By Ann Coulter
With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a love child with his mistress Rielle Hunter?
The left is trying to destroy Cain with a miasma of hazy accusations leveled by three troubled women. Considered individually the accusations are utterly unbelievable. They are even less credible taken together. This is how liberals destroy a man out of nothing.
After the first round of baseless accusations against Cain an endless stream of pundits rolled out the cliche -- as if it were the height of originality -- This isnt he said-she said; its he-said she-said she-said she-said shesaid.
Au contraire: We had two shes and only one said.
Remember? Only two women were willing to give their names. And as soon as they did we discovered that they were highly suspicious accusers with nothing more than their personal honor to support the allegations. Only one of the two would even say what Cain allegedly did.
The first one was Sharon Bialek who claimed that Cain grabbed her crotch in a car.
Then we found out Bialek was in constant financial trouble had been involved in a paternity lawsuit was known as a gold digger had a string of debts and had twice filed for personal bankruptcy. Also she admitted she knew Obamas dirty tricks specialist David Axelrod from living in the same building with him.
Her personal history is relevant because she produced no evidence. We had to take her word. (Which was not helped by seeing her standing with Gloria Allred.)
The second one Karen Kraushaar made unspecified allegations of a hostile environment when she was working for Cain but refuses to say what those allegations were. This despite the fact that the National Restaurant Association waived her confidentiality agreement thus allowing her to go public.
Thats one she but no said.
Cain said he had once told Kraushaar she was as tall as his wife -- which would be one of the more worthy sexual harassment claims settled by an American company in recent years.
Why wont she say? Were not talking about rape. Kraushaar cant say I dont want to relive being told I was the same height as his wife! With all the nonsense that passes for a hostile environment either Kraushaar tells us what Cain allegedly did or her blind accusation is worth less than nothing.
As if that werent enough then it turned out that Kraushaar had also filed a complaint at her next job just three years later charging that a manager had circulated a sexually explicit joke email comparing computers to men and women. She demanded a raise and the right to work at home.
Maybe Kraushaar is the most unlucky woman in the world. But the simpler explanation is that she is not a credible witness on the workplace atmosphere.
And now we have Ginger White stepping forward to claim that she had a 13-year affair with Cain. Cain admits he was friends with White but he categorically adamantly denies having an affair with her.
White has the whole combo-platter of questionable accuser attributes: Shes another financially troubled twice-divorced unemployed single mother who has claimed sexual harassment in the past declared bankruptcy once was accused of stalking and had a libel judgment entered against her just this year. So far in 2011 shes had nine liens put on her property.
But were supposed to ignore all of that because shes the third woman of questionable character to make an implausible allegation. Liberals say theres a pattern but the only pattern is of their making far-fetched accusations of a sexual nature against Cain.
Whites proof that she had a 13-year affair is that she has two of Cains books signed by him -- one with the incriminating inscription Friends are forever! Everything else is a bonus and the other Miss G you have already made a big difference! Stay focused as you pursue your next destination. (I know -- filthy!)
If thats proof of an affair Ive had thousands of them without even realizing it.
Also White produced evidence that Cain had texted or called her cell phone 61 times during four non-consecutive months -- but did not reveal what those texts said. (Would you please return my lawn mower?)
Again if thats proof of an affair Im having hundreds of them at this very moment.
This is the sort of evidence you get with an actual sexual predator: Bill Clintons accusers had gifts taped phone conversations with him and a semen-stained dress.
Gennifer Flowers produced taped telephone calls with Clinton totaling thousands of words between them with him counseling her on how to deny their affair: If they ever hit you with it just say no and go on. Theres nothing they can do ... But when they -- if somebody contacts you I need to know ... All you got to do is deny it.
Paula Jones had multiple same-day witnesses -- including the state troopers who worked for Clinton and had already told the press about a Paula they brought to Clintons hotel room. And that was for a single incident.
Monica Lewinsky had lots of gifts from Clinton including a hat pin two brooches a marble bear figurine a T-shirt from Marthas Vineyard and Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass all of which she mysteriously placed with Clintons secretary Betty Currie during the investigation as well as a semen-stained dress which Monica kept.
Ginger White claims she had a 13-year affair with Cain -- and all she has are two books with inscriptions that could have been written to an auto mechanic who waited in line at a Cain book signing. Even her business partner during the alleged affair says White never mentioned Cains name.
These women are like triple-A ball players with the stats being: number of bankruptcies smallest bank account number of liens most false claims number of children out of wedlock degrees of separation from David Axelrod total trips to human resources and so on.
That wouldnt be dispositive -- except for the fact that their only evidence is their word.
But this is how liberals dirty you up when theyve got nothing: They launch a series of false accusations knowing that Americans with busy lives wont follow each story to the end and notice that they were all blind alleys.
The liberal media is an old story but its still a big story when it comes to creating the impression of scandal out of thin air.
Most people say Where theres smoke theres fire. I say Where theres smoke around a conservative there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.