You almost made choke to death on a crab puff.
Concise analysis, by the way.
Rome2000 missed mentioning that we already have a first poof...
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 ...
This development leaves only one "small government" candidate left for me to focus on right now; Michelle Bachmann. Rick Santorum and possibly Rick Perry are fall-backs for me after her.
Newt Gingrich might have "BIG ideas", but he would need a BIG government in DC to implement them. I don't trust him. I do trust Bachmann.
It would definitely be worth the price of admission.
If only we had a great debater with a good life to back it up. What does it take to find another Reagan?
Georgia will get crushed.
Unfortunately, I second your opinion.
We need that financial gal, Ann Barnheart or something like that. She was threatened by the Islam freaks a while back. She doesn’t back down.
I like him. His personality is wonderful. I’ll leave it at that.
History is written by the victors.
If this covert muslim single handedly brings down "The Great Satan", his praises will be sung in mosques for millennia.
What better write-up, how much more glory could any human hope for?
(First posted 8/3/2009...)
Newt better do a better job debating Obama, than he did with his debate with Kerry.
It is sad! This is why we can’t get good candidates to run. The left wing smear machine!
I don't agree with that. I think Newt Gingrich has the best conservative ideas in the race. Unfortunately, he has a record to run on, and he hasn't always lived up to his ideals. And for all we know, Cain, a complete unknown, wouldn't either.
I am sickened by what people have done to Mr. Cain. I don’t even have words to express how heartbroken I am over this.
Prayers for Mr. Cain and his family... they didn’t deserve to be treated this way.
As for the segment of “conservatives” who used these BS allegations to trash this man’s moral character, but at the same time are supporting Newt - you should all be completely ashamed of yourselves...
F it...
At this point I have absolutely NO-ONE I would support in this upcoming election. If Hillary runs, I’m voting for her because I’d rather be able to blame the democrat socialists for the destruction of our country than have someone claiming to be a conservative do the same...
I do recall that being posted ... good work!
Thank You! Someone had to say what you did. These FReepers had better snap out of it and fast. No one said this was going to be easy, and it hasn’t been. The Nation is at stake and we all had better come to terms with that. Lock and load, get prepared and now on to the next phase in the campaign. We have a Supreme Ct. to uphold, we have a military to support, we have an economy that will take years to fix. Stop whining about not voting or throwing in the towel. Get back on track. Cain would be embarrassed if he heard all of this crap. Snap outa’ it!
Whatever is the situation.
This is a Republic - we cannot demand candidates run. We have to compare those who do offer themselves for mortal combat vs. those whose ‘turn it is’ by Party fiat.
Newt’s marital journey began in his teens (16) I can cut him some slack on that.
My family is replete with flawed human beings. I live in the real world and expect that politicians are people from the real world.
Several of the most intelligent, accomplished and successful people I have worked for/with or known had multiple marriages following affairs. Not pretty - but common.
I have never met a perfect person and don’t expect I ever will.
Whatever.
Thou shall not pass false witness against thy neighbor.
That seems to be their favorite sin.
Perry is still the one that is 100% pro gun. 100% pro life, Christian. No accusations of sexual trysts. Many let the media distort the facts about him so they could bash him.Or read into his comments what they wanted to hear,so they could bash him. I have no doubt that Herman Cain would have a made a decent president as well. However, that is not to be, so folks need to regroup and get behind whoever they feel is the best choice now. The main objective being to BEAT OBAMA.
The only thing that is a fact is that he knew her and gave her money. Where’s your proof? I’d sure hate to have the likes of you on a jury. Your verdict of guilty without evidence is appalling!
Sad, and this was purely manufactured.
This wouldn’t have happened to a white
conservative or a black liberal.
Racism is alive and well in American liberalism.
The other problem is that Conservatives in general, disdain government, and want nothing to do with having political office.
To liberals, government is the be all, end all, of life on this planet.
No Newt for me. Not another McCain and a repeat of 2008
And McCain’s campaign was basically a six-month-long concession speech. Newt will fight hard, and fight to win.
Newt is great at expressing the ideas of conservatism very effectively which will advance the cause even if he continues to stumble in non-conservative ways as he sometimes has.
At his current age he comes across quite genially, so all the media efforts to demonize him are disproved by watching him.
Putting Newt into perspective on the political spectrum in the past 50 years, compared to the GOP nominees he’s less conservative than Goldwater, slightly less or the same as Reagan, and more conservative than the rest (based on how they governed, if elected).
***”I think that Newt Gingrich, if nominated, would consider Herman as a VP.”
Except they’re both from Georgia.***
Newt has been a Virginia resident for over a decade.
I agree. I think 2012 is shaping up to be a very depressing year.
We’ll see....I’m not sold on Newt, but at this point, he may be our only hope.
I feel sorry for his wife and children.
You almost made choke to death on a crab puff.
Concise analysis, by the way.
Rome2000 missed mentioning that we already have a first poof...
The drive-by media just saved the Republican Party from a bitter fight.
I didn’t watch it, and I might have had a reaction more similar to yours if I had.
I believe that the left was desperate to avoid having Obama compared to a successful Black Conservative Businessman.
It would have framed Capitalism against Marxism, and Marxism would have been utterly destroyed.
I’m not sure folks really understood what was at stake here, and I’m not trying to focus that comment on you.
Cain may or may not have had his problems, but withdrawing didn’t do him any favors. I still think this was his wife’s choice. Some can damn him for that too, but it’s probably the reality of things.
I appreciate the response.
“It’s so sad!!”
Yes it so sad that I gave this guy $100. I gave Fred $100. Bunch of damn phony’s.
Give me Newt, at least I know he is a phony with ideas.
Frick’n piss me off!!!!!!!!!
So the media can now pick the GOP Nominee, then allow the Obama Campaign to play the race(as it is the only thing they have left at point) and he wins reelection in a close race any damn way.
Why do you think the Media, Rove and Alexrod took Cain out, Alexrod wants a Obama second term, Rove wants Jeb Bush in 2016(Another Big Spender like his brother) and the media gets to cheer it has destroyed good Conservatives at every turn.
As Christie said about himself, Palin
can now only bump herself off to convince
some that she is not running. Meantime,
we have an avowed communist to get rid of.
Even Mark Levin....
So the media can now pick the GOP Nominee, then allow the Obama Campaign to play the race(as it is the only thing they have left at point) and he wins reelection in a close race any damn way.
Why do you think the Media, Rove and Alexrod took Cain out, Alexrod wants a Obama second term, Rove wants Jeb Bush in 2016(Another Big Spender like his brother) and the media gets to cheer it has destroyed good Conservatives at every turn.
LOL, get back to me when you can raise your demeanor to above that of a middle-school student.
Sorry the truth hurts so much.
Suspending and dropping are two totally different things. If you doubt it, try testing it on a pair of pants.
ROFLMAO.
Good photoshop.
Is it just me, or does that dog look embarrassed?
“The only thing that is a fact is that he knew her and gave her money. Where’s your proof?”
The other fact is that he said his wife knew nothing about it. None of that would keep from voting for him, but Cain gave the other side the ammo.
I understand how you feel in post 190. I really do.
But remember Cain is a businessman, always has been and he sees things and makes decisions in that prism.
Fighting personal smears is one thing. Truth of allegations is one thing also. But continuing a campaign that has tanked in the polls and thus will not be sustainable financially is a bad business decision and so I understand why he did what he did today even though I am bitterly disappointed like you.
I truly believe Cain is a good honest man and a responsible steward of other people’s money. He doesn’t want to continue raising cash knowing he won’t win enough votes to make that a worthwhile investment for his donors.
Hence my disappointment is not on Cain but people who abandoned him because they bought the Leftist/Media/Rovian GOP Establishment smear attack hook line and sinker and thus derailed his campaign and impugned a good man.
We won’t have real conservatives running government. We won’t have Tea Party types. We won’t have citizen government. We will always have the political ruling elite class running the show. Anyone who tries to buck that will get destroyed.
Makes me sick
What I underlined in your statement is so very true.
As for Newt, although I've always liked him, and will be forever grateful for how he led the Republicans back from the wilderness in the House, I'm on the fence about him as our potential nominee.
The thing about Newt is he's an idea man, but one that seems to flit from one shiny new idea to another. No question he's brilliant. Absolutely none. But like many brilliant people, he often seems to lack a grasp of the practical. He seems to get overwhelmed by the practical, which is a key reason why his colleagues in the House finally pushed him out. Mentally, he's somewhere up there in the clouds instead of down here on the ground with the rest of us.
I'm so disappointed in Perry. He appeared to have all the right qualities we'd need in a nominee until he failed so miserably in the debates. Sigh.
Certainly I can be wrong about this, but my current view is that if Newt becomes our nominee, Obama's odds of being reelected will be at least 75-25 in favor. Double sigh.
And yet Mitt Romney simply has never been able to light a fire under the Republican base. If the dominant opinion of Romney here on FR is representative of the Republican primary electorate as a whole, he won't win the nomination. But if he does simply by being the last man standing, Romney's odds of beating Obama are less than Newt's, in my opinion, because he won't have the enthusiastic support from our side that will be necessary to win.
I too, have been a Cain donor and have not, been hoping for this.
Now looking beyond Mr. Cain, I would have a very hard time considering Newt-”I am more in the Alexander Hamilton-Teddy Roosevelt tradition of ‘conservatism’-Gingrich. Hamilton, was in favor of bigger government (and a gov’t.-owned bank etc.) and ‘central’ control. Old Teddy, became a leader in the ‘Progressive Movement’ on the RINO side as did (a little later) WOODROW WILSON on the Democrat side, and we ARE STILL living with the burdens of their ‘Progressive’ actions.
Further, as Newt sees that he is gaining in poll stature, his arrogance and narcissistic personality is ballooning. We are already contending with a very similar personality in our White House. We do not need an Obama-like RINO-Republican replacement for the next extremely important four years.
I’m sad, too, but time to lick wounds and defeat Obama.
Where till Cain votes go? I suspect most to Gingrich.
I believe the MSM will want to have us believe Perry is a goner. It would be nice to see him come back.
If polls tomorrow reflect Gingrich with big lead, where will that leave Romney? I suspect more testy and unappreciated.
Will Trump endorse Gingrich on the same day Cain does? I.e., tomorrow?
Will Palin then come out in favor of Gingrich? I believe she’ll still wait and be prudent because if we pick our horse too soon and the MSM pulls out some story then we’re sunk.
Don’t count Perry out yet.
Don’t even count out Bachman yet.
With Cain out, that’s more speaking time for others at debates. I hope Huntsman drops out, but Rove won’t let him.
Santorum as VP?
Yep.
We've chosen to reject a man who has privately screwed a few women in favor of a man who is publicly screwing the entire country.
*sigh*
I don’t see any other explanation for the way this has played out... I think the card has been on the table for a while now. Just that conservatives are too scared to call what happened to Mr. Cain what it really is...RACISM. There is NO other explanation - NONE. All the people claiming that Mr. Cain is morally corrupt, but then turn around and support Mr. Gingrich? What other explanation could there be???
..............Is it just me, or does that dog look embarrassed?..................
No, it looks like he’s getting ready to take a dump - for the SS to clean up because that job is beneath the King’s pay grade.
Nice to see you laughing and in better spirits. Goal accomplished.
How about what Mr. Cain gave them to use against him (13 years of supporting another woman without his wife's knowledge)? It wouldn't have stopped me from voting for him, but he contributed to his own distruction.
with you 100% maybe not enthusiastically behind him, but after a debate or two I will be.
Mr. Cain has stated flatly that Ms. White’s allegations are entirely false.
If Mr. Cain is not being 100% truthful in saying this then he is unfit to be our nominee.
I do not believe that Mr. Cain is being 100% truthful.
I couldn't agree more. If ever there was a time for a reluctant patriot to stand and serve her country, this is it.
It's gut check time, Sarah. You know what you have to do.
Re: I am done and I will now happily vote for Obama, so that he can finish destroying the nation
obama needs every racist vote he can get :-(
Truth and logic always leave me in good stead, whether people making illogical decisions and comments understand that or not. Your imaginary goal was met before you made it up, so flattering yourself is merely your second delusion of the day.
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