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When you throw a party only to show up an hour and forty-five minutes late, the least you can do is feed your guests. Once he arrived at a cavernous airport hangar for a rally on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday’s pivotal Florida primary, Newt Gingrich served up a multi-course, red-meat buffet.
Spartanburg, South Carolina With just days until the South Carolina primary looming as the last real hurdle on his march to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is trying to ward off a late charge from Newt Gingrich by raising questions about Gingrich’s leadership as House speaker, his ability to spur economic growth and his attacks [...]
When the bean counters finished tabulating the results from the 1,774 precincts that decide the Iowa caucuses, eight votes separated the victor, Mitt Romney (30,015) from the runner-up, Rick Santorum (30,007). Marvel at that for a moment. Eight votes out of more than 100,000. That is democracy. That’s Iowa. The Corn Bowl. Civic sport at [...]
Ned Hunter, 52, was the sixth person to sign up to volunteer for Herman Cain’s campaign in New Hampshire. “I remember seeing the sheet, all brand new,” he recalled. But in the last month, with all of the accusations of misconduct swirling around Cain – first charges of sexual harassment and then a woman who alleged a 13-year affair with the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO – Hunter has begun to question his support.
“Peace through strength and clarity”: the worldview that fits in your wallet. Via the candidate’s website (click to enlarge):
Herman Cain is fine form. The crowd of 150, toting matching signs and bumper stickers, recites the pledge of allegiance before settling in to watch a five-minute “movie” on Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan. When the self-described national frontrunner arrives with his motorcade and Secret Service detail – only 20 minutes late – the adoring crowd goes wild, breaking out in a standing ovation and shouts of “Amen!” Outside of time, place and context, this is the perfect political event.
I’ll let Herman speak for himself on this one.
Here’s what the Brandeis professor and erstwhile Clarence Thomas accuser had to say about the Cain allegations at TIME’s Person of the Year luncheon earlier this week:
In his lame excuse for a no-holds-barred press conference late Tuesday afternoon, Herman Cain said he relishes talking directly to the American people. But despite the new ways in which candidates can circumvent the national media–Twitter, Facebook, YouTube–they’re still largely at the mercy of their mainstream press coverage.
Imagine this: A charismatic southern man is running for President, enjoying a surprising degree of success, when all of a sudden, women start coming out of the woodwork accusing him of sexual indiscretions. This candidate denies these accusations and his campaign begins to attack the women making them. Sound familiar? It’s Bill Clinton circa 1992.
