celebrities" in the reality show medium. Also to be fair, there was considerable conversation and still is about Gingrich and his past maritial affairs. Though I don't think some of these things should really be brought up in an election, but they way that they are handled by the media is telling.

SmithinJapan - "Next you'll be saying it's just the Liberal media"

Don't forget it's the "Democratic machine." :-)

No, seriously - Cain is exhibiting one of many characteristic traits of card-carrying conservatives - this one the "Blame anyone but me/us!" trait.

This typically follows the "Deny everything" trait.

Conservatives at their ehrr..finest.

SushiSake3: "This typically follows the "Deny everything" trait."

Well, occasionally it follows the "admit the truth then deny you said it" trait, like with the gay Republican seeking 'favours' in the men's toilet. I wonder if they actually try to deny the truth to themselves.

This comes out the same day Senator Barney Frank announces he will not seek re-election.It blunts any criticism of Barney and his role in the housing disaster. So I am glad.

Yabits, good analogy. Imelda's shoes! How natsukashii.... I've heard the expression "raising Cain" but this is ridiculous.

THirteen years is a long time. So there are bound to be mountains of receipts from hotels and restaurants and witnesses coming out of the woodwork, and you KNOW you can trust the press to get to the bottom of this.

It's only a matter of time before Mr.Cain's harassment claims will sink his campaign. Mr. Cain is not qualified to be president period. He is continuing to blow nothing more than smoke. His credibility is in doubt and so is his political smarts. He needs to get clean and until he offers a fuller and honest accounting, Mr. Cain will be dogged for more real answers. Maybe it's time for Mr.Cain to throw the towel in. He can no longer be trusted and has no integrity and character to become a future president. It's time for the comical republican candidate to pack up his bags before he makes a fool out of himself. He is simply put, a joke.

Alphaape: "Remember all the women who came forth with accusations against Bill Clinton?"

How could any of us remember if it was never reported? The number of times you guys contradict yourselves in your own arguments blows my mind.

"Though I don't think some of these things should really be brought up in an election, but they way that they are handled by the media is telling."

And yet your comment on this thread comes immediately upon similar accusations. Interesting that... well, it WOULD be interesting, if not so hypocritical. Do you not see how badly you played into that? Next it will be you and WilliB infighting over who to blame for the hypocrisy you both so badly try to hide.

"Next it will be you and WilliB infighting over who to blame for the hypocrisy you both so badly try to hide."

Actually, no, it won't. You'll conveniently forget everything you said. Then when it's pointed out to you you'll claim it's just the liberal media trying to tarnish your excellent reputation and use a hyped out media example of a Clinton to try and point out how the same thing never happens on the other end. ;)

If old Herman was getting some action on the side, FINE BY ME! If he can beat the other Republicans, fine by me, if he can sell us a better pizza, great! If he can turn our economy around great! Even though I prefer OBAMA anyday!

Novenachama - "Maybe it's time for Mr.Cain to throw the towel in."

Maybe? Every day that goes by where conservatives continue to support Cain is a black mark on them all.

"He can no longer be trusted and has no integrity and character ....."

But that's precisely why conservatives worship him. The mirror effect.

"It's time for the comical republican candidate to pack up his bags before he makes a fool out of himself. He is simply put, a joke."

Hmmm...I beg to differ. It's because he IS such a joke that liberals everywhere rejoice, because with this pack of no-hoper GOP candidates, unemployment could reach 15% and Obama would still whip the lot of them.

That's change I can believe in.

These women coming out is like Chinese water torture.

But I have to add that Herman Cain is a great fit for president - if you have no morals, zero integrity and eve less personal ethics.

All of which - again - raises the question: when is the GOP going to put forward a serious candidate??

Funny too, how so many conservatives still fail to see the difference between a faux presidential run and a book tour.

I'm certain the entire pack of GOP candidates end each day howling with laughter at how many people still 'support' them..... :-)

Woman alleges affair with presidential hopeful Cain

I smell something burning and I am pretty sure it isn't pizza.

It's pretty amazing, the depths to which the blamestream media will go to try to smear Republicans with false, made up charges. Why don't they ever implicate any Democrats in these scandals?

Soon, it'll be a huge faux pas if a GOP presidential candidate doesn't have a book tour going at the same time they are "running for president."

Because it's pretty clear what their real ambitions are, and it ain't to move in to the WH.

So he pulled a Clinton - what's the big deal? Screwing around on your wife was okay for Kennedy and Clinton. If the Republicans also change their minds and decide it's no big deal, then there really isn't anything left to talk about.

Biggest challenge the Dems face in this election cycle is how long will they have to sit through Obama's victory speech. :-)

" those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door"

As long as he feels that way about other consenting, I couldn't care less about his consensual sex life. (I think some of the religious right might have issues, but I don't)

Harassment is a bigger problem. Lying about not being aware of harassment settlements is very problematic, as it shows a duplicitousness nature.

Being unaware of China's status as a nuclear nation, is a deal-breaker.

Bye, bye Mr. Cain. You're out ...

blame it on libido. LOL

This is too funny... I'm literally laughing my guts out. The GOP are so pathetic this guy is one of their hopefuls?

So he pulled a Clinton -

Ha ha! - don't even want to do a Google Image search on what "pulling a Clinton" looks like.

But really, this is a Republican candidate in a Republican primary - the Democrats are a non-issue here. Clinton could get away with it precisely because the Democrats believe what happens behind the bedroom door IS private (though the Oval Office thing was taking it too far, as all have acknowledged); the Republicans, despite all their self-professed libertarianism, are big believers in government regulation there.

Google "Santorum" for details.

SushiSake3 Straight up - I'd like to congratulate President Obama on being a faithful husband, a loving father and someone who - at least in the family department - every American should look up to.

This is a bit like congratulating someone and looking up to them for having blue eyes and blonde hair. For some, it takes far less effort to be faithful because that is just the way they are. Does it make them better people? I think not. Some great men I admire had affairs. Some great men I admire did not. So I suggest you sweep that nonsense under the rug because you only sell yourself and America short. This attitude threatens to rob us of the next Jefferson, Kennedy or Clinton.

I am not holding any of this against Cain. The sexual harrasment claims run from frivolous to mild assuming any of them are even true. A mistress, if true, is run of the mill and frankly, necessary for some men's peace of mind. But I don't see any proof except for a woman who is either a liar or a selfish witch for spilling the beans, either way I am not going to give her any creedence.

“No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.”

Every American should need to learn this and be able to write it down verbatim on a test to be able to get their high school diploma. America needs to learn what respect and dignity are again, because they seem to have forgotten. I am sick to death of reading about speculation about people's private sex lives, as if it makes a spit of difference to anything of public import. It doesn't. Its just sick and purient interest and doesn't help us at all.

Stick a fork in him, he's done. Just the latest in the line of under-qualified, over-hyped wanna-bees that the Republican Party is trotting out. Palin, Buchmann, Perry, etc. Now it looks like old Newt may slip in by default. And he's got lots of skeletons in his closet -- including the over $1.5 million he got in consulting fees from Fannie Mae. Unbelievable.

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

For the MSM - the One Percent Media, you could say - he is nowhere near done. What better story than Cain do they have to deflect blame from Obama for his manifold failures and simultaneously keep their hero looking good to the 99 percent of African Americans whose vote Dems must absolutely keep to win?

Farmboy - "Because the Democrats are sending all their money to the Cain campaign, hoping he's the competition that Obama has to beat."

He's beating himself.

Dems/libs just have to sit, watch and laugh, and believe me - we are. :-)

The shock and awe is really hitting home in the conservative camp right about now.

They do not have a single credible candidate.

I would hate to wake up one morning and have that dawn on me if I were a conservative.

Sadly for conservatives, they themselves are responsible for this laughing stock of a lineup.

Conservatives support these people and conservatives put these candidates where they are now.

These candidates are a reflection of the mainstream ideas and attitudes of modern American conservatives.

And they are all a complete bunch of no-hopers.

How sad is that???

Sadly for conservatives, they themselves are responsible for this laughing stock of a lineup.

Conservatives support these people and conservatives put these candidates where they are now.

These candidates are a reflection of the mainstream ideas and attitudes of modern American conservatives.

I wouldn't agree with that statement. It's sort of like saying if you are French you must be rude and like wine and cheese. If a senator from State A which is twelve hundred miles from where I live decides to run for President, I didn't vote for him/her nor necessarily support their particular beliefs 'just because I'm conservative'. Haven't we decided for example that saying all Muslims are potential terrorists is a bad thing? - so in that same vein isn't it rather ridiculous to conclude that all conservatives are clowns based upon a 'guilt by association' mentality? I thought the hallowed intellectual liberal was supposed to be above such things. Only when convenient, right?

I didn't ask Cain to run - didn't ask any of them to run, or did I vote for many of them just because I happen to be a bit more conservative. Plus, it's great for the Dems to yell about how the Republicans have no candidates, but you offer only one - and that choice has been tried and proven to be an utter disaster. So would I want the happy clown who can't keep it in his pants, or the proven failure driving us further over the abyss? Jesus, maybe it is time to move to a foreign locale.

and that choice has been tried and proven to be an utter disaster.

...and this is where it becomes apparent that we are living on different planets.

This doesn't match up to any sort of reality that I am aware of. I am, for the record, and independant voter. Sometimes I vote D, sometimes R, based on who I think has the best policies and leadership capabilities. It increasingly seems that large portions of the left and (especially) the right are off in their own little incestuous bubbles, reading their own self-gratifying news sources and sounding off in their own comfortable echo chambers. And the only time the come out is to do battle - volume turned up to 11 - with "the enemy." And, to a neutral observer, it seems like everyone has gone insane.

Has Obama been a perfect president? Certainly not (not by a long shot). But I am continually mystified by rightwingers who insist he is a fiendish-socialist-mastermind/total-incompetent/worst-president-evah and that it is painfully obvious that he has no chance at releection. Do you really believe that stuff, or is it all a part of some sort of campaign - if you repeat it loudly and frequently enough others will start to think it's true?

Triumvere, I like you am more of an 'independent' of sorts. More often these days I lean further to the right because there is much on the left that I see and do not like. I assure you I am in no 'incestuous bubble' - well, I do live in NY which could be classified as such at times. I'm not 'dyed in the wool' when it comes to party or politics, but rather like to assess mine as adaptive thinking. No one party has ever shown itself to be omniscient, and mistakes on both sides are rampant. As for the President - he is not the 'worst president evah' as that title is still championed by Jimmy Carter. But I believe we are a capitalist republic for the most part, and the President does not in my opinion support what I think a capitalist republic should be doing. Our economy has 'broken' in the past, is now, and likely will again. It is flawed; all systems are. But it is the best one for us. Wild spending on stimulus packages that do nothing, crappy healthcare bills that erode our system rather than fixing it, lackluster leadership...there's much more. I don't agree with his policies, nor do I think he has been an effective President. Hypocritically people like you see that 'right-wing conspiracy' that we're all sheepishly following because we quite obviously are not smart enough to think for ourselves. Painfully obvious that he has no chance of re-election? Given the crop produced by the right to run against him he has every chance. Doesn't mean it's a good choice, or the right one for America.

But I'm unclear how you can state that I'm self-disillusioned because I think he is a crummy President when based upon my principles of what I think a good government and set of policies for the US is not what is being put forth? The current state of the economy, world situation and public opinion allow credence to my conclusions. That you disagree with them hardly makes them moot and you a genius, unless you're a lot more liberal than you think. In that case your self-righteousness is expected.

TigermothII,

Hi. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was you specifically that had gone of the deep end. It was more a general commentary, triggered by the seeing "Obama is a complete failure" statements over and over. In retrospect, I should have made that clear in my orignal post.

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

Cain is reportedly telling his campaign staff that he's ready to call it quits.

Trimvere,

Do you really believe that stuff, or is it all a part of some sort of campaign - if you repeat it loudly and frequently enough others will start to think it's true?

But, the fact is, it DOES work. That's why rush limbaugh and sean hannity and bill oreilly keep telling the same lies, over and over. Eventually, it DOES get perceived as the truth.

That's why it must be stomped out like a disease, whenever it occurs.