Herman Cain: Decision to Stay in Race Depends on Wife
EmailHerman Cain said today he will make a decision about whether to stay in the Republican presidential race in the next few days, and it would hinge on what his wife says.
The former businessman took to Fox News this afternoon saying that he is reassessing his family’s feelings, but he wouldn’t answer the question of whether he will still be in the race a week from now.
“A week from now, I will have made a final decision,” Cain said.
He added that the decision depends on his wife.
“It has had a very damaging effect on her emotionally, because of the way some of the story has been presented,” he said of his wife of 43 years. “She gets upset when she sees the implications and the distortions by some people in the media.”
The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, said he cannot unequivocally say there might not be another allegation.
“I can’t sit here and say, after working in the business for 40 years, that someone else may not come up with another trumped-up charge,” he said on Fox. “This is about bring down Herman Cain.”
Earlier today, Cain avoided a direct answer when asked by reporters whether he was going to stay in the race, saying only, “We are reassessing as we speak. Reassess means reevaluation.”
But at a later stop, a more defiant Cain said “the establishment” and liberals were trying to force him out of the race through a campaign of character assassination.
“They want you to believe that with enough character assassination on me, I will drop out.” The crowd yelled back, “No! No! No!”
Cain, however, wouldn’t place the blame specifically on one person or the Obama administration when questioned on Fox News.
Cain told his senior staff Tuesday that he was reassessing his campaign after Ginger White claimed to have had a 13-year affair with the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, an affair that Cain has denied.
White, 46, is standing by her claim that she had a long, “on-and-off” “casual affair” with Cain. White today showed ABC News phone records that she says show text messages back-and-forth between her and Cain on several dates as recently as October and November.
While the candidate reassesses his campaign, his support in early voting states appeared to be tapering off.
New Hampshire state lawmaker William Panek switched his endorsement from Cain to Newt Gingrich, saying he feels like “we were being lied to.”
In Iowa, conservative radio host said on his show that Cain should drop out and “go and be with his wife and family.” Other conservatives expressed concerns about his credibility, the Des Moines Register reported.
In a sign that the newest reports of a prolonged affair may be signaling some trouble on the donor side, Cain’s campaign sent out a fundraising appeal insisting White’s story is “completely false.”
Cain will also release a TV ad Friday in Iowa, with the theme that since he “fixed broken companies, he can fix our economy. Need POTUS CEO, not politician,” his Iowa campaign manager, Steve Grubbs, tweeted.
Rivals’ calls for Cain to explain the allegations are growing. Today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry became the latest to call for such a move, saying that Cain “needs to address these allegations. That’s the bottom line.”
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman became the first in the Republican field to say Cain should consider dropping out of the race.
“Given the bandwidth that has been taken out of the discussion of any other issues pertinent to this campaign, a reconsideration might be in order,” Huntsman told the Boston Globe Tuesday.
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Cain gone, now lets work on Newt, Washinton Post blogger wants anything that can he use against Newt.
Posted by: Lizzie | November 30, 2011, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
Romney’s NEW ad??? What another distortion of Obama’s words? Mitt, I ONCE thought you were better than this but you’re just another lying creep from the RIGHT! You want to be one of THEM so badly, that you’ll sell your soul for the chance, just to impress the HATEFUL RIGHT!
Posted by: demNme5 | November 30, 2011, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
If Cain had an ounce of self respect or dignity, he would bow out now. Before some other skeletons escape from his voluminous closet…………
Posted by: Searambler | November 30, 2011, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
I actually agree with you for once Rammy, he should bow out, but not over skeletons; rather over experience and capacilty.
Posted by: Gunner_1959 | November 30, 2011, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
LOL! And I agree with YOU, Gunner. He’s in way over his head. He’s become an embarrassment to himself and his Party.
Posted by: Searambler | November 30, 2011, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm
LIZZIE | NOVEMBER 30, 2011, 3:21 PM, SAID:
“Cain gone, now lets work on Newt, Washinton Post blogger wants anything that can he use against Newt.”
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Funny…. the typical right-whiner, “it’s all the ‘liberal’ media’s fault” complaint. Do you right-whiners ever accept that maybe your candidate (i.e., “Hoochie Daddy Cain”) may have some womanizing issues you don’t know about (especially after “FIVE” different women have come forward to explain their incidents with him?)…. LOL! … I could have understood possible dirty politics with the first one, and yes, maybe the second one also…. but number 3, then number 4 and now number 5? …. LOL! It looks to me like Cain’s problem has nothing to do with the “liberal media”, and more to do with keeping his zipper closed. Maybe some safety pins, applied by his wife to his pants would fix the problem…you think?
Posted by: Republicans = a BUNCH of Forrest Gumps | November 30, 2011, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Cain should go; he is a distraction. The U.S. has so many problems to fix that we don’t have time for “distractions.”
Posted by: jonnie | November 30, 2011, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Another example of how the Republicans and Democrats are hand picked by the “Oz” of the parties. Cain doesn’t fit what they want so they flush him. Don’t worry sheep they will find one they can use as a puppet and you can go around the water cooler spouting everything the machines want you to say to friends and family. Americans are retarded.
Posted by: STampa | November 30, 2011, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Repub—Sear—– I was stating a fact, or is that to much for you to handle.I did not accuse anyone but you 2 came immediately to that conclusion. Priceless. Please tell me when the media investigated Pres.Obama???I guess I was out of the country at that time. Pres.Obama got a passing grade from the main stream media, which went to bat for him, remember the tingling, remember the media drooling all over themselves, you still have no clue who Pres.Obama is or what he stands for, yet you blindly follow him, is that what is called LIBERAL, or just plain st…… . when he says jump do you ask how high.
Posted by: Lizzie | November 30, 2011, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Chug along .. Chug along
Choo .. Choo .. Choo .. Choo
I think I can .. I think I can
I Cain .. I CAIN
Posted by: Ezra Krieger | November 30, 2011, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Herman Cain is a lair. He knows he got busted, but he continues to play dumb. Mr. Cain you are a clown…..
Posted by: Michael | November 30, 2011, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm
“he cannot unequivocally say there might not be another allegation.” In other words, he KNOWS there’s more out there.
Posted by: Notso likely | November 30, 2011, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
I do not want a president who leaves a decision as big as weather or not he(she) should be president to a spouse. Leadership is about accepting responsiblity for and about making decisions. Not about deffering. Not very presidential. This whole thing is a distraction. A circus. I want a leader not an entertainer in chief.
Posted by: Mike | November 30, 2011, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm
You mean the way his lawyer reminded everyone that sex between 2 consenting adults was not a crime ? Um….YUP ! Any wife knows what that meant.
Posted by: Give Me a Break | November 30, 2011, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
I’ll help. Please stay in the race, with candidates like you it’s a slam dunk for the Democrats. Just love how it’s up to your wife if you run for office, in private her opinion doesn’t matter? Affairs. Lies. OH AND Nice spelling lesson there >>>>>>>searambler<<<<<< might want to learn to actually "SPELL the WORD SPELL" correctly when giving "speling snide remarks. LOL
Posted by: Jo in Minneapolis | November 30, 2011, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
You make us liberals look bad otherwise.
POSTED BY: SEARAMBLER | NOVEMBER 30, 2011=====That shipped sailed a looooong time ago.
Posted by: wact1 | November 30, 2011, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
The godfather of pizza is a joke. Didi’t he say, “it ain’t gonna happen.”—that is, allegations of sexual assault making him to drop out of the presidential race. The man is afraid that another may come out putting a spotlight on him as a sex frolicker.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | November 30, 2011, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Go Cain. Who gives a rats ass big bad Billy actually did the unthinkable and lied about it and survived He should be our first real black president
Posted by: Moore | November 30, 2011, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
“…Leadership is about accepting responsiblity for and about making decisions. Not about deffering. Not very presidential…”
POSTED BY: MIKE
Really? Well then, there’s no way you voted for Obama, or would even remotely consider voting for him again. He tries to evade responsibility like a mouse tries to evade cats and snakes. In fact, his blame others schtick is his whole BS modus operandi, an instinctive and habitual reaction which he continues to indulge because it has worked decently well for him for a very long time. It won’t work next November, however.
Posted by: BraveNewWorld | November 30, 2011, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
I could care less about his sex life!!! I want yo know what and how he can can the ecomony… just like Clinton
Posted by: Scott | November 30, 2011, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
LOL Bye Bye Her-man.
Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | November 30, 2011, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
Gee, if he were elected president, would he have to wait to hear what his wife had to say before making important decisions in the Oval Office, too?
Posted by: WorkingClass | November 30, 2011, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm
I betcha Cain will bow out “due to illness” in the next week or so. He’s lost my respect and my vote.
Posted by: PattiCake | November 30, 2011, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
WorkingClass – I can think of one important Oval Office decision Bill should have consulted Hillary about.
Posted by: Logicsgood5 | November 30, 2011, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm
Loser. Putting this all off on the wife. I think less of this than all the other junk he’s done.
Posted by: lexingtonlady | November 30, 2011, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm
Yeah, this is all about bring down the has been candidate.
Posted by: plantain_11 | November 30, 2011, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
Come on Cain, balls to the wall!! Keep running. You can’t be elected, you won’t be nominated, you are way, way too ignorant of everything that has to do with being president to even be considered, but it is just a lot of fun watching you. I mean, when have we ever had a fairly intelligent (if little-head challenged) pizza executive come out of the gate with several hundred pounds of baggage strapped to his horse, and take a run for President? Whatever does it say for the Republican Party that you actually were considered a front runner at one time? Thanks for the laughs and the lessons. Don’t stop now, we would miss you.
Posted by: James38 | November 30, 2011, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
I take less issue with what Cain is accused of doing than by how he is handling the situation. How are we supposed to trust someone to lead the country when he can’t manage this crisis? First he denies, then changes his story; we hear his attorney say one thing, then Cain another. He jumps in front of the latest story to avoid damage and makes a mess out of it by calling the woman ‘troubled’. And now he suspects that another story will be coming. Is that a warning? I can’t help but think Cain has something he’s not telling the public and better to get it out and encourage the media to cover your platform instead of your backside. His advisors are not doing him any favors.
Posted by: Rob Dent | November 30, 2011, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
That is funny James38….yes, you’re right. Cain had momentum and money. Did anyone take the time to ask Mr. Cain if he had any personal issues before they let him declare he was running for president? He needs to stop blaming everyone else…he’s starting to sound pathetic.
Posted by: Rob Dent | November 30, 2011, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
I wonder how the liberal fraction would respond to some of the really sleazy (and most probably false) rumors about the pre-election Obama escapades; I doubt that they would be as eager to accept tantalizing, but unproven allegations, regarding their guy. It’s strange that alleged bad behavior is only bad behavior if the target happens to be a Republican. How many times have you heard :President Kennedy and President Clinton’s private lives have no bearing on their performance?” And the more commonly repeated “Yeah, but it’s supposed to be a family values party;” ahhh.. do Democrats not embrace family values?
Posted by: Pepina | November 30, 2011, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
I am kind of sick of lies and politics. This woman today had stalking charges pressed on her. If it is real why come forward now. I think the guy that said lets go after Newt speaks for itself. News Flash the Amefrican voters won’t go for nasty politics this time because this country is a huge mess. We are tired and aren’t crazy. I don’t believe any of these women and this one will be found out too. She wants money publciity and to Good one. Independent and mad.
Posted by: Steve | November 30, 2011, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm
He should be discussing this with Newt. After all Newt cheated on two wives and is now in the lead.
Posted by: GrandInquisitor | November 30, 2011, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Depending on his wife? Her memory and conscience is as bad as his……help us Lord!
Posted by: kathy | November 30, 2011, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm
The news tonight recounts people in the crowds shouting, “Stay the course!”
Those people are Democrats.
Posted by: Cassandra | November 30, 2011, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
I knew Cain would have to drop out sooner or later. Now he is going to do it because of the wife?
Sure let’s blame her, she wasn’t strong enough. How lo can you go Cain?
Posted by: shelley | November 30, 2011, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
Hermy,
Please stay in the race! You’re the best entertainment out there since the Wasilla Hillbillies are no longer on ther air.
Posted by: TimZ | November 30, 2011, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm
First he makes his wife feel like trash because of his inability to manage his personal life, then he dumps responsibility for making an enormous decision about his public life squarely upon her shoulders. So now she’s either an idiot for supporting him or she’s vindictive if she doesn’t. He’s an idiot.
Did he figure Libya out yet?
Posted by: sameagain | November 30, 2011, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
Has anyone else decided that Mr. Cain is a very crafty predator who picks women who have financial and emotional issue ? His money could be used “help” them instead of hiring ladies of the night………(..less STD’s?)
Why hasn’t anyone went after the other candidates? Herman Cain is a master storyteller.. His wife is important now that his past is catching up with him. It’s all about her now…It’s always other people…never about him. It’s a classic tactic to aviod talking about yourself and your activities. Talk about other people not yourself……….classic…..
Posted by: sally | November 30, 2011, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
Hang in there CAIN don’t let them get you down, and Mrs. Cain don’t let this dirty game tear you up. you two hang in there, it could get a lot worse before it gets better so have strength. they’re playing as dirty as they can.
Posted by: j | November 30, 2011, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
I just hope Obama can still get re-elected, even despite his horrible record.
Posted by: LEXINGTONLADY | November 30, 2011, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Many of these comments about Cain and his wife are super duper crazy and hypocritical coming from Obama drones and clones. Nearly no world leader, friend or foe, really respects Obama much at all, and some have even openly mocked him repeatedly as less than a real man, and he continues to prove them right. Who wears the figurative pants in the Obama family? If you answered Barack, then you answered incorrectly, quite laughably so. Apart from perhaps his teleprompter, Obama relies upon, and defers to, nothing and no one more than his own dominant wife. Get real, and don’t make us laugh too hard.
Posted by: Happy Jack | November 30, 2011, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
I wonder if It was his wife who decided which women he harassed and or had affairs with LOL a little late to be asking her opinion now I fear.
Posted by: onlyanegg | November 30, 2011, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Very good point, ONLYANEGG. Obama must be re-elected dispite his massive failures. Next.
Posted by: LEXINGTONLADY | November 30, 2011, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
Diane and Huma, regarding the “Your Voice, Your Vote” series and “The Note,” I’m wondering: Is anyone running for president on the Democrat side? Like Barack Obama? You see, I’m still waiting for some in-depth reporting on Candidate Obama. Specifically, he needs to explain the history of his involvement in the following.
Solyndra, Beacon Power, cozying up to the lawbreakers of OWS, the much-vaunted stimulus package that was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent–but didn’t, Obamacare and CLASS, the screwing of the Chrysler bondholders, “shovel-ready” jobs that were not as shovel-ready as he hoped they’d be (he said with a chuckle), the NLRB and Boeing, failure to throw the book at the New Black Panther Party for Election Day misconduct, Operation Fast and Furious, the idiocy of attempting to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court, nonsensical promises about Guantanamo, the infamous Apologizing for America tours…and on and on and on.
Anytime you’re ready. Or have you not noticed that Obama ALSO is running for office.
Posted by: Jack Davis | December 1, 2011, 12:16 am 12:16 am
What is wrong with the human race? How low can we get when we post our comments in cyberspace?
It is very sad how low we as a society have come when talking about a human being. If he is guilty, he will pay for it. I am sure his conscience will torture him about his bad decisions. On the other hand, it is up to him to decide what is best for his family. For those criticizing about his possible mistakes and enjoying the cruel comments written by others while hiding in cyberspace, hope you have a clean conscience about your own person lives. We all have our own opinions about politics but we don’t have to be so intrusive in other people’s life to the point of wishing someone’s fall and disgraced. Life is very short. What good contribution can we live to the future generation with cyber postings that dig a pit to another human?
Posted by: wreis | December 1, 2011, 12:55 am 12:55 am
Jack Davis … yawn.
Posted by: Reality Check | December 1, 2011, 4:18 am 4:18 am
He’s got to keep running. The promise of the White House is all that’s holding that marriage together right now.
Posted by: spiderman | December 1, 2011, 4:23 am 4:23 am
“I am sure his conscience will torture him about his bad decisions.”
It isn’t tormenting him much right now.
In fact, he is lying to you and to me at this very moment.
So I do not want to reward him for that by even considering helping him to the presidency.
Posted by: Jimmyjones | December 1, 2011, 4:29 am 4:29 am
Public opinion…….Right or wrong public opinion has made or broke many a politician. Negative opinion is being reflected in the many polls showing Cain dropping dramatically. It’s public opinion that will most certainly decide the next election. Because all of us that post here are probably not politicians, we are left to give our opinions and that’s all they are. But, even the most innocent improprieties can sway public opinion. Some politicians can explain away some issues others are not so good at it. Cain’s issues about his character regarding other women have not been explained well enough by him and that is what you see in the polls. Again it’s the voting public whose voice is being heard in the polls and in that regard Cain has already lost.
Posted by: Indymind | December 1, 2011, 7:13 am 7:13 am
LOL! …. it all depends on how hard his wife “whoops his butt” now that all of these women have come out of the woodwork, and he has no explanation for it, other than, “it’s the liberals attacking me”. ……. Of course, being a Republi-minion herself, she probably believes that too. We may still have a President “Hoochie Daddy” after all one day.
Posted by: Republicans = a BUNCH of Forrest Gumps | December 1, 2011, 7:27 am 7:27 am
Many women would see this public proclaimation “it’s up to my wife” as an obvious attempt to manipulate her into agreeing. They could make the decision in private. He doesn’t have to put this much blame & pressure on her, publicly making her the “bad guy” if he ends his campaign.
Even more than anything else Herman Cain has done, I see this announcement as indicitive of a deep disrespect for women. Only an emotionally abusive, manipulative individual would say this to the press.
Posted by: Susan in Warrenville | December 1, 2011, 7:35 am 7:35 am
Come on Herman! The decision to stay in the race is on your wife???!!! You mean you and she haven’t had enough revelations of infidelity? Are you that full of yourself that you’d put your wife through more of this stuff?
Posted by: Bob | December 1, 2011, 8:32 am 8:32 am
Lizzie | November 30, 2011, 5:43 pm post:
LOL! First of all, I didn’t even respond to your stupid post. Second, if you don’t remember the media looking into then-candidate Obama, it’s not my fault. You maybe need to have some memory tests done. Or do a little actual research, if you really believe what you wrote. Instead of listening to Rush and Beck and the morning morons over at FOX for your talking points. Is it your position that FOX, Rush, Beck, World Net Daily, and the REPUBLICAN PARTY ITSELF, didn’t even bother to look into then-candidate Obama’s history, background, record, etc? Really? You BELIEVE that? LOL! Talk about brainwashed! Third, you stated “you still have no clue who Pres.Obama is or what he stands for”. Really? And of course you are a psychic, able to see into our minds and KNOW what we know, right? But please, for the sake of argument, enlighten us. Give us YOUR ‘clues’ about Obama. Tell us what YOU think he ‘stands for’. Oh wait, never mind. We already know of your deep-seated hatred for everything Obama. All you would do is reiterate the usual Republican lies, spin, distortion, and bullspit about him. Because you are a Ditto-head, and unwilling to admit out loud the REAL reason you hate him…………..
Posted by: Searambler | December 1, 2011, 9:16 am 9:16 am
Indeed, lol. Obama has less than a year to damage the country further. Funny or sad? You choose.
And a further note: Obvious to all who have seen the film and even half understand it, Forrest Gump ends up very well-adjusted, very rich, and fairly happy, and with a beautiful son. He appears “slow” to some extremely mundane and shallow folks, but the film shows that he is wiser than them by far, in fact, the wisest character in the film. LOL.
Posted by: DEMOCRATS = A BUNCH OF ELMER FUDDS | December 1, 2011, 10:23 am 10:23 am
I just hope Obama can survive his horrible record of debt and no accomplishment of note. And Searambler, don’t post so much that peole start laughing at you again. Best of luck with your new Hoveround.
Posted by: LEXINGTONLADY | December 1, 2011, 10:37 am 10:37 am
In answer to the repeated question above: Obama stands for himself, himself and mostly nothing else. But I like it that way, even if some would say it is just shallow arrogance and cheap opportunism on Obama’s part.
Vote Obama!
Posted by: LEXINGTONLADY | December 1, 2011, 10:45 am 10:45 am
“In answer to the repeated question above: Obama stands for himself, himself and mostly nothing else. But I like it that way, even if some would say it is just shallow arrogance and cheap opportunism on Obama’s part.
Vote Obama!”
Posted by: LEXINGTONLADY
Your characterization of Obama is spot on for sure, but that is exactly why people who are aware and awake will NOT vote for him again. He is a self-absorbed, pompous failure.
Posted by: Janice | December 1, 2011, 11:04 am 11:04 am
If Cain decides to drop out all of his suppoters need to take a closer look at Ron Paul. Just google his name or youtube him and I guarantee you will like what you see.
Posted by: joe | December 1, 2011, 11:51 am 11:51 am
Decissions made by the presidents wife???
Posted by: Bigfoot | December 2, 2011, 11:03 am 11:03 am
OMG !! these comments are cracking me up big time. Herrmi baby, you’re toast. Now, move out of the way so we get find out dirt on the wierdo Newt.
Posted by: chikarooill | December 2, 2011, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm