Lakhota
Diamond Member
Cain may be totally innocent, but according to POLITICO, he was told about the story 10 days before it became public.
The question is why didn't Cain and his campaign use those 10 days to decide on a public response, stick with it or even announce a pre-emptive announcement in an attempt to defuse it.
Cain is under criticism not only about the story, itself, but because his responses kept changing throughout the day. The more his responses evolved to keep up with the facts, the more he begins to look that he has something to hide!
These charges date back to the 1990's - didn't anyone in the Cain Campaign have enough common sense to realize that once you became the leading Republican candidate in a presidential campaign, any hint of past scandals have a habit of resurfacing.
Both McCain and Kerry had their "patriotism" openly questioned in 2000 and 2004 by Bush operatives, based on incidents dating back to when they served in Vietnam - so why would Cain assume that he should be any different?
Yeah, it's the 10-day thingy that really puzzles me. They had plenty heads-up not to look like monkeys trying to screw a football. Strange...