Over at the aptly-named Hot Air, Malkin associate Allahpundit records the hilarious reaching of conservatoid Cain fans to explain away the candidate’s idiotic assertion that China, which has enjoyed nuclear weapon capability since 1964, is just now trying to develop said capability (that it already has).
Fierce, fact-free defenses of Cain are a good sign. Far from being damaged by revelations of sexual harassment, the candidacy of Herman Cain is being propelled by full-on rationalization of cognitive dissonance. Cain is likeable — he wouldn’t have enjoyed his long career in pizza parlor management if he wasn’t — and the reactionaries are crushing hard on him, admitting no imperfections. It’s actually kind of cute.
Frankly, the Republican field offers no better representative of the backwards thinking, intellectual vapidity, and immoral values rampant in conservatism today than Herman Cain. Aside from having the brainpower of a Sarah Palin, he offers a perfect contrast to Barack Obama in the same way that Alan Keyes did — and you remember how that went.
