Don't even go there," Cain told reporters this weekend, with righteous outrage, as though they asked him something private and irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.
Previously Cain and his followers were blaming Perry for bringing up the accusations, as though it was scurrilous and underhanded behavior to do so.
And certain conservative voices are saying this was a mugging; that to dig out accusations of sexual harassment from 15 years ago is dirty pool and indefensible.
Private? Past? Irrelevant? A mugging? I guarantee that if Cain were being considered for the job of CEO at Landry's for example, they would be quite concerned about the allegations. Shouldn't we be concerned when it is a candidate running for president?
Typical for the miscreants to turn on the whistleblowers.
Yes, Cain has probably experienced a decline in testosterone from 15 years ago, unless he is getting external dosages, but a possible pattern of behavior, thought at the time to justify sums of money paid out to at least two and maybe three women independently, shows that Cain had and may still have a behavioral problem that we cannot ignore.
And remember, these were not co-workers, they were subordinates. The sexual harassment of subordinates by a boss is one of the slimiest examples of corporate behavior.
The extent to which certain conservative Cain supporters want to see this buried demonstrates a cavalier lack of concern for the rights of employees and women employees in particular.
It is hard to figure how Republicans wanting to bury all this think they are going to broaden their base in 2012. If you are desperate for votes, and both Cain and the GOP are, you don't alienate half the population of the United States by dismissing sexual harassment accusations as a "political mugging."
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