"It's not just men"

Ana Marie Cox makes the best point of all:

The conference may prove damaging to Cain. Not because he seemed guilty or because he kind of backwardly admitted that more accusations could be coming (they're false, too!), but because this conference was the first sustained look America has gotten at an unscripted Cain. And it turns out he's kind of a prick! Right? Do Americans like people who refer to themselves (MANY, many times) in the third person? Do they have warm feelings for people so confident in their blamelessness that they brag about "never" having behaved "inappropriately" with "anyone" ever?

Allahpundit reacts, as does Dan Amira. Although I feel that this was necessary for the Cain campaign to move forward, one suspects that they won't be for some time. In fact, the whole situation seems remarkably unresolved, and I don't think we've heard the last Cain on this matter. Regardless, this is damaging. But is he finished, though? That's the real question.