who blogs at Dirigo Blue and Kennebec Blues.
As this day of reckoning approaches for Herman Cain, a quick hop on his crazy train is in order. Once one has hauled oneself aboard the caboose barreling through the night to the end of his candidacy today, there are a couple of indications of serious concern that the campaign is going off the rails.
First we have candidate Herman Cain himself making railroading charges like Democrats are taking down his scandal ridden candidacy so they can eventually run against Newt’s scandal ridden candidacy in answer to a FOX show host’s question. This sure would have been a better question to stammer and pause on than the one a while back on Libya and is a flashing crossing station signal sign of Cain just plain flailing.
Second we have the loyal defense by the campaign itself on its official website’s subpage titled “Women for Herman Cain” using women supporters who sound more like fans to indirectly rebuke the now several women who allege sexual harassment by Cain in the workplace and another women who alleges a long term extramarital affair with him. This sad cynical effort is a sure sign of the organization flailing before derailing.
It almost does not matter what Cain’s announcement will be today. His train pulled out of the station chug-chug slowly on his magical book tour, morphed to into the illusion of a real presidential bid when it really picked up a head of tea steam in the GOP desperate search for the anti-Romney rail line and is now headed for the off track switching yard for has been frontrunners like the Palin Polarizing Express, Tacky Trump Trolley, Bachmann Boxcar Boiler, and Perry Pullman Polluter.
Wait! Is that the distant wailing whistle of the Newt Narrow-minded Gauge I hear?