Cain Unable

Herman Cain is still stuck in an endless loop pattern where he keeps telling the tea party that he would never appoint a dirty, filthy enemy Muslim to his Cabinet, and then tells the Village he was misconstrued and taken out of context.  He's done it before (several times in fact) and this weekend he tried it again.

At a press conference following his speech at the RightOnline conference here Saturday night, Cain expressed frustration that the quote he gave ThinkProgress about not appointing Muslims to his administration is still haunting him.

Cain said the first thing that came to his mind when he got the question was violent Muslims. Cain made it clear that he would treat applicants for his administration differently if they were from the Muslim faith, based on the fact that they could, in fact, be terrorists.

"I am not anti-Muslim," he said. "I am anti-terrorist. And so my statement has been misconstrued several times, I've even been called a bigot because I expressed a desire to be cautious if I were to consider a Muslim for my administration. That was the intent of [the answer to ThinkProgress]." 

Sorry Herman.   You believe all Muslims are potential terrorists who deserve extra scrutiny and must prove they are innocent because they are presumed guilty by default, ergo you are anti-Muslim.

"So, no, I'm not going to play nicey nice and say that I'm not going to take extra precautions in order to be able that make sure that we can do our job," Cain said.

Then, under questioning from TPM, he walked all of that back. TPM asked what the special precautions might be, specifically.

"If you're trying to make me lose my cool, you are succeeding," Cain said, his voice rising. "I never said I would use any special precautions!"

OK, then, TPM followed up: "So a Muslim applies to be in the administration, he gets in like anybody else?" 

"Yes," Cain said.

So he just contradicted himself in the space of the same conversation with TPM.  And this guy wants to be President?  In what universe, the one where we make Muslims wear neon signs?

Please.  If he spun any faster, we'd have to attach copper wires and a magnet to him just to see if he could power a city block or two.