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BREAKING: Cain ‘Reassessing’ Candidacy

by huckfunn ( 14 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Politics, Republican Party at November 29th, 2011 - 12:16 pm

Following yesterday’s accusation of a woman claiming a 13 year affair with Herman Cain, the Cain campaign is said to be “reassessing” whether or not to remain in the race for the GOP nomination. Cain denies these latest accusations.

In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is “reassessing” whether to remain in the race. He will make his final decision “over the next several days.”

UPDATE: National Review was on the call. It lasted 5 minutes.

“Obviously, you’re all aware of this recent firestorm that hit the news yesterday,” Cain began, his voice somber. “First thing I want to do is say to you what I have said publicly: I deny those charges, unequivocally. Secondly, I have known this lady for a number of years. And thirdly, I have been attempting to help her financially because she was out of work and destitute, desperate. So thinking that she was a  friend, and I have helped many friends, I now know that she wasn’t the friend that I thought she was. But it was a just a friendship relationship.”

“That being said, obviously, this is cause for reassessment,” he continued. “As you know, during the summer we had to make some reassessments based upon our financial situation. We were able to hang in there; we reassessed the situation and kept on going. We also did a reassessment after the Iowa straw poll and we made another reassessment after the Florida straw poll. When the previous two accusations, false accusations, came about, we made another assessment. The way we handled those was, we continued on with our schedule. We made an assessment about what was going to happen to our support. But our supporters, and even some folks that we didn’t have as supporters, they stood with us, and they showed it, not only in terms of their verbal support, they showed it in terms of their dollars.”

“Now, with this latest one, we have to do an assessment as to whether or not this is going to create too much of a cloud, in some people’s minds, as to whether or not they would be able to support us going forth,” Cain said.

Continue reading here. 

GOP Debate – Here we go again!

by Kafir ( 292 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Politics, Republican Party at November 22nd, 2011 - 8:00 pm

Next up in the GOP primary debate schedule, we have the CNN Republican National Security debate tonight at 8pm ET.

8pm ET on CNNLive Stream
Location: DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC
Sponsor: CNN, The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute

Participants: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum

I say:


(ok, ‘cept Ron Paul ~:)
What do y’all think?

Click here for live stream.



It’s beginning to look a lot like 1996

by Mojambo ( 100 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Republican Party at November 21st, 2011 - 8:30 am

People who assume that because Obama sucks as POTUS he will be easy to defeat are whistling in the dark. All you have to do as the article shows is look at Bill Clinton’s disastrous first term. Yet we nominated the doddering old coot Bob Dole to be our standard bearer and got crushed. The same thing is likely to happen again if we do not get serious.

by Michael Filozof

For some time now, many conservatives have thought that President Obama is the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter.  They think that chronic 9% unemployment, creeping inflation, and a foreign policy of self-abasement and weakness will doom Obama to a single term, and that he’ll slink off with his tail between his legs in disgrace, just like Carter did after the election of 1980.

Maybe they should be thinking about the election of 1996 instead.

Does anyone remember the disaster that was Bill Clinton’s first term?  The first attempt to put gays in the military, the first attack on the World Trade Center by Muslim fanatics, and the “Assault Weapons” Ban?  The proposal to raise taxes, increase spending, and downsize the military?  Hillary arrogantly proclaiming that she was no little Tammy Wynette standing by her man and baking cookies?  That she would revamp the entire health care system, by herself, in secret, without congressional input?  Does anyone remember the Waco debacle, which led directly to the Oklahoma City bombing, and Clinton’s allegation that it was the fault of talk radio?  Does anyone remember the landslide Republican victory in the House in 1994, breaking forty straight years of Democratic control — a massive rebuke of the Clinton administration?

And yet…Clinton got re-elected in 1996.  He didn’t just squeak by, either — he won a crushing 379-159 victory in the Electoral College and beat the Republican ticket by eight and a half percent in the popular vote.

Conservatives were in shock.  How could this happen?  Answer: after the 1994 conservative revolution in the midterm elections, the Republican 1996 presidential campaign turned into the Revenge of the Flaming Moderates.  The Republican primaries featured banal, milquetoast candidates like Lamar Alexander (whose campaign strategy was to don a flannel shirt and stand in front of a sign proclaiming, appropriately enough, “Lamar!”), Steve Forbes, Richard Lugar, and the doddering Washington insider Bob Dole.  Pat Buchanan fought an insurgent battle against the GOP moderates, finishing second in the primaries just to keep it interesting, but he quit the party soon thereafter.

The 2012 crop of GOP candidates is no better; quite arguably, they are a good deal worse.

I’m sure Herman Cain is a great guy and that the sexual harassment allegations against him are either overblown or outright false.  Nonetheless, he demonstrated that he’s in over his head the other day when he couldn’t answer a simple question on Obama’s illegal war in Libya.  Cain has no political experience whatsoever.  A couple of terms in the Senate or a stint as secretary of commerce would burnish his credentials.  But frankly, right now, he has none.  The last person to become president without having previously held elective office was Eisenhower, and he had “Supreme Allied Commander on the Winning Side of the Biggest War in Human History” on his resume, not “pizza salesman.”

Rick Perry showed some promise early on.  As governor of the second-largest state in the country with a healthy economy, low taxes, and fiscal stability, he might’ve been a contender.  But he managed to become an example of the left-wing caricature of the Texas redneck all by himself, without the usual dirty tricks from the likes of Dan Rather and the Travis County Democratic Party to set him up.  His latest flub — the inability to remember which Cabinet agencies he’d cut — finished him.  Never before has the cliché “He shot himself in the foot” been more apropos.

There’s Newt Gingrich, who lost the 1995 budget battle to Clinton.  His political negatives were so high that he resigned after only four years as speaker so that the left couldn’t use his own infidelity against him during the impeachment of Clinton.  In 2000, two years after Gingrich left office, Hillary Clinton carpetbagged her way into New York and campaigned against the “Newt Gingrich Republicans.”  She promised to bring 200,000 jobs to New York.  Six years later, the state had lost 50,000 jobs.  She was re-elected.  Newt hasn’t held office since 1998.

Then there’s Ron Paul — interesting, sincere.  Would’ve been a perfect running mate for Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

That leaves us with the blow-dried Janus, Mitt Romney.  Romney is from a high-tax liberal state and has backtracked on almost every position he’s ever taken.

[…]

Not only is the Republican field extremely weak, but it has little appeal to the average voter.  Tea Party activists — whom political scientists refer to as “attentive publics” — are not average voters.  The average schlub will vote for the most ubiquitous political face he sees while channel-surfing between the football game, the porno channel, and Judge Judy after yet another trip to the refrigerator.  That means for Obama.  Beyond that, the primordial concern of the average American is “What kind of government freebee can I get, and who’s going to give it to me?”

A recent Bloomberg News article by Brian Falter stated that “a record 49% percent of Americans live in a household where someone receives at least one type of government benefit, according to the Census Bureau.”  Forty-nine percent!  All Obama has to do is get another two percent, and he’s in for a second term.

[…]

I sincerely hope I’m wrong again.  But I doubt it.  Instead of Obama looking like the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter, it looks like Romney may be the Second Coming of Bob Dole.

Read the rest: Prepare yourself for Obama’s second term

Cain’s accusers: Serial gold-diggers with an interesting Chicago/Obama connection

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 125 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Politics, Progressives, Republican Party, Tea Parties at November 10th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Looks like these women, at least the three who have met with the lib press, claiming Herman Cain allegedly sexually harassed them 15 years ago have, well, let’s say “shady” pasts of filing numerous discrimination complaints against various employers and demanding promotions, or money, or both.

Bill Kurtis, who was a longtime news anchor at CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago, going back to when I was a little kid living there, and hosted many shows on A&E, speaks to WLS-AM radio host Roe (not Roy) Conn about one of the accusers, Sharon Bialek, a former employee of WBBM, and her history of making accusations against her employers, including WBBM-TV. This was played on Mark Levin’s show…

Finally, Ann Coulter lays it nicely out in her latest column, and she connects the dots to Obama, his stooge David Axelrod and the bimbo…

David Axelrod’s Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior
by Ann Coulter

Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. — but never in Chicago.

So it’s curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod​.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O’Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley’s chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain’s personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain’s short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he’s alleged to have been a sexual predator.

After O’Grady’s name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance of Cain’s personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of any involvement in producing them — by vigorously denying that she knew Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we’ve suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of … Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod’s very building? Right again: Cain’s latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.

Bialek’s accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek’s press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she’s a “gold-digger,” that she was constantly in financial trouble — having filed for personal bankruptcy twice — and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod’s apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama’s “hired muscle.”

Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she’s Obama’s next Cabinet pick.

The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them.

John Brooks, Chicago’s former fire commissioner, filed a lawsuit against Daley six months ago claiming Daley threatened to smear him with sexual harassment accusations if Brooks didn’t resign. He resigned — and the sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false.

Meanwhile, as extensively detailed in my book Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America, the only reason Obama became a U.S. senator — allowing him to run for president — is that David Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama’s Democratic primary opponent, and then against Obama’s Republican opponent.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was way down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader.

But then The Chicago Tribune — where Axelrod used to work — began publishing claims that Hull’s second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

From then until Election Day, Hull was embroiled in fighting the allegation that he was a “wife beater.” He and his ex-wife eventually agreed to release their sealed divorce records. His first ex-wife, daughters and nanny defended him at a press conference, swearing he was never violent. During a Democratic debate, Hull was forced to explain that his wife kicked him and he had merely kicked her back.

Hull’s substantial lead just a month before the primary collapsed with the nonstop media attention to his divorce records. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

Luckily for Axelrod, Obama’s opponent in the general election had also been divorced.

The Republican nominee was Jack Ryan, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard law and business schools, who had left his lucrative partnership at Goldman Sachs​ to teach at an inner-city school on the South Side of Chicago.

But in a child custody dispute some years earlier, Ryan’s ex-wife, Hollywood sex kitten Jeri Lynn Ryan​, had alleged that, while the couple was married, Jack had taken her to swingers clubs in Paris and New York.

Jack Ryan adamantly denied the allegations. In the interest of protecting their son, he also requested that the records be put permanently under seal.

Axelrod’s courthouse moles obtained the “sealed” records and, in no time, they were in the hands of every political operative in Chicago. Knowing perfectly well what was in the records, Chicago Tribune attorneys flew to California and requested that the court officially “unseal” them — over the objections of both Jack and Jeri Ryan​.

Your honor, who knows what could be in these records!

A California judge ordered them unsealed, which allowed newspapers to publish the salacious allegations, and four days later, Ryan dropped out of the race under pressure from idiot Republicans (who should be tracked down and shot).

With a last-minute replacement of Alan Keyes as Obama’s Republican opponent, Obama was able to set an all-time record in an Illinois Senate election, winning with a 43 percent margin.

And that’s how Obama became a senator four years after losing a congressional race to Bobby Rush​. (In a disastrous turn of events, Rush was not divorced.)

Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the Senate with illicitly obtained, lurid allegations from their pasts.

In 2007, long after Obama was safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, The New York Times reported: “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on Hull’s sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.”

Some had suggested, the Times article continued, that Axelrod had “an even more significant role — that he leaked the initial story.”

This time, Obama’s little helpers have not only thrown a bomb into the Republican primary, but are hoping to destroy the man who deprives the Democrats of their only argument in 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist.