More Dirt On Herman Cain

Herman Cain was riding high in the polls for a while last month, and it looked like he might be able to make a credible run for the Republican presidential nomination. But that was before people started to learn about his sexual proclivities. A whole string of women came forward to detail the sexual advances Cain had made toward them. And while that would have been bad enough, we learned it was much worse since he tied jobs and advancement to those women complying with his sexual advances. That turned it into sexual harassment, and in at least one case -- sexual assault.

Those revelations put a serious crimp in Cain's presidential aspirations, and he began to plummet in the polls -- not as far as Perry fell, but far enough to take him out of contention.  I think Cain thought it would all die down and he could build his support back up. And things were beginning to die down -- until yesterday.

Yesterday an acquaintance of Cain's, a woman named Ginger White, said she and Cain had a sexual affair for 13 years. Cain admitted he knew the woman, and even said he'd considered her to be a friend. But he denied the affair had ever happened. Denial is evidently his first line of defense. Then Cain's lawyer pipes up and said if it did happen it was a private consensual act between two adults -- not sexual harassment -- and therefore was nobody's business but Cain's.

The lawyer would be right except for one little thing -- Cain wants to be president of the United States. And since he wants to be president, the public has a right to know about his morality and his loyalty -- and he doesn't seem to have a lot of either. If Cain will sneak behind his wife's back and have a 13 year sexual affair with another woman (after promising to be faithful in his marriage vows), would he keep the promises he made to be elected president?

I know Cain probably thinks he is being picked on by the press (because he's black or Republican or conservative or whatever), but that's just silly. Just ask John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Anthony Weiner, or many other politicians of both parties -- the people just don't like a candidate who can't be faithful to his wife. And there's far too much smoke around Cain now for there not to be a fire.