Roll out the red carpet for Mitt Romney.
El ultimo hombre
Herman Cain proved he couldn’t withstand the media profile season once he became a frontrunner, and Rick Perry proved what everybody thought after the first debate – that this Texan is a nut.
His only real challengers in the Republican presidential race have just handed him the nomination.
Cain is being outed for sexual harassment charges. He denied the allegations, then acknowledged them, denied that a woman was paid off, then acknowledged there was a settlement. He calls this “dirty politics.” I call it “Adios, Herman.”
Like Perry’s brief rise, Cain’s recent polling surge was considered a fluke from the start. There was no way a conservative Republican Party would elect a black man as their presidential nominee. There’s no precedent for it. Still, no one could have predicted he would fall this way. (Most thought it would be his amateurish 9-9-9 tax plan, or his offensive statements about poverty, or his extremist views on abortion, or his singing.)
