Cain HAS TO GO. This is FAR WORSE than Anthony Weiner.

[FarLeftFist]

I don't want to hear shit from the GOP or the pundits. It's over for Cain starting immediately. I don't want to hear explanations, I don't want to hear excuses, I don't want this to drag on any further than it has to, I don't want an ethics investigation, it's OVER!

Edit: I DO want a continued investigation by the police into a criminal matter if that is the woman's choice. And I want the WHOLE truth to come out, but he must step down IMMEDIATELY as a presidential candidate!

[liberal N proud]

1. So goes the hypocrisy of the GOP/Teabaggers

[FarLeftFist]

2. Thank You. That is my point exactly.

[bluestate10]

5. Scream family values until they have a chance to uphold those values. nt

[Cid_B]

36. He won't step down until there is proof...

... and that will be mighty hard to come by.

[bluestate10]

3. I agree with you. There is no way that the republican party, that claims it has family values.

Can stomach a person that is a skirt chaser who seems to have used his power to force young women into bed with him.

[FarLeftFist]

7. I'm sick of the media and even our D politicians letting them keep getting away with HYPOCRISY!

It's time to start calling them out on this shit each and every time, as it occurs. Especially the MSM "liberal media" who rarely address their CONSTANT hypocrisy.

[bluestate10]

27. I agree. I don't understand the silence from democratic politicians.

Dem politicians should be calling out republicans at every turn. This is one reason why I think the democratic party is better off getting women into more positions of power and filling the candidate field with hard campaigning women candidates, no Martha Coakleys, PLEASE!!!

[Major Nikon]

24. 'family values' was never anything more than GOP code for homosexual bigotry

Kinda like 'states rights' was GOP code speak for racism.

They like to package their bigotries into somewhat socially acceptable boxes. This tends to go over better in some areas compared to the white sheet/pointy white hat getup.

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. He represents the republican party.

I think he is a good representation of the republican party.

[TheWraith]

19. Agreed. In many ways he's the perfect Republican front man.

A sleazy, overrated "businessman" with few ethics and fewer braincells.

[bluestate10]

28. Yep. Shifty, pious hypocrites. nt

[etherealtruth]

6. I was very disappointed in Weiner ...

... I view what he did as pure idiocy.

I view what Cain is alleged to have done (multiple times) as criminal.

[FarLeftFist]

8. Exactly!

[malaise]

10. 100% correct n/t

[Raine]

12. TOTALLY agree nt

[jdlh8894]

26. "I view what he did as pure idiocy."

So do I. Got her a suite in a hotel and wants a "BJ" in the car??
What a F'n IDIOT !!!!

[Major Nikon]

31. It didn't bother me all that much

People do it every day. It's pretty common. For some reason people expect politicians to be puritans when it comes to sexual matters that have absolutely no impact to their ability to do their job. I could care less who Weiner shows his weiner to. Were it not for the issues of hypocrisy, I could care less if Craig blows strange men in bathroom stalls or even if Vitter picks up prostitutes. I don't even care that they lied about it. It wasn't anyone's business to begin with.

It bothers me a lot more that the vast majority of politicians are for sale, and it doesn't even take all that much money or favors to buy them off. Instead of making an issue out of this, we front page and endlessly hound politicians who show their dork to women who apparently wanted to see it. That to me is the true idiocy.

As far as Cain goes, I agree completely. It was a very different situation.

[MADem]

9. I suspect that yesterday was his apogee; he'll be falling back to earth soon enough.

In time, they'll put him well behind the "H. Ross Perot" and "Pat Paulsen" material in the "Presidential election oddities" files.

The backlash cometh. It's just a little slow on the uptake. His bad luck is that this came out at the start of the week, not the end--so it can be beaten to death for five straight days, and then re-brutalized on the Sunday talk shows.

[Logical]

11. Weiner admitted it. That was his downfall. Cain never will.

[FarLeftFist]

13. More hypocrisy from the "personal responsibility" party.

NEVER practice what they preach.

[Logical]

15. +1000, I 100% agree!

[certainot]

14. limbaugh's got his back, making fun of accusers, getting the dittohead/teabaggers on the attack,

downplaying the sexual harassment


when limbaugh drops cain he's done for

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. Much, much worse than Gary Hart

That involved consensual sex, but it nonetheless caused him to pull out of the race.

[FarLeftFist]

18. We won't stand for this type of BS power-trip by elected officials ANYMORE!

This guy is anti-choice AND tries to sexually assault women?! Ladies, you know where you stand in the GOPs eyes.

[midnight]

17. Touche!

[Gore1FL]

20. Can he go in about 6-10 months?

IMO, it would be way more awesome to spend GOP-sourced $$$ first while painting the party as it needs to be painted.

Cain is a gift. Let him shit a little more on the GOP nomination process. Then he needs to go!

[RoccoR5955]

21. He makes Weiner look like a school boy.

Are there any women that this clown hasn't harrassed?

[Fumesucker]

44. Gloria Allred?

Cain said he couldn't think of anything at all he would hire Gloria Allred for.

Seriously..

[Major Nikon]

22. It's not even in the same ballpark and shouldn't even be compared

Sending pictures of your naughty bits to other people who don't object is no big deal and was a matter between him, his wife, and the women who received the pictures.

Sexually harassing subordinates is not only illegal, it's evil.

[spanone]

23. absolutely.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Let him stay and twist slowly. More damage to the party that way.

[bluestate10]

29. I agree. Let the bastard hang on until his fingers are bloody. The longer he stays, the better for

Democrats.

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. Meanwhile, the usual suspects (Halfnutty, Limpballs, et al)

will look like total fools trying to keep Pizzawad propped up.

[quaker bill]

32. I with you in a sense

but really, pretty much anyone not currently in jail can run for President. I would be happy if he quit. I would be happier yet if all the republican candidates quit, for any reason or no reason at all.

[piratefish08]

33. PLEASE let him stay? please?

GREATEST. REPUBLICAN. PRIMARY. EVER.

[Nye Bevan]

34. I wish he was the candidate and this came out in September 2012 (nt)

[jimlup]

35. But we want Cain to stay! Seriously we would love for this joke to be the Republican nominee /nt

It would show the true sickness and inability to see the obvious from the repuklian side of things. WE WANT HERMAN CAIN TO BE THE NOMINEE...

[customerserviceguy]

37. Frankly, we're better off if he becomes the Repuke nominee

Herman Cain has never had to deal with a real debater, since the other Rethugs are trying to avoid the "racist" label. Barack Obama would not have that constraint.

He'd rip Cain to shreds, while all the women who Cain propositioned are cheering.

[Faryn Balyncd]

38. Cain's words to Sharon Bialek sum up the GOP proposition to the American working person:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2260530

[Juneboarder]

39. Cain vs. Obama

Wouldn't that just be an awesome debate? Jus' sayin'... ;)

[hughee99]

40. Repukes with these kind of allegations against them need to step down!

for Democrats... you know what, lets just MoveOn.

[barbtries]

41. so you would think.

no humiliating apologies. no consequences. the hypocrisy is utterly stunning.

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. But, but, but he is a REPUBLICAN so it makes it all better!

See how that works. I mean peeps here were crucifying Weiner, playing along with media demands, stage managed bu power elites.

[DainBramaged]

43. Weiner took pictures, this guy ASSULTED women

but to the Pukers, Wiener's wiener was worst.

[LynneSin]

45. I agree with you but this is the GOP we're dealing with

Their hypocrisy is far far far greater than the democrats.

[renate]

46. he's vile, and therefore I hope he sticks around as long as possible

I am wildly in favor of the way that Limbaugh et al keep defending him. When Cain finally goes down in flames--if not because of the allegations, then because he is simply not bright enough or prepared enough to be the nominee--there won't be time to rally their troops around Rick Perry, and they hate Romney, so they won't have anybody to give free advertising to. Plus they'll be on record as having put all their chips on a serial sexual abuser.

[Kablooie]

47. Weiner was consensual so he had to go. Cain was not so its OK. Boys will be boys.

[lindysalsagal]

48. No, no, no: Keep Cain. I like him.

:popcorn: