Herman Cain denied having a 13-year extramarital affair but his attorney very conspicuously did not deny the charges. That leads me to believe that Herman Cain did in fact have an extended extramarital affair. I also had a red flag go up when Cain said this:
Cain described the woman as an “acquaintance who I thought was a friend” and said his campaign was going to handle the charges “detail by detail, accusation by accusation.”
Now, when he says that he “thought [she] was a friend,” I take it to mean that he thought she’d keep her mouth shut.
Cain’s attorney is taking the position that the accusation isn’t criminal in nature and that it therefore falls outside of the purview of the media’s responsibility to vet candidates.
…this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life. The public’s right to know and the media’s right to report has boundaries and most certainly those boundaries end outside of one’s bedroom door.
So, is this lawyer saying that the accuser spent time behind Herman Cain’s bedroom door? Because that’s what they seem to be saying to me. And I think people cared about Bill Clinton’s consensual sex-life. At the least, the Republicans certainly cared.
Herman Cain is either the biggest victim alive or he didn’t think very hard about the skeletons in his closet before he launched this book tour.