. >> cain drew a defense from carol markowitz in the new york post this week. markowitz moved to georgia seven years ago and worked on the cain 2004 campaign for the u.s. senate. markowitz wrote this week -- and defend evidence cain as extremely professional and fair to female staffers at the restaurant association. question, is the cain campaign getting unusually tough execute are scrutiny or is this treatment standard for a front- runner? pat buchanan? >> no, it's getting unusual treatment because he's an african-american who talks about getting off the liberal plantation. he is also a conservative and he is the front-runner for the nomination. you look at the media went into the tank for jack kennedy, all of them, john edwards. however, john, there does appear to be some measure of substance to the charges. and i agree these don't look like murderous charges but they've damaged cain. i think they've damaged the republican party. and the republican establishment probably more against cain now than ever, thinking we don't know what will come out here. so it's