Day: November 6, 2011

So it seems that Republicans have a limit after-all. Apparently, two sexual abuse cases will get your poll numbers and donations increased among your Republican base, but if a third woman comes forth and makes the makes sexual harassment allegations, then Republicans will slowly begin to abandon your cause.

Herman Cain is seeing that abandonment play out in his bid to become the next big Republican’s book salesman, or the Republican nominee to go against President Obama in 2012.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Allegations that Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sexually harassed women in the 1990s have begun to damage his bid for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The poll showed the percentage of Republicans who view Cain favorably dropped 9 percentage points, to 57 percent from 66 percent a week ago.

Among all registered voters, Cain’s favorability declined 5 percentage points, to 32 percent from 37 percent.

The survey represents the first evidence that sexual harassmentclaims dating from Cain’s time as head of the National Restaurant Association have taken a toll on his presidential campaign.

A majority of respondents, 53 percent, believe sexual harassment allegations against Cain are true despite his denials. Republicans were less likely to believe they are true, with 39 percent thinking they are accurate.

Well, we were tricked and we’ll be the first to admit it. After the first two sexual harassment accusations came to light, Herman Cain saw his biggest fund-raising rewards since announcing his candidacy. Republicans just loved the man and nothing he said or did, would change their minds. They wanted him to be president.

Then the third woman came forward and, based on what happened with woman #1 and #2 , we wrote a blog saying that Cain’s stock price would go up with his Republican base, as they just adore the sexual abuser.

So now we have these new poll numbers and based on what they show, Republicans are rethinking their support for the Herman. So – we were wrong.  There is a limit to their support.

But then again, it’s still early in the process. Maybe a fourth sexual accusation against the Republican candidate will propel him right back onto the pedestal. Waiting…!

Herman Cain is setting the record straight and he wants the media, in fact, he wants the world to know! We have all suspected this before, but no one actually made the obvious connection. We see slight psychological resemblance, but now we know for a fact: Herman Cain and the Koch brothers are family. Different mothers, but same father. They are “brothers from another mother.”

Speaking at a conservative event on Friday, the Presidential Republican candidate explains the relationship between him and the Kochs.

“I’m proud to know the Koch brothers. I’m very proud to know the Koch brothers. They make it sound like that we have had time to go fishing together, hunting together, skiing together, golfing together,” Cain told the audience. “Just so I can clarify this to the media, this may be a new announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers’ brother from another mother. Yes. I am their brother from another mother, and proud of it. You see, the reason that I am running for president, folks, is because I want to unite the United States of America, not divide the United States of America.”

A report by the Center For American Progress Action Fund finds that the billionaire brothers – owners of Koch Industries, a corporation dealing in array of industries ranging from oil and gas, minerals, chemicals, refineries and forestry among others – are using their wealth to bankroll “the right winged, including the Teaparty.” Their main objective, according to the report is “gutting government oversight and electing candidates who oppose government regulation, especially in the oil industry.” The lack of regulations the report claims, directly helps the bottom line of  Koch Industries.

Which brings us back to Herman Cain and why his “brothers from another mother” association with the Koch’s is so important. Knowing what we know about the Koch brothers and their wish for America – no government and no regulations – what will a Cain presidency mean for America?

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