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Originally Posted by MrWookie
OK.
On the one hand, we have three independent women who we know for a fact received sexual harassment settlements from the NRA for things they accuse Cain of. We know that their accusations met at least minimal standards of credibility and seriousness that the NRA decided to settle. We also have a fourth woman making another more vivid accusation but who did not receive a settlement, nor did she attempt to get one.
On the other hand, we have a guy who has changed his story practically daily if not hourly regarding his response to, knowledge of, and culpability in these charges. Many of his statements about these were outright lies. Not just "misstatements." Not just "oops I forgot." Outright, bald faced, pants-on-fire lies.
Clearly the thing to do is to assail the credibility of the women while trusting every word of the liar.
TBH, I'm not really sticking up for anyone with regards to this incident. I just think Sharon Bialek is completely FOS and it makes no sense to me that she would report this, Years later, if Cain did such horrendous things to her.
As far as the lawsuits from the NRA, there could be something to them and there could not be. What I mean is, it's already been noted that at least one of these NRA people filed suit against the next co. they worked just a few years later.
I'm a firm believer in "where's there's smoke there's fire" but I've always been cautious of this in politics.
I would love to see Cain take a polygraph in an attempt to clear this up. I guess I'm just so fed up with the press and their unethical reporting (in general) that I tend to be more vigilant about what I believe/don't believe.
I personally don't really like Cain as a presidential candidate and would love nothing more than to see him step down and get out of the way but from a human interest perspective I'm interested in knowing the truth.