Honestly, why is this becoming such an issue if it happened so long ago?

Because it has not been the downfall of him like they hoped.
They must wring out every last drop trying though because they have nothing else.

Because Cain is in the lead. When Perry was looking strong, it was all going to be about the name of his hunting lodge, if Newt pulled ahead it would be his marriage problems.

It's as simple as that. Tear down the viable Republican.

This. Strong, Conservative and Black? Same thing they tried to do to Clarence Thomas.

This fucking country, I swear. Two unnamed women say - through lawyers - that a man may have "made them feel uncomfortable during their interactions" and the press is pissing all over itself to make it into a "J'accuse!" moment. Meanwhile, a man who openly admits to snorting coke, hanging out with "college revolutionaries", mentoring under a racist preacher who condemns America at every turn and starting his "community organizing" career in the living room of a guy who's actually blown shit up on American soil in the name of communism is elected to our highest public office, where he presides over running guns to narcos, instructs his DoJ to file suits against states looking to protect themselves from foreign invasion but to avoid investigating civil rights violations of black guys swinging pipes and telling whitey to "vote the right way" and then supports "proud Marxists" as they close businesses and burn public property. Yeah, it was a run-on sentence but it's runaway lunacy so I think I can be forgiven. And that was just the "last week's news" version of the crap he's done.

Yeesh.

Hammer meet nail...

Winner!

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I hope so. I sorta had my choice going towards Perry. Cain will work fine. But no way, no way will I pull the lever for Romney.

The leftwing media is going to push their choice, Romney, just like they did with McCain. They figure he is a statist liberal, somebody they know will reach across the aisle, or, whom they think Obama may beat due to disaffected/disenfranchised conservatives not voting. Either way, they win.

A woman here where I work filed a sexual harassment complaint against one of our engineers.

The claim was he passed gas while talking to another engineer, in that engineer's cubicle.

Point is, anyone can claim anything they want.

This case was dismissed.

Yep.

This is the saddest, most truthful thing I've read in a long time.

KeithC summed it up perfectly. If you're a conservative, and waffling on Cain because of this, please un-fuck yourself and look at the bigger picture.

At the end of the day, even if this is true and he did make a couple women "uncomfortable", who gives a fuck?

Lots of frivolous sexual harassment claims get a payoff. Litigation is expensive, and sexual harassment claims are usually he said, she said, so there is little chance of getting rid of them before trial. The amount in question here is not that significant and does not in and of itself indicate any kind of seriousness to the allegations.

Companies pay to make frivolous claims go away all the time.

It often ends up being a simple cost issue. If the cost of the payoff looks like it will be less than the legal bills of taking it to court, often they say fuck it and pay to make it go away.

If it was a $250,000 payoff, I would be more inclined to agree with you. But the $$$ we are seeing here is so low that I could easily see them seeing the low payout as simply the cheaper way out. Because even if you win in court often the cost is well above that in legal fees.

Pretty much this. You did not think it through Mr Steve.

But we won't know unless the details come out.

Duh!

It goes to his character.

We've already had a president who couldn't keep his pants on and after he got elected we had two sex scandals while that guy was in office and an impeachment that resulted from lies he told while being sued over a sex scandal. We also had 8 years of special prosecutors over secret land deals and a "Wag the Dog" incident. I don't want to go through another Clinton Administration.

On top of that, our current President has all kinds of sealed records, secret associations and unknown variables. It has led to conspiracy theories, allegations of terrorist associations and questions about his citizenship and loyalties. I don't want to go through another Obama Administration either.

The need to know everything in a candidates past is critical. Bush had a drunk driving arrest and a history of cocaine use. The voters chose to give him a pass on both, but at least there weren't any surprises during his administration (at least there weren't any ugly skeletons that came out after he was elected). Could be that the same will happen with Herman Cain, but we need the facts BEFORE we elect him, not after.

Okay, two things backatcha . First off, you obviously don't know me as evidenced by the fact that I'm not going apeshit. My religious affiliation is "Devout Apathist", my voter card lists me registered with the "Jaded Pragmatist and Rampant Capitalist Party" and I'll take espresso or a decent single-malt of Kool-Aid any day. Can't and won't speak for anyone else on the board. My point was that, unless he committed forcible rape, nothing Cain has done comes close to what our Hater-in-Chief has perpetrated in his short term in office. The accusation of "sexual harassment" now covers so much that it borders on meaningless, much like cries of "racism" (or "conservative", for that matter). Hell, your use of the word "broad", if used where a coworker can hear and/or read it, could actually qualify you as a "sexual harasser" if it makes her "feel uncomfortable". And, as others have said, payouts are sometimes easier and cheaper than taking things to trial. My point wasn't that he didn't do it, my point was that I don't care.

Secondly, I agree... in theory. But we are taking on water and going down fast. We don't have time for someone without skeletons. We need someone who will have the stones to say - and back up with action - "America, I'm going to stop spending your money and will concentrate on clearing the wreckage and roadblocks from the path to financial success. That means that a lot of you are going to have to fend for yourselves and get used to it. If you fall off the wagon, we won't back up and run you over but we can't stop for you either. If you can't keep up, we can't wait for you. Good luck and God bless." I want someone who will listen to a fellow legislator say "We must agree to make something the binding law of the land even though no one knows what that really entails or includes" and respond immediately with a live-televised visit to their office to ask, "Did you have a stroke or something? WTF is wrong with you, spewing that nonsense!! It is our obligation to understand fully the laws we inflict upon the people we are charged with representing!" When we're a financially sound nation of people and businesses that rise and fall on their own merits, hustling and/or dumb luck instead of handouts extorted or stolen from fellow citizens, then I'll start shopping for better angels of our political nature. Until then, give me someone who calls bullshit when he smells it, believes in the Constitution and knows how to turn a buck.

The part in red is your mistake. You don't know enough at this point to not care. No one does. This could be nothing, this could be a big deal. I don't know and neither do you. Bush had a DUI and a history of Cocaine use. It turns out that the voters chose to give him a pass on both, but when that DUI came out after the nomination there was justified fear on the right that it could hurt him bad. Let's find out if Herman Cain is going to end up hurting our chances of getting Obama out of office BEFORE we nominate him.

I realize that we aren't going to get someone who doesn't have any skeletons in the closet, but we need to find out what those skeletons are before we jump in behind them. I can guarantee you that people like George Soros and Larry Flint are going to be offering up cash dollars to dig up dirt on whoever the Republican nominee is and if we have unknown variables after they get the nomination then it will be too late to do anything about them. We still have choices at this point, and the bottom line is that whoever is most likely to get Obama out of the White House is our best bet. If that's Herman Cain then great, if not then we need to know now and we need to pick someone else. I don't want to find out in October of 2012 that this incident really was a big deal after all.

A laughable assertion since I stated long before Perry even entered the race that although I would support him I didn't think he would get the nomination or win. America will not elect another governor from Texas for a looooong time. I even started a thread on the topic before Perry announced his candidacy.

I'm supporting Perry because I know what he's done for Texas and I think that he is the right man for the job, not because I think he has the best poll number. I did the same thing with in 2008 with Duncan Hunter. I supported him because I thought he was the right man for the job, not the most likely guy to win. That said, I don't have any issues with any of Cain's positions and I would not be disappointed if he were the nominee...unless we come to find out that he has a history of sexual harassment incidents that will sink him in the general election.

I'm borrowing this for Facebook.

How do you know? It's the lawsuit lottery. File a claim, scream like hell, offer to settle for a lot less than it will cost to litigate. If your defendant is a corporation, they'll do the math and settle. Cain himself does not appear to be involved with the settlement, so he had no chance to fight it.

A few years ago, I found out my insurance company had paid off some guy after a car accident I was in. They never even mentioned it to me. They gave him $3000 to make the threat of a lawsuit go away, even though it was totally meritless and any jury would have laughed him out of a courtroom. The only reason I even heard about it was that I had to switch agents after a move, and the new guy brought it up when he reviewed my history.

Innocence until proven guilty should apply to this as well. These women should prove their case, which obviously they didn't since they settled quickly.