You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Herman Cain.
Would you like that Presidential bid with pepperoni?
A week ago, he was the greatest thing since sliced bread for the GOP.
He was black and business oriented and conservative and successful. And he is still black and conservative but how successful he will be, at least politically, that remains to be seen.
A week ago, Cain was touted as the anti Washington insider. A week ago he was lauded for charisma that seemingly dwarfed that of his GOP competitors.
Then the accusations of sexual inappropriateness surfaced and his march to the White House was a t shot into the bunker.
Oh what a difference a week can make.
A week ago, Cain was sweeping the GOP nation. The pizza man was promising to make a special delivery for voters with a new message and a new vibe.
9 9 9 was the headline.
Now the headline is salacious.
Cain was so unconventional, the media was lapping it up. While the other candidates were out in Iowa stumping for votes, Cain was everywhere but Iowa.
In a post on Facebook, Cain said, “I am glad to hear that the people of Iowa want a proven problem solver offering real solutions … Thank you.”
Why go to Iowa, when you can simply FACEBOOK Iowa.
Talk about unconventional wisdom, but it was working.
A week ago, the only thing predictable about Cain was his unpredictability.
A week ago, it was a media slobber fest as Cain’s campaign manager shot a home video in grainy black and white. He looked like a male prostitute leaning against a building, smoking a butt and asking for your vote.
Smoking a cigarette? Really. From the Nancy Regan, just say no generation, this guy is sparking one up.
And it works. It makes people laugh, and it gets on the news constantly.
Cain was on target, surging into position as the lead sled dog.
Oh what a difference a week can make.
Cain is now accused of sexual inappropriateness by multiple women.
At first, like the Teflon Don, he sang a spiritual and disavowed all knowledge.
But the media wasn’t backing off and no amount of silly ads were going to change that.
Herman Cain isn’t facebooking anymore. He’s rope a doping with a consistently hostile media that is pressing him on an issue he is tired of talking about.
How many more accusers linger in the wings, in the shadows, waiting to join hands in solidarity, sing Kumbaya and tell the world that Herman Cain was inappropriate.
Today on Good Morning America, Mary Matlin, famed GOP strategist says Cain just needs to stay on point and he will be a force to be reckoned with.
I don’t know Mary. I don’t mean to tell you how to do your job, but the pizza man seems like a powder keg, wound tight. I just wonder how long he can stay on message and not blow his cool all over the joint.
When it comes to the sexual innuendo, Cain has more story lines than a Mexican soap opera.
At first he said he couldn’t remember, then he didn’t recognize the women, then he suddenly remembered paying them off, then he called it a Democratic smear campaign.
Now Cain is avoiding reporters and he has hired a crisis management team.
The other GOP front runners are using it to their advantage. Mitt Romney says “These are serious allegations. These women’s charges are disturbing.”
Newt Gingrich says “Herman Cain has to answer the charges.”
Perry has three things he wants to say, but can only remember 2 of them.
Cain is an artful dodger all right.
When asked who the 5th president on Mount Rushmore should be, Cain winks and says, that man hasn’t been elected president yet.
A year to go for a pizza entrepreneur who may just implode or who may have the political chops to make it all the way to the white house.
That’s where his campaign strategist can kick back and tell the Washington Press Corp: “smoke em if you got em fellas.”
And that is crazy.