One-time 2012 Republican presidential frontrunner Herman Cain came to the defense of 2016’s current GOP frontrunner, Ben Carson. Cain told The Daily Beast in an interview published Tuesday that liberals dislike “conservatives who happen to be black” with a special ire.
“Ben Carson is not only a conservative, he is a conservative who happens to be black. There is only one group of people that liberals hate worse than conservatives, and that’s conservatives who happen to be black,” Cain said. “The reason for that is real simple. They resent conservatives who happen to be black for leaving the Democrat plantation. And you can quote me on that.”
Cain said he also still holds a lot of ill will toward Politico, which ran a story about two women who accused Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s. He said Politico was trying to attack Carson with its recent report showing the former neurosurgeon had repeatedly and falsely said he turned down a scholarship to the elite U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Carson’s campaign acknowledged the candidate had never applied or been accepted to the academy.
“Clearly Ben Carson did not lie,” Cain told the Daily Beast. “Politico lied because they said he fabricated a story, when in fact, they fabricated a headline. At this point I think that Ben is winning this round.”
Cain called mass media “liberal vultures” and offered a warning to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who he said would be next.
