THE PUSHING OF CAIN.

Herman Cain has bitten more than he could chew, since his campaign to run for the presidency of the United States was being battered so much, he tend to muscle against reporters, whose job was to ask him questions.

From his lack of foreign policy to the holes in his 999 tax plan, they would pepper him, and then some. With all that came the accusation that he has harassed women, yes, women, not one, not two, but so far, three, who have been paid "settlements, agreements and severance pay" to keep them quiet in the 1990s.

At the time, Cain was the CEO of the National Restaurant Association, and all the sexual harassment charges happened in the workplace, when those women worked, under different work categories, for him.

Cain's versions of the incidents have been deceitful from the start, for telling reporters that he did not even know any of the women complainants or the circumstances under which those accusations took place were mythical; and besides, all his responses, at best, have been contemptuous, because he tried to parry the questions as insignificant, and the accusations as being falsehoods; thus making the women the liars instead of himself.

He was running from his past deeds right at the time, when he was running for the nomination of the Republican Party for the 2012 presidential election; and the media would not permit him to get away.

Though, they have to be nice to him, it was their job to frisk him for anything and everything, including salacious allegations about him. He has been doing all he could to run away, but the media would not let him go that easily.

Cain should know that the presidency was not for even people, who flip-flop their positions on issues, let alone those, who were trying to hide their past. The public would want to figure out the personality of a candidate running for office, and how his or her character fit the tenets being advocated by him or her.

He has all along portrayed himself as plain speaking, decent and honest on the campaign trail, and those attributes have endeared him to potential voters, in such a way that he has been leading in more polls that have been conducted by both independent and media pollsters, than any of his rivals in the Republican race.

Yet, his background had to be probed; and besides him being conversant with managing companies, he had a character flaw. He has not been completely forthright with his backers, and that would cost him, no matter what he did. That was what the reporters were simply magnifying.

All the Sunday news programs mentioned him, and they were very polite with their comments of his situation, except Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol who said, “He’s not going to be the nominee, if I can just be honest here. He was never going to be the nominee,” on Fox News Sunday.

Others made pretty similar comments, but nothing harsh; which went to show that Cain was virtually out of the race, and that there was no need to attack him personally. Even if he decided to continue through the Republican primary caucuses, his chances to win the nomination would go from being slim to slimmest.

The moment his position dropped to third place in the any of the Caucasus, he would be counted as a "has been" candidate and nothing more.

No one was pushing Cain out; but he himself should now see the writing on the wall.