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Herman Cain drops out of presidential race
LA times ^ | 3 Dec 2011

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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To: Catsrus

She has commited the sin of DEFAMATION, which is a major, major sin.


81 posted on 12/03/2011 11:18:41 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Rooivalk
All Newt did was win the House back in 94 , force Clinton to reform welfare, and balance the budget.

Your analogy to McCain is nonsense, just because he sat on a couch next to Pelosi he's some kind of marxist?

82 posted on 12/03/2011 11:18:47 AM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: mandaladon
OK, I'll type it. The drive-by media just saved the Republican Party from a bitter fight. Race should never dominate any discussions concerning a presidential nominee, be they Republican or democrap. hermain cain was in way over his head/pay grade. I like the guy but no amount of appointees could make this guy intelligent enough to run this country. It would be obummer 2.0, but with a Repub twist. No thanks I'll pass.

Perry is the only hope I see right now and that could be a case of mistaken identity. Mistaken for someone that really cares about this Country and has the wherewithal (conviction and intelligence) to do something about it.

83 posted on 12/03/2011 11:18:57 AM PST by corbe
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To: COBOL2Java

Watch the brainwash hollywood movie “conspiracy Theory”, and in there they make Mel Gibson look the “messiah of saving her” is a humane and in love. This is the biggest horse crap Kool Aid America has been drinking, and Gingrich uses it as legal language. Now raping kids is going to be seen as self defense. All is twisted. It figures only hate of God in society will make it possible for those disorganized criminals to have a shot at thieving the world and desustaining everything. I am watching the idiots implode en-mass.


84 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:12 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Trueblackman
"I will now happily vote for Obama"

Sorry you feel that way. I will continue fighting for freedom, with or without your help.

85 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:20 AM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: ohioWfan

Many strikes against the poor guy from the beginning:

1. He’s black AND conservative - that just isn’t acceptable to this countries elite.

2. He is a Washington outsider - that isn’t acceptable to Republican or Democratic insiders.

3. If the allegations are true, he’s stupid for ever running in the first place. However, if he were a liberal, the women would have been assumed to be gold digging bimbos (ala slick Willy) or the stories buried completely (ala John Edwards)


86 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:31 AM PST by No Socialist
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To: mandaladon
The lefties were correct, they said that “You will never see a black Conservative become a Presidential nominee”.
87 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:40 AM PST by duckman (Herman 2012 Zero's worst night mare.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx

We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation.
_______________________________________
YES!


88 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:49 AM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: iontheball

The libs had help though from our side in this. The GOP turned its back on him, and none of the “big names” stood up for him. I have no interest in supporting any of these bozos, even if Cain endorses one of them.


89 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:59 AM PST by Apollo5600 (Cain 2012)
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To: sodpoodle

....Or even have him as a possible VP running mate.


90 posted on 12/03/2011 11:19:59 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: null and void
Two conservatives left, bachmann and santorum, pick one.
91 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:13 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: mandaladon

It’s sad alright. God Bless Mr. Cain and his wife and lovely children. Hope all goes well with him.


92 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:15 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: mandaladon
"Herman Cain drops out of presidential race"

LIE!! Misledia lie!!! Cain said he was suspending his campaign, not dropping out. Suspending and dropping are two totally different things. If you doubt it, try testing it on a pair of pants.

93 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:15 AM PST by Lady Lucky
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To: mandaladon

Cain dropping out/suspending his campaign is not unexpected, but very unfortunate.

We need Cain, or someone like Cain who is a strongly committed black conservative, to run and win local and state elections and then run for Congress.

Maybe that’s West, or maybe someone else. I don’t know.

What I do know is that for demographic reasons, it is critical that we, as Republicans, convince blacks and Hispanics, many of whom are already social conservatives, that they need to be voting for the party that doesn’t advocate killing babies, sodomy, and godlessness.

If that doesn’t happen within a generation, we have a nightmare on our hands as Texas and Florida shift from the “R” to the “D” columns, and other states follow suit.


94 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:38 AM PST by darrellmaurina
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To: theDentist

Hopefully Cain will stay out there and hammer Obama mercilessly, but they will just keep attacking him if he does.


95 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:38 AM PST by No Socialist
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To: mandaladon

Paging Sarah Palin - Please pick up the white courtesy telephone.


96 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:42 AM PST by Datom
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To: mikrofon
It’s probably been done already, but I’m visualizing this cartoon with Obama standing in the middle of a desolate, scorched-earth landscape saying: “I’m here for the debate,” surrounded by MSM-types holding flamethrowers...

This is the closest I've got.

My Work is Done

97 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:48 AM PST by null and void (This is day 1047 of America's ObamaVacation from reality.)
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To: mandaladon

CRAP.


98 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:57 AM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: mandaladon

Can we trust the LA Times?


99 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:57 AM PST by next media
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To: ngat
Perhaps the party needs to look at having the delegates at the convention nominate a person who has not been discredited in advance by the current process.

Indeed. Why can't the party change their process...nominate delegates to the convention and free them to vote for anyone they choose. Hide the candidates from the media until the vote. Vote them in just 90 days before the election and shorten the whole process. Pick Sarah at the convention and they will play hell trying to find new dirt on her.

100 posted on 12/03/2011 11:20:57 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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