Over the weekend, Republican presidential pizzanaut Herman Cain made clear to reporters that he was moving on, and would refuse to answer anymore questions regarding his growing sexual harassment scandal.
“Don’t even go there,” Cain said when reporters asked him about the story after an issues forum with Newt Gingrich in Texas. “We are getting back on message,” Cain said flatly.
Good for him. And in fact, with today’s public statement from a second accuser, Sharon Bialek, I’m guessing the press will be happy to stop questioning Cain about allegations of sexual harassment… preferring instead to focus on these new allegations of sexual assault:
“He suddenly reached over and put his hand on my leg…under my skirt and reached for my genitals,” she said. Bialek says Cain tried to pull her head toward his crotch.
Yikes. And to think, Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton over a consensual blowjob.
Too bad. Cain was never going to win the Republican nomination, but for a while there it looked like an infatuated Mitt Romney might look to Cain to add a little color to his ticket. And that would’ve been a helluva lot more fun (and beatable) than dour, teabagging Sen. Marco Rubio (R-North Cuba).
Herman Cain is against abortion so my brother says Cain’s OK.
Cain’s judgment throughout this whole mess, from start to finish, has been so poor that it’s laughable that anyone with even half a brain could still support him at this point.
Bialek should be, er, unimpeachable: hard-right, conservative, Tea Partier, starry-eyed Cain supporter. I’m waiting for the first conservablog to start calling her a libbarul.
Too bad; Cain was going to be a proverbial duck in a barrel a year from now. Hell, the Republican primary electorate may still decide to declare sexual harassment a sacrament.
Much as I dislike Gloria Allred, she came up with a winner with this one: “Bialek went to him for employment advice, and instead he offered her a stimulus package.”
But seriously, how is this sexual harassment? It sounds like sexual assault.
This is the most fun I’ve seen in a republican primary since Nixon resigned.
@5, that too, but “you want the job, don’t you?” is the neon sign of harassment.
“Herman Cain made clear to reporters that he was moving on, and would refuse to answer anymore questions regarding his growing sexual harassment scandal.”
Gooooood luck with that, Herman.
All I want to say is: Rep. Wiener.
@8: He’s just taking the Fifth without outright saying “I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me.”
I’m sure his lawyers will be answering future questions on this matter.
First one settled out of court, which is basically saying “we don’t want justice, just a quick buck or two.”
Tell me if I’m putting my feminist card in jeopardy here, but it seems to me that this sex scandal is actually legitimized Cain in way. Instead of talking about how much of an unqualified fucking moron he is; wouldn’t consider letting muslims serve in his cabinet, promotes epically retarded tax policy, won’t sign a bill longer than three pages, etc, we’re talking about his sex scandal like we would with any other politician. A sex scandal is a STEP UP for this guy.
Monica’s oral sex on Bill Clinton was consensual, but Juanita Brodderick and Kathleen Willey were sexual assaulted by Bill Clinton. This depravity should be Cain’s downfall, just as it should have been Clinton’s downfall.
*has, not “is”
This just in! Former high-powered, conservative republican executive of a major corporate conglomerate is a sleazy, sexually violent douche bag! Extree extree! Read all about it!
Honestly though, it’s really depressing that this is what brings him down, and not his sociopathic, terrible political stances and ideas.
@12 – beat me to it.
Cain is done and “Occupy” lingers. Great day for Republicans.
@12: It’s fun to point out the Machiavellian possibilities, but that really is a stretch.
Fork. Ass. Done.
@18 I wasn’t implying that this current scandal was created to try and legitmize him. Just that the fallout of it is people talking about him like any other politician with a sex scandal, instead of an insane pretender with a sex scandal.
@20: Oops, I misread. Sorry.
@11 ‘First one settled out of court, which is basically saying “we don’t want justice, just a quick buck or two.”‘
I hope you are never in a position where you have to rethink what you are implying here. We have not progressed to the point where what you are trying to force on these women is trivial.
Now, certainly we don’t know exactly what happened and what motivations drove those situations, but if you’re about extending the benefit of any doubt, I count three measures you should be apportioning to these women against only possibly repeat offender.
@22 You can safely ignore everything KittenKoder says. Poor thing has thinking problems.
Okay, we’ve got almost a year.
I fully expect for this incident to be adapted for a HUMP! film.
@11: “First one settled out of court, which is basically saying “we don’t want justice, just a quick buck or two.””
Creep enabler as always, KK.
I want a t-shirt that says “Herman Cain Reached For My Genitals”.