I honestly don't care at all about 20 year old allegations.
What concerns me is that Mr. Cain was made aware more than ten days ago that Politico was running the story. He had TEN DAYS to craft a polished, presidential-sounding message. Apparently, the debacle of the past two days is the best Mr. Cain and his advisors could up with. Indeed, it would appear that whatever statement his campaign crafted, the candidate himself cannot stay on message. If no statement was crafted and Cain is winging it, he's not very good at it.
It is painfully clear that Mr. Cain is not presidential material. He is, as I've stated previously, the "pretend Republican candidate" running to increase his media exposure to sell books and boost his speaking fees.
Mr. Cain is a Tea Party joke. And not a very funny one.
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I love the way conservatives are trying to play the race card.
The source for this story clearly wasn't the Democrats. Running against such a weak candidate would be wonderful for Obama. And the Republicans couldn't even whine about racism being a factor when Cain was defeated.
Karl Rove or some other backer of GOP establishment candidate Romney had much stronger motives to do Cain in.