I think National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg was trying to be so earnestly serious that he let a joke go right over his head:
Still the support for Cain is interesting in its own right. In all the coverage as well as in the comments sections from readers and in my own email and conversations you find people saying, in effect, “He made a pass, he took no for an answer, what's the big deal?”
That's a really surprising change in attitude for some conservatives to take. Cain, after all, is a married man and a minister. We are the folks who talk about how character matters and all that.
Those folks weren't being serious, Jonah. They were just repeating the phrase, variations of which were used over and over, that liberals who supposedly cared about things like sexual harassment uttered in defense of Bill Clinton and his bimbo eruptions. They just trying to get in early on the hypocrisy sweepstakes before the liberals beat them to the punch.
