Everyone knew the right wing would do this, but it’s disgusting to see how low they’ll stoop to attack women accusing Herman Cain of sexual misconduct. Cain’s lawyer is actually threatening any other women who might want to come forth and tell their stories: Cain’s Lawyer On Accusing - ‘Think Twice’.

L. Lin Wood, the lawyer hired by the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain to fend off sexual harassment accusations, has warned that any other women who might be considering coming forward with similar allegations “should think twice.”

And the right wing media are unabashedly diving into the gutter to smear these women at all costs:

Even as some Republican Party elders continued to criticize his handling of the accusations, Mr. Cain benefited from the support of conservative-leaning commentators and news outlets, helping him to raise money. He drew warm applause at the CNBC debate Wednesday in Michigan when he dismissed the accusations, saying, “The American people deserve better.”

The Drudge Report noted that Ms. Bialek had lived in the same building as David Axelrod, President Obama’s political strategist, and said that Ms. Kraushaar “works for Obama.” (A spokeswoman at the Treasury Department in a nonpolitical job, Ms. Kraushaar was also a spokeswoman in the immigration service under President George W. Bush.)

In The New York Post on Tuesday, the columnist Andrea Peyser called Ms. Bialek a “gold digger” who “flirted like a tart” with Mr. Cain. And Mr. Limbaugh amplified the accounts of Ms. Bialek’s financial troubles and the story, first reported on Wednesday by The Associated Press, about Ms. Kraushaar’s workplace complaint at the immigration service.

“What are these babes going to do with a panel?” Mr. Limbaugh said of Ms. Kraushaar’s proposed news briefing. “What does it prove?”

When accused of misogynistic behavior, the right wing response is … to double down on their misogynistic behavior.

If I were tempted to give Cain the benefit of the doubt when the accusations first arose, his conduct since then — and the conduct of his defenders — has erased any doubt in my mind.