It is now all about the attention that Cain is receiving--he is dangerous.  This morning Karl Rove was more than content to say that Cain had peaked and was going to begin a dissent.  Well of course Rove would say that, he is a card carrying member of the establishment GOP that looks at Cain as being every bit the establishment GOP outsider as John Kerry was.  As long as Rove has Romney in the race to represent the good-old-establishment-RINO-GOP-network, he is going to be happy to toss Cain's candidacy into the dust bin hoping that casually interested voters will follow his lead.

This is one of the reasons why I think the debates and today's gotcha politics does such a disservice to voters.  These people have long records that span scores of years that we should be able to look to to form an opinion, but instead the talking heads and the experts and the political pundits frame the narrative in such a way that unfavorable candidates can be tripped up along the way.  

Good grief.  Here we have Karl Rove, a man who agreed with the prescription drug benefit, a man who agreed with TARP, a man who agreed with No Child Left Behind, a man who agreed with an explosion of federal debt the likes we had never seen in the history of our nation, telling us that Cain was losing his appeal "among Republicans" because of a list of gaffes he presented on a dry erase board to viewers.

I'm not going to let Cain's missteps on message in any way compete with his lifetime of achievement just because the establishment GOP wants a guy who agrees with the concept of AGW, amnesty for illegal aliens, TARP, national health care, etc., elected to office because, ostensibly, he's put in the proper amount of time at the country club and carries the proper message.

Conspiracy?  Nope. "I smoke. It's a choice. Block being Block. What more do you want me to say?"

Not a damn thing, Mr. Block.  It's life, it's legal, and people are free to smoke if they want to.  Make no excuses to any of the Nanny asshats for that.