Monday started out so well for presidential wannabe Herman Cain (R-I Did Not Have Settlement with Those Women – Oh Wait, I Did).

There was, for starters, the indulgent New York Times piece that flicked away “the reports of inappropriate behavior while he was chief executive of the [National Restaurant Association]” while pom-pomming Cain’s campaign appearances:

As he hopscotched through northern Alabama, his speeches were light on substance and heavy on bromides, which he turned into applause lines through the magic of his delivery. When he speaks to a crowd, there is a contact high between the candidate and his supporters, and it is unclear who is more pleased to be in the other’s presence.

Decidedly not pleased by The Harmanator is Politico, which has relentlessly chronicled Cain’s shifting responses to the sexual harassment charges against him (see here and here and here and etc.).

New slogan for the Hermanator:

Yes We Caint.