By MARC McDONALD
GOP front-runner Herman Cain's campaign is denying "allegations Sunday that he was twice accused of sexual harassment while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s."
Will this report amount to anything? Will the mainstream media continue to explore this story, or will it disappear after a 24-hour news cycle?
I have no idea. What I do know, though, is that Cain is a blithering idiot. His comments on abortion alone confirm this.
The fact that this alone hasn't sunk Cain's presidential ambitions is proof positive that GOP candidates are simply held to a standard by the MSM that is trillions of miles removed from Democrats.
Note that President Obama has been raked over the coals now for months over a simple gaffe that he made, mispronouncing the word, "corpsman." Talk to a Republican and they're all familiar (and livid) over this "story."
By contrast, I'd bet that most Americans have never ever heard of George W. Bush's joking about missing WMDs.
In one of the most jaw-droppingly offensive performances by any U.S. politician in history, Bush laughed and joked about the missing WMDs in Iraq, during his March 24, 2004 appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Of course, I guess the MSM does have an excuse for not reporting this. After all, they were there that night, listening to Bush, and laughing heartily at his "humor."
Back to the topic of Cain and abortion. If you've heard Cain's pronouncements on abortion, you know that this issue alone should disqualify him from being president.
After all, we're not talking about mispronouncing a single word. In our 24/7 media era, our presidents tend to live a goldfish bowl existence, in which they have cameras pointed at them for hours every day. It's perfectly understandable that, after a typical hectic, grueling day, that a president would have a brain fart and mispronounce a word. It doesn't mean they're stupid.
But trying telling that to the Repukes. Every single one of them I've spoke to is convinced that Obama mispronouncing a word "proves" that he is stupid and unfit for office. Oh, and he also showed "disrespect" to the troops with this gaffe, they claim. (But of course, Bush didn't disrespect the troops when he lied the nation into a war that slaughtered over 4,400 U.S. soldiers---and then later joked about the missing WMDs). Such is the creepy, twisted worldview of Republicans these days.
Speaking of creepy and twisted, what Cain has said about abortion is so incoherent that it borders on surreal. Watch the video below. Cain's position on this topic is literally all over the map.
Even though he is making his pronouncements on abortion on friendly (Fox "News") territory, the hosts are staring at him in amazement. Cain's gibberish makes anything Michelle Bachmann ever said sound like Einstein. Cain flip flops back and forth on a variety of positions on abortion probably a dozen times, just in this one short interview. It's an astonishing sight to behold. Is this a Saturday Night Live comedy sketch or is it the reality that is the complete moron named Herman Cain?
What's even more amazing about Cain's gibberish is that abortion, of course, is one of the key issues for any GOP politician. In some ways, it is the key issue, for millions of GOP voters. That a Republican candidate wouldn't have at least rehearsed a coherent position on abortion is mind-boggling.
I mean, abortion simply isn't a difficult position for a Republican is it? "I'm Pro-Life." That's really all you have to say in order to satisfy the base. I mean, f*ck those cases involving rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. The base doesn't give a sh*t about any of that. They just wanna hear you say you're "Pro-Life." How hard can it be?
Simply put, Cain is a blithering idiot. The fact that he is still somehow in the race to be president says a lot about the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, as the rot, the corruption, and the stench of decay settles in upon our crumbling nation. And the fact that he is now the GOP front-runner is positively surreal.
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Even a turd could run for President with enough Koch brothers money behind him. Those two are the real blathering idiots, and the source of many of our largest political and economic problems.Their financing of the wholly unproductive Tea Party movement is ample proof of that.
The word "corpsman," and/or "corps" is a victim of the English habit of putting silent letters in the spelling of their language. The president pronounced it the way it is spelled, "CORPS" instead of "CORE." I remember when that happened, I was reading on one of the Civil War forums that night and one of the cretins who posts there was absolutely aghast in reporting the presidential lapse. That reaction struck me as a foolish idiocy at the time, and it was all I could do to keep from posting Dubya's "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream" as a not so subtle reminder that the most recent Republican disaster routinely butchered the language. On the other hand, trying to tell a racist Republican that their ignorance is showing is a pointless endeavor.
Hi Jack, you're definitely right. The quality of our presidents has definitely taken a dive since the days of Wilson, FDR and Kennedy. It's staggering, the amount of ignorance on display at any GOP debate these days.
Hi Anon, thanks for your comment. Yes, I've had debates with a number of Republicans who were blasting President Obama as "ignorant" because he mispronounced one word. I always tell them that one can go to YouTube and literally spend hours watching scores of videos in which Bush mangles the English language.
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