Cain allies — the likes of conservative radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham came to his defense on Monday — will likely dismiss the inconsistencies as nothing more than a misremembered episode from more than a decade ago.
But changing your story in even a small way leads to lots and lots more questions about what else Cain either got wrong or misremembered.
And even if there is no one single HUGE revelation from all of those questions, the more times it’s made clear that Cain’s initial flat denial was something short of airtight, the more cuts his campaign sustains. Little cuts — if there are enough of them — lead to a political bloodbath.
Herman Cain and political death by 1,000 cuts
