Herman Cain’s audacity is remarkable.
Last month, speaking broadly of Occupy-type rhetoric, he railed that “if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.”
Now, standing on his head to paint a credible allegation of sustained infidelity as transactional aid to a (secret) friend, this: “I’m a softy, and I feel sorry for people when they get in deep financial trouble, especially given this economy and people being out of work.”
Incredible.
That said, if Cain stays the course he should be glad that the media firestorm over a consensual act of infidelity has diluted discussion of far more serious allegations of unwanted sexual harassment and, yes, assault on several women that had previously dominated. With all this information drifting though most every content stream (yes, even conservative ones), the fact that Cain continues to out-poll someone like Jon Huntsman in key states is appalling.
I suppose the bottom line is that if your coms team is thinking “Thank balls our candidate had that affair outed!”, you were probably never that great a candidate, husband, or man to begin with.
