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Cain to End Candidacy Tomorrow? (Major Announcement tomorrow.)
Big Government ^

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: bigbucks; cain; cainwreck; conspiracy; gingrich; hermancain; newt; rinovictory; wehangseparately
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To: TennesseeProfessor

It’s not just the affair(s) — it’s the dissembling, the exhibition of poor judgment, and the totally inept management of the issue that leave me cold.


21 posted on 12/02/2011 11:52:01 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: TennesseeProfessor

>>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.

That is pretty funny actually - I guess its the devil that you know, versus the devil that you don’t. Seems all the news is out on Newt, but Cain keeps having bimbo explosions and no one knows if they are true, if there will be more, and he has shown a stunning lack of ability to manage the problems.

Newt, with all his bumps and warts has been fairly well vetted at this point - but even if new revelations occur, unless they are showstoppers, he will likely not be so amateurish in his response.


22 posted on 12/02/2011 11:53:08 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: sam_paine

If Obama wins, we will not have another 17 years. This country’s very existence sits on the edge of a knife. Cain is the one man who understands that we cannot survive this lawlessness in DC.

The final stroke in Obama’s subversion of everything good in America will be if the only viable candidate opposing him has to give up because the nation can’t believe that somebody so different from DC - somebody who is generous with his own money but protects the taxpayers’ money - is really for real.

We have to decide: does love exist, or is all of life Axelrod’s Chicago?

If we decide love doesn’t exist, we will lie down with whoever wants to screw us. And our lives will be less than they could be.


23 posted on 12/02/2011 11:54:25 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“I hope at least some black people noticed there was a viable black republican candidate before the MSM took him down.”

A very few will (about 10% by the polls). Most will see it as the “Uncle Tom” getting what’s coming to him. Either way, it won’t matter in the grand scheme of things. The 90% will always vote the big “D”.

Now, if Cain were to somehow pull it off it could start a period of education that could rescue many minorities from the slavery of the Dem plantation. It would be good to see that.


24 posted on 12/02/2011 11:54:52 AM PST by mark3681
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To: stuartcr
If all of this is true, he really should have manned-up.

If all of it is true, he should not have sought the presidency, if for no better reason than that he should have known that Republicans not only don't get press passes but that every fact is tortured, twisted and turned to make it seem more damning.

If it isn't true, he needed to do a better job of dealing with the false accusations. If his campaign is to survive, he must right now get started doing just that.

25 posted on 12/02/2011 11:55:38 AM PST by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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To: sunmars

How did she avoid being his baby momma? That seems unbelievable in this day.


26 posted on 12/02/2011 11:55:38 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Not a chance. The media will tell them it was the racist Tea Party crowd that brought him down -- just like they are telling us today that he can't possibly win. If they succeed in convincing us that he can't win, how could they fail to convince the liberal mental giants that we took him out? Cain is the *only* candidate that can, for once and all, douse the racist flame-bait argument. There are so many good reasons to support it -- this is only one small one.


27 posted on 12/02/2011 11:56:05 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
If Herman Cain drops out I think we will see Al Sharpton and Jessee Jackson and the rest of the Black Caucaus Dems take up the Herman Cain Bannner.

I'm a Herman Cain supporter and hope he stays.

But I can see the black race baiters just waiting in the wings to pounce on this -

28 posted on 12/02/2011 11:58:12 AM PST by not2worry
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To: Nervous Tick

For me, it’s that he’s announce all week that he’s going to have a meeting with his wife about it.
Regardless of what “it” is in particular, it should have been resolved within minutes by phone, or he should have been on the next plane home if it needed discussion in person.
Holding numerous press conferences declaring “I’m going to meet with my wife in a few days to discuss what sounds like an affair or other indiscretion” belies screwed-up priorities at a moment when he MUST keep them straight.


29 posted on 12/02/2011 11:59:00 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: sam_paine

Or he could switch parties and declare himself a liberal democrat.

That would work. The leftists would LOVE him. Cheating on spouses is a way of life with them.


30 posted on 12/02/2011 11:59:09 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: sunmars

I think it is interesting that no one has forwarded the notion that perhaps Ms. White may be a Cain operative clandestinely being used by the Cain campaign to expose the opposition and the LSM in one knock-out punch.

That might be interesting.


31 posted on 12/02/2011 12:00:08 PM PST by nesnah
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To: Apollo5600

It takes a million dollars a week to run for President so I guess this depends on how his fund raising is going.


32 posted on 12/02/2011 12:00:50 PM PST by Boardwalk (FUBO)
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To: butterdezillion

Exactly. I'm no millionaire, but I gave Cain money for his campaign without telling anyone save one conservative friend. Does that mean I'm having an illicit relationship with Cain? No. It means he had a good use and need for the money and I had it to give. Nothing more than that happened. I swear.


33 posted on 12/02/2011 12:00:50 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: sunmars

34 posted on 12/02/2011 12:01:14 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: stuartcr
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.

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Perhaps he didn't “Man-up” and confess because it was not a love affair but something else that would be received as even less tolerable by a Christian nation. White said in the interview that during their thirteen years neither of them ever said they loved each other. So worse then an affair, just casual fleshly physical erotica - the kind of stuff that a good portion of men on freerepublic are all about, just flesh, devoid of any commitment of any kind. She said she knew this going in also and that it was also all she was interested in. .

35 posted on 12/02/2011 12:01:56 PM PST by Esther Ruth
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To: TennesseeProfessor

I don’t think it has much to do with a Cain affair(s). Rather, I think those of us who have supported Cain have been appalled at the way he and his staff have handled or responded to the allegations.

We know what Newt’s past has looked like and we can’t be sure that Cain’s past is as unblemished as we had hoped.
In other words, are there more revelations to come? And, Herman, did you dupe me and my wallet? I want to know.

We know that Newt is deeply immersed in history and very knowledgeable. He can certainly debate and does not fear the media’s bias. Those qualities alone are probably attracting a fair amount of support not just from former Cain supporters but from a wider range of voters as well.


36 posted on 12/02/2011 12:02:46 PM PST by CARTOUCHE ( Civil War, the sequel, may be coming to a city near you. Watch for previews 11/2012)
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To: not2worry
If Herman Cain drops out I think we will see Al Sharpton and Jessee Jackson and the rest of the Black Caucaus Dems take up the Herman Cain Bannner.
 
 
Say What?
 
Sharpton and Jackson would NEVER go to bat for a conservative.  No matter how black his skin is. They are hypocrites just like the feminists who supported Clinton as he raped and slept his way accross the Country


37 posted on 12/02/2011 12:03:46 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: sunmars

What i find so disheartening is that the most conservative, tea-party supporting candidates: Bachmann, Santorum and Cain are being ignored or politaclly lynched. And here we are again, allowing the Obama loving MSM, Rhino loving beltway Repubs to choose our canidates.

And before you say Newt is a conservative, is he really?

http://vimeo.com/6445068


38 posted on 12/02/2011 12:03:58 PM PST by lostincali
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To: ctdonath2

Is Gloria Cain starting a group “Women for Cain”?

If so, it sounds like Cain has already gotten the answer from his wife, regarding whether she is willing to have him stay in the race - knowing the Chicago mob will chase him like the very devil.

As to what she thought about the claims against him, or about him not having mentioned White before now, Herman says she’s already said she’s fine with it. And as a pastor’s wife, I can see his story being accurate and Gloria realizing that this is something her husband would do.


39 posted on 12/02/2011 12:03:58 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“Methinks you are finding hypocrisy where it does not exist. Like I said, I’d vote for either of them in a skinny minute.”

Your post makes some very good points.
I made some comments in another thread about Cain’s judgement. Never did I say I wouldn’t still vote for him. A few people took my comments out of context and skewered me.

Cain didn’t come into this thing as did Newt or Mittens. He doesn’t have the years of experience that they have to weather, lie about, hide under the rug, etc., etc., his missteps. In a way it is refreshing.


40 posted on 12/02/2011 12:04:11 PM PST by mark3681
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