For some reason, this might hurt him with his general voting population image, but with the party base? I doubt it, I mean those pundits just love to rally around "victims" of liberal media persecution.

Just ask Ms. Coulter:

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"Liberals are terrified of Herman Cain. He is a strong conservative black man. Look at the way they go after Allen West and Michael Steele and they aren't even running against Obama. They are terrified of strong, conservative, black men," Coulter said.