I'm starting to wonder if I was wrong.

[TheWraith]

Honestly, I expected that if one or more of the women Cain harassed turned out to be white, the far right would slip back under their rocks and leave him twisting in the wind. Granted it's early, but they seem so far to have doubled down on defending him. Unless someone comes out with hard evidence, like an audio tape of Cain admitting to it, the right seems to be locked in on Cain as "their man."

I don't think I've ever been so glad to be wrong, though. This is turning into a boost for him among the crazy right, while tainting him for the rest of the public. And now Cain, even more than Perry or Palin, has the potential to implode spectacularly going into the 2012 election.

[Riley18]

1. I thought the same thing. Wait for it though because the right will most

likely dump him without admitting the real reason even to themselves. They would not admit to being racist.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. You need to understand that the right wing does NOT look at

these issues the same way the left does.

The right is perfectly comfortable with a double standard of morality. What they SAY is one thing, but when it comes down to it, they believe that their leaders are entitled to certain benefits, if you will, that are out of bounds for the average person. Droit de seigneur doesn't apply only to sexual favors, but rather, in the mind of the right wing follower, to all those special dispensations that their elites indulge in.

So we on the left excoriate an Anthony Weiner or a John Edwards because we expect our leaders to adhere to the same moral code we do. On the right, it's very very different.

Do NOT expect them to think, feel, or behave the same way we do.



TG

[TheWraith]

3. Yeah, but that's the thing--I was counting on their racism to kick in.

I'd be silly to expect them to punish someone for bad behavior, but I would expect them to have a tighter standard of "scrutiny" (read: bias) when it came to a black man making advances on a white woman.

To watch the freeper-right not indulging their racism at the first opportunity... it's like pigs flying.

[Tansy_Gold]

4. They are in a catch-22 of their own making

They can't denounce him for his moral lapses without being called on their hypocrisy regarding Vitter, Ensign, Sanford, etc. They've set the standard there: If' you're rich and/or an elected GOP official, your moral character is of no consequence.

If they do denounce him on the basis of his morals but continue to let the others skate, no matter what excuse/justification they give, they will called on their racism. THEY know they're racists, and WE know they're racists, but THEY can't admit it.

I'm quite sure most of them are choking on their own bile right now, and even though I really don't think Cain has a chance of being nominated, I can see him garnering enough support from the lunatic fringe that he's put on the ticket as VP. Do I think that WILL happen? :shrug: At this point, I'd say it's not a probability, but given the lunacy of the GOP these days. . . .after all, they nominated McCain and put Palin on the ticket with him. . . . .

Pigs are flying even as we speak.



TG

[sufrommich]

5. They may defend him in public, but I suspect his poll

numbers will start to drop.

[Puzzler]

6. All the far right is doing is convincing themselves of Cain's innocence...

... but he is (and will be) way to "radioactive" for the general voting public.

[Cleita]

7. IOKIYAR.

It's okay if you are a Republican. Look at all the dirt on Arnold for sexual harassments and worse that surfaced when he ran for Governor of California. Yet it was all swept away and forgiven. Even Orrin Hatch wanted to change the Constitution so he could run for President in spite of the scandals. Yet when Anthony tweets his Weiner, he's run out of Congress.

[Fumesucker]

8. Double down on teh krazee is what they do..

I'm surrounded by these jokers and know them all too well for my own peace of mind.

I know two that are near brilliant in their fields and actually nice people if you stay off politics and religion but able to tolerate cognitive dissonance levels that would drive a musk ox into hysteria.

[greyl]

11. Too bad it didn't come out till (if) he was elected as the Republican candidate.

Since I never personally felt Cain would get that far, I don't see this having any effect next November.

[Jack Sprat]

9. This is a dream come true.

I can dig it. Cain would be the ideal candidate for them to nominate. How about a Cain/Palin ticket for 2012. Then, somewhere in mid-May, we awake to find there has been a 'Cain Mutiny' with Palin exclaiming she was groped propelling her to the top of the ticket. Then, Palin could give the nod to one of the other psychos for VP.

[HipChick]

10. Look at how they treated Michael Steele...

As soon, as he stopped acting the Buffoon, they couldn't get rid of him fast enough..

[NNN0LHI]

12. Its almost as though someone wanted this story to come out slowly and in bits and pieces

That way the wing nuts would have a chance to circle the wagon and get the opportunity to let Cain take them all down with him. Koch brother of another mother, huh?

Don

[HuckleB]

13. The "far right" is just milking this to pump up the ratings.

They don't give a crap who wins the GOP nomination. Heck, they know that they'll make more money if Obama is re-elected.

It doesn't matter what they say or do, because the politics of it are just a means to an end for them.