Posted on 12/01/2011 4:31:42 AM PST by upchuck
He's plotting an aggressive campaign schedule across several states, but Herman Cain has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The former business executive, facing a woman's allegation of a 13-year extramarital affair, says a heavy emotional toll on his family — particularly his wife, Gloria, who he has not seen since the charge surfaced — could force him to call it quits. The shift comes as a growing chorus of would-be allies suggests he is no longer a viable presidential contender and Cain himself says fundraising has suffered.
Cain, a top-tier candidate just weeks ago, says he'll decide in the next "few days" whether to abandon his White House bid, but not before he meets with his wife.
"Since I've been campaigning all week, I haven't had an opportunity to sit down with her and walk through this with my wife and my family. I will do that when I get back home on Friday," Cain told reporters gathered at his New Hampshire campaign headquarters Wednesday night. "I am not going to make a decision until after we talk face to face."
Cain said he had spoken to his wife only by phone since Monday, the day an Atlanta television station reported the woman's accusation. Since then, aides have crafted a packed campaign schedule with stops in Ohio, New Hampshire, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia and prepared to launch a fresh round of TV ads in Iowa.
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The text messages are going to do him in. I believe Herman, who I greatly admire, is today planning the most graceful exit possible.
They tell you who they fear the most (hint: it's whoever they see as the biggest threat to Bamster, at the time).
“At what point do you challenge the accusers instead of questioning the integrity of Cain?”
I’d say sue them for any future earned income, but I could just see the spin the msm would put on that-—how a good Christian man could do that to those poor disturbed women is SO mean and vindictive, blah, blah, blah.
” If David Axelrod can gin up a scandal campaign like this out of his apartment building, no conservative is safe. And I thought this stuff didn’t matter anymore. “
You don’t care about any conservative. You’ve mouthed off about everyone...especially Perry. You guys just don’t know who to blame, do you? Axelrod. Weeks ago with the sexual harrassment crap, you blamed Perry even though the claims had been filed over a decade ago. Then there was Rove, Romney, the media, his critics, etc....not to mention the “sluts.”.
In the blame game, does the name Cain ever occur to you?
Whoever they may be, do you think their best ammo would be used up just to get him out of a primary race? As far as I’m concerned, this is all poetic justice, true or not, for all the disrespect and hate you have poured all over our other candidates. And yes, Virginia, somewhere in a lot of states in the nation, an illegal alien scholar is going to graduate from college having only paid in-state tuition. Twenty-five percent of those graduates will be Asian.
Lima Mike Alpha, over.
Well played.
If they can't attack the message, they'll attack the messenger.
This + 1000!
What I want to know is...
This latest one has a child or children - how old?
Who was the father(s)?
Where was the child(ren) when she claims she was running around flying here and there with Herman? Seems whoever was babysitting would be able to collaborate her story if it was true.
Was she married?
And what about the rumor floating around the net that she was in fact a lesbian?
Too many questions are not being asked by the MSM and FOX - they don’t get personal enough with the accusers but instead drag Herman and his sweet wife thru hell reporting allegations without proof.
I’m waiting for the MSM & FOX to report on these accusers bank account balances and any new deposits made recently....
I know, I won’t hold my breath on that one.
By default. She didn't bother to show up for court and lost by default.
Herman has a good (if there is such a thing) Attorney in Mr. Wood. He takes names and kicks butt. He will probably make her wish she was never born before it's all over. Plus she probably would miss court again and loose by default, again.
If you had a leg to stand on and hop downtown to court with, would YOU let yourself be adjudged guilty of libel?
When did dumbass Obama ever have a better command of foreign policy before usurping the presidency?
Romney is still a useful idiot for the Democrats...
IF he was to be the GOP nominee the stories would be trotted out..
His continued membership in a sexist religion..
His fatal accident in France when a woman died..
His belief in an afterlife harem full of young willing concubines with him as the resideent sheikh..
Gloria Allred and her beevy of accusers..Any bimbo who wants some money..she found some for Herman Cain..she can also for Romney..
What makes you think that Romney of all people wouldnt get the same treatment ???
Why is that? Because he doesn’t play dirty?
My take....the black vote. The subliminal message is that Herman Cain does not just cheat on his wife, he cheats with white women.
I am not painting with a broad brush, I am talking about a particular segment of the black community. If Obama loses that voting block, he is toast.
One at a time, once they're done with them, they'll move on to Newt....and then onto Perry.....until Romney is the only one standing, and then after he get nominated, they'll move onto him, as well. When they came for Herman Cain, I did nothing because I wasn't a Cain Supporter.....
We’ll have to disagree on that. I look at the 999 plan as a start. The CBO hasn’t looked at it. As a businessman and President, Cain will reassess, adjust and move on.
Herman Caine has a long history of assembling successful teams to accomplish difficult missions. I would be willing to trust that his team will improve with time and with an increase in support on the national level.
Barack Obama has no history at all of solving problems other than winning two political elections and those seem to have been done on the backs of some expert teams that were assembled by folks who wanted Obama to carry their water.
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