Amid four sexual harassment charges and a claim by a fifth woman that she and Herman Cain had a 13 year extramarital affair, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain withdrew from the race. Prior to his quitting, the muck in the trench was getting so deep that I was expecting any day to hear Cain borrow a line from former Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry who – when caught with a woman during an FBI drug sting in January 1990 – spewed “The bitch set me up.”
To his credit, Cain did not go out that way. His downfall was women, not drugs. He claimed that he withdrew from the race to spare his wife and family pain and embarrassment. I’m not pinning a “guilty” button on his lapel, but two well-known sayings keep replaying alternately in my mind, “Where there is smoke…” and “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” I’m just saying. Let’s move on.
On October 9th, during an interview on CNN, Cain made the following statement,