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The Spectacle Blog
Herman Cain just gave a long, odd interview with Fox’s Neil Cavuto in which he said he would make a final decision about staying in the race next week. He cited several criteria, two of which provide conflicting signals.
First, he mentions his family. Politicians usually mention their family when they are getting ready to bow out. Second, he mentions feedback from his supporters. Is Cain asking for an outpouring of personal and financial support, as when Ross Perot said he would run for president if the people wanted him to?
Either way, Cain sounded a much less certain trumpet about staying in the presidential race than he did in Ohio earlier today.
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Bumr50| 11.30.11 @ 5:32PM
Why do you care so much?
rd| 12.1.11 @ 9:02AM
Answer: This author cares because he is a journalist with an agenda. Like most. He has another preferred candidate. The way he sees it, if Cain departs, "One down, only really 2 or 3 to go."
Antle's wording in this short piece and others gives it away.
W. James Antle III | 12.2.11 @ 7:00PM
Yes, there must be some hidden meaning behind writing about one of the top political stories of the moment and listening to what a top-tier candidate says about staying in the presidential race. You got me.
John| 11.30.11 @ 5:41PM
Herman Cain is DONE!!!!!!!!!!!
Bumr50| 11.30.11 @ 6:34PM
And why was the interview odd?
Oh I know!!
YOU think that everything that Herman Cain does is odd, because to you, he's just a curiosity.
You sir, live in the bubble that many of us are so desperately trying to pop.
florin| 11.30.11 @ 8:56PM
Why is everyone lynching Herman Cain for ALLEGED infidelities while praising gingrich for known multiple infidelities against multiple wives. Why - could it be because Cain is black and gingrich is white and because gingrich is liberal and cain is a conservative. Why so many people think gingrich is a conservative is puzzling - just look at his record past and present...
Dixie Pixie| 11.30.11 @ 6:44PM
In Obama's Senate race against Jack Ryan, he had the Chicago democratic operatives flush out and expose the sealed records of the Jerri – Jack Ryan divorce.
The democratic operatives then used those records to generate a faux “Sex Scandal” to successfully force Jack Ryan from the race.
It has been Obama's political pattern to use MSM and democratic operatives to generate faux scandals to cull the opposition of the most dangerous candidates to Obama.
Herman Cain would be a fool to let himself be driven from the race at this point, by the most despicable of democratic tactics.
One thing is certain, The Democrats and their propaganda arm, the MSM, are doing their best to insure the Presidential contest is a Ronny – Obama race.
tempest| 12.1.11 @ 9:32AM
Dixie Pixie, I am not disagreeing. Not at all. I don't think most people here have the faintest idea how much grand mafia tactics play in a campaign.
The only wrench I'd throw in is: Is it all just Chicago-Hope&Change; Dems doing this number on Cain? Or might there be some Romney folks aiding as allies? Newt allies? Huntsman? And then those who just want to earn their chits as opportunist kingmakers.
Common causes make for strange bedfellows. And -- today allies, tomorrow mortal enemies.
I just wish all could see it: Most candidates from the right try at least some to run on various versions of Moral Principles. So, once you have an avowed Christian candidate running, the strategy is clear. Undercut his morals. Make him seem immoral. Make him seem the faith hypocrite.
This is the world we live in.
somnolence| 11.30.11 @ 7:11PM
I'm going to to everything I can to see that the verified serial adulterer Newt Gingrich falls by the wayside. You may continue to fool yourself if you think Cain is "toast".
florin| 11.30.11 @ 8:59PM
I don't think you can do much, somnolence. The media and, it is said, even Conservatives! are on board with newt ...Cain is crucified for alleged infidelities while gingrich is gaining ground despite his known infidelities...why? I wish something could be done but gingrich is just soaring...of course, there are many who have no idea of his record, past and present, both moral and political...let's hope they learn the truth about newt before it's too late.
bluecollarbytes| 11.30.11 @ 8:35PM
Cain doesn't want to be remembered as the lying cad. I wouldn't have a problem voting for him, still, but he's not even going to be considered for VP at this point.
John| 11.30.11 @ 8:43PM
Cain is a sex addict.
Enough is enough, Mr. Cain.
florin| 11.30.11 @ 9:02PM
List John...you do not know if Cain is a sex addict. Did you, do you, consider Clinton a sex addict, or gingrich? They were knowingly unfaithful, Clinton to one wife multiple times, gingrich to multiple wives multiple times so why go after cain when you do not know the truth? simple...clinton and gingrich are white while cain is black...
Mike Rogers | 11.30.11 @ 9:36PM
Based on a private meeting this evening, and the public remarks to a very enthusiastic crowd, Herman is not quitting, and is preparing to kick some serious accuser butt over the next couple of days. Small manchester, NH office, 100+ supporters and a couple of dozen press, four satellite trucks, bloggers.... Hopping doesn't even begin to describe it!
It ain't over till its over, and I can't hear any fat ladies singing yet.
tempest| 12.1.11 @ 9:23AM
Good, the short-haired Ginger looked about as credible as a sleaze city alley cat. Just didn't seem right.
Anybody done an audio lie detector on her?
Not sayin' but do we even know if she's mentally 100 per cent?
somnolence| 12.1.11 @ 12:30AM
Well, at least Quin Hilyer , who writes for this magazine, knows the REAL Gingrich, would debate him and he contends, thrash him in said debate any time. Believe me, Rasmussen still has Cain in 3rd place for the moment, still within striking distance. Herman is not gone by a long shot.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.1.11 @ 9:10AM
The only thing that saddens me is the clumsy way Cain and his team answered the situation.
...heming and hawing, yesses and nos...in the race or out...reassessing?????
What are you thinking?| 12.1.11 @ 9:19AM
Ken, it's simple. You ask yourself, "Is it worth it?" When you toil on behalf of others and see that those "others" care not in the least, it takes a soul stronger than that of Mother Teresa to soldier on.
Who do you know who has that kind of soul?
The Cain Team (with some pros and lots of neophytes) has come up against the Machine.
One constantly reassesses many things in life. Don't you in your personal and professional life?
Sad that all it takes is a few bimbos to shake your clear thinking capabilities.
You are saddened by a "clumsy" campaign team? Say what? Oh, what you just want the pros that know how to do this for a living? Those who gravitate to the Romneys and Clintons of this world?
I prefer rookies. Otherwise what you get is what the Machine serves you: No choices.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.1.11 @ 9:52AM
What Are You Thinking,
Governor Perry is "soldiering on" despite being labeled a dunce, and ridiculed...(or ignored)...on my former favorite web forum here.
I think..."how in the hell do you ignore the ONE solid conservative with a PROVEN track record?
" How in the hell do you ignore and/or ridicule the Governor of the only successful State government in the nation?"
Well, TAS has managed to do so, and it embarrases me for you.
I guess our country is doomed to stupid. (Can any of you even imgine Mitt admitting "he stepped in it"?)
In my mind, a little humility goes a long way in a President.
wayt| 12.1.11 @ 11:36AM
For a guy who claims to be a Christian, you sure toss around the word hell rather often and loosely.
Um, Governor Perry? Ken, the topic for this blog page is whether or not Herman Cain has been run out of the campaign. Perry is not being directly discussed here -- pros or cons.
I'll help you fight that fight for Perry, but on another page. Okay?
rd| 12.1.11 @ 9:10AM
If there is any truth to the infidelities, where is lawyer Gloria Allred and her client? Has anyone heard from those two in the last three weeks? How about bimbos #1,2,3? Any word from them in the last four weeks? No? Silencio. Why?
People, you may not like candidate Herman Cain for two, three, or four positions he holds and priorities he'd have as an elected president. That's fine.
What's not fine is the lynching you are letting Cain have.
Didn't the man just survive cancer? Yet he can carry on all kinds of dalliances, liaisons, trysts, infidelities for years on end?
I hear and read nothing of substance to back up these infidelities claims.
People ought to be ashamed here to call themselves Americans and conservatives.
You can't recognize a 'mob hit job' when you see one.
No wonder this nation is in the crapper.
Margie| 12.1.11 @ 1:12PM
Shallow men are "saddened" by the "way Cain has handled" the false accusations.
Very shallow and dishonest men threw Herman Cain under the bus for the sole reason of helping to contribute to his demise off the campaign trail so that THEIR candidate could climb up.
SHAME on ALL of you!
Margie| 12.1.11 @ 1:34PM
El Rushbo: Shame on Republicans Who Threw Herman Cain Under the Bus:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/da.....er_the_bus
" So a lot of the coverage is on how Cain and his campaign don't know what they're doing here. I have a lot of people on our side writing to me saying, "You know, I don't care if he's done it or not. What troubles me more is the way he's handling it. This is not presidential. This is not giving me confidence that he knows how to handle these things." That's got me scratching my head a bit, because the message seems to be that Herman Cain hasn't handled a media ambush well and therefore..."
Cain Didn't Handle This Right?
Margie| 12.1.11 @ 1:34PM
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/da.....this_right
O Tamandua| 12.1.11 @ 2:22PM
This almost is chilling...Rush Limbaugh has a sound bite today with Joe Kleine talking about how Herman Cain was the Republican front runner du jour "until we started attacking him". I'm not paraphrasing Mr. Klein's words.
I thought it was the women who accused him of harrassment (who've now seemed to disappear, with one getting served an eviction notice today according to Chicago-area media) plus Ginger White who were "attacking" him, so to speak?
Margie| 12.1.11 @ 6:40PM
Yes, WE meaning the so-called conservatives on our side. Haven't you been reading here and elsewhere where the Republican establishment hacks joined in ripping him to shreds right along with the MSM?
One thing is certain: It makes a clear division between true conservatives and the Establishment types among us.
It's one thing if you don't like the man, but to blatantly lie, and say he's guilty or to insinuate same?
God doesn't let it go~ false accusers will get their just reward. It's just sad to see so many who call themselves conservative go along with it, making themselves as low as the Left.
The Sweaty Federalist | 12.1.11 @ 11:08PM
In September, prior to his spectacularly embarrassing implosion, I sent Herman Cain $100. In hindsight I am acutely aware that this sum will not help elect our second black president.
Herman’s economic vision was bold and refreshing. He understood that economic empowerment comes from our people, not our government, and as a savvy corporate executive Herman was unmatched by his peers in distilling the dismal science into a marketable slogan. Criticize, if you will, the particulars of the 9-9-9 tax plan, but not one of his fellow contenders has yet managed to translate a pro-growth agenda into a brain sticker.
Unfortunately for conservatives the visionary Herman is now being eclipsed by the human Herman, and night will soon fall on his insurgent candidacy.
Try as I may, I have no regrets for the $100 donation. Herman, at his best, brought vitality of spirit and clarity of message (at least domestically) into the race to preserve America as the land of liberty and opportunity. He helped shatter the liberal myth of black helplessness and he rightly believed that prosperity doesn’t arrive from a barrel of tax dollars.
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