Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Last week, I pointed out that Barack Obama has a track record of running for office against only token opposition.
In her syndicated column yesterday, Ann Coulter digs further, explaining that David Axelrod was the impresario behind propitiously timed sexual allegations that cleared the field for Mr. Obama's past electoral ventures, and suggesting he may be the root cause of Herman Cain's current troubles.
Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.
So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.
Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator.
It also turns out that Sharon Bialek lived in the same apartment building as David Axelrod and admits to knowing him.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
But ponder the electoral math for a moment. Black voters make up about 12 percent of the US electorate and voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 by an overwhelming 95 percent to just 4 percent for John McCain. What happens if a black conservative in 2012 competes somewhat effectively for black votes? If African-American voters--unemployment rate of 15.1 percent-- pull the lever for President Obama by only a 2-to-1 margin, the result is a 3.5 percentage point swing in the total popular vote from D to R.
Had blacks voted for Mr. Obama 2-to-1 in 2008, conservatives today would be griping about President McCain's latest maverick apostasy rather than fearing for the economic survival of the Republic.
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Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
If I thought Herman Cain had a snowball's chance in hell to pull in 1/3 of the black vote, I'd consider him more electable than Romney, and I'd be on his bandwagon in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I think there's not even enough snow to make that snowball in the first place. In extremely large numbers, black voters appear to identify not simply with "race," but with the whole ideological and cultural nexus of "minority politics." That's why liberal, Democrat blacks are "real" and conservative or Republican ones aren't. At the margin, of course, there would certainly be some black voters who would go for Cain but not Romney, Gingrich, or any of the others -- but unfortunately I suspect that number is more like 5% than 25%. If you have any evidence that I might be wrong here, I'd love to see it.
Jul '11
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Axelrod is everything the leftists thought Karl Rove was with an added Chicago thug touch that should leave opponents very leery of going against the Obama machine.
Democrats in power greatly fear any minority that does not fit in to their stereotype and if they cannot quickly dismiss those conservative minorities as kooky then the smear machine comes at you in full force.
Lies, deceit and manipulation are at the heart of what drives the Obama machine. Maybe there's truth in some of those "fringe" chain emails my right wing Glenn Beck loving patients send to all their friends about Aulinsky style behavior.
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Steve, I grant that there is no evidence for African-Americans suddenly comparing Cain to Obama on the merits, unfortunately. But if Axelrod is at work here, he could be acting on the precautionary principle: Cain might catch fire with disaffected minority voters, so take him out.
After all, Obama might also have won his earlier elections without the dirty tricks, but why take a chance?
Aug '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Ann gets it - as always.
Dont blame Cain for never living in Chicago, place is littered with bodies. Omaha was a stretch .
How is Occupy Chicago going ?
Auchi/Rezko/Ayers/Daley
Edited on Nov 10, 2011 at 4:35pm} The Company You Keep {
Dec '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
George, you are right on it. All of the allegations come out of IRA. Cain does not have any other accusers but IRA women who had been serial accusers in many organizations. At IRA they found their 'talent' could be both profitable and politically advantageous. The climate of Chicago corruption turned the law to protect workers into a version of the badger game played by pimps and prostitutes since time immemorial. Axelrod babeling bromides in public had a secret weapon come election time. Rahm would never waste a crisis but Axelrod would never waste a scandal.
Your scenario about the black vote swing being big enough to scare Obama is plenty true. They are nothing but political triangulators who calculate every move in votes. If Jack Dunphy really is Sargent Friday LAPD then tell him to get on the trail pronto before it gets cold. Tell him being disgusted with Gloria Allred is too obvious, who isn't!
Edited on Nov 10, 2011 at 4:47pmFeb '11
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
I'm glad that Cain is fighting back. The context of these charges made me highly suspicious of them from the beginning. If there was a pattern of such behavior by Cain across various positions of power then the charges would deserve credibility, but the only pattern works against these charges. These claims are all suspiciously centered at one outfit -- NRA -- which is full of highly political people, many of whom are partisan Democrats. Rob Long could write that script in his sleep...
The real story here is Axelrod's dirty tricks. That needs to be chased down continually for the next 12 months. Axelrod must be hounded. It's time to put him out of commission by making him a juicy side issue in the campaign.
What this also means is that if Cain continues to hold up and there are no credible charges against him, the GOP must have him in the 1 or 2 slot of the ticket. If we do, the long term benefit to the GOP and the country will be significant.
Edited on Nov 10, 2011 at 5:03pmJun '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
This is really awful. And, I thought I had a low opinion of Obama before reading Coulter's article.
Jun '11
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
With the Obama gang there are no coincidences.
Jun '11
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
I am willing to eliminate Cain from my consideration. But I support his candidacy because I see no reason for his disqualification. So far as I've seen, he is the articulate upstanding conservative Christian and smart business leader that I thought he was.
Sep '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Thanks for posting this. It goes along with what I've been thinking - that Cain is an existential threat to the Democrats. If he could get the black vote split even 75-25, they are in huge trouble.
Jun '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
I respectfully disagree, Mr. Manacek. It is my belief that there is a large percentage of blacks who actually have families, raise their children with a father and mother at home, do not believe in abortion, disapprove of same sex marriage, are truly Christian in their beliefs, understand and believe in individual responsibility and self-reliance and love this country. In other words, they are normal, regular Americans. They will hold their noses and vote for Obama because he is black but would vote for Cain in a heartbeat. So when does PPP or CNN do a poll on the question: If a black man ran for president against Obama who exhibited the values I expressed above, would you vote for him instead of Obama?"
Jun '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Just by what he has done to date, Cain will figure in any future Republican administration. I hope he at least gets the VP slot or a cabinet position. The Dems can see this clearly. They have to damage him sufficiently so that he is either poisonous to the GOP or the best they can do is give him a dog catcher position.
Really, black leaders in the Democratic Party fit the description of Uncle Toms more than any conservative blacks. Think about how much protection these "leaders" gave to Kleagle Byrd, to Harry Reid more recently, to the history of slavery, KKK and Jim Crow in the Democratic Party.
Very strange that the blacks who do know the history of the Party of Slavery won't talk about it. Instead they spend their time protecting their white masters. They have obviously been co-opted by the Democratic Plantation System. We should call them Overseers.
May '10
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Steve is largely correct, I think, but not irreversibly so. We have a higher hill to climb after 1964, but we do a lot of this to ourselves, just as we unnecessarily repel Latinos.
Every election, some candidate appoints a token symbol to be the "outreach director" for each of the two big ethnic groups. He/she makes a few noises, and the vote goes about the same as it always does, with exceptions here and there (e.g., GW Bush, who significantly improved his support from Latinos by his actions in Texas). Then we all ignore them for four years, publish reams of unnecessarily incendiary opinion, and perpetuate every stereotype out there. We lean in to the punch- just look at the words that are spewn all over here about "illegals". Ruben Navarette is wrong about some of his views, but his basic points are essentially correct.
Why don't we care about African-American problems in off year cycles? (con't)
May '10
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A good example of doing the tough work unheralded was Newt and Jack Kemp in the 1980's and '90's in Washington DC, working with Kimi Gray on the Kenilworth public housing project.
Adopt inner city churches- they're full of Democrats, who cares?- all over the country and volunteer support to local efforts. Appropriate money to hire black cops, donate for the food shelves, find Geoffrey Canada clones to replicate Harlem Success Academy all over the place.
You do that under the radar for years until they trust you. Set aside 5% of all party donations for education opportunities/tutoring funds for kids of single moms. In other words, prove that you care about them, not just their votes. Otherwise, it is easy to go along with those who promise government checks.
Last of all, knock off the dumb talk. Stop opposing school choice scholarships for poor kids because they're means tested. Stop emphasizing crime, and complaining loudly about Grutter v Michigan.
I agree: Grutter is lousy law, lousy policy. But it's not even close to the biggest problem out there, and carping about it incessantly only reinforces the image of Strom Thurmond, R-SC.
Jun '10
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Sorry, Duane, I think you're wrong. Forget the inner cities and let the Dems own them wholly. They are way too entrenched there. This was Jack Kemps big delusion.
Promote American traditional values and fight the lies in the media about Republicans. This is the area that Republicans have to take back.
Get the word out on the Party of Slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK. These things still matter to blacks -- but, they blame the Republicans for them.
Defund the left and most of the racial problems electorally will wither on the vine over time.
Your suggestions might work in a vacuum but they will be responded to and these ideas of yours have gotten demolished every time as soon as they are on the ground.
May '10
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Larry Koler: Sorry, Duane, I think you're wrong. Forget the inner cities and let the Dems own them wholly. They are way too entrenched there. This was Jack Kemps big delusion.
Promote American traditional values and fight the lies in the media about Republicans. This is the area that Republicans have to take back.
Get the word out on the Party of Slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK. These things still matter to blacks -- but, they blame the Republicans for them.
Defund the left and most of the racial problems electorally will wither on the vine over time.
Your suggestions might work in a vacuum but they will be responded to and these ideas of yours have gotten demolished every time as soon as they are on the ground. · Nov 11 at 4:57pm
Larry, if you think that kind of tunnel vision, flat earth nonsense works in the 21st century, I have a solar plant to sell you for only $535 million. Beeg bargain.
Those ideas have never been tried, as I pointed out. There have been short term electoral scam efforts by conservative phonies.
Jun '10
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Duane: Americans, black and white, respond to being treated as adults. You can't compete with the Dems by buying votes -- they will always outbid us. The history of race in this country is almost all good news for the Republicans -- but it has to be taught.
Think about the "Southern Strategy" -- this has come to mean something negative about Republicans. The reason it is seen this way is exactly as the lies in Wikipedia state: "exploiting anti-African American racism...". In other words, the same as the Dems' southern strategy for over 150 years. The leftists who try to control the history narrative really only see this in their own terms.
The Republican southern strategy in 1994 netted a flip of the southern states from Democratic Party to the Republican Party. And it was done by moving the decent moderates away from the racist Democratic Party. The hardline racists in the south stayed with the Dems. Do you know any of this?
May '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
You know what, Larry? Nixon's Southern Strategy actually did have some racist elements to it. And anyone who believes that the 1994 Congressional results were about Republican virtues rather than revulsion over ClintonCare and the House Bank scandal needs to stop drinking Grover Norquist's KoolAid.
The changes in the South were the culmination of a natural population flow that had started in the late 1950's and ended up with the retirements of the last of the old horse personality (rather than yellow dog party) candidates. Stanford's David Brady explains a bit of that, I think this might be the one.
Believe what you wish, I guess. But showing a constituency that you give a bleeding bleep about them is not "vote buying". And as long as your thinking dominates the Right, Obama's type will have free sailing with 90% of the non-WASP male vote from here on out.
If I were minority and you came to me with your message, I might listen to Obama too. It's more about tone than it is substance- and our side ("Welfare mothers for three generations!" "Arrest all the illegal Messicans!") has a tin ear.
Jun '10
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Duane Oyen: You know what, Larry? Nixon's Southern Strategy actually did have some racist elements to it.
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So does apple pie if you look at it just right. This is all relative -- compared to the racist elements in the Democratic Party, the Republicans were sterling in character. Start supporting Republican memes instead of parroting liberal lines.
Duane Oyen: ...
But showing a constituency that you give a bleeding bleep about them is not "vote buying". And as long as your thinking dominates the Right, Obama's type will have free sailing with 90% of the non-WASP male vote from here on out.
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Depends on how you do it. Copying Dems is not the way for us to do it.
Duane Oyen: ...
If I were minority and you came to me with your message, I might listen to Obama too. It's more about tone than it is substance- and our side ("Welfare mothers for three generations!" "Arrest all the illegal Messicans!") has a tin ear. · Nov 12 at 10:48am
Don't start on straw man arguments -- you're better than that, Duane. Catch me saying stupid things like that and then give in to your stereotyping.
Edited on Nov 12, 2011 at 11:11amMay '10
Re: Is David Axelrod Behind the Attacks on Herman Cain?
Larry Koler
...... This is all relative -- compared to the racist elements in the Democratic Party, the Republicans were sterling in character. Start supporting Republican memes instead of parroting liberal lines.
Duane Oyen: ...
If I were minority and you came to me with your message, I might listen to Obama too. It's more about tone than it is substance- and our side ("Welfare mothers for three generations!" "Arrest all the illegal Messicans!") has a tin ear. · Nov 12 at 10:48am
Don't start on straw man arguments -- you're better than that, Duane. Catch me saying stupid things like that and then give in to your stereotyping. · Nov 12 at 11:10am
Edited on Nov 12 at 11:11 am
If you read what I said, there was no assertion that you said "stupid things like that". I said "our side"- and there are plenty on our side who say- or intimate by tone- stupid things like that, here, every time the subject of immigration comes up.
And if you can't tell the difference between what I proposed and what the Democrats do, there is nothing I can say to clarify things.