Well there you have it the Herman Cain debacle is now officially semi-complete . But in reality Cain’s hopes to be president are now thoroughly at an end, campaign spin notwithstanding. “Herman Cain Suspending 2012 Campaign For President”;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/03/herman-cain-suspending-presidential-campaign_n_1126331.html To wit: “Herman Cain announced on Saturday that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The news comes in the wake of Cain being accused of having an extramarital affair and sexual harassment charges from more than a decade ago resurfacing.”
Now I am wondering how soon it will be before my good friends on the far right trot out that old canard that Cain was undone by the “progressives” who perpetrated a campaign of “falsehoods” against him. Now really, are the “progressives” that powerful that they can knock off conservative candidates at will? Hardly, because as we all know the guy who killed Cain’s chances is none other than Cain himself. Has anyone who has been supporting Cain asked themselves this question: If Cain were truly without guilt wouldn’t he have stood up to his accusers and called them out to prove their accusations? He wouldn’t be walking away from the 2012 race as easily as this if he knew in his heart of hearts that he was right and his accusers were wrong and that he could prove it, not with all that’s at stake he wouldn’t. If these accusations were truly false the accusers wouldn’t have had a chance of success at prevailing over Cain in the scrutiny that they would receive in trying to substantiate their claims. Cain would have known of their weakness and thus would have prevailed in a showdown over who was in fact telling the truth. The fact that he is bowing out is proof positive, to my mind, that at least one of these women, Ginger White, does in fact have the goods on him and Cain knows it. If its anything other than the aforementioned and Cain knows he’s right but is just too tired of all of the media attention he’s been receiving then he is in fact unfit to be president in the first place. How could he stand up to the threat of a collapsed economy or nuclear war if he can’t stand up to a media that’s got its story wrong and he himself knows that it is he, Herman Cain who is right?
As one political commentator said on Friday night talk radio, the fact that this has happened to Cain shows either a gross underestimation of what kind of scrutiny he would be subject to in the race for president or a naive assumption that his persona and ego could prevail over accusations of sexual harassment and infidelity. Whether or not its the former or the latter matters not, both show the public how patently unqualified Cain was to be president in the first place based on his fundamental errors in judgment as to how his personal life would affect his race for the White House. In the best of light Herman Cain can be sympathetically seen as the accidental candidate for president in 2012, almost as a farcical figure. In the worst of light Cain can be seen as an egotist undone by the hubris of his own life. In either case this is not the sort of person that this country needs in the White house no matter what the overall state of the American union.
SJG
12/3/11
