Joicat-I’m as serious as a heart attack. I have known too many vindictive people…men and women…who will make up this kind of lie to ruin someone they have a grudge against. I’ve been the victim of it myself. Sexual misconduct beyond the availability of evidence (bruising, DNA, torn clothing) is hear say, not evidence. Most victims DO tell someone at the time the assaults happen. They tell friends or family, who must encourage them to make a full report. I think there are as many potential “victims” to report wrong doing by Cain as there are democrats in Chicago. So if I say that I knew you 10 years ago, and you made inappropriate sexual advances towards me, and I can find four other people (of whatever gender) to say the same thing, then it must be true, huh? It IS crap, and it absolutely must have consequences for the “victim” who brings it forward 10 years after the fact. Did you know that political candidates are not allowed to sue someone for liable or slander? Maybe Cain is taking himself out of the race so that he can file suit against these women. Without proof, this is just spiteful gossip, which I loathe and despise. No, you don’t know if these women are telling the truth or not. And at this late stage of the game, you can’t prove it, but you prefer to crucify Cain instead of believe they may be liars. How naïve.

donoho-are you serious? i don't know if these women are telling the truth are not but any type of sexual "misconduct crap" as you call it should never have a statute of limitation. most victims don't tell or report these assaults for different reasons. most are embarrassed,shamed or afraid of losing their jobs. if only one person had accused Cain of "sexual misconduct" i might think hum,but i believe there are others victims.

We really need to bring some sanity, and a statute of limitations, in on all of this sexual misconduct crap. Unless a report is filed immediately all allegations should be met with law suits for slander. The facts don’t matter when the media spins a smear campaign. Apparently, just being accused of something that allegedly happened a decade or more ago is enough to ruin your life. @Kickedtothecub, how would you like it if someone you knew ten years ago all of a sudden went to your spouse and claimed you sexually assaulted them. It wouldn’t matter if it were true or not…there is NO WAY to prove an accusation is false. That’s the premise on which “innocent until proven guilty” is based. It’s like the old debate question…”Do you still beat your wife?” WRT the Bill and Monica affair, that woman was smart enough to keep the dress, unwashed, with Bill’s (cough, cough) DNA on it. Still he lied under oath (“I did NOT have ‘sex’ with that woman!”) and still the democrats loved him. And @BatLover, what are YOU smoking to just buy into the smear campaign these women are laying out and the liberal media is lapping up? So does your name mean that you have interspecies relations with bats? One might infer that from your name…must be true if it’s printed in the blogs, huh? Oh, and @twister2, “documented legal settlements” are a cheap way for any organization to make an allegation go away. You can’t prove or disprove this sort of lie, so the cheap and fast thing to do is settle. I don’t care if you have 100 people stand up and say “The earth is flat” and publish it in the paper. It does NOT make it fact.

The National Restaurant Association's HQ is at 1200 17th St. Washington D.C., not Chicago. Cain lived/worked in D.C. Legal settlements w/ no admission of guilt happen everyday; it's much cheaper to settle than to litigate. Claimants refused to repeat allegations in public even after release from confidentially agreements. Cain denies the accusations. Ergo no one but the parties involved knows the story. And what on earth does BO's birth certificate have to do with Cain?

From 1996-1999, Cain was president of the National Restaurant Association, a lobbying group whose offices are located in Chicago and Washington DC; one would have to be deliberately blind to think Cain didn't spend much time in Chicago. So far, 2 documented legal settlements and 3 other women have linked Cain to inappropriate behavior; not a very good representative of the party of "family values." Now, trutex, where is your proof Obama doesn't have a birth certificate?

I am obviously not smoking the same stuff you are. At present I have heard nothing more than accusations most of which were from women in Chicago (where Cain never worked nor lived) who had links to the corrupt Chicago machine. No proof has yet to be offered, just allegations which Cain denies. The "liberal" media sits on stories with hard evidence when Democrats are involved but gives voice to any allegation when it comes to upity black conservatives. Now, if you have evidence to present then shoot. Otherwise you simply don't know if the allegations are true.

So, Tex, Mr Cain is incapable of honoring his marriage vows and can't keep his hands off other women and you think it's the "liberal" media's fault? What the heck are you smoking?

I really hope Gov. Perry can muster more support. We need more republican candidates dropping out. Perry gets dinged because he has made mistakes during his campaign. That does not mean he cannot lead the nation. Once he is in the White House, he has all those advisers to assist him.

And yours is a ridiculous, deliberately uninformed post, kicked. Even from under your rock you are no doubt familiar with the Drudge Report. Where do you think Matt Drudge got his start? By being the first news site to post a story on the Lewinsky scandal. The liberal media (Newsweek in particular) had the story and was sitting on it. Drudge got wind of it and broke the story. That was the day the Drudge Report burst upon the scene and all hell broke loose. What nonsense to even suggest that the media is not utterly biased.

This is a thinly veiled lesson to any black person who dares to leave the Democrat Plantation. The liberals and their accomplices in the media will go after you with everything they can scrape up. No stone will be left unturned until the upity conservative black man gets to the back of the bus where he belongs.