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."
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I would respectfully disagree.
I was hoping he would say F U to the allegations and continue running.
Slick Willie did that and all the Libbies were soooo much in support of him. Now the shoe is on the other foot and the Libbies are all for pursuing sexual gossip from questionable sources.
There is no stained blue dress in this case.
You obviously are an Obama supporter trolling this website.
Prove you are not a political scumbag.
Oh NOW Innocent until proven guilty is the standard?
Race card back on the table.
I’m sick.
Now Bachmann’s my candidate, unless someone who is a TRUE Conservative rides in on a white horse to save our Free Republic.
It is a shame, he sounded more presidential in this
speech than I had heard before.
I thought when he brought his wife with him that
he was going to stand.
Now what do we have?
Sarah driven out.
Cain driven out.
Who’s next till they have the candidate they think
they can beat?
Watch now the “humane” illegals juggernaut... First they said too many were here to throw back out, next too many will be here to put in jail and finaly too many will be here to stop them from murdering us...
Welcome to the Newt-Obama murder of America-Cain in the name of being “humane”.. so they can get their 5 min bling bling fame career favored/respected just like a Union job.
I was a Cain supporter and donor, but have been hoping for this, so we can unite behind the clear “anyone-but-Mitt” candidate, who won’t embarrass us in the debates, whose dirty laundry has been aired, and who is a grown up who has demonstrated a long-term understanding of conservative principles.
It’s Newt. He has his definite weaknesses, but so did Reagan, who would have been excoriated by some purist whiners here.
Terrible news, I was a Cain supporter. All that is left now are the RINOs.
Don't be silly. All this means is our best choice got wiped out. It's sad, really, but it's not the end of the world.
Shit fire!!!!!!
I am extremely disappointed. Herman, please stay in the public light. We need you and people like you to support conservativism.
Me thinks you’re right about sagar.
I think he could have ridden this out. It’s a shame to watch a guy get taken down for doing the same thing Martin Luther King Jr. did, and he got a national holiday to boot.
BS. Offer her a wager of $1000 that she is wrong. That will usually shut up a arrogant lib.
Watch now the “humane” illegals juggernaut... First they said too many were here to throw back out, next too many will be here to put in jail and finaly too many will be here to stop them from murdering us...
Welcome to the Newt-Obama murder of America-Cain in the name of being “humane”.. so they can get their 5 min bling bling fame career favored/respected just like a Union job.
“I have someone over on Facebook (a liberal with a British husband) who says there isn’t anyone who can beat Obama now.
Barring a miracle of Almighty God (who I now think has abandoned us as we did to Him), I think she’s right.”
If everyone who has threatened to stay home and pout (or write in the name of a non-candidate) does so, they’ll help insure that that nightmare becomes a reality.
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