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Herman Cain ‘Re-Assessing’ Campaign

Posted on | November 29, 2011 | 129 Comments

Suggestion for Mr. Cain: Fire whoever it was on your staff who left me off the conference call to which Robert Costa was invited:

“Over the next several days, we are going to continue with the schedule as usual,” he said. “I’ve got a major speech tonight at Hillsdale College on national security and foreign policy and I will deliver it with vim, vigor, and enthusiasm. And then tomorrow we’ve got some media appearances scheduled. So we’re going to continue until we complete our assessment over the next several days.”
“But if a decision is made, different than to plow ahead, you all will be the first to know,” he said. “So until that time, I want to continue to thank you all for your support, thank you for your prayers. It’s taken an emotional toll, but the people in the audience tonight will never know it.”

Accusations by hyper-litigious bankrupt divorceés? No biggie.

Leaving me off a key conference call? That could be serious trouble.

I’ve got to go get a pack of smokes and cool my temper.

Maybe some updates after that.

UPDATE: OK, got my smokes, plus cheeseburgers, fries and a Hershey almond bar — comfort food, which I needed badly, as well as a cup of decaf coffee. Thanks to Don Surber for the link, as well as to Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom, who says:

Time to wake up, people. Bachmann is still out there. So is Santorum. And both of them would whip Obama in any debate.

Made a few phone calls while I was out. Thanks to all the friends whose ears I blistered with my rants. I needed to vent.

Maybe I need a nap now.

UPDATE II: “When the going gets weird, the weird get pissed.” Yeah. Then the weird say, “Hit the freaking tip jar.” And take a nap.

 


Comments

129 Responses to “Herman Cain ‘Re-Assessing’ Campaign”

  1. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 5:55 pm

    She doesn’t want the job, so I’ve decided I will not be writing her name on my ballot.  This, despite the money I sent her, and all the hours I spent defending her.

    I will vote Libertarian before voting Romney, but I WILL vote.

  2. Jim Bummer
    November 29th, 2011 @ 5:59 pm

    He gave her financial assistance because she was desperate and destitute.

    The man’s a minister, and this opens him up as an easy mark for lying whore predators.

    Kapeesh?

  3. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:03 pm

    I never bought the “book tour” nonsense.  First, I don’t think it’s really helped his sales to stay in it as long as he has, second, you’d have to accept the man is a liar far beyond the scope and effectiveness of anything Obama has farted out of his own piehole.

    It makes no sense to do that.  Not without being ten-times the scumbag Bill Ayers is.

  4. Christy Waters
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:03 pm

    Herman Cain to stay in the race.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69295.html

  5. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:04 pm

    very well – maybe there will be a few who think as you do

    she may emulate her Fav Founder, the first POTUS, and agree to serve if petitioned

    in fact I’m sure she would

    we shall see

  6. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:04 pm

    As pointed out by The Right Scoop, “financial assistance” can come in the form of advice.

  7. Ladd Ehlinger Jr.
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:07 pm

    These days, more valuable than paper money.

  8. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:13 pm

    Politico is really a nasty swamp of a place.

  9. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:16 pm

    EXACTLY.

  10. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:17 pm
  11. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:18 pm

    She has to do something to fire up the troops, if that is to happen.

  12. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:20 pm

    Not voting for Romney is a vote against Romney.  Doesn’t matter if he somehow wins (extremely unlikely) or Obama, we’re screwed.

  13. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

    Well, most things are, anymore.  It might be time to invest in wheelbarrows (the “wallet” of the Obama decade).

  14. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

    JaCG is no libtroll, she is actually a fairly well known Conservative blogger and I can attest to the fact that she WAS a Herman Cain supporter before most people had even heard of Herman Cain, as a matter of fact, she told me about him before I’d learned of him from anyone else (before he decided to run for POTUS), and if I remember correctly, she had already come to the conclusion that he wasn’t ready for the job (as many others had also) BEFORE the money grubbing bitches started coming out of the woodwork.

  15. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

    Alan Keyes

    Jack Ryan

  16. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:27 pm

    “Herman Cain brushed off a question about whether he plans to drop out of
    the race for the GOP presidential nomination, returning to a familiar
    refrain: his “9-9-9″ tax plan.”

    (Link goes to Andrew Rafferty at NBC News)

  17. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:32 pm

    And then there are also the three dead gay ex-lovers of 0bama, two of whom were murdered “execution style” (the 3rd died of AIDS related illnesses). Sure they were not political opponents, but had they not died right before Barry’s coronation – I mean nomination – they might have become liabilities to the campaign.

  18. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:35 pm

    Sad, but true.  All those bitches making accusations would not so easily derail a campaign that was not run by morons, especially if it had been a campaign that embraced, rather than jerked around, the Conservative New Media and one particular journalist blogger who we all know and love especially.

  19. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:42 pm

    Politico gets no page views from me, they suck. Can you find another link or give me the Cliff’s Notes version of what’s at the link?
    At this point, the only way Herman Cain will get more support from me is if his campaign recognizes Stacy McCain’s hard work and does right by him and embraces the Conservative Blogosphere the way it SHOULD HAVE in the first place.
    I don’t care about the accusations from moneygrubbing bitches, NOT ONE BIT, but the response from team Cain over and over again has just been painful to watch, the campaign is dying of self inflicted wounds and it DID NOT have to be this way!
    They could have had Stacy, they could have had Ladd, they could have had a whole army of Conservative New Media people on their side, but they squandered the many, MANY opportunities they were given. I really like Herman, but damn did his campaign ever totally f everything up!

  20. Zilla of the Resistance
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:43 pm

    Who’s John Coale? (And why didn’t they hire Stacy?)

  21. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 6:59 pm

    I think she is biding her time … letting the Status Quo Boat get rocked, more wildly month by month …. we’ve already seen ole Barney Fwank get tipped out ….there will be more who get too Seasick to stay in that heaving Boat too

    and the GOP field … to put it mildly, is woeful

    a lot of Corruptocrat water has yet to flow under the bridge ….. The Proven Reformer, has sidelined herself, is saving money by doing so, waiting in the wings …

    (((( GROUND OPENING UP ! )))) 2012

    *__*

  22. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:10 pm

    Follow the link.  It says:

    “John Coale, a Washington lawyer and husband of Fox News Channel’s Greta
    van Susteren, is friends with Herman Cain and now informally advising
    the embattled candidate as he faces allegations by a Georgia woman of a
    13-year consensual affair.”

  23. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:13 pm

    All indications (facebook) are that Cain will remain in the race.

    From a strategic point of view…I think he should waffle on it a few days and let it overcome the “affair.”

  24. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:13 pm

    Here’s the same AP story at a news-type site.

  25. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:17 pm

    It seems that when RSM complains, the Cain campaign reacts.

    For netters or worse, Cain campaign is staffed mostly by people who helped usher in the Tea Party movement. Even the staff with a lot of experience, like Block, aren’t the polished inside the beltway campaigners. It will continue to be trial by error.

    They can always do better, but even where Cain is today woe seem implausible 4 months ago.

  26. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:17 pm

    What is the Lord of your life?

    Idolatry is putting anything or anyone above the Lord. In your day, are you giving more time to Palin or Jesus Christ? If the answer is Palin, then she is the Lord of your life. She is your false idol.

    What you serve the most, is your God.

    Saying that she has some inside scoop to the will of God — more than anyone else — is making her a false prophet. The same thing the Mormons did with Joseph Smith.

    The time is coming for you to make a decision.

    Who do you serve, God and Country or a women?

  27. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:19 pm

    He is getting pretty good about keeping himself on message.

  28. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:21 pm

    Cain’s lawyer won’t rule out a lawsuit against the new accuser.

    (Link to Washington Post)

    aside from the other good points raised by Wood, is this very germaine one about the timing:

    “Wood also raised doubts about the plausibility of White’s account of the
    alleged affair because it would have spanned a period of time when Cain
    was battling stage four colon cancer — a fact that she did not mention
    in her interview.”

  29. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:27 pm

    Annnnnd now the request for donations to help combat a  “fabricated, unsubstantiated story.”

    (Link goes to Talking Points Memo)

  30. just a conservative girl
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:40 pm

    Sadly, the allegations get the loudest and clearest positions, when and if these turn out to be not true (Which I really do hope for his wife’s sake they are not true) it won’t get nearly as much coverage.  Sad state of affairs of our society.  

  31. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:43 pm

    wow BC – now you’re taking the preacher tack to try and get me on board with a 2 term congresswoman, with zero exec experience and a propensity for gaffes?

    shakes head in bewildered fashion ……

    I want a PROVEN REFORMER, who is NOT4SALE pal

    if there was somebody else with the record of governance and of kicking Corruptocrat butt, and character and principles and values and Steel Spine of Gov Palin, I would be on that bone like a robber’s dog!

    do not doubt it

    (((( GROUND OPENING UP ! ))))2012

    (and swallowing those PPC Malefactors whole!)

    *__*

    (bye bye Bar- ney! hey, didja see the ditty I wrote celebratin Mr Fwank’s departure?)

  32. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

    Now it is clear he is all in.

    Must have had to get the OK from the wife.

    Cain 2012!

  33. richard mcenroe
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:02 pm

    I was and am a Sarah Palin supporter, but with her out of the race I’m supporting Cain.  He’s the only remaining genuinely non-DC figure and I’m done holding up the Beltway GOP.  I like Perry personally, and would probably support him in a crunch, but for all his talk of being an outsider, he’s really just another part of the Texas political machine, a different part than the Bush faction but a part nonetheless.  I respect and thank him for his military service but that doesn’t seem to be a protection against the Beltway degeneration; look what McCain and Randy Cunningham turned into.

    I’ve heard Santorum speak up close and like Perry he’s much more impressive away from the reality-show ‘debates’.  I’ve got some video of him I have to post.

    I lost all respect for Bachmann over the Gardasil crap; that anti-vaccination nonsense is  bad science and sensationalism and it jeopardizes the health of out children. Ron Paul is just a pork-stuffing hypocrite with a truly dangerous view of foreign policy.

    Newt, Mitt and Huntsman are just three scabs on the running sore that is the failed politics of the last century.  If any of them get the nomination I will just write in Palin and spend more time working on my local Congressional elections.

  34. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:12 pm

    He wouldn’t be the first GOP businessman to make that mistake, but I’m hoping (if that’s indeed the case) that he’s the last.

  35. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:16 pm

    On the other hand, maybe we can work something out with the Canuckistani foreign minister to deport David Frum thither as the heir to John Frum’s cargo.

  36. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:21 pm

    That’s what the reporter in this Free Press story said about Herman Cain’s speech at  Hillsdale College today.

  37. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:23 pm

    Also, right now they need Money, Guns, and Lawyers.

    Stacy and sons probably lost all their guns in an unfortunate rafting incident.  And thankfully, he’s no lawyer.  As to money, HTFTJ!

  38. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:39 pm

    if Cain falls, you may have to go with Santorum or Rick ” You’re Heartless” Perry then

    I’m holding out for the *unconventional*

    but I know that is really uncomfortable for most people ….. most folks want what they understand, what they have seen before …. even if the circumstances are so drastic that something different must happen in order to avoid catastrophe

  39. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:43 pm

    Didn’t like that comment…

    Who do you serve?

  40. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 8:56 pm

    you didn’t like my comment BC?

    well, that’s not news … I wouldn’t have thought you *would* like a comment made by me anyway

    *__*

  41. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 9:19 pm

    You are ok… You are just locked into a * delusional * thinking paradigm.

    Who do you serve?

  42. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 9:26 pm

    hmmm …. well if I am delusional, it might be best if you didn’t try to reason with me BC

    whaddya reckon?

    *__*

  43. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 9:40 pm

    They glaze will leave your eyes eventually, and you will get back to trying to save your country…

    Who do you serve?

  44. Anonymous
    November 29th, 2011 @ 9:46 pm

    oh …. I can’t answer just yet … the glaze is still over my eyes, and I’m finding it difficult to read the screen …. how long can you wait BC?

    I’m not sure how long the glaze will take to dissipate …

    *__*

  45. Anonymous
    November 30th, 2011 @ 2:33 am

    The iceberg is melting away, and it is revealing Bachmann.

    Palin is about to back her

  46. Anonymous
    November 30th, 2011 @ 2:35 am

    I think the glaze is clearing…

  47. Anonymous
    November 30th, 2011 @ 2:55 am

    LOL

    is that so?

    you write fiction for a living BC?

    *__*

  48. Anonymous
    November 30th, 2011 @ 2:56 am

    but, how can you be sure?

    *__*

  49. Anonymous
    November 30th, 2011 @ 5:46 am

    You are like a jilted spouse. It will take time, but sooner or later you will have to face reality and move on.

    But but but iceberg … But but but you are locked into a conventional thinking p…. but but but she has a master plan… but but but earthquake

    But she is gone. Not to run for President…

    Baby steps… you will be OK

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