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Herman Cain Drops Out ... Weeks After It Mattered

December 3, 2011 RSS Feed Print

In the end, Herman Cain left the presidential race as he entered it—more a sideshow than a contender.

And he wrapped up his never quite believable run in characteristically bizarre fashion.He closed the effort at the official opening of his campaign headquarters. He wore sunglasses, giving a visual queue of being apart from the people even as he declared himself one of them. He announced a campaign exit website which (though the domain was registered on July 21) was not yet live. To sum up, he quoted Pokémon. You cannot make this stuff up.

[Check out political cartoons about the 2012 GOP field.]

It’s been almost a month since the Cain boomlet started venting its hot air. As of November 10 (a full week and a half after allegations first surfaced that Cain had sexually harassed subordinates at the National Restaurant Association), according to Real Clear Politics’s average of polls, Cain stood atop the field with 25.2 percent. The intervening weeks have brought a steady Cain deflation as the wandering, anti-Romney chunk of the GOP electorate moved on to Newt-ier pastures. He leaves with only a relatively small number of supporters to now scatter to other campaigns.

[See photos of the GOP candidates.]

So Cain drops out (“suspending my campaign” is Washington-ese for “quitting in a way that lets me collect federal matching funds”) months before he would have to but weeks after it mattered.

Which is fine because it allowed us to enjoy what Jim Fallows aptly termed the “nuthouse panache” of Cain’s fare-the-well. He will not go away and he will not be silenced, Cain declared. Instead he’s joining the cacophony of the Web—he may not go away, but he will assuredly fade away, at least until he lands a Fox News gig. NRO’s Jim Geraghty summed it up well: “Remember, everyone, he never lied to you about any of the women, but he’s leaving the race anyway. Now please send him money via the web.”

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The only question left isn’t who he’ll endorse (it will get monster coverage but does anyone really think it will matter?) but what speaking slot he’ll get at the Republican national convention. Assuming Romney is the nominee, will he give him something in prime time in order to whip the faithful into a frenzy?

In the mean time, by God, we'll miss him at the Donald Trump/Newsmax debate.

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Bowtie does not equal class... you can't just clip that on.

Dave of FL 9:38PM December 05, 2011

Elizabeth Martin of DC

The answer is hidden in plain view. Herman Cain is BLACK.

From the days of lawyer obumer and Acorn pushing for bad home loans they threatened Banks with being called Racist if unqualified home owners were denied. Republicans were called RACIST for being against obamacare. Our view of obamacare was verified with later findings by CBO. We can not afford obamacare.

Republican party has its roots in civil rights. In 1800'only Republicans voted for many civil rights bills. We fought along side freed Blacks and slaves. KKK hated us too. LBJ picked a Republican to lead his charge for equal rights. Newt got passed last civil rights bill concerning adoption.

Partial proof of my statements:

"The Democrat Race Lie"

http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/

A Black man as our chosen candidate sends wrong message to Black voters in Liberal's eyes. We are racist after all. Was a Black man beat up among TEA members in one video I watched by liberal side. In a liberal news account they showed a white man, they said, carrying a rifle at a rally. Fox showed the same tape but showed the man and he was Black. Such attempts by liberals to twist the truth. Liberals tried to hang us saying shooter in AZ was inspired by Sarah P. and Fox. Number 1 & 2 on liberal hit list. Then came Cain a Black man. No proof but some had obvious connections to WH. Top of the list NOW is Newt. Don't think most liberals have watched Newt in debates, he fights back better than what he receives. obuma has many DARK SECRETS IN PLAIN VIEW.

My bud John Wayne ALWAYS GETS TO THE POINT better than I. As he wrote:

"The "real" story:"

"David Bonior (D-Mich), who in 1997, brought 75 charges against Newt - 74 of them were found to have no merit whatsoever. The last charge was highly controversial in that, in a two part investigation, payment for lectures given by Newt were approved by the Ethics Committee along with the IRS's okay."

“....this same "Ethics Committee" reversed it's approval and fined Newt $300K!”

“Why?”

“The only reason that Rep. David Bonior and other Democrats filed 75 ethics charges against Speaker Gingrich in the first place is because Newt filed and forced former Democrat Speaker Jim Wright to resign in 1988. The whole ethics violation farce was about nothing but revenge. Bonior and the Dems. wanted revenge for Jim Wright, and for losing the House in 1994 and 1996.”

“This is the same "Ethics Committee" that wrote a misleading probation letter on behalf of child pornographer, cocaine dealer, and male prostitute, Steven Gobie!”

http://www.gargaro.com/newtmoney.html

Newt was re-elected by voters in his State. For good of party he stepped down of his OWN ACCORD. Seats loss over attempted Bill C. impeachment. Another point of contention for liberals.

What can DESTROY obuma is his circumventing Congress with EPA and THIS tragedy hidden in PLAIN VIEW. America's rating could not have a “A” in our ratings. Could stop China from loaning us money, and other Countries from buying our treasury notes. Mark us as third world country:

“Secret Federal Reserve System data released December 1 reveals that the banking cartel (the Fed and its member banks) bailed itself out to the tune of more than $10 tri"Fed Data Reveals Trillions in Bailouts to Big Foreign Banks"llion in “emergency” funds, with trillions more going to line the pockets of big European and foreign banks"

"The $700 billion Wall Street bailout turned out to be pocket change compared to trillions and trillions of dollars in near zero interest loans and other financial arrangements that the Federal Reserve doled out to every major financial institution," said self-described socialist Senator Sanders after learning about the Fed data.”

http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors-mainmenu-46/5371-fed-data-reveals-trillions-in-bailouts-to-big-foreign-banks

Bill Hedges of MO 8:47PM December 04, 2011

AFTER WRITING THE ABOVE, CLINICALLY-DEPRESSED ROBERT SCHEISSLINGER GRABBED FILTHY AND WORN BLANKIE, PUT HIS HEAD ON HIS DESK, AND SIGHED, THINKING ABOUT HOW HE WAS STUCK WITH REAL OBAMA IN 2012...

And dreamed of the cozy days of 2008, when Empty-Slate Obama koochy-koo'ed him under his libprog chin.

And brought him his libprog blankie, clean, fresh and still warm from the drier.

And brought him his sippy cup filled with libprog juicy-juice.

So sad really. Tugs at even the coldest of hearts. Makes you want to pick up Scheisslinger, and rock him, and tell him there, there, everything will be allright.

'Cept for the fact that no one has changed his libprog didy and sprinkled powder on his libprog bum since Obama abandoned him almost three years ago. And he's one big stinking libprog mess.

But enough about Scheisslinger and all the other forlorn libprog orphans.

Cain took over from Perry and Bachmann to last long enough for Gingrich to come along and pump some hot air into the balloon that was sinking fast with Romney in it as designated leader.

Obama and all the republicans outside of Paul. Keep 'em.

Ron Paul 2012. No more lame same, from Obama or the other republican candidates.

The latest indication that Paul has been right and best for the job all along:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income.html

dom youngross of OH 8:46PM December 04, 2011

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