I donated to Fred Thompson’s campaign... then he quit.
I donated to Herman Cain’s campaign... he will probably quit.
I’m beginning to feel I need to stop donating to campaigns.
I did exactly as you.
I really feel duped by Cain. They asked him specifically if there were “any more” and he said not to his knowledge. He lied to all of us that stood behind him when the first two went public. Those first two women I believe were lying. This one I tend to believe. There is no way anyone would help support a woman for 13 years and not tell their wife. Where there is smoke there is fire in this case.
No, you just need to be more astute in your choice of candidates and the political process.
Cain was a neophite, had no chance of winning anything, has never won a campaign in his life, and has no political experience. Backing such a candidate for the presidency is throwing money away, period. No person, EVER has won the presidency with such a resume’ let alone doing so in modern times of instant global information. Someone like this has ZERO chance of winning a national election. The fact Cain demostrated he could not think on his feet, coordinate and handle the pressures of a national campaign, are not suprising at all, in fact they are predictable.
Thomspon had political experience, but clearly his heart was not in the race, as well as, while he delivered nice political speeches that rallied the loyal, he had a governmental record that was more like McCain, which was what everyone didn’t like to begin with. You don’t luck or half ass into the presidency, you have to want it, and Thompson didn’t, and his rhetoric while inspiring deviated greatly from his record, and offered at the end of the day, little difference between himself and other candidates (especially the one who wound up witht he nomination). Lets not even get into the fact he came into the game late.
I like Thompson and Cain, they are nice enough guys, and they are on our side, even if some folks would argue that, but neither of them had a snowballs chance of winning the nomination, let alone the White House. Thompson had a better shot by far than Cain, but even he was the longest of long shots.
Do not stop donating, just be more astute and detached when evaluating candidates that you give money to. Money alone cannot make an unelectable candidate electable.