As a conservative man, I think you’ll find that when I sexually harass someone, the real victim is me.

Who would know what sexual harassment victims would usually do better than Cain? (rimshot)

Why would the Democrats throw this stuff at him before the election?  I suspect that he’s misspelling “Romney”...

PitaoR; everybody knows that the loonier and less electable a Republican is, the more Democrats fear them.  That’s why we were always making fun of Sarah Palin; we know that she’d stomp Obama flat in the general election.  And we were always lying when we said that we hoped that the Republicans would nominate Bachmann; there’s another sure general election winner.

As was pointed out to me, for Cain to be a real parallel to Alan Keyes, he’s got to up the loony.  Keyes is in “Borat” after all.

I think it’s not a high-tech lynching so much as a high-tech rake-stepping-on.

PitaoR; everybody knows that the loonier and less electable a Republican is, the more Democrats fear them.

Yeah, but the wingnut theory is that the Democrats are both malicious and cunning enough to dig out this sure-fire ammo on Cain, and stupid enough to release it before the Repubs choose him over Romney.

OMG - but what do you think the nefarious almighty Democrats have on ROMNEY then?  Pictures of him eating babies?  His Russian pay-slip from the KGB?  A picture of her tucking a prosthetic penis into her pants before going on stage?

Opposite harassment?

Maybe Cain is trying to win by making every sane person’s head explode.

Cain, the Democrat Machine has not set out to make you look like an asshole. You do that just fine on your own.

Oh the Democrat Machine is speaking alright. On twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/democratmachine

I knew there was a simple explanation.  Cain has informed the world that Sharon Bialek as “a troubled woman” whose “statements exceed common sense.”

*snort* “Sexual harassment”, indeed.  That’s right up there with “Santa Claus”, “Obama’s Birth Certificate” or “Global Warming”.  When will you lie-brals learn some common sense?

I’m getting really sick and tired of hearing about how black men got falsely accused by white women so it’s okay if they indulge in classic sexist bullshit.  Women lie about rape? Fuck that shit. Funny how white guys are totally removed from the equation.  Using one prejudice to defeat another never works——well, unless you’re smart enough to attack women.  Cain’s an asshole. So are people whining about how this bitch must be lying because she is in (x) demographic. Got a news flash for these assholes. Rapists and exploiters always say the same shit. You remove one qualifier and you’re nothing but a rapist apologist.
 
  I’m stunned at any woman brave enough to step forward.

Phoenician, if you’re going to make an omg!trans! joke at least get the fucking pronouns right.

Why would the Democrats throw this stuff at him before the election?

In order to help him win the nomination. There’s nothing to lose:

Will this hurt Cain?  Almost certainly not.  The reason?  The GOP base doesn’t give a damn who they nominate as long as the person is as conservative as humanly possible.  If Cain had sexually harassed women while attempting to unionize them, then his campaign would be effectively over.  But at this point, any black conservative who faces allegations of personal impropriety is a victim of a high-tech lynching until he accidentally blurts out something about the minimum wage being worthwhile.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/...but_is_he_conservative

And you have something to gain:

I don’t see how this does not actually increase Cain’s popularity among wingnuts.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments//...but_is_he_conservative#279105

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nd comes the news that Cain raised $250,000 yesterday…Sexual harassment is popular with the GOP.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments//cain_plays_the_you_know_how_women_blow_everything_out_of_proportion_card#279235

Phoenician, if you’re going to make an omg!trans! joke at least get the fucking pronouns right.

It wasn’t a trans joke, and I had the pronouns right,  I was implying that Cain was concealing that she was a woman because a female would never win the Republican base.

The fact that Democrats were able to get two women to make sexual harassment claims AND get settlements in the 90’s just to ruin Cain’s future presidential campaign is a testament to their craftiness. It’s almost as good Barack Obama Sr putting that birth announcement in a Hawaiian paper so his Kenyan-born Muslim Socialist Anti-Colonialist son could one day seize the presidency.

. . .real victims of sexual harassment and assault do everything differently, even the stuff they did that’s the opposite of the other stuff they did.

What does this even mean?  It’s completely nonsensical.

Speedbudget @17, that wasn’t a direct quote from Cain, it was Jesse’s interpretation. It’s deliberately nonsensical because Cain is full of nonsense.

@Liz212:

With all these superpowers and amazing feats of prediction, isn’t it amazing that republicans have any representation in public office at all? You’d think they’d be down to John Connor and a couple of hacked androids. Or maybe even that is part of the democrats’ super-secret plot.

Of course, it’s Democrats who are behind the Cain mutiny, Manju, like this one here:

  If Herman Cain wants to be taken seriously as a public advocate for anything, never mind running for the chief executive and commander in chief of the most powerful and important and blessed country in the world, he needs to give a full press conference dedicated exclusively to this issue and these allegations.

  I have watched long enough and held my tongue long enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, but can no longer say this is a witch hunt, “a lynching” to use his word, or any other euphemism. There are allegations out there that matter and they have stacked up. For we who led the charge against Bill Clinton on a number of related issues to continue to blame the media or other campaigns or say it simply doesn’t matter makes us the hypocrites as well.

Meanwhile, right-wingers online (and Rush Limbaugh) are referring to Sharon Bialek as “Buy-a-Lick” and “Ball-lick”, and today’s NY Post editorial cartoon compares her to the woman who said Justin Bieber got her pregnant.  Classy to the end.

Melissa Harris-Perry was on Maddow last night and she just flat out called it: This is about the toxic narrative of women just being golddiggers, trying to entrap men.

Speedbudget: Cain’s lawyer came out and gave some rambling introduction about how he’s not even because he represents sexual harassment victims, and they don’t act like these women do, but even when the women in this case *act* like victims, it’s simply because they’re golddiggers trying to get money out of Cain.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t, and the only person who can say for sure is the person being accused.

I was implying that Cain was concealing that she was a woman because a female would never win the Republican base.

Sorry - Romney, then.  What’s your point, again?

Manju, against whom would Obama have to work the hardest to defeat in a general election?:

A Romney

B Perry

C Bachmann

D Gingrich

E Cain.

Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein,

In order of hardest to easiest:

A, B, D, C, E ...tho I could be convinced to flip B and D or C and E.

Excellent Jesse on the high-tech/low-tech lynching language crap.

Second to #28.  That was BRILLIANT and priceless.

Manju, against whom would Obama have to work the hardest to defeat in a general election?:

Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein,

After an admittedly quick glance at last nights debate, allow me to adjust my order:

1. Mitt
2. Noot
3. Bachman Turner Overdrive Diaries
4. Herman Clinton
5. Chairman Mao
6. George Soros
7. Robert Byrd
8. Tonya Harding
9. Omarosa
10. Jimmy Caeter
11. Riick Perry

Let’s name them by their alter egos, Manju:

1 Captain Amazing

2 Booster Gold

3 Wonder Woman

4 T’challa

5 General Immortus

The conspiracy theorist in me says the RNC really wants Romney, but knows the base hates him, so they’re pulling dirty tricks to ensure the only ‘electable’ candidate gets the nod. Perry alone was enough to neutralize Bachmann, just as Bachmann was enough to neutralize Palin; they’ve had the sex harrassment stuff on Cain from the get-go—the only reason they’d let ‘one of them’ run in the first place…you don’t think they’d actually let him WIN? I suspect someone close to Perry’s dosing him pretty regularly with LSD.

That leaves Paul. HAHAHAHAHA.

This isn’t something I spent a lot of time on or actually believe, mind you. It’s obvious it’s all Obama’s secret mutant ability to make his enemies self-destruct.

Sorry for being dense, and thanks for helping to explain for me.  I need more coffee sometimes.

I need, like, an entire pot just to understand most of what the Republicans are whining about anymore.

...that wasn’t a direct quote from Cain, it was Jesse’s interpretation. It’s deliberately nonsensical because Cain is full of nonsense.

Quick quiz: Which of the following is NOT an actual Cain quote?

A) “Real victims of sexual harassment and assault do everything differently.”

B) “It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.”

C) I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period.

D) I’m not gonna [take a polygraph] unless I have a good reason to do that.”

E) ““I believe that having that [radio] program was God’s way of forcing me to understand the critical issues confronting our nation.”

F) “A defined…You go first, Newt.”