I'm Going to Say It Since the Rest of You Are Afraid To

[The Mikado]

True.  Honestly, the Democrats' defense of Clinton was a pragmatic decision to protect the scummy President from what looked like a GOP opportunistic effort to tear down Clinton no matter what (Watergate etc. long preceded Paula Jones: the GOP wanted anything it could grab to destroy him).  Clinton was defended because, as President, he was indispensable and Impeachment was the most politicized witch-hunts in years.  By contrast, the GOP unceremoniously threw Gingrich overboard (using the disappointing 1998 midterms as an excuse) and John Edwards is probably the most hated and scorned man in the Democratic Party, which was more than willing to let him sink on his own for his scummy behavior.  Moral of the story for the GOP: get rid of Cain before you're stuck with him.  It's a blessing for the GOP that this came out.  Get rid of him, renounce him, or you'll be stuck defending his scummy pervy behavior like Dems were with Clinton.

[The Mikado]

Agreed.  Compared to Cain, Romney's a saint.  (One of the advantages to being a Mormon, I guess: squeaky-clean personal life). If the GOP, knowing what it knows now, picked Cain over Romney, it'd be the most disgusting things in politics in a generation.  Obama vs Romney may be the most boring and uninspiring pair of candidates since Bush/Dukakis, but they're not creepy molesters.  "Barack Obama: you'd trust him around your daughter.  (Probably because he'd bore and depress her to death)

[The Mikado]

And Clinton was only accused twice, not five separate times).

Lewinsky
Jones
Kathleen Willy

Those are three off the top of my head, I suspect I am forgetting a few more....

I am not defending Cain, just pointing out the Slick Willy was pretty slimy too and that there seems to be a tad of a double standard here.

Lewinsky didn't accuse Clinton of anything, and in fact tried to lie to protect the man.

[The Mikado]

I'm not saying that Clinton didn't have a number of relations that should be lumped in with the Cain thing (the Paula Jones thing if true, the Kathleen Willey thing if true).  Both of those cases are things that are just as bad as what Cain allegedly did.  It's just that the Lewinsky case doesn't fit in that category.