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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“Only a miracle from God can save America now”
No. It is all of you who have been sitting on your fat rumps whining all this time that might be able to save America at this late date...maybe. But I am not holding my breath.
The miracle will be if all of you get off your fat rumps and start doing something about it.
its not America....its’ as much a pu$$y GOP party that does not fight the dirty fight the way the rats do and the way it needs to be fought....the way McLame refused to take on obama in ‘08...the way the GOP refuses to vet the media....
why isn’t the GOP pouring support into people/groups like Briebart??? O’Keefe?? MRC???? compared to the way the rats support soros driven groups???
until the GOP stands up and fights back and gets operatives in the main stream media to broadcast David Axelrod’s sexual deviant behavior, parades Larry Sinclair in front of the American people, and so on and so on, this sh!t will continue....
want to defeat terrorism?? terrorize the terrorists...
want to end this sh!t?? find out how many times reporters, editors, etc from the WaComPost/NYSlimes/etc have been charged with domestic abuse, dwi, public intoxication, etc, etc...until they get a taste of their own medicine this will not end...
“You will never see a black Conservative become a Presidential nominee”.
CORRECTION:
“You will never see a black Conservative become a Republican Presidential nominee”.
Damn. I hate the liberal media.
Newt’s lived the last 6 years in Virginia.
I will NOT be supporting Newt Gingrich for the presidency.
His amnesty comments, his global warming idiocy, and other ideas this guy has signed on to, would prevent that.
NO! I didn’t vote for McCain because he picked Palin. I won’t be voting for Newt for picking Cain.
Folks, what do we stand for, if we’re willing to vote for a man who does things we spend our time her condemning daily?
“nominate delegates to the convention and free them to vote for anyone they choose.”
Yes, but I would expect the delegates would nominate someone less controversial and well-known than Governor Palin.
An analogy for all the people jumping from the cain train right now:
If voting/supporting Cain because he was black and could capture some of the black Vote and neutralize the race card, could you not make the same statement if Perry was/is Gay, think of the gay vote we could capture, unreal, just a thought (I think)
You THINK there is no stained blue dress.
Not really sure how you can move on to a serial adulterer and someone who has stood side by side with the extreme leftist on extreme issues. but whatever.
They will do the same to MB if and when she looks close to being a real contender. Big Gov Repubs,Democrats,Liberals,Moderates,and Mainstream Media(includes Fox news)just won another battle. The war will continue.
Indeed. The Democrats and lamestream media know they have to keep the black vote at 97 per cent or they’ll lose power. Therefore, all conservative African-Americans have to be destroyed, whatever the cost.
You can always trust The Slimes to lie to protect liberals/democrats and to lie to damage conservatives/republicans.
Every time.
100%
Guaranteed.
Of course, it was Axelrod, with the blessings of Obama and the democratic party. The intention, other than to get rid of Cain, was to cause infighting within the republican candidates, and people are falling for it. The same was done to Ryan in Chicago, when Obungler was running for the senate. With the blaming of Perry or Romney, the democrats are getting their wishes. Not one candidate has the guts to do this because the risks of getting caught are too high, and they would get caught, unlike the democrats, who has a hold over the media.
We’ll get Newt.
Lesson 1. No proof or evidence is any longer required. All that matters is that the accusations have have been made
Now that the political establishment media scumbags on both sides have decide “Accusation equals proof” these same tactics of political lynching will be used against EVERY GOP candidate for Senate and House in 2012.
So enjoy your Pyrrhic victory today morons. These same sleazy tactics you were so quick to embrace and pimp will now be used against your candidates.
Soros wins again
Had the f - - - - - - press been on Obama’s case in 08 like they are on Herman Cain, Obama never would have made it into the Primary race.
The Democrat party just lynched another Black Man....Bull Connor and Robert ‘Sheets’ Byrd would be proud.
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