Here's Cain's non-denial denial:
Subsequent interview with the alleged mistress, Ginger White, here. A key part of Cain's lawyer's statement:
[T]his 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.
Nick Gillespie sticks a fork in Cain:
While I think the statement by Cain's lawyer is an eminently reasonable one, it has no chance of carrying the day, not least because the Cain train had already been derailed by the Herminator's own demonstrated lack of capacity for the job of president (the sexual harassment stories didn't help that of course).
It seems to me to be extremely important that we distinguish, as CNN didn't in its teeing up the question, between claims of sexual assault and harassment, and claims of a consensual extra-marital affair. I see the first two as abuses of power, and therefore relevant to public office. I find the latter to be a human weakness that is best left to those who have no human weaknesses to condemn. But I should add that I haven't believed Cain for quite a while now, and his blanket denial of any sex whatever with Ms White, given her story and the evidence behind it, lacks credibility. I mean, seriously:
She showed us some of her cell phone bills that included 61 phone calls or text messages to or from a number starting with 678. She says it is Herman Cain's private cell phone. The calls were made during four different months– calls or texts made as early as 4:26 in the early morning, and as late as 7:52 at night. The latest were in September of this year.
“We've never worked together,” said White. “And I can't imagine someone phoning or texting me for the last two and a half years, just because.”
The phone was his – and still active. Poor Gloria. Lucky Newt.
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