Five Things No Presidential Candidate Should Say
Yesterday, Herman Cain said them all:
1. “Of course I would be willing to do a lie detector test.”
2. “I don’t even know who this woman is.”
3. “After watching that press conference yesterday, I called [my wife]. I said, ‘Sweetheart, did you see it?’ She said, ‘Yes … I have known you for 46 years … that doesn’t even sound like anything you would ever do to anyone.”
4. “I cannot say that it is a conspiracy. We do not have definitive, factual proof. We can only look at some coincidences to suggest it, that maybe someone is deliberately behind it.”
5. “There will probably be others.”
To that I would add the comment Cain made during the event yesterday when he called Sharon Bialek a “troubled woman.”
How about, “I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period!”
Good list.
That one quoting his wife was one I was going to blog about myself–it is just a weird, weird way to address this issue.
I’m still waiting for the Marion Barry “Bitch set me up” moment…
I vote for the constant references to “Herman Cain.” I don’t trust anyone who refers to himself in the third person.
I’m sure the fifth accusationsits well with Ms. Cain.
“Oh, he’s told me about that. It doesn’t bother me in the least that he pursues dinner dates with attractive women half his age on foreign trips. I trust him implicitly.”
Personally, I’m starting to really dig how strangely honest Herman Cain is. I mean how many claims has this guy begun by saying “though I have no evidence of this…” or “while I don’t have the facts to back this up” and then dives into one rambling theory or another.
I mean most conservatives quote crap science or other things to at least try and provide a sense of legitimacy to their points. Not Cain. He flat out says that this has no basis in anything other than his opinion and then immediately states that opinion as fact.
@legion:
Legion!!!!! Christ that was funny! ROFL
Doug, awesome piece. Comment authors, you all and Doug should replace Letterman’s writers. ROFL
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”