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Several people close to him have told me he dropped out because of his wife. She supported him 100% but he could see the allegations were tearing her up and putting too much stress on her. She has a pacemaker as well.

It is not that he thought this was going to be easy, but I think the fact that these were sexual in nature and his reputation was called into question was particularly painful for him and Gloria.

It certainly could not have been easy that despite the fact these were just allegations,that having both the GOP and the tea party turn on him was probably too much too. That part was our failure.

He is continuing to fight these allegations with his attorney - I believe he will be vindicated on that front at least. He plans to stay very involved in the process and despite all the rumors there is NO indication he plans to endorse Newt.

I posted this yesterday but it was pulled off the sidebar.

Sorry, but that doesn’t cut it.

Being President is much harder than these “allegations”. If his wife wasn’t up to this she wasn’t up to being first lady when the going gets tough.

It all smells of an out for him.

I just don't understand why his wife would want these liberals accusing him of this to get exactly what they want. Cain showed he has a lot of loyal fans, and that many of us invested a lot of time and money for his campaign. Then it just seem so sudden to drop out literally after sending out passionate emails in the last 2 days before the announcement he's dropping out that ask for donations, and significant volunteering beyond your basic local stuff, that many who were able to volunteer were planning to do. It also gave people some excitement that the campaign was speeding up, and ready to go all out for a win. The only thing that I was seeing as a bad sign was the fact they were letting the notion that Cain might drop out go for too long when that's an obvious issue that will lower the cash flow to your campaign. It seemed like Herman Cain, and his campaign staff were completely out of touch with each other as well. With Cain giving a lot of hints of dropping out, while his campaign tried to say there was no way he would drop out.

In the end people do have a right to be upset with Cain. It's no secret how a black Conservative Republican is going to be attacked when in contention for the Presidency. He wasn't just threatening to defeat democrats in one election, but was threatening an entire demographic that depend on to get elected. Herman Cain knew this which is why he had said he was prepared for the “high-tech” lynching democrats are known for.

And a persons run for President should always be discussed in depth with your family before getting into the race. It's going to be brutal for just about anyone, and if you're a black Republican it's going to be as brutal, and vicious as is literally possible. I think Cain had the responsibility to make the decision with his family to not enter the race, or to enter and go for victory at all cost. A lot of us donated significant amount of money compared to our income, and volunteered for the campaign literally up until the day he dropped out.

Now he can stay active in politics, but he can't do any of the things he could have done if President. He doesn't have the power, to get economic issues into law, to take a serious approach to illegal immigration, or any of the other things he said. He should have went into that mode if he had lost the primary after giving it all he had, not now.

I wish he would come back, and get aggressive with the media who slander him, and make it clear letting us know he's not your conventional candidate. When he surged, and was leading in the polls was at the same time he was talking like a normal person. All of the supposed gaffes he made then were what made him more popular, and increased his poll numbers. They weren't gaffes. They were just not political correct BS which is what is expected by some these days. He just stated what most of us believe in a way a lot of us would have said it. Those gaffes helped him. When they started trying to make him more like a professional politician that's when he started to lose steam.

I think he owes it to us to get back in the game, or apologize for why he dropped out of a race he gave us who supported him constant reassurances, and confidence that he was going away no matter what lies the liberals through at him. Then he drops out when he still had good poll numbers in many states, and seemed to be gaining support gain. It wasn't like he went from the leas to 1% everywhere which would have justified dropping out. Now I keep hearing idiots who think he dropped out because all of his past affairs, as if that fact. That's usually the time you would see someone drop out in his position, so many people without knowing any details just see is as fact that he did these things, and that's why he dropped out. To them they probably think he gave a speech and admitted it first, and have no idea their has been no actual proof which seems impossible not to have come out by this time if it were true.

The GOP establishment was never going to support a guy who hadn't served his time inside the party as an elected official destroying the nation, allowing him to jump ahead of those liberal Republicans who have done their time, and showed loyalty to the party over Conservatism.

The TEA Party is a very loose group of “so-called” Conservatives. I supported Cain for the the beginning, and since I have been to TEA party events I am a part of them. I thought one of the biggest issues was getting rid of the establishment GOP who put party before principle, and aren't doing what's best for the nation. When it came down to it we found out that a lot of those voters are just as much a part of the establishment. They have a hard time leaving the career politicians they have supported their entire lives when it comes down to it. A lot of people did reject Cain who was the only candidate with anything new that we have see in decades, but a lot of us didn't either.

Cain will be vindicated if there is never any proof he did anything. He doesn't have to do anything. He sounds like he is just going to keep campaigning in the background in a smaller way than he was when he was actively running. He may be put on the back burner, but they will go after him again with this stuff.

And he can stay involved, but he will not have near the power he could have had if he had won the Republican nomination, and became President. Sarah Palin even seems to be losing a lot of what she had, and even seems hesitant to endorse candidates she supports bases on hurting herself with others. Instead of taking a strong lead she seems to have wanted a strong Conservative that was pretty much accepted by all for a safe endorsement.

I don't think a third party would do anything this time around, but a good Conservative party could be successful if it was given enough time to organize, and had enough prominent Conservatives behind it who would be able to raise a lot of money. We always have third party candidates sat up at the last minute, with little organization, support from prominent and respected Conservatives, and siphoning money away from the GOP. It seems no one thinks of a third party though unless it's at the last minute before an election, and won't work. I would like to see a third party start being formed now for 2016, but I don't you can get Conservatives to support it even though the GOP is crap who I will never vote for only as a vote against the liberal democrat.

Well, that and his funding dried up as fast as it came in.