You almost made choke to death on a crab puff.
Concise analysis, by the way.
Rome2000 missed mentioning that we already have a first poof...
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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No Newt for me. Not another McCain and a repeat of 2008
And McCain’s campaign was basically a six-month-long concession speech. Newt will fight hard, and fight to win.
Newt is great at expressing the ideas of conservatism very effectively which will advance the cause even if he continues to stumble in non-conservative ways as he sometimes has.
At his current age he comes across quite genially, so all the media efforts to demonize him are disproved by watching him.
Putting Newt into perspective on the political spectrum in the past 50 years, compared to the GOP nominees he’s less conservative than Goldwater, slightly less or the same as Reagan, and more conservative than the rest (based on how they governed, if elected).
***”I think that Newt Gingrich, if nominated, would consider Herman as a VP.”
Except they’re both from Georgia.***
Newt has been a Virginia resident for over a decade.
I agree. I think 2012 is shaping up to be a very depressing year.
We’ll see....I’m not sold on Newt, but at this point, he may be our only hope.
I feel sorry for his wife and children.
You almost made choke to death on a crab puff.
Concise analysis, by the way.
Rome2000 missed mentioning that we already have a first poof...
The drive-by media just saved the Republican Party from a bitter fight.
I didn’t watch it, and I might have had a reaction more similar to yours if I had.
I believe that the left was desperate to avoid having Obama compared to a successful Black Conservative Businessman.
It would have framed Capitalism against Marxism, and Marxism would have been utterly destroyed.
I’m not sure folks really understood what was at stake here, and I’m not trying to focus that comment on you.
Cain may or may not have had his problems, but withdrawing didn’t do him any favors. I still think this was his wife’s choice. Some can damn him for that too, but it’s probably the reality of things.
I appreciate the response.
“It’s so sad!!”
Yes it so sad that I gave this guy $100. I gave Fred $100. Bunch of damn phony’s.
Give me Newt, at least I know he is a phony with ideas.
Frick’n piss me off!!!!!!!!!
So the media can now pick the GOP Nominee, then allow the Obama Campaign to play the race(as it is the only thing they have left at point) and he wins reelection in a close race any damn way.
Why do you think the Media, Rove and Alexrod took Cain out, Alexrod wants a Obama second term, Rove wants Jeb Bush in 2016(Another Big Spender like his brother) and the media gets to cheer it has destroyed good Conservatives at every turn.
As Christie said about himself, Palin
can now only bump herself off to convince
some that she is not running. Meantime,
we have an avowed communist to get rid of.
Even Mark Levin....
So the media can now pick the GOP Nominee, then allow the Obama Campaign to play the race(as it is the only thing they have left at point) and he wins reelection in a close race any damn way.
Why do you think the Media, Rove and Alexrod took Cain out, Alexrod wants a Obama second term, Rove wants Jeb Bush in 2016(Another Big Spender like his brother) and the media gets to cheer it has destroyed good Conservatives at every turn.
LOL, get back to me when you can raise your demeanor to above that of a middle-school student.
Sorry the truth hurts so much.
Suspending and dropping are two totally different things. If you doubt it, try testing it on a pair of pants.
ROFLMAO.
Good photoshop.
Is it just me, or does that dog look embarrassed?
“The only thing that is a fact is that he knew her and gave her money. Where’s your proof?”
The other fact is that he said his wife knew nothing about it. None of that would keep from voting for him, but Cain gave the other side the ammo.
I understand how you feel in post 190. I really do.
But remember Cain is a businessman, always has been and he sees things and makes decisions in that prism.
Fighting personal smears is one thing. Truth of allegations is one thing also. But continuing a campaign that has tanked in the polls and thus will not be sustainable financially is a bad business decision and so I understand why he did what he did today even though I am bitterly disappointed like you.
I truly believe Cain is a good honest man and a responsible steward of other people’s money. He doesn’t want to continue raising cash knowing he won’t win enough votes to make that a worthwhile investment for his donors.
Hence my disappointment is not on Cain but people who abandoned him because they bought the Leftist/Media/Rovian GOP Establishment smear attack hook line and sinker and thus derailed his campaign and impugned a good man.
We won’t have real conservatives running government. We won’t have Tea Party types. We won’t have citizen government. We will always have the political ruling elite class running the show. Anyone who tries to buck that will get destroyed.
Makes me sick
What I underlined in your statement is so very true.
As for Newt, although I've always liked him, and will be forever grateful for how he led the Republicans back from the wilderness in the House, I'm on the fence about him as our potential nominee.
The thing about Newt is he's an idea man, but one that seems to flit from one shiny new idea to another. No question he's brilliant. Absolutely none. But like many brilliant people, he often seems to lack a grasp of the practical. He seems to get overwhelmed by the practical, which is a key reason why his colleagues in the House finally pushed him out. Mentally, he's somewhere up there in the clouds instead of down here on the ground with the rest of us.
I'm so disappointed in Perry. He appeared to have all the right qualities we'd need in a nominee until he failed so miserably in the debates. Sigh.
Certainly I can be wrong about this, but my current view is that if Newt becomes our nominee, Obama's odds of being reelected will be at least 75-25 in favor. Double sigh.
And yet Mitt Romney simply has never been able to light a fire under the Republican base. If the dominant opinion of Romney here on FR is representative of the Republican primary electorate as a whole, he won't win the nomination. But if he does simply by being the last man standing, Romney's odds of beating Obama are less than Newt's, in my opinion, because he won't have the enthusiastic support from our side that will be necessary to win.
I too, have been a Cain donor and have not, been hoping for this.
Now looking beyond Mr. Cain, I would have a very hard time considering Newt-”I am more in the Alexander Hamilton-Teddy Roosevelt tradition of ‘conservatism’-Gingrich. Hamilton, was in favor of bigger government (and a gov’t.-owned bank etc.) and ‘central’ control. Old Teddy, became a leader in the ‘Progressive Movement’ on the RINO side as did (a little later) WOODROW WILSON on the Democrat side, and we ARE STILL living with the burdens of their ‘Progressive’ actions.
Further, as Newt sees that he is gaining in poll stature, his arrogance and narcissistic personality is ballooning. We are already contending with a very similar personality in our White House. We do not need an Obama-like RINO-Republican replacement for the next extremely important four years.
I’m sad, too, but time to lick wounds and defeat Obama.
Where till Cain votes go? I suspect most to Gingrich.
I believe the MSM will want to have us believe Perry is a goner. It would be nice to see him come back.
If polls tomorrow reflect Gingrich with big lead, where will that leave Romney? I suspect more testy and unappreciated.
Will Trump endorse Gingrich on the same day Cain does? I.e., tomorrow?
Will Palin then come out in favor of Gingrich? I believe she’ll still wait and be prudent because if we pick our horse too soon and the MSM pulls out some story then we’re sunk.
Don’t count Perry out yet.
Don’t even count out Bachman yet.
With Cain out, that’s more speaking time for others at debates. I hope Huntsman drops out, but Rove won’t let him.
Santorum as VP?
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