Posted on 12/05/2011 10:46:31 AM PST by presidio9
The doomed candidate, who never took the race seriously. Herman Cain to Morgan Freeman: Tea Party not racist Cain hits back at Garofalo for saying he's being paid to run for Prez, give GOP racist cover Herman Cain set to endorse GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich for President: report With Herman Cain out of the race, Newt Gingrich and Mit Romney must battle for his votes Scandal-damaged Herman Cain suspends his bid for White House but vows his voice will be heard Herman Cain, accused of having affair with Ginger White,to make decision on 2012 campaign in Georgia
It’s all over for Herman Cain, the shallow fast food boss. There will be no Republican nomination for President, even if he surprised many on the left while serving as a balm for Tea Party conservatives. Cain was their bracing hot chocolate, evidence that they were not rednecks at all. Looking for a better black brand was more like it.
Twice as dark as President Obama, Cain proved that white Americans could support one of that tribe who was not at all light - skinned. Old black Herman did not look in the least like Halle Berry, NAACP chief Benjamin Jealous, Louis Farrakhan and others whose very existence suggests race mixing. His own skin seemed directly connected to the long, hard history of resistance and advancement that had nothing to do with Obama’s pastoral Hawaii. Like a rapper, he was the real thing.
Cain was not only dark-skinned and conservative, he was a businessman. He was from the South and claimed to have needed no civil rights movement during his steady rise in the business world. To hear him tell it, he made it on his own because of the quality of his work, the way all of the rest of his race should. As if being divinely spoken to from the clouds above us all, Cain asserted that black people had been brainwashed by the liberal media into voting for Democrats. Any who listened had been hearing this talk for months.
This black Republican was not afraid to say that America needed a businessman in the White House. It needed less regulation, no abortion, no same-sex marriages and no paranoia about an unprotected environment. It was clear as day that Herman had not drunk the poisonous soft drink of liberal pronouncements.
Ann Coulter told Sean Hannity on Fox News that Cain and other openly conservative black people were “better” than the blacks on the other side. This was true, she said, because their views had been tested in the hostile fires of rejection. These people had the intestinal fortitude to stand tall among the brainwashed zombies dominating their ethnic group.
Like so much shouted, screamed, bellowed and sneered forth from and by Fox News, the tale about Cain building his own muscle car to win the race against racism is a factoid. In Newsweek, with real reporting, Wayne Barrett documents just how essential affirmative action and threats of boycott were to Cain’s rapid rise as a fast food executive.
But now it seems that Cain may have had a 13-year affair with an Atlanta businesswoman from the light-skinned wing of the tribe. No one should care, but too many do. While earlier charges of sexual misconduct did not quite stick, this revelation has. Those who had earlier defended him suddenly found it impossible to do so. Anyone who had taken him seriously now saw that his campaign was no more than rotting fast food.
And so the plucky Cain is on the way down, though his legacy is sure to linger like the ongoing blues of human nature. As evidence, witness the case of a black college student in South Carolina who recently received complaints because he chose to fly the Confederate flag from his dormitory window. He says he does not see it as a symbol of racism but, rather, simply as Southern pride.
Aware of it or not, the young man is grooming himself to become yet another version of Herman Cain somewhere down the road. We should all be ready for him, if and when he gets there.
He may not have to wait very long. Gingrich has already mentioned Allen West as a potential running mate.
Probably because he's not smart enough to understand what Thomas Sowell has been saying for the past 40 or so years.
Geesh. Nice stream of so-called thought.
The stake in the heart was when it came out he did not tell Gloria about Ginger-snap. She was blindsided about this one, and it broke his back. He lied to her, by omission.
You tell yourself whatever it is you have to to justify the destruction of an innocent man by false accusations.
For you, it’s because he didn’t tell her.
For others, it’s the Lybia answer.
For even others, it’s because he was never serious.
But for no one was it because the allegations were true, any of them.
The stake in the heart was when conservatives sold their souls.
Herman is still alive, and he’ll do just fine.
For the rest of you...time will tell, won’t it...
I got that far. You are not me, you have no clue about me, and you're the expert, all of a sudden, about me.
Oh yes I do have a clue about you. I got it right here-
“The stake in the heart was when it came out he did not tell Gloria about Ginger-snap. She was blindsided about this one, and it broke his back. He lied to her, by omission.”
I remember the head line now:
-Herman Cain accused of financial aid to a woman without telling his wife.-
Anyhow, good luck to you, and see you at The Fall.
Yes. He did lie. Thanks for the quote. I sure wish he hadn’t lied to his wife (proven, not media lies). He would have been good. Too bad he wasn’t ready for prime time.
I never said he lied, you did.
I guess his heart is too big to be president though, what with how picky we are and all. I guess I’ll go support the adulterer now, not.
You don’t defeat the devil by selling your soul.
That is true for all of us who fall into mindless collectives...dancing to elitists’ tunes of the world instead of being the salt of the earth the way we were meant to be.
There is no real meaning in our skins. It’s just a way the elite use to move us into group-think; divide and conquer us. I had hoped Americans were moving beyond this condition of false race meaning but the Liberal elite love the power of race division too much to ever let it go. I am so sick of it.
That is correct, I said he lied. So did Cain when he admitted lying to his wife (by omission, a lie is still a lie) for years about his relationship with someone we now know is a hooker.
If you are married, it's a simple test: If you tell you spouse everything, would she/he shoot you? We now know how he came down with his decision: He lied about it. He knew the hooker was out there when blood was first dumped into the water with the other bimbo eruptions, yet he continued, only to eventually be exposed. It's good for the GOP it happened when it did.
That was the biggest non-sequitur I’ve seen in a while. You didn’t need to fetch a dictionary to look up lying for me to know Cain lied. There’s nothing tortured about my definition. Next thing you’ll probably want to do is explain what the definition of “is” is.
We’re better than Democrats because we don’t tolerate liars and cheats in our mist. If you want to be like the Dems, you go right on ahead. If you want to call me a lemming for insisting on some truthfulness, you go right on ahead with that too.
I don’t care what you think, just don’t expect me to join you.
Oh yes, you do tolerate liars and cheats.
You have one as your frontrunner, and you deserve him.
And don’t expect me to join you, I refuse to be a hypocrite. The right is so utterly lost, it’s not even funny.
You have one as your frontrunner, and you deserve him.
I don't believe I ever said I was a Gingrich man, but you sure do a nice job of trying to tar me with that brush. Good day, sir. Talk to me when you are not willing to put words into my mouth as if you were some sort of garden variety troll.
“We’re better than Democrats because we don’t tolerate liars and cheats in our mist.”
My use of the word “you” refers to your collective use of the word “we”.
I can see that you are looking for any excuse to duck out of this conversation, much as you did in your second post to me yesterday. If you say you don’t support Newt, that’s fine, and I believe you. Sadly, you fail to see what was done to Herman, and the evidence of that is in your comments regarding him.
I’m no troll, I am simply here to speak the truth, especially to those who don’t want to hear it or acknowledge it. I know truth hurts, and I think it’s going to hurt even more as the right travels further down this road.
Don’t listen to the guy on the side of the road telling you you’ve taken a wrong turn, just continue on.
If you wish to see it that way. I prefer to see it as refusing to engage in a conversation with someone who practices any number of similar logical fallacies in an attempt to gain an upper hand. Yes, I did "duck out" yesterday, I was hoping you'd knock off the BS today, but to no avail. Your loss. No wait...you win!
Whatevah.
No, I don’t win.
We all lost.
Goodbye.
Gingrich saw his image further damaged in 1997 when he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. After a disappointing Republican showing in the 1998 election, Gingrich resigned the Speakership and his seat in Congress.
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