Posted on 12/03/2011 11:02:40 AM PST by mandaladon
Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a "cloud of doubt over me and this campaign."
"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," he said at an event in Atlanta. "I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me, on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter."
Cain's campaign had sent mixed signals as to his future since Ginger White, an Atlanta woman who claims to have had an affair with Cain for more than a decade, went public with her story earlier this week. While Cain has said he has been "reassessing" his candidacy, he also, at times, has been fiercely defiant, suggesting that unnamed enemies have been trying to do him in and vowing to press forward.
"The pundits would like for me to shut up, drop out and go away," he said. "I am not going to be silenced, and I am not going away."
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I pray that all her children, grand children and great grandchildren are cursed. I'm usually not into paganism but in this case I will pray that hell comes down on her like nothing else.
She is an evil B&%#& See you next Tuesday, Gloria Allred should be in jail and David Axelrod should be deported.
Sir with all do respect, anything on the GOP debate stage is a 1000% better than Mr. Obama. We’re 15 trillion in debt; the morale of our military has been drastically depleted by Obama; our borders are like swiss cheese and getting worse; Obama is presiding over the global USA apology tour with the promise to ruin our super power status; we’re about to install socialiized medicine and our country is 1 vote away on the Supreme court of losing Constitutional Government to another Obama appointee.
Dear God, I don’t care if Micky Mouse is running; he’s got my vote!!
Not getting on with Newt, Romney, or Perry though. PALIN! we need you, or somebody like you who hasn't been crapped on by the media yet.
Here here. You stated your ideas well. I do like the way Newt has behaved in the debates. He’s been brilliant in my opinion, and I do prefer Newt over Romney.
Here is what I wrote to another individual on this thread:
Sir with all do respect, anything on the GOP debate stage is a 1000% better than Mr. Obama. We’re 15 trillion in debt; the morale of our military has been drastically depleted by Obama; our borders are like swiss cheese and getting worse; Obama is presiding over the global USA apology tour with the promise to ruin our super power status; we’re about to install socialiized medicine and our country is 1 vote away on the Supreme court of losing Constitutional Government to another Obama appointee.
Dear God, I don’t care if Micky Mouse is running; he’s got my vote!!
Yeah yeah focus all your hatred on one side. Guess what? Cain was also involved as well. Bash em both.
Then me and Sarah part company.
Listen, it’s understood that an Obama 2nd term is a death sentence for the republic. No one would dispute that.
However, bringing about his second term would mean an immediate uproar from those of us who do care, and it’d be only a matter of time before he does something that turns the country to revolution... armed revolution.
Obama’s “people” aren’t going to take a bullet for him, and when masses of the well-armed populace start sweeping the streets clean of the communists, it’s only a matter of time. I, for one, would stand for America.
Besides, if you think for a minute that Obama’s going to lose this next election, you’re a dolt. He cheated his way to the WH before, and now he has legions of “99%-ers” who will pack ballot boxes and intimidate voters, and the media will march in lockstep all the way to the devolution of the United States of America.
This is fantasy.
Think about it. The current governing regime is Marxist to the hilt. They are turning up wannabe hippies (occupiers) and spreading hate and discontent like it was the 1960s. And, what was one of the hallmarks of the 1960s? It was political violence including political assassination. There is a reason Herman Cain has had protection by the Secret Service.
Herman Cain has faced down death during his life, but his family has not. I just have to wonder whether his reason for dropping out now is to protect his family from serious threats that have yet to be revealed, if they ever will be. Just wondering.
This is a sad day for our country. God belss you, Herman Cain, and your family.
Gingrich is Cain’s problems on steroids.
Now I’ll go out and eat a Cain Pizza....Chicken topping. He knew he had a closet full of “mess” and though he could be decietful enough to fool everyone. He is a quitter just like Gingrich, the only difference is that Gingrich has a walk-in big big closet with a whole haunted house full of skeletons.
Old Mitt must be happy as can be now. Oh wait there is Ron Paul. I think I like Paul now. And after all, is solution of allowing Iran nukes is perfect. Because as soon as he is elected Israel will be forced to annihilate every square inch of Iran. Win Win......GO RON P.
Now lets me finish off this pizza.
Our Republic is dead.
Huh? Nobody "got off" because they were black. All four were convicted and given life in prison or the death penalty. The Judge was then charged with corruption unrelated to the cases and re-trials were ordered. But, they'll be found guilty again.
Dead, but killed by the Republican primary voters who have yet to cast their first ballot!
Just wish you’d find a better source than the LA Times. I won’t even open the link - don’t want to read their lying crap.
This is why next year will be very, very important that is certain.
I have my doubts about the 99% will even come out in support of Obama, because I have read that even now they are turning against Obama also.
Just like why Sarah Palin decided not to run, protecting the family.
Desperate enough to threaten him and his family with physical harm. There is a reason he had Secret Service protection. Just like the 1960s--deja vous.
Don’t sweat it -
My dog could beat Obama.
She’s a libtard - just smile and say “thanks for your opinion”.
If there ever was a time to hunker down and get through the process next year, we had better get with the program...
Any Cain supporters out there, need to show up and wrap around another candidate...We do not need to hand this country over to Obama on a silver platter for another 4 years...
The mainstream liberal media now seeing how they could make Palin quit now they have a perfect template to make any conservative quit. First they came for Sarah Palin, now Cain. So we’ll never get another conservative to even run for president as the nominee for a major party.
You sarah Palin still have the power to win the presidency ms Palin. My advice is to jump in now and not give in to the media.
The democrats are international socialists . They want to destroy capitalism, the U.S.A. and freedom. Then they will come for your money , including your money ms Palin. So someone has to stop them and you know you could. So do it.
That means, of course, we must work to insure that (1) no one present candidate has enough votes to win on the first ballot; and (2) behind-the-scenes efforts must begin, and get as nasty as necessary, to insure the party Insiders and RINOs (are they presently one and the same?) do NOT get to pick a milquetoast candidate that has no chance against Obama (or worse, turns out to be worse than him).
This election will, at the very least, probably mark the end of the Republican party as we know it, if it doesn't mark the end of the Republic itself.
We need someone who will upset the applecart, as well as the stats quo, during both the campaign and the general election. This country is in dire straits. The “establishment” is very well entrenched at present, and it's possible that we are about to enter a period where the old answers (i.e., elections, and other old ways of doing things) that worked so well in the past no longer have currency in the present climate.
These are very parlous times, my FRiends, and we must be ready for anything - ANYTHING - that may be coming down the pike.
Stay ready, and keep your powder dry.
CA....
Most likely you are right and sadly, it will happen.
Could we see a new or second American revolution in the making?
One of the best comments ever read on this!
I hadn’t even thought of that...a good offense is better than a good defense...offense meaning what you said, be prepared with the response immediately.
Thanks for your telling us about your experience.
While understanding your sentiments to some extent, your comparison has little to do with this discussion and your is also factually wrong— none of the perps in the Knoxville case “got off”, all were convicted, and sentenced either to life no parole, 53 years,and one to death by injection.
What is true is that the poor families have to go through this all again because Judge Baumgartner is a drug addict and loonie and they have gotten a new trial. Not because the perps were black.
How unfortunate.
I hope the folks that ran the smear campaign against him remember they will have to answer to God for what they have done.
Do you always listen to liberals? While I like Herman Cain a lot and know he had a great chance to beat Obama there's NO WAY... I repeat NO WAY Barack Hussein Obama could ever successfully go up against Newt in a debate. He'd lose a debate with Newt even if the unemployment rate was at 6%.
If the nominee is Mitt... well then your liberal friend may have a point. I'm sure your liberal friend is secretly hoping that Mitt Romney wins the nomination. Like McCain, many will hold their nose and vote for him or stay home and not even bother.
Isn't it interesting how the white liberal left have such hatred for any conservative, but especially for a true black conservative who will not be “kept in his place”, like apparatchik machine black democrats. Cain called them to the carpet and scared the hell out of them, with is true words and his life of success.
If there is any truth to this, and Cain has handled it improperly (personally and in public),then that is an error which is forgiven. Why? Because the standard of behaviour in the democrat party is one of absolutely horrific treatment of women, minorities and of the American family—supported by a demonic media, all in the worship of the amoral statist totalitarian one party goals they have sought throughout their existence. Their back is against the wall— we need to finish them totally, if for no other reason than the appalling pursuit of this good man.
Here's hoping he will continue to lambaste obama for the fraud that he is and the lying devious bastards that all democrats are. If these dilettantes think they have silenced him, they are wrong. Let us all send letters of support to Herman.
It is Leyte Gulf- and that began with effective submarine attacks in the Palawan Passage sinking the flagship of Admiral Kurita so rapidly he was forced to swim to survive. Now begins our submarine attack on obama and the democrats, building into many more decisive victories. We have not yet begun to fight. Deo Vindice.
If he were he'd still be running. Sort of like Michael Jackson... I gave him the benefit of the doubt until he paid off the family of the little boy.
Yes, Mitt is happy
Well, that makes me 0-2.
First I thought is was going to be Palin, then I thought it was going to be a Cain-Palin ticket.
I don't suppose anyone is interested in my Super Bowl prediction?
If Levine can get this quote from the health care czar, it would be a powerful statement in any conservative ad or speech— that “obama and the democrats have decided that if you are over 65 you are of no more value as a “unit”, despite medical advances created by our free society which have extended effective work life by more than 15 years”— and “What kind of America are these people- obama and the democrats- wanting to create” “We fought the national socialists in WWII only to have them re-appear in the new german model socialist/marxist nightmare” “Our forefathers and fathers fought for our freedom” “Destroy these traitors” and so forth.
I too, am quite angry and will not submit. Deo Vindice.
Great post!
If anything, we must realize that the gauntlet has been thrown down in our faces by Axelrod, the Leftists, the media and the Dims.
May they live to regret they ever thought to challenge America and Americans in this way.
Their high water mark has just been reached.
Great comments. Reminds me of Apollo 13, when Houston Command Center Controller (Ed Harris) said in response to the dismal prognosis, "On the contrary gentlemen, I believe this will be our finest hour".
I am hoping & desperately praying that you are correct, that their high water mark has been reached, because right now I don't see any of the current crop of GOP candidates posing a real threat to the RAT bastard commie pig 0dumb0. May he & his entire family roast for eternity in Hell & ultimately the Lake of Fire. I hate 0dumb0 & the demoRATs with a white passion of hatred.
Unlike many here, I'm not going to praise you for your decision to drop out. You knowingly entered this GOP presidential primary knowing exactly what the media would TRY and do to you. You saw what they did to Bush; you saw what they did to Palin; now you decide to drop out. You are pathetic!
People stood by you when these Media driven allegations were being pimped. We supported you with prayers, donations, and arguments defending you. Many of us also sacrificed Mr. Cain! Maybe not quite the same way you did, but we did indeed sacrifice! Now you thank us by suspending your campaign. You are pathetic!
The Media have proven that they can beat us every time. To those who were joining the Politico bandwagon in their accusations against Mr. Cain; FUCK YOU TOO!
I've lost all respect for you Mr. Cain. You've proven your words were nothing but bull shit!
As i said the other day on a couple of threads: we've doomed ourselves. When we chose to accept the Dems premises, our fate was sealed.
Good riddance Mr. Cain!
-A former supporter.
> Yes, we must regroup and reload. It has been just a few hours since this announcement. I must mourn.
I hear you, FRiend. These are troubling, trying times. Hang in there.
I don’t want candidates thinking they can go to Washington and retire. They should do away with presidential retirement pay and congressional retirement pay. 2 Term Senators and 4 term congressmen and that are it. No freebies what so ever!
“I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me, on my family.” Suspend defined: 1: to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function 2a: to cause to stop temporarily b: to set aside or make temporarily inoperative 3: to defer to a later time on specified conditions 4: to hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information He didn’t quit!!!! something is up.
I am really starting to wonder if it can be fixed short of civil war. I am not advocating violence, but there it is...
With Sarah and Cain, the leftists and RINOs have proven that they can indeed take out any candidate they consider to be a serious threat.
Now we are supposed to choose between a glossy-haired, wishy-washy, shiny-teethed cipher or a hyperactive chipmunk on steroids — both of whom have delusions of competence and both of whom have fatal flaws which the MSM will willingly, nay GLEEFULLY, splash everywhere the moment the nomination is sealed.
Not that they (the MSM) are taking any chances. Trudeau fired another broadside at Perry in today’s Sunday Doonesbury strip, so you can be sure that all their guns will soon be targeting him.
No one is willing to open up Barry’s baggage to see what is in it. There is no one on the right who has the guts expose Obama.
OK. Write someone in, then. Just don’t vote for the vileness that is and supports 0bama.
History is written by the victors.
If this covert muslim single handedly brings down “The Great Satan”, his praises will be sung in mosques for millennia.
What better write-up, how much more glory could any human hope for?
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I could not have said it better than you just did. He (Obama) had a goal and he’s not from reaching it.
I’ve asked for After America by Mark Steyn for Christmas.
Pretty soon we won’t be able to even call it Christmasl
t does not matter anyway because even if a Conservative like Cain was elected, the RINOs in the Senate would form another band 6, 12 or whatever to stop him, so their goes the USSC because like the Democrats, RINOs live to gum up the works.
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I’ve posted this before—for the first time in my life, in 30+ years of being eligible to vote—I’m not sure I will.
So depressing.
Well, I do not know for sure..but this is the action of a guilty man. If not, he should file a defamation lawsuit and finish out his campaign with a good heart, even if he were to fail. Funny how if this is so effective...total lies...then why haven’t they done it against all of the other front runners? for that matter, why did the left not do it against Reagan as he was seen as a massive threat to the left.
Even weirder is that he divulged all of this to the press. Most of it is between him and his wife, not anyone elses business. But he wants the press to know all about aspects which no one would ever know about, and which imply things much worse than they (I believe) actually are.
So look at the facts - he ain't stupid, so he meant to get attacked for the implications, as he was.
Figure out WHY he wanted that, and yer onta sumtin.
F*ck You, Mainstream Media. (you refuse to report Edwards’ love child and spike the Lewinsky story, but report unsubstantiated rumors about Cain?!)
F*ck You, Team Romney (who always seemed to know about the allegations before Cain did........wonder why? Hope those Investigators got paid well, Mitt)
Another Conservative scalp for the MSM. I long for the days in the not-too-distant future when your offices become museums. Your time will come.
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