Is Rick Perry behind the leak of the 12-year-old sexual harassment accusations levied against Herman Cain? According to the Cain campaign, YES HE IS!
A defiant Herman Cain has gone public in his claim that Gov. Rick Perry has been orchestrating a smear campaign to destroy his presidential candidacy. Cain’s public pronouncement came just as additional accusations emerged Wednesday that Mr. Cain made unwanted sexual overtures to women while he led the National Restaurant Association more than a decade ago.
Cain has fingered a top political adviser to Mr. Perry as the source of the leak, saying the adviser learned of it while he worked for Mr. Cain’s failed Senate bid in 2004. “We now know and have been able to trace it back to the Perry campaign that stirred this up, in order to discredit me and slow us down,” Mr. Cain told supporters by phone last night.
But a spokesman for Mr. Perry called the suggestion “reckless and false,” denying that the campaign has any involvement in the disclosures that is helping to turn the race for the Republican presidential nomination upside down.
The Herman Cain story has grown legs of its own and will not go away easily. As Cain has hemmed and hawed in denying knowledge or involvement in the accusations, more women have come forward. Interviews with more than a dozen people over the last few days paint a questionable picture of Cain’s tenure at the National Restaurant Association, that doesn’t necessarily gel with his insistence that he never harassed anyone. Several former association employees said they knew of episodes where women voiced they were uncomfortable when dealing with Mr. Cain. But instead of jumping in front of the story and making it a 1 or 2 day story at best, Cain has now fallen into a trap of being an easy target, which could effectively derail his desires for the presidency. Stay tuned…
I don't know if all this is true or not, but as a Obama supporter I'm happy to see the Repubs beating each other up. That way Obama doesn't have to.