GOP is glad Cain story was leaked

[rightwinger]

Whoever leaked this did a GREAT SERVICE to the GOP. Had Cain won a few primaries and then this was dropped the GOP would be in deep doo.

What I don't understand from my limited exposure to this story, is WHY (if Cain knew that it would be revealed, when he started campaigning, ) didn't he have a ready explanation for it all, when it became public. I mean....I would have! He gave different details in the first few interviews. One would think he would not have let himself be caught off-guard and would have been prepared with SOMETHING.

He had ten days advanced notice and his first replies were " I have a vague recollection of what happened and I really don't know much about it"