For a guy who complains about unfounded accusations being leveled against him, this sure is rich:
CAVUTO: So you you still kind of stand by this fear that it was Rick Perry, that even though he says it was not him...
CAIN: No, no, I'm simply saying that there are too many coincidences. But here's what we believe, but we don't have any facts, so I'm not going to accuse anybody. People who do not want me to get the nomination or become president—I don't know who these people are, probably a network of them—are behind this, because they knew, just what you indicated at the beginning of this interview, they knew that that some people were going to believe the accusation whether it was true or not. Let's take a little bit of shine off of Herman's star and see whether or not it will help to reduce the enthusiasm that people have. They knew that. So they achieved that objective.
And if this "network" succeeds in derailing his campaign, what would happen if Mitt Romney were the nominee?
CAVUTO: If you do not get the nomination, could you support Mitt Romney if he did?
CAIN: It would depend on a discussion that he and I would have prior to making that decision.
CAVUTO: But it's not a given?
CAIN: It's not a given. No.
CAVUTO: You would think of supporting Barack Obama over him?
CAIN: Absolutely not. It would depend upon the discussion that we would have to have.
And it got stranger still, because shortly after saying that, Cain shifted gears, suggesting that he may have thought Cavuto asked him whether he'd serve as Mitt Romney's running mate.
CAIN: We would have to have a discussion, because several things that I would have to be assured of as somebody's running mate, if that were to happen, and I don't care who gets the nomination.
That passage came totally out of the blue—Cavuto never brought it up. Perhaps Cain believes that he did. If so, he's got a very active imagination. The kind of imagination that would believe a secret network is out to get him.