It is now becoming impossible to say anything more about Herman Cain, since his own Republican Party friends are doing it. Queries are getting closer home from the people he personally knows.
He is having a press conference in Arizona on Tuesday, and he tells Jimmy Kimmel, after a fourth woman comes out with a new charge of sexual misconduct by Cain toward her, that "We're taking this head on..." ("We" here meaning himself and his campaign staff).
Bill Bennett, the conservative author and former education secretary, is telling Cain to give a full press conference, "dedicated exclusively to this issue and these allegations."; and be honest about it (issue).
Newt Gingrich, who is Cain's rival in the Republican nomination race is saying that, "I think at some point in the near future that Herman and his campaign have to lay all this out and put it to rest."
Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, "is urging the Georgian businessman to get ahead of the sex harassment scandal in the wake of a woman coming forward at a press conference." A cogent piece of advise from a true friend.
They all are of the same accord that Cain has become a side show of what the Republican Party must be doing right now, and that is to concentrate on the 2012 general election to defeat President Barack Obama.
He (Cain) is a distraction that nobody can afford, let alone a conservative political party as the GOP, which is in a fight to replace the Democratic Party, and to form a government next year.
The fourth woman accuser has appeared on national television to graphically describe Cain's inappropriate behavior, and her lawyer has made it quite clear that her client would pursue the matter to the very end.
However, instead of Cain admitting his guilt and apologizing to those women, he would hold a press conference in Arizona today to address the allegations, only to make matters worse for himself, if he repeated his negative responses, since the news broke.
He could also deal with the issue in a different way at the press conference, pleading with the women that he knew that he has offended them in the past, and that they should all move on with their lives. Showing a remorseful nature could put the matter to rest; and it would free Cain to carry on with his campaign.
Yet, that was not what news reports were predicting, and that he intended to counter the newest complainant with denials. He would expose her as a gold digger; thus making the woman, who gave her name as Sharon Bialek, to be just another victim of Cain's scurrilous misconduct.
"Cain's campaign calls Sharon Bialek a 'woman with a long history of severe financial difficulties,' " ; and that her ulterior motive was to cash in on the situation; as she would be cutting deals with media outlets and using the proceeds to recover from her own financial troubles.
That would be another mistake in the Cain saga, if he tried to frame her as a liar, as he has done to the others. The dark clouds would continue to loom over his head, as well as his campaign, if he took that route.
He should take the good advise from his friends in the Republican Party, and not from the hired hands that were surrounding him now.
The news conference offered him the last chance to come clean of those sexual harassment claims.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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