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Ron Paul Bests Obama in Latest Poll

[Leon]

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

[Ya-ta Boy]

The overwhelming majority of Herman Cain supporters interviewed by the Register this week are standing by their candidate.

But if their support begins to waver, the biggest beneficiary likely would be Mitt Romney � and Newt Gingrich is next, according to the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.

The poll asked Cain supporters who their second choice would be. Thirty percent said Romney, and 23 percent said Gingrich. The poll was taken before allegations of sexual harassment against Cain hit the headlines Sunday.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/11/05/many-iowa-cain-backers-are-sticking-with-him/

From the same article:
Where would Cain supporters go?
Romney 30%
Gingrich 23%
Perry 21%
Bachmann 8%
Paul 8%
Santorum 4%
Not sure 6%

Looks to me like the disgraced serial adulterer Gingrich will be the next flavor of the week.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Leon]

[Kuros]

High-tech "lynching": (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/herman-cain-high-tech-lynching-ad_n_1076516.html)

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Ya-ta Boy]

A fourth woman has decided to go public. Press conference in the afternoon with Gloria Allred (ick).

The terrific Dahlia Lithwick has a good article pointing out that many of the defenders of Cain claim both that we don't know yet what happened but that whatever it was, it wasn't real. Good read.

Remember, we don�t know what happened, beyond the fact that several employees came forward with complaints and received cash settlements. That�s not a lot of information. Cain defenders could have stopped there. Instead, great swaths of them have opted to assert that there could never be a valid sex discrimination claim because the whole thing is just a racket. And they went even further: The same folks criticizing the National Restaurant Association employees who came forward with claims that they were uncomfortable in their workplace are willing to deploy the most archaic and gender-freighted stereotypes to get there. Sexual harassment can�t be �real� because the women who claim it are money-grubbing, hysterical, attention-seeking tramps.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/11/herman_cain_s_conservative_defenders_are_going_totally_overboard.single.html

[ontheway]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's AP's story:

Bialek was employed for parts of 1996 and 1997 at the Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, an industry trade group that Cain headed at the time. She said she first met him at an organization convention, interacting with him several times over the course of a few days.

She was fired from her job, and her boyfriend suggested she contact Cain in hopes he could help her find employment.

That led some time later � Bialek said mid-July 1997 � to a trip to Washington, where Cain upgraded her hotel room to a suite, and the unwanted sexual advance took place after they had gone to dinner.

She described an evening in mid-July 1997 when she had dinner in Washington, D.C., with Cain, whom she had contacted in hopes he could help her find a job. The two were in a car for what she thought was a ride to an office building.

"Instead of going into the offices he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt toward my genitals," she said.

"He also pushed my head toward his crotch," she added.

She said she told Cain to stop, adding that he did.

Bialek said she did not file a workplace complaint against Cain at the time because she was not employed.

She said she informed both her boyfriend, an unidentified pediatrician, and a longtime male friend.http://news.yahoo.com/woman-accuses-cain-bold-sexual-advance-193258298.html

Legally (I think), Sharon Bialek's story is not about sexual harrassment since she wasn't employed at the time. Nevertheless, he up-graded her hotel room, took her to dinner, lured her into a car to take her to an office to discuss a job, but then aggressively used his position and her economic vulnerability to try to get sex. "You want a job, right?"

Her story strongly supports the contentions of the other three women.

While it may not affect his candidacy within the GOP, any presidential asperations he may have had, ridiculous as they have always been, are now toast. I have said before that I thought he was only in this as a vanity campaign to up his book sales and speaker's fee and maybe get a gig at FOX. I suspect even those hopes are now gone.

I hope Ms Bialek is a strong woman because her reputation is going to be shredded in the next 24 hours.

[Ya-ta Boy]

This is my favorite article about the reaction to Sharon Bialek:

Well, that didn�t take long. When the sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain were lodged anonymously, the pro-Cain defense was that there�s no such thing as sexual harassment. Now that Sharon Bialek, a fourth accuser, has come forward to make her name and the details of one alleged incident public, the most desperate and least scrupulous are unveiling a new defense: Bialek is a money-grubbing *beep*. There needn�t be actual evidence that she�s a money-grubbing *beep*; rather, the fact that she�s leveling these accusations is the evidence. Everything else is then filtered through that lens. Like the fact that �celebrity lawyer� Gloria Allred is representing her. Like her hair, which some have deemed too long and blonde and in-her-face. That hairstyle is �white trash,� a blogger comments, implying that she must be poor and easily bought. Bialek �Laugh[ed] About Her Hair at Presser,� Foxnew.com reports, implying that any woman who comments, when asked, that she just got her hair done must be frivolous and lying. �Nuts and sluts,� a commenter on freerepublic.com writes. �Drag $100 bill through a trailer park and see what you get.�

Rush Limbaugh is the most creative at this; little surprise there. He reports on his show that he�s been pronouncing Bialek�s name incorrectly. �Gloria Allred says her name is Buy-A-Lick, as in [slurp, slurp] Buy-A-Lick,� Limbaugh says, as captured by mediamatters.org. �There�s no 'R' in the name so you can�t say it�s Rent-A-Lick.�

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/11/07/rush_limbaugh_implies_sharon_bialek_is_well_a_hooker.html

These are pretty good for this kind of thing, but I think Michelle Malkin still holds the prize with her comments about the counter tops in that kid's mom's kitchen when she didn't like what the kid said.