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Up late working on a project, and it dawned on me what the inevitable next step is in this Cain sexual harassment saga- the old nuts and sluts defense. Right now we have the third woman coming forward claiming he harassed her, a GOP flack claiming he witnessed improper behavior at another time, and while one victim will not come forward, I think it is safe to say that others eventually will and there will be another. Remember, at first it was just one woman that Weiner was sexting and at one point Tiger only shagged one pr0n star, but we all know how these things work.

So, inevitably, more women will come forward, and eventually someone will go on record, at which point we can expect the smear campaign to begin with the ferocity of a couple Katrinas. That’s just how these guys roll, whether it is a couple college kids, Graeme Frost, or anyone else that crosses the current wingnut id. Hell, just yesterday, the Daily Caller did an expose on the folks arrested for peacefully protesting at #OWS, claiming they all live in expensive homes (It never occurred to them that these kids live at home at 27 and that is kind of why they are pissed off).

Again, this is how they roll- deny, deny, obfuscate, destroy. It’s as inevitable as the four seasons, so I fully expect a complete swiftboating of anyone who speaks out, and for the wingnuts to think the real victim is Herman Cain, assaulted by racist liberals, a couple of uppity bitches, and the liberal media. And tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers.

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  9. 9.

    Short Bus Bully

    You’re exactly right. I hadn’t really thought of it before, but this has all the makings of a Tiger Woods type scandal. Women start coming forward talking about what a sleaze Cain is, the crazy right gets their hackles up and goes full bore wingnut on these poor women and Cain sheds women voters like Tunch sheds fuzzy wuzzies.

    Of course this is all good news for John McCain.

    Also too, FUCK those people (like David Frum) who still struggle to see the difference between consensual sex between adults and harassment. Assholes.

  11. 11.

    imtoosexy4thissong

    Wrong Again Cole looking into his crystal ball trying to predict the future is pretty funny considering he can’t even understand the present or the past.

  13. 13.

    Zam

    @Short Bus Bully: They yearn for a day when a woman could not in fact say no. So yes to them, their disturbing advances are on par with a consensual affair.

    On a similar note, what the fuck is with all these jackasses pining for the days of Mad Men and Pan Am?

  14. 14.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Zam:

    On a similar note, what the fuck is with all these jackasses pining for the days of Mad Men and Pan Am?

    Those people, men and women, are called misogynists, and they’re always creeping around.

  16. 16.

    hamletta

    One of the million blogs in my RSS reader (Daily Intel?) had another item, a quote from a radio guy in Iowa who said Cain’s kinda skeevy around the female staff members, and why doesn’t he ever bring his wife around, anyway?

    I thought it was pretty damning. To anyone but a wingnut.

  17. 17.

    Jenny

    Cain will never be nominated because the GOP is racist.

    They’ll never vote for a black person.

    And to the wingers reading this, you know I’m right — you’re a bunch of racists.

    I dare you to prove me wrong.

  19. 19.

    Citizen_X

    @toosexy4thissong:

    Wrong Again Cole looking into his crystal ball trying to predict the future is pretty funny considering he can’t even understand the present or the past.

    When you lose your sense of punctuation, past, present and future start to get all mixed up.

    But hey! Try posting that again. Maybe it’ll make sense the fourth time.

  24. 24.

    Jebediah

    So, is there any way to know if a comment was eated by WP or is in moderation? I used a cuss word, but I don’t think I used any of the trigger words.

  25. 25.

    Thoughtcrime

    If you wanna hang out you’ve got to take her out;
    Koch Cain.
    If you wanna get down, down on the ground;
    Koch Cain.
    She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie;
    Koch Cain.

    If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues;
    Koch Cain.
    When your day is done and you wanna run;
    Koch Cain.
    She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie;
    Koch Cain.

    If your thing is gone and you wanna ride on;
    Koch Cain.
    Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back;
    Koch Cain.
    She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie;
    Koch Cain.

    She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie;
    Koch Cain.

  29. 29.

    jl

    @Origuy: My guess is that Tunch deemed his (probably rather measly) bedtime snack insufficient. Finding 50 pound bags of kitty treat at this time of day in WV must be quite a project. Let us hope Cole gets through the ordeal OK.

  34. 34.

    Lysana

    And while I noted this on Doug’s last post about Occupy Oakland,I will say here that the tear gas party is happening again. And I am trying very hard not to want to go there.

  37. 37.

    burnspbesq

    Can I just say that the idea of Mark Cuban owning the Dodgers is causing uncontrollable fits of giggling around Casa Burns. I give it 45 days before he walks into the LA Times sports department and pounds the crap out of Bill Plaschke.

  38. 38.

    Mack Lyons

    All I’m wondering is what ethnicity these women are. If they’re black, it’s sad to say he might have an easier time ducking, dodging and fighting this scandal than if they happened to be white.

    @Jenny: If he pulls out of this, he might be nominated by sheer force of will, if the GOP establishment want it. But it’s a guaranteed loss — some bigots will rather stay at home rather than vote for some…yeah.

    At least they’ll overlook Mittens’ magic underwear mysticism since he’s a white guy, just like them.

  42. 42.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @burnspbesq: Say what you will about Cuban – he has major faults – but he did a job turning around the Mavericks. I was in DFW when he got them, and it was a major turnaround. And he really does love the game. All in all, a decent owner.

  43. 43.

    Mark B.

    @arguingwithsignposts: The Mavs ended up with one of the highest payrolls in the league, so the title was at least partially bought. The owners are now lobbying for a hard salary cap to save them from themselves.

  44. 44.

    sherparick

    Ann Coulter, whose star and book sales have been fading, apparently sees this as a great opportunity to work her special grift of tribal resentment for fun and profit. And she is never one to let the facts get in the way of a good narrative of “librul” mean, bad, picking on innocent “conservative.” In this case the facts are that Cain’s Conservative political rivals and enemies (Karl Rove???) are the ones who dropped this load of manure on the Hermaniator through organ, Politico, that is definitely right of center, as exemplified in its 3 principle officers: “John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei left The Washington Post to become Politico’s editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively, launching the newspaper on January 23, 2007. Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former Assistant to President Ronald Reagan,[2] is president and CEO.[3]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico

    In her column, she cherry picks two quotes from Fox News’s cadre of stooge Democrats that were critical of Condoleeza Rice and then drawas a comparison of Condi’s qualificaitions with Hilary Clinton, neglecting to mention the 8 years that Hilary was a Senator. (I really should get into the gold racket, because if the fools who read Human Events believe this crap, they will believe anything.)

    Finally, real “librul” publication that Politco. Of course the mainstream media and cable news laps it up, not because they are “librul,” but because they are senationalistic, entertainment driven outfits, with a high school culture endlessly titillated by sex stories. Really, the culture exhibited on the TMZ show is probably more sophisticated now than that in most news rooms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMZ_on_TV

  46. 46.

    Alex

    The irony here of course is that this was the precise strategy employed by the Clinton Administration against one Monica Lewinsky. Amazing how many forget the campaign orchestrated by Sidney Blumenthal to slut shame Ms. Lewinsky into obsolescence. If it weren’t for one tainted blue dress, I expect she would be roaming the halls of St. Elizabeth’s right now.

  47. 47.

    Julia Grey

    I agree that the defense against Monica’s claims was a variation on the slut shaming scheme, and that it might have worked if she hadn’t kept the dress. However, let’s remember that SHE did not bring the original charges against him, Linda Whatserface did. Once Lewinsky was caught in the net, she told the truth, as the law required her to do. And above all, let us remember that it was not only a consensual relationship, but she admitted under oath that SHE came on to HIM, repeatedly. Not entirely innocent, in other words. It was important that she was not a victim. So discussion of her role in the matter, and her patterns of past sexual behavior, even, were relevant to Clinton’s defense.

    “Slut shaming” being used as a defense against Cain’s harrassment charges is another kettle of fish entirely. The women are victims, so trying to smear them with their sexual histories would be, you know, WRONG.

  49. 49.

    Rome Again

    The slut shaming has begun in earnest!

    Pajamas Media has an update with more details of the story and includes the woman going back to Cain’s apartment and waking up there. The story doesn’t state whether the woman knew she was being propositioned for sex, nor does it deny such, but does imply she was probably drinking.

    Comments on the Pajamas Media thread include this load of bile:

    So the whore went to Cain’s apartment and decided the next day to shake him down. Yes, he displayed bad judgment. He went to bed with a bimbo. I hope he got checked out for STDs, afterwards. We have a former president against whom credible charges of forcible rape have been made by a real woman with a face and a name, and the Enemy Press back paged it and vilified her. We have a former president against whom credible charges of sexual assault have been made by a real woman with a face and a name, and the Enemy Press back paged it and vilified her. We have a former president who had so many bimbos falling out of trees on him, that the term “Bimbo Eruption” became a household phrase, and the Enemy Press back paged it and vilified them.
    So let it be with this whore. Send her back to her street corner.
    I don’t care if Cain has a closet full of corpses. In this political climate, it means nothing.

    Ugly!

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