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 ...
She has commited the sin of DEFAMATION, which is a major, major sin.
Your analogy to McCain is nonsense, just because he sat on a couch next to Pelosi he's some kind of marxist?
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.
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.
Sorry you feel that way. I will continue fighting for freedom, with or without your help.
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)
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!
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.
....Or even have him as a possible VP running mate.
It’s sad alright. God Bless Mr. Cain and his wife and lovely children. Hope all goes well with him.
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.
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.
Hopefully Cain will stay out there and hammer Obama mercilessly, but they will just keep attacking him if he does.
Paging Sarah Palin - Please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
This is the closest I've got.
CRAP.
Can we trust the LA Times?
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.