Cain Victimized

Some campaign advice to anyone running for office: Don't have your lawyer open up a press conference and hover nearby waiting to cover for your missteps. And don't have your lawyer express confidence in you.

Here was a man running his mouth so fast he thought he could get away with it and escape the oncoming policemen. Rick Perry surfaced just at the right moment to suggest this was Herman Cain's "turn in the barrel", referring to the old practice of glory-hole blow jobs.

Herman Cain got off alot of doozies. He claimed that he didn't recognize Sharon Bialek's name at all and denied that anything ever took place. (" He didn't have sex with that woman."

What he did suggest was that the Democratic Machine and not Rick Perry brought forth the accuser, who was a "troubled woman". He claimed that his campaign was being attacked by a conspiracy but there was no evidence of any wrong doing on his part. (Except for some cancelled checks from the settlements.) No one can quite figure out why the Democratic machine would care about Herman Cain.

He was a righteous and aggreived victim of this plot. The media basically treated this all as theater and threw softball questions at him. Asked whether he might remember more details later, he answered," I do not know the science of how the mind works."

It seems his problems won't go away. Karen Kraushaar, one of the two women who settled the sexual harassment claims against Herman Cain,finally broke her silence by calling the New York Times. She was upset that her name had leaked into some press reports and said she decided to speak out now that her identity was publicaly known. She had previously allowed her lawyer to challenge Mr. Cain's denial that he had done anything wrong.

Her statement to the New York Times came less than an hour before Mr. Cain was supposed to have his news conference. While she talked about how one feels when sexually harassed, she did not know yet how much of the story she wanted to tell.

But she was warming to "the idea of a joint press conference where all of the women would be together with our attornetys and all of this evidence would be considered together." "These allegations can be considered together as a body of evidence."

Mitt Romney said he found all these allegations "deeply disturbing."