Eugene Robinson: Let Herman Be Gone

[marmar]

from truthdig:



Let Herman Be Gone

Posted on Oct 31, 2011
By Eugene Robinson


Responding to his insurgent campaign’s first crisis, Herman Cain was upbeat and defiant. “To quote my chief of staff and all the people around this country, ‘Let Herman be Herman,’” he said Monday. “And Herman is gonna stay Herman.”

I was afraid of that.

Cain’s policy positions range from the ignorant to the unworkable to the just plain goofy—and yet he is running first or second in most polls for the Republican presidential nomination. He trumpets his utter lack of government experience as a selling point and boasts of not knowing foreign leaders’ names. If through some bizarre series of events he were actually elected president, the result would surely be an unmitigated disaster.

It’s not yet clear whether this remote possibility has been made even more unlikely by reports—first published Sunday night by Politico—that Cain faced allegations of sexual harassment from two female employees when he headed the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/let_herman_be_gone_20111031/

[Magoo48]

1. There is some really strange shit going on with the R people, a kind of frantic madness.

[Raschel]

2. Let Herman be Herman. A cornbread black walnut liar who wears a country hat.