The sweating has just begun for Herman Cain
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Sen. Rand Paul is among those leaping to Herman Cain's defense,
whining that it's just so hard to be a man these days because you just can't "tell a joke to a woman in the workplace, any kind of joke, because it could be interpreted incorrectly."
But he also says that "the media shouldn’t be reporting stories like the one that's put Cain in all the hot water he’s in this week."
"In my election, I had an anonymous girl from college—who I still don't know—make accusations against me," he told NR. "I don't think you should print stuff like that. To libel someone’s character and not put your name on it, I think is inappropriate and shouldn't be printed."
Are all Republicans memory-impaired when it comes to harassing women? Or maybe it's just the really "humor" impaired ones, the ones whose jokes are just completely misunderstood by the fairer sex? At any rate, that whole "anonymous accuser" thing is going to be resolved shortly.
A potentially huge shoe is dropping in the Herman Cain harassment scandal: one of his accusers indicated through her lawyer on Tuesday that she wants to come forward and tell her side of the story.
Joel P. Bennett, an attorney to one of the two National Restaurant Association employees who allegedly accused Cain of sexual harassment,told the Washington Post on Tuesday that his client is currently barred from speaking by a mutual non-disparagement agreement with the organization. But he says that agreement is being violated by Cain already, who has taken to the press to slam the harassment claim as "baseless," and that she now wants to come forward and reveal herself to set the record straight.
Cain's accuser wants to speak, Rand Paul wants anonymous people to speak ... it's a win, win. Unless you're Herman Cain.