This continues. How would you put it behind you? latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-republicans-cain-20111106,0,1724682.story Republicans urge Herman Cain to tell all in harassment flap By Peter Nicholas Washington Bureau 10:49 AM PST, November 6, 2011 Prominent Republicans called on Herman Cain to disclose full details of the sexual harassment allegations that have dogged his presidential campaign for the last week, saying the candidate must address lingering questions about the incidents. Cain, speaking to reporters after a debate in Texas on Saturday night, said he would not provide any more specifics, asserting that "everything has been answered." "Were getting back on message," Cain said. Cain needs to be more forthcoming than that, some fellow Republicans said on the Sunday morning talk shows. GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Cain needs to "get the information out and get it out in total." Huntsman, appearing on NBCs "Meet the Press," said "legitimate questions have been raised and that information has to come forward." Two women reportedly received financial settlements stemming from Cains behavior in the late 1990s, when he was president of the National Restaurant Assn. An attorney for one of the women said last week that Cain had subjected her to "a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances." Cain has denied that he sexually harassed anyone. Beyond the matter of what took place between Cain and the women, the uproar has tested his ability to manage a crisis. After Politico first broke the story, Cain gave a series of sometimes conflicting statements about what happened. Now he seems determined to drop the subject entirely. Before Cain can move on, he must come out with more answers, said Haley Barbour, Republican governor of Mississippi. "What he wants to do is get back on message," Barbour said on "Meet the Press," "and the way to do that is to get all the facts on the table and get it behind him." Continuing, Barbour said: "Im not one of the people who think this is necessarily fatal. It might not hurt him at all. But people need to know what the facts are. And thats the challenge for him right now to get those out as quickly as possible and get it behind him." Cain had been surging in the polls when the story broke, emerging as the latest challenger to Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney. A new poll suggests the uproar has broken his momentum. A Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that Cains favorability rating among Republicans has fallen nine points from 66% to 57%. Cain is also laboring under criticism that his command of basic public policy issues is poor. In an interview last week with PBS NewsHour, he said that China was "trying to develop nuclear capability . " China first tested an atom bomb in 1964, according to the Federation of American Scientists, a nonpartisan think tank. Huntsman, who served as U.S. ambassador to China under President Obama, said: "There needs to be a baseline level of knowledge from a foreign policy standpoint." Huntsman is trailing badly in the polls and has yet to gain any traction against Romney. Using his national TV forum, he said Romney lacks a "core." That same line of attack against Romney indeed, the same word choice has come from one of Obamas chief campaign strategists, David Axelrod. Because of Romneys vacillation on the issues, he would not be able to beat Obama in the 2012 election, Huntsman said. When theres a question about whether youre running for the White House or the Waffle House, youve got a real problem with the American people, Huntsman said. As an example of what he called a Romney flip-flop, he mentioned abortion. Romney opposes abortion rights, though he once took the opposite position. What the American people want today more than anything else is a level of consistency, Huntsman said. They want trust. Meanwhile, Obama was being criticized by Republicans for his leadership, with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) taking a swipe in another Sunday morning interview. Appearing on ABCs This Week, Boehner accused Obama of inflaming class resentment, a reference to Obamas call for a tax structure in which wealthier Americans pay a higher rate. We are not going to engage in class warfare, Boehner said. The president is out there doing it every day. I frankly think its unfortunate, because our job is to help all Americans, not to pit one set of Americans against another. The White House did not immediately offer a reaction. peter.nicholas@latimes.com
A sexual harassment accusation against a 56 year old CEO is NOT the worst crime.. It not like being caught in a public bathroom propositioning boys or having a love child or beating your wife. Maybe Cain should just be forthcoming and make it go away.
Excerpt: Republican consultant Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, said the unending media attention on the story created even more pressure. "When you're in the middle of a feeding frenzy like this, it's often difficult to move on," Cheney said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." "But I think you have to have the confidence to know at the end of the day, you know, so long as we don't see more damaging facts come out, this is not the issue that's going to decide the election." To Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the GOP race, Cain is undergoing a difficult transition from private business figure to public politician. "To go directly from being a businessman, without substantial time in the government arena, both the vetting and the knowledge of it, is really hard," Issa told NBC. "It's virtually impossible" and in Cain's presidential quest, may be "a bridge too far." More http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/06/politics/cain-allegations/
Jon Huntsman and Haley Barbour? Is that the best you can do? They are both establishment Republicans who are beholden to the old system of constantly expanding government. Cain is an outsider who threatens the old way of life that they are committed to.
