I got talked into attending a Tea Party rally in my town. A cousin promised me that I wouldn't be burned at the stake or made to drink strychnine, and  as long as I could manage to keep my mouth closed and my head from exploding, I'd be juuuuust fine. It seemed like an adventure, so I agreed to go.

It was as strange and scary as you think. There was  a gun raffle and everything, and I felt certain that there was an "L" stamped on my back, visible only to the Party'ers, and I'd soon be taken out behind the church and used as target practice by the winner of the big old rifle.

Really, I was in no danger. My cousin is six-and-a-half feet tall and is a bouncer, and he loves me despite my political leanings.

He's also a friend of Mr. Cain, and there came a time when I found myself standing in front of a nicely dressed gentleman wearing a straw hat and glasses. He took my hand and held it while he spoke to me. At length. He was pleasant, and gentle in his speech, telling me how forward he'd been looking to making my aquaintance, and how he'd told my cousin that they would win me over, not to worry.

I didn't feel sexually harassed, I felt condesended-to, in the way that I had when the CEO of a company I once worked for chucked me under my chin when I asked him to consider an education reimbursement program at the factory. Mr. Cain sized me up and decided that I was a cute little liberal, all bark and no bite. I felt very female, with the charming and dapper fellow cradling my dainty hand in his, but not in a good way.

I'm very curious about how Cain's current situation will pan out. Did he do it, or did he just dismiss them in a very male way? Even unintentionally? I'm going to be witholding my judgement. Having met the man, and been "charmed" by him (and he is charismatic and charming, there can be no doubt), I can understand that his chauvanism might be mistaken for sexual harassment.