"And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you." -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

The champagne is no doubt flowing at the offices of the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as the studios of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and, above all, MSNBC. Liberals everywhere must be celebrating in euphoria over the news that the most immediate threat to the reinstallation of their beloved Comrade O has been exterminated, as former Godfather's Pizza CEO and National Restaurant Association president Herman Cain has suspended his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination as President of the United States. What they could not do to Clarence Thomas they have done to Herman Cain.

Herman Cain has been successfully lynched, on a succession of largely baseless and unproven charges of sexual harassment made by women of questionable character and credibility. Two of four Cain accusers came forward publicly: Sharon Bialek and Karen Krashaar. Bialek, it was revealed, had a history of questionable credibility on personal matters, and Krashaar, a resident of Chicago, where Cain has never lived, just happened to live in the same apartment complex as Obama strategist/propagandist David Axelrod. Cain denied the allegations, but the pressure kept up as Cain's standing in the polls, where he had been a front-runner after a phenomenal surge of popularity, slipped just as dramatically as it had risen. Allegations of adultery by a fifth woman named Ginger White, who claimed to have had an affair of 14 years, proved to be the coup-de-gras nail in Cain's political coffin. Though again Cain denied any sexual relationship with White, he admitted to having helped her financially over the years. Cain officially announced the suspension of his campaign for the presidency on December 3, meaning that while he could still collect funds and have a place on the ballot, his campaign for all practical purposes was over.

While no Democratic Party operative was specifically named as being involved in any of this, the timing of events and their convenience to the Obama campaign are most highly suspicious.

Get used to it, people. This is the way Democrats fight when they know they can't win on issues, and every Democrat knows, secretly, if not openly, that Barack Obama cannot run on his record for reelection. His health care plan was railroaded through a Democratic Congress against the will of the people, his "Cash For Clunkers" program was a failure that produced only a temporary bubble in the car business which promptly burst after the government funding ran out, his stimulus program stimulated nothing except for public-sector jobs and temporary make-work jobs that once again evaporated after the funds ran out, his foreign policy has been a disaster in that it has both emboldened America's enemies and estranged America's allies, and his general perception, except among his most loyal partisans, has been that of an American president both at odds and out of touch with his own people, and overwhelmed by the demands of an office he was totally unprepared to assume. The only way he can win the upcoming election now is to smear his opponents, and the politics of personal destruction is something at which his party has proven itself most masterful. Indeed, the last Democrat president, Bill Clinton, raised this to an art form, systematically destroying any and all who posed a threat to him or his presidency back in the Nineties.

No consensus to date has produced a most-likely Republican challenger to Obama. The most consistent front-runner, Mitt Romney, though he remains popular with establishment Republicans, tends to be looked at askance by conservatives, who remember his own version of Obamacare enacted in Massachusetts, and various other instances of flip-flopping by the former Massachusetts governor. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, while a brilliant debater and the successful architect of the Contract With America, made a ser ious blunder in a political TV ad he made with former Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi in which he endorsed the concept of man-made global warming which has since been proven fraudulent, though it is still a matter of official policy with the current administration. Texas congressman Ron Paul, Republican in name but Libertarian in fact, is supported by a small but fanatically committed hard core of similarly-thinking libertarians. (Paul, it will be remembered, in fact was the Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1988.) Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, for all practical purposes, might as well be a Democrat. The only two candidates for the Republican nomination whose messages have neither wavered nor digressed from conservative principles, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, are currently so far down in the polls as to pose no real threat to the Democrats or Obama.

The main threat came from Herman Cain, who correctly predicted that once he emerged from the pack as a front-runner that the "bull's-eye" would be on his back. In Cain's case, it was more than just a matter of political differences, it was something that strikes right at the core of Democrats, who they are, and what they stand for.

Herman Cain is black -- and blacks are not supposed to be conservatives. Period. Just ask former Connecticut congressman Gary Franks, who, during his campaign for reelection to his Waterbury district, was victimized by an attack ad falsely depicting him as the slumlord owner of rat-infested tenements. Ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who endured constant vilification from the "mainstream" media as well as numerous entertainers. Ask Florida congressman Allen West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, or his fellow congressman from South Carolina, Tim Scott. And yes, ask Justice Thomas.

No, blacks are supposed to be liberal, in the tradition of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, John Conyers, and John Lewis. If they must be Republicans, they should at least have the decency to be good liberal Republicans, as was former Massachusetts senator Edward Brooke. But they must never -- never -- fail to conform to political stereotype. And when they do, they must be punished.

By daring to be his own man and defy the etched-in-stone stereotype for black politicians, Herman Cain was clearly asking for it. Not only that, but he threatened to neuter the one weapon in the Obama arsenal which had proven so effective for him in 2008: his ace-in-the-hole, the Race Card.

Therefore, Herman Cain must be destroyed.

Thus came the allegations of sexual harassment and infidelity, and, as is so often the case in instances of a political nature, the time-honored judicial principle of the accused being assumed innocent until proven guilty being turned on its head. (How does one so accused prove himself innocent?) Never mind that it was the Democrats who gave us such pillars of personal propriety as Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, and Anthony Weiner, just to name a few. And while, as noted, no Democrat operative is caught with a smoking gun here, note also how conveniently things just happen to fall into place for the Democrats. Well, the Mafia never directly implicates itself in a hit job either.

No matter, the objective has been accomplished. The threat has been removed. Barack Obama will not have to face the prospect of having to campaign against another candidate of color. Herman Cain has been destroyed.

He has been lynched.

Tim Siggia

Tim Siggia from Hartford Connecticut, attended Central Connecticut State College (now Central Connecticut State University) from 1963-67 and then joined the United States Navy. In 1973 he completed a bachelor or arts degree in English at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham. In 1991 he retired from the Navy at the grade of Chief Journalist after which he joined the United States Postal Service, from which he is due to retire in 2012. He now lives in East Hartford Connecticut with his wife Penny. They have three sons and six grandchildren.