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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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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