Herman Cain: No Mas

Yes, the headline is a takeoff on what Roberto Duran said after taking a fearful poundng from Sugar Ra Leonard (I think, although it may have been a different fighter, as I have oly paid a limited amount of attention to boxing in the last severfal decades, and it was long ago). "No mas" is Spanish for "no more". The more direct "inspiration" for the headline is the present Drudge headline on the Cain withdrawal: "Noe, He Can't". I initially saw this headlineas what I regard as the more correct headline of this article. I would like Drudge more if he had used my headline, rather than te misleading one he actually used (in an attempt to be clever--see drudgereport.com)


"No mas" is a fairly accurate description of what Cain correctly said. He simply could not take the POUNDING that the media was giving him, including the unfair and unbalanced network. Maybe no one could take it. The unfortunate thing is that the media is now confiremd in its view that it can dESTROY politicians that it sets out to destroy, by merely making it impossible for the politician to get out his message on the real issues facing this country. As Cain said, the media is makng it impossible for the American people to actually make a decision on the "solutions" that are necesary to put this country back on the right track. The "negative campaigning" OF THE MEDIA (no matter who "instigates" the oringal smear, it is really the MEDIA that conducts the SMEAR) makes it effectively impossible for a modern political campaign to be about the "real issues' facing this country.


Roberto Duran was criticized, by some, for being a "quitter" (as he refused to come out for another round, as I remember it). Cain acknowledged that he could face the same criticism, as he tried to put the best face on his forced decision. This blog has said that Cain simply did not handle the media smear campaign in a way that allowed him to survive. However, this is prettty much "armchair quarterbacking". If you KNOW that you are getting POUNDED in a boxing ring, and KNOW exactly how it feels (becuse it is YOU taking the pounding), then it is hard for someone else to say that you should not say: "no mas". The same is true of Herman Cain. It is easy for me to say that the could have handled the POUNDING better. I was not taking that pounding. And the fact is that Cain was always a longshot, because he had not experience or organization or support from the "establishment". That meant that Cain was a natural VICTIM of this kind of SMEAR campaing (a "hanging fruit" for those wanting their 15 minutes of fame and for a mainstream media wanting a "victory " over conservatives).



No. The "villiain" here is not Herman Cain (even if he is "gilty" of some of the unproven allegations agaisnst him, where the mere "trial" of those allegations in the media is a sORDID, evil thing which destorys the political process in this country). Cain is the victim. The villains are those swine from the Devil's herd: THE MEDIA. See previous blog articles today, and over the time since the lynching of Herman Cain began. As previously stated, the unfair and unbalanced network is definitely included in this assessment of the swine from the Devil's herd.


Hacker Boy (trying to help the ublic, while still denying a connectin with Rupert Murdoch and his hackng operation, hackniginto this disgracefl blog): "Skip, pelase tell me that you are NOT going to use that phrase, 'swine from the Devil's herd', as often as Cain made reference to his '9-9-9 plan'. You are going to drive anyone who makes the mistake of trying to read this blog literally insane. Give eveyone a break, and give it p.'


Skip: "Sorry, Hacker Boy, I am in love. No, it is much too dangerous to love a WOMAN (vicioius creatures that they are). I am in love with this phrase. I feel it allows me to avoid an unhealthy repression of my real feelings toward the modern "journalist" (not so different, evidently, form the "hournalist" of 100 years ago, although "journalism" was not quite this bad before the Vietnam War and the advent of cable TV). Besides, Hackder Boy, I hink y9ou WANT me to use the phrase over and over. Why enlse would you ENCOURAGE me by suggesting that it will drive you clinically insane (instead of the practical insanity that already afflicts you).


It is going to take a special kind of GOP candidate to stand up to the SMEARS thatt the MEDIA is gonig to push against whatever GOP candidate emerges from thenomination process. If the candidate is able to do it, then he will earn my respect (although not likely my vote, given that the likely candidate will be either Romney or Gingrich). Is thre not SOME point, by the way, at which thise MEDIA SMEARS become so obvious that they backfire? I think we have already reached that point, IF you have a candidate that can really go on the offensive. Cain was lunalbe to do it, but he was a "fragile' candidate who may have been in a position whre he was effectively unable to fight bakc (as is alleged with the victims of Jerry Sandusky, and other "vulnerable" victims). In other words, it is likely that there was nothing Cain could have done, althouh I wish he had made a better effort. to simpy refuse to be distracted by the SMEARS. Again, if you don't understand it, these are SMEARS whether or not there is any "turth" to the allegatinos, because there is no way to determine whether the allegations are ture, and they are lartely irrelevant tot he real issues facing this country.