Posted on 12/02/2011 11:35:32 AM PST by sunmars
Embattled presidential candidate Herman Cain is inviting his top supporters and donors to Atlanta on Saturday for a meeting in which he will give them advance word of whether he intends to continue his campaign, sources close to the campaign said Friday.
One supporter who has been summoned to the private session said he believes that Cain is likely to announce he is ending his candidacy.
Another who has been invited to the morning meeting says attendees have been told he has made no decision, but wanted to meet with some of the supporters to express his gratitude.
Several sources indicated that Cain is likely to announce his plans publicly at a news conference after the meeting. Cain had already scheduled an event on Saturday — the grand opening of his national headquarters in his hometown of Atlanta, as well as the announcement of his campaign’s freshly minted senior leadership team for the state of Georgia.
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What does surprise me is that everyone who is dropping their support for Cain for his possible affair is moving to Newt who definitely had one.
Lots of whiners at this thread in 3, 2, 1....
Indeed.
From his speeches and what the campaign is doing, it is looking like they’re going full steam ahead with the campaign. But we’ll see. If Cain drops, I’m dropping the GOP.
I’m 50/50 at the moment on whether he’ll quit. I could easily see him saying that he doesn’t want to put his family through any more of it. I could also easily see him announcing defiantly that he won’t be forced out.
Perhaps it’s not the affair, but how this whole thing has been handled. If all of this is true, he really should have manned-up.
As someone on the other thread said, in 17 years when Cain has got it all back together then maybe he can rise in the polls again like Gingrich.
Cain has always said he never was much of a “politically correct” leader.
If he quits, I hope he takes it to the Media, the Dems and the Country-club Pubbies in a very “un-PC” way.
Use words like “plantation”, “runaway slave”, “upitty n*99*r” and the like. I thought Cain might give the CC-Pubbies a run. I am just so sick of “professional politicians”.
And how many of them were willing to hold their nose last time and vote for McCain, who also had one. These reeks to high heaven of the GOP establishment’s effort putting in McCain last time. They want one of their own and see Cain as a real threat.
Some animals are more equal than others.
I think he will drop out because he can no longer campaign around all of this.
Great guy and I will miss him in the campaign if he drops out.
He beats Newt and Romney.
I hope at least some black people noticed there was a viable black republican candidate before the MSM took him down.
Me either, but I don’t think his ego would allow him drop out.
Why schedule an event disclosing your campaign team on Saturday if you’re going to say on Friday that you’re not campaigning?
I’ve heard people saying that no guy gives money without expecting something in return.
I’ve heard people say that if a man gives even a drop in the bucket out of the family’s finances without telling his wife it’s got to be because he’s up to no good. We don’t know amounts, but if Cain has 5 million and gave $500, that would be like somebody who earns $50,000 a year not telling his wife about a $5 donation. Shall we look at everybody’s checkbook and see whether they told their spouse about every $5 they gave to somebody in need? Ideally, yeah maybe. In reality? I’m not sure that’s how busy millionaires spend their time with their spouse - telling about every $5 they gave.
I started posting at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2814962/posts?page=134#134 some thoughts that I think people need to consider before they crucify Herman Cain.
If he quits because conservatives turned on him, it will complete the conversion of what I thought was a kind, middle-America movement into the pitted-out, kindness-doesn’t-exist, Chicago-thug mentality we see on the national political stage.
Sad. Very, very sad. Enough to make me want to kiss it all good-bye and write this nation off as lost.
What does surprise me is that everyone who is dropping their support for Cain for his possible affair is moving to Newt who definitely had one.
Not me.
But seriously! Every candidate (except mitt) has cheated. Newt, and Obama, allegedly. Who cares at this point? If we are going to have a cheater in the White House, let’s let it be a conservative!
I hope he stays in. If he doesn’t I hope he rips the biased MSM a new one!
That's what liberals are hoping for...
High tech lynching from the establishment thugs succeed ? I hope not ! IMHO, our problem are these professional politicians. This country was meant to be represented by ordinary citizens, not elitists ! When Reagan was POTUS, the quality of him was very high but also he was not a “professional politician” ! The quality of professional politicians really sucks !
Im sick about this. I dont like any of the other candidates. This is the Elites way of saying “Romney!”
As someone who likes Cain and Newt still - I think you are missing the point.
Heres’ how I see it:
A: It’s how Cain has handled it, more than the affair or NON affair, that is bothering some folks.
B: If Newt ends up ending a 13 year affair in the next few weeks, people will leave him too.
C: Newt is running as a guy with many problems but who has battled through them. Cain was running - more or less - as a pristine non politician. Fair or not, when that happens, you don’t have the armor against battles like this as you do as a long time battlewagon type candidate.
Methinks you are finding hypocrisy where it does not exist. Like I said, I’d vote for either of them in a skinny minute.
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