‘Plan B’: Herman Cain Says He’s Suspending Campaign

(ABC)
Herman Cain announced today that he is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, because of “the continued hurt” caused by claims of sexual harassment and a 13-year extramarital affair that he called “false accusations” that have created a “cloud of doubt over me and my family.”
“With a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt on me and my family,” he said outside his campaign headquarters in Atlanta.
But he told the crowd he was shifting to “Plan B” in an effort to remain relevant in national politics.
“I am not going to be silenced and I’m not going away,” Cain said, announcing the launch of TheCainSolutions.com, a new organization, which he said would continue to promote his policy ideas, including his signature 9-9-9 economic recovery plan.
He also promised: “I will be making an endorsement in the near future.”
“I am disappointed that it came to this point, that we had to make this decision,” Cain said.
He also cited his inability to raise the “necessary funds to be competitive.”
During his remarks, he repeatedly rejected the allegations of sexual harassment and a more than decade-long affair with a woman.
“That spin hurts — it hurts my wife, it hurts my family, it hurts me, it hurts the American people because you are being denied solutions to our problems,” he said. “My wife, my family and I — we know that those false and unproved allegations are not true.”
“I am at peace with my God, I am at peace with my wife and she is at peace with me,” Cain said as the crowd chanted her name, “Gloria! Gloria!”
“But as false accusations about me continue, they have sidetracked and distracted my ability to present solutions to the American people,” he said.”
He also recalled the better days of his presidential bid.
“If you look at the top three Republican candidates right now and if you consider the president in the White House, we can say, I’m in the final four,” he said. “We’re in the final four.”
Cain said he was “honored by the deep support of so many people across this country.”
“As usual, the Cain supporters are not warm weather supporters, and I can’t thank all of you enough for what you’ve done, how far we have come and the things that we have done,” Cain said.
He acknowledged that he “did not fit the usual description” of a presidential candidate and that when he started his unlikely presidential bid earlier this year, few people knew who he was.
But all that changed, Cain said: “Right now my name I.D. is probably 99.9,” he said in a joking reference to his 9-9-9 plan.
“I chose to run for president because the politicians in Washington, D.C., wouldn’t do their jobs, that’s why I chose to run,” Cain said. “They have failed to provide economic growth, they have failed to get spending under control. They have failed to make us less dependent on foreign oil. These are some of the reasons that inspired me to run for president.
“The people in Washington, D.C., are either playing the blame game or pointing fingers or throwing crumbs to the American people rather than bold solutions,” Cain said, adding: “America deserves more than that.”
The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza made the announcement after a series of speakers praised him to the cheering crowd.
Once the frontrunner in the Republican polls, Cain’s candidacy has been battered by allegations of sexual harassment and later allegations of a long-term affair.
Michele Bachmann’s communications director told ABC News that Herman Cain’s campaign has been reaching out this morning to officials with rival campaigns.
Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said she was one of who received a call. She did not say what, if any, announcement was communicated, but Stewart added: “We’ve received numerous inquiries from supporters and staffers in the various states about shifting their support from Cain to Michele.”
And as the crowd waited outside Cain’s headquarter for his decision, some influential Republicans were already declaring Cain’s campaign finished.
“Virtuous or not, declaring in or out, however we feel for him, Herman Cain’s campaign is over,” Iowa Rep. Steve King tweeted this morning. “I thank him as a friend and wish him well.”
Cain’s problems began in October, when Politico reported that two women had accused Cain of sexual harassment and misconduct while he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association (NRA) from 1996 to 1999.
Since then, two other women have also accused Cain of harassment.
Cain acknowledged that the NRA paid off the two women, but has denied there was any truth to the accusations against him.
Then last week, a Georgia woman, Ginger White, said she had a 13-year lavish affair with Cain, allegations that Cain denied even before she went public with her claim. White said she and Cain spent many nights in a ritzy Atlanta hotel, he showered her with gifts and paid for her to travel to events where he was speaking.
The affair ended just before Cain announced his presidential campaign, according to White.
Two weeks before White’s accusation, Cain’s wife of 43 years, Gloria, made a rare public appearance to defend her husband in the wake of accusations of sexual misconduct by several other women.
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How could it be any other way? The dolt was NEVER a serious candidate for the Republican nomination, many fools’ support notwithstanding. He never built a credible campaign staff, and avoided the early primary states because they weren’t on his book-signing tour schedule. Bye Bye, and good riddance. Now Herman needs to get some psychological help so he can stop preying on women in need.
Posted by: J S O'Brien | December 3, 2011, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
People like him should be arrested for fraud. He accepts ton’s of money from people knowing full well he is not a serious candidate, an adulterer, and yet he gets away with just leaving the campaign not to mention waisting tax dollars and peoples time.
Posted by: Jeff | December 3, 2011, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
The real reason he’s suspending his worthless campaign is to come up with more lies and excuses about all of his extra-martial affairs and why he’s the victim. This teabagger clown’s brain-or what’s left of it– has been in suspended animation for years, he just doesn’t know it yet.
Posted by: neastsider | December 3, 2011, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
Anyone can make allegations. Proving them is something else altogether. It seems like all either party is allowed to vote for are the lesser of two evils. The many are led around by the few. The dumber a Nation can keep its citizens, the easier they are to control. It is sad to watch us walk off a cliff into the obscurity of ignorance. Shame on the powers that be.
Posted by: Paul | December 3, 2011, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Surprise surprise…Not! Smart move before things got even worse. Stay at home and take care of your wife. He didn’t stand a chance.
Posted by: Retired | December 3, 2011, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
Herman Cain is an ignorant fool who has no business running for president. Instead of “suspending” his campaign he just needs to throw in the towel and go away.
Posted by: Whatthewhat | December 3, 2011, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm
Herman Cain had fought hard, and we all must applaud him for his 999 proposal.
Posted by: Ketheeswaran Pararajasingham | December 3, 2011, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Actually the ‘Tea Party’ is happy that they’ll finally get to vote for a lobbyist for president!
Posted by: blind spot | December 3, 2011, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
Hey Herman! How can we miss scumbags like you when you won’t go away? And just because your wife won’t divorce her meal ticket (right away), does not mean everything is OK.
Posted by: Tyrone | December 3, 2011, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
“No single witness should rise up against a man respecting any error or any sin,in the case of any sin that he may commit. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses, the matter should stand good.” Deuteronomy 19:15. CAIN has had FIVE.
Let’s not forget that Cain is an ordained Baptist Minister. “But now I am writing you to quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator….not even eating with such a man….Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.” 1st Corinthians 5:11-13.
Posted by: Bonnie | December 3, 2011, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
HIS 999 proposal? he even stole that from SimCity03!!! LMAO!!!
Posted by: marc | December 3, 2011, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
Not fair, we needed the entertainment from this buffoon. Oh, well there’s Crazy Bachmann, Drunk Perry, Old Man Paul, The Grinch, and Cult Guy Romney to entertain us. Only guy still with sanity left is Huntsman. No tears for Cain, he’ll go on the lecture tour and sell his book…The Wonder of My Cane. Where do they get this crew from, a freak show?
Posted by: jake | December 3, 2011, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
Remember that interview where Gloria Cain stated that she would not be the woman who would stand by her man and smile?? Well, that is exactly what she has just done! So she is actually standing by her man and smiling broadly too. Well, it it not that you just can’t trust any politicians, but you also CAN’T trust their wives. So what can one say about Herman “paying” the monies to “help” a “friend” over a dozen years, and without his wife knowing? So now she knows, and is still smiling and standing by her man. Liars all.
Posted by: karuna | December 3, 2011, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
I am so glad. But, what galls me is his continued insistence that “the media has caused him, his wife, and his family SO MUCH PAIN. Wake up, Mr. Cain!!!!! YOU CAUSED THE PAIN TO YOUR FAMILY, YOUR LONG-SUFFERING WIFE, YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO STOOD BY YOU RIGHT UP UNTIL THIS EMBARRASSING END. YOU SHOULD SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TREATING THAT WOMAN LIKE THE SAINT SHE IS! shame on you!
Posted by: Beth | December 3, 2011, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
Cain should of stayed in the race. The MSM decimated him, now onto the next one. Obama is proof that people don’t care what the media says about candidates when it is true, in Cain’s case it was a smear job. If I was Cain I would of sued all the women and supenoa a deposition for the record.
Posted by: Jo | December 3, 2011, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
How long before he is a “contributor” on Fox?
Posted by: pksk531 | December 3, 2011, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
To those who keep saying “Anyone can make accusations or allegations”, PLEASE understand that the two allegations of sexual harassment that had settlements were SUBSTANTIATED. No one pays out that kind of coin without a substantiation. Ever. Also, Do any of you know how hard it is to prove sexual harassment? Unsubstantiated allegations might require a person accused to take a class or be written up, but to get a payout takes REAL proof.
Posted by: Potter | December 3, 2011, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
Just go away.
Posted by: tom toth | December 3, 2011, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
“He also cited his inability to raise the “necessary funds to be competitive.””
Considering he never hired a staff, and relied on the Koch brothers Americans for Prosperity PAC to “run” his campaign, this isn’t surprising.
So long Herman! You join a long and ignominious list of crack-pot Republican wannabe’s for offices both high and low. From ‘The Donald’, to Ron Paul, Crazy Eyes Bachmann, to Caribou Barbie, to the witch from the east, Christine O’Donnell. A sorrier bunch of loony ideologues would be really hard to find……….
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
How long before he is a “contributor” on Fox?
Posted by: pksk531 | December 3, 2011, 2:25 pm.
LOL! I thought the very same thing. I give it three months…..
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
“Actually the ‘Tea Party’ is happy that they’ll finally get to vote for a lobbyist for president!”….That’s right! With pledgbots you always run the risk that they’ll go haywire and start thinking for themselves. But lobbyists are totally bankable. The ultimate insiders, they are happy to trade on anything that pays…. and it’s totally legal. Beeootyful!
Posted by: sameagain | December 3, 2011, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
One more Republican “victim” who made their own damn bed but refused to lie in it. Pathetic. Ever notice how NO politician on the Right is ever responsible for their own demise? It’s always someone else’s fault, and there’s always someone or something else for them to blame………….
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
I can not believe some people still think he’s so innocent. How many other people have you seen this happen to and how many went on to be guilty of it? The man is a womanizer. If it was easy to find wads of women to falsely accuse you’d see it done to all of them.
Posted by: lexingtonlady | December 3, 2011, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Herman Cain can know go back doing was he has alot of talent, selling pizza or pinpin, since he is such a Player. The Cain Train has pulled into the station, thank you for playing. Have a nice day.
Posted by: Thomas | December 3, 2011, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
This is what the liberal media does if you step outside of “what’s expected”. A black conservative must be destroyed! They don’t know how to deal with someone who betrays the liberal values of voting for the Democrat no matter what, being a union sympathizer, etc., etc. Sad. Now, back to destroying Representative Bachman!
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
The only difference between Cain and Bill Clinton? Hmmmm
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
The difference is you do not impeach one on the other team and then support one on your own. You made this bed, lie in it.
Posted by: lexingtonlady | December 3, 2011, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Ms. White??? Are you satisfied? Did you get enough money? Is it worth it? You have become an Honorary Jezebelle!
Posted by: Ladydaee | December 3, 2011, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Jo: People do care about what the media says about President Obama. However, wise people realize that right wing talk shows and FOX aren’t objective media. Besides, this isn’t about Mr. Obama although no one could blame Cain’s supporters for needing to change the subject. That’s part of the denial mentality. Now, the GOP can move on and tantalize itself with illusions about Newt being victorious in the Obama/Gingrinch debates.
Posted by: mikeyboy | December 3, 2011, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Lame Republican candidate, but he gets some cool points for quoting Pokemon: The Movie 2000. ABCNews, you forgot the best part of his speech!
Posted by: zomgz | December 3, 2011, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
@Michael 2:31 p.m.: Don’t forget that Clinton was IMPEACHED. He didn’t exactly get away scot-free. Furthermore, Clinton’s credentials prior to his presidency were just a little more substantial than Cain’s. Third, these are not just “allegations”–the National Restaurant Association had to pay two different women to settle their charges of harassment against Cain, not to mention the three other women who have come forward. Now he’s decided that he needs to concentrate on his family … I really don’t see the problem.
Posted by: Robin | December 3, 2011, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
It wasn’t the women by themselves. It’s true Clinton did it too. The media hyped it then also. Jennifer Flowers did Playboy for crying out loud. That said volumes about what the public will tolerate in a candidate. This went beyond the women. 999 was a plain and simple hit job on the middle class. Most voters are middle class. They don’t like hit jobs. His foreign affairs knowledge was at a 3rd grade level. Many voters serve or feel empathy for those who serve in the military. They want a knowledgeable CIC. He was a pledgebot. Voters do not trust pledgebots with their lobbyist’s hands up their backsides. His money ran dry. Clinton’s didn’t. That’s why Cain got out. It wasn’t the media’s money, it was somebody else’s and it went away. This was about more than the women. He was un-electable without the women.
Posted by: sameagain | December 3, 2011, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
searamblerone…A sorrier bunch of loony ideologues would be really hard to find…Not really. I just saw another pathetic sound bite from Nancy Pelosi who kept with the tired old Democrat talking points on how Republicans want to ruin Christmas (!) by slamming the middle class while protecting those evil rich people (who pay for nearly everything). Democrats insist on spending our way to prosperity, which hasn’t worked thus far. They’ll keep on trying to buy union votes, which is totally idiotic because union folk vote like robots for Democrats. Why court that vote with more taxpayer dollars when you know you have it locked up? Obama’s policies will further ravage minorities (despite the promises and gov’t crack) but he’s already got 94% of the black vote. Why bother? You think union folk and blacks are going to start thinking for themselves in 2012? Funny. We will (ALL OF US) all pay the price for the reckless spending of the Pelosi/Reid years. If you think the burden of all those additional trillions, somthing like $5 trillion in just 33 months, will only fall on the “rich”, you’re delusional. We will all pay. We can give Obama another divided government for another four years, or we can be smart and put a fiscal conservative in the Oval Office who will lobby Congress to enact some commonsense reforms to the undisputed, primary drivers of our national debt…..ENTITLEMENTS. For those of you like searamblerone who believe ANY cuts to our hugely bloated budgets including entitlements are “draconian”, you really need to ask yourself why you want so badly for the Republic to fail. We will certainly get there sooner if we continue down this path. No other president in the history of the USA has spent like Obama. No other president has come in as clueless as Obama when it comes to the private sector and basic economics. George Washington, perhaps, only because he was the first.
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
This is what the liberal media does if you step outside of “what’s expected”. A black conservative must be destroyed! Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:42 pm.
LOL! Sorry, Cain self-destructed. He did this to himself, by virtue of the way he conducts his life. You should really fault the Republican Party for not even vetting the guy.
And let’s face reality here for a moment. Cain was a token. He was selected because he’s a conservative Black man, and the Republican powers-that-be felt they needed to “show” the country that the Republican Party isn’t the same Party of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ days. Everyone knows damn well that the good ol’ boy network on the Right would NEVER let Cain be anything more than a token sideshow diversion…………..
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
searamblerone…a “token”. Nice. You’re still living in the South I’ll bet. We’re in the 21st century, dude. Now all the liberal outlets have to do is get a new bunch of questionable folk to claim affairs were had with all of the remaining candidates. THAT’s probably the Obama strategy for reelection. He can’t win on his record.
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
searamblerone…I don’t believe for a minute you understand what the “southern strategy” was.
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
The only difference between Cain and Bill Clinton? Hmmmm
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
————————————————————————————————————————–The only difference between Cain and Newt Gingrich? Hmmmm X 3
Posted by: howdymo1 | December 3, 2011, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
S: Come out of denial and back to reality. The media, liberal or otherwise, didn’t destroy Cain’s campaign. Common sense and knowledge of the GOP’s modern history is what repels most blacks from social conservatism. No self respecting black person would align themselves with the conservative ideology of the late Sen. Jesse Helms, a conservative icon who used the term ‘conservative’ as code a word for pro-segregation in the 1950s and ’60s. As for unions, they help to balance the scales against the abuses of corporate management that can’t be accomplished by individuals or unorganized, small groups. Maybe you don’t think workers should have the right to organize. Too bad. They do.
Posted by: mikeyboy | December 3, 2011, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Good. One less clown to listen to, hear about on the news or read about. Hopefully, we will never hear from this fool again.
Posted by: Marlene | December 3, 2011, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
S —— I live in Michigan. And yes, he was a token. Just as Sarah Palin was a token woman, chosen specifically to try and garner the votes from disaffected Hillary supporters. “Token – noun – One that represents a group, as an employee whose presence is used to deflect from the employer criticism or accusations of discrimination.”
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
How can anyone believe such obvious lies, spoken so glibly? If Cain really was just helping a friend financially for so many years, wouldn’t he have told his wife about it, or even better, make that decision jointly? I feel sure these payments were hidden because it was an affair. No married man gives money secretly, over many years, to a single woman unless there’s an affair or she was blackmailing him over something even worse. The man is a classic psychopath and a narcissist. If his wife believes him, they deserve each other. Thank goodness he’s out of the race.
Posted by: Jennie McKenzie | December 3, 2011, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
He sounds more and more like Sarah Palin. Poor me…those nasty News people who hurt my family. – HA ha ha its everybody’s fault but HERMANs
Posted by: Jeanne021556 | December 3, 2011, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Good by Columbus!
Posted by: HI ATUS | December 3, 2011, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
“Anyone can make allegations. Proving them is something else altogether.”
If those allegations weren’t true, Mr. Cain would have had slapped those 3 women with defamation suits so quickly, it would have made your head spin,, and he would have trumpeted the fact to anyone who would listen. That he HASN’T brought suit by now is telling. He knows the allegations can be substantiated.
Posted by: Minorkey1 | December 3, 2011, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
ENTITLEMENTS. For those of you like searamblerone who believe ANY cuts to our hugely bloated budgets including entitlements are “draconian”….. Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 2:58 pm.
LOL! Once again you prove your epic cluelessness. I have never said what you said. Never. I understand the need for smart and strategic budget cuts – coupled with revenue increases. We cannot cut our way to prosperity. Every Republican politician in Congress has signed a pledge to a lobbyist that they would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes one penny. To me that borders on criminal behavior. And yes, I’m well aware of exactly what the Southern Strategy was. I brought it up, remember. Are you? Somehow I doubt it…………
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Dear Herman ,
Be a man and admit what you did with Ms White …………. too long with Gloria so you started to look some fresh meat that eventually turned old .
Posted by: Raoul | December 3, 2011, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
The vitriol in most of these comments is appaling but not surprising. I have always found Liberals to be very sad and angry people and it is coming through loud and clear here. I for one am very sad to see Herman stepping away from the race. A very thorough job was done by Larry Flynt et al finding ways to smear him. Now we will get another RINO on the Republucan side and most of us will stay home yet again like we did in ’08 and we will end up losing our once great nation because of four more years of lunacy.
Posted by: John | December 3, 2011, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
Dear Gloria ,
You’ve been with Herman for 43 years and he had a relationship for 13 years and you diden’t know ……………………… sounds like a very close marriage …………………. where were you when Herman was with this woman in the ritzy hotels in Atlanta
Posted by: Raoul | December 3, 2011, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
John | December 3, 2011, 4:02 pm post ————— Typical Republican hypocrite. I swear, y’all wear your hypocrisy like it’s some sort of badge of honor. To whine about Liberals being ‘vitriolic’ while simultaneously saying that supporting the current Liberal administration is “lunacy” is hypocritical. Often I think the Right simply does not know the definition of the word……..
Posted by: Searambler | December 3, 2011, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
Do’t let the door hit you on your way out
Posted by: seeingitself | December 3, 2011, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Posted by: absoluteabsence | December 3, 2011, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
Herman Cain is a joke despite his sexual problems.
Posted by: Plantain_11 | December 3, 2011, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | December 3, 2011, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Posted by: seeingitself | December 3, 2011, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
what an idiot. Why would anyone with two sexual harrassment settlements AND a twelve year ‘friendship’, unknown to his wife, whom he paid for all her bills, ever decide to run for president???????? That’s called baggage, you dunce! When you run for president you best not have any! What EVER made you think these things would NOT come out? Are you seriously that soft??????? Obviously not a smart man. If you cared at all about your family you would that have thought FIRST – uhh, no, dont want to call the unnecessary attention on myself and scrutiny on my private life…because…I’ve got stuff there Idont want my wife to know about. YOu dont want your wife to know about your ‘friendship” with that women for 12 years, fine, then WHY BECOME A NATIONAL FIGURE???????? Moron.
Posted by: JOhnnyBoy | December 3, 2011, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
He is trying to hold out until January so he can get matching funds from the Federal Government, Get it? He’s going to get the tax-payer to pay for his fake run for the presidency.
Posted by: David | December 3, 2011, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Another Republican narcissist bites the dust. All the Republican candidates have a personality disorder characterized by overestimation of his or her abilities and an excessive need for admiration. Newt is one of the most egotistical and condescending politicians I have ever witnessed. Romney changes his mind as often as he changes his socks. Why has the Republican Party forsaken Republicans; are they deliberately trying to make the Democrats look good and win the White House?
Posted by: T Trump | December 3, 2011, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
ABC – What is with the “slow down – you’re posting too quickly” stuff. Do you have anybody with an education above 3rd grade handling your website?
Posted by: sheba | December 3, 2011, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
The NEWT is next to FAIL!!
Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | December 3, 2011, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm
The ex-candidate represented moral and ethical corruptness that is prevalent in the human society. Twisting words works well in the corporate and political scenes but it can only take you so far until evidence starts piling up against you. The guy sensed that his escape routes are fast closing and had to do what he did before he couldn’t move.
Posted by: commongood | December 3, 2011, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
John at 4:02 – I really can’t believe that you would stay home (like you did in 08) and help to give a victory to Obama simply because your guy couldn’t pass the test. Find another candidate you can support and vote. Why waste YOUR VOTE? Vote for Ron Paul or anybody but don’t stay home. That’s just lazy and the reason this country is in so much trouble.
Posted by: sheba | December 3, 2011, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Note to future candidates—-if you have baggage, ‘friendships’ with women that your wife does not know about….a decade or more where you pay all their bills, and you want to keep that hush….best you re-think the presidential campaign run. You’d think you’d know that.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy | December 3, 2011, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
Remember that interview where Gloria Cain stated that she would not be the woman who would stand by her man and smile?? Well, that is exactly what she has just done! —–well, I dont think she’s smiling. It’s a sad thing to realize you’ve wasted your best years with a liar and a perv. BEST case scenario, he was ‘close friends’ with this women and never slept with her, yet….he paid her bills, which is proven and has texted her very often, she’s texted him hundreds of times and never once did he say “back off I’m married”. He admits he never told his wife about this ‘friendship’. uhh…………..why? If it was innocent, however HOW can it be innocent when you are paying her bills?????? Your wife should know if you’re paying another women’s bills! period! I dont care how much money you have, you do NOT pay the bills of another women unless you TELL YOUR WIFE!!!! I’m sure you would NOT like it if your wife went over some other man’s house and and had a special ‘friendship” with him and baked for him, repeatedly, making him meals, and hanging out with him only to say “oh we were just ‘friends’”. would you buy that?????? Please. Your poor wife. SHe just realized she wasted her life with you and you let her speak out and defend you in public!! Making a FOOL out of herself! Idiot. I feel so bad for her.
Posted by: JennyC | December 3, 2011, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
It’s amazing how little scruples the right wing has these days. This guy is a cheat. Dont tell me if you found out your wife, unknown to you, for the past 12 years has been hanging around a ‘special friend’ getting hundreds of texts from him, without every telling him to buzz off, in fact, going over his house, meeting him for dinner, giving him money, or whatever the equivalent for that from women to men is, and then, he comes forward and says he’s been sleeping with her all that time, you telling me, you’d say, “oh gee, honey, you never told me about your special friend, I believe you weren’t sleeping with him”. If you’re THAT dumb, I dont know, perhaps you should be trying to get Palin to run again. You’re not dealing with a full deck. So you’ve got this cheater, this liar, and when he fell from grace, you replace him with a Washington Lobbyist for Fannie and Freddie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A paid lobbyist for your most hated entity! How can you EVER say you have a problem with F&F or Barney Frank, when you’re supporting Gingrich, who is a LOBBYIST PAID by them to manipulate washington!! Frank was being lobbied BY Newt on behalf of F&F!!! and you’re fine with that??????? No wonder the Tea Party has zero support anymore.
Posted by: GrannyNosBest | December 3, 2011, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
Vote for Ron Paul or anybody but don’t stay home—do NOT say that voting for a crappy candidate is a good thing! That is why we are IN this recession. YOU all voted in Bush for his second term. YOu KILLED the economy. YOU SHOULD have stayed home, and let John Kerry be president. John Kerry had a plan to cut the deficit, John Kerry was VERY vocal in the predatorial Lending practices hearings of 2007, and had he been PRESIDENT the derivative trading would have stopped!!! do you realize that???? We would NOT have had the massive bank failure had you NOT voted in bush for a second term! FACT! If someone does not see a good republican candidate, so they stay home and allow the good democratic one to get in, that IS good for the country! It tells the republicans TO START SUPPORTING COMPETENT CANDIDATES or you will not get the win. Had you done that with bush’s second term, we’d not be i nthe mess we are in now. Had you never put BUsh in, we’d not have the Iraq war!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine how wonderful things would be had we never had that war. The Iraqis would have gotton Saddam himself, over 6000 americans would still be alive who are now dead and tens of thousands of injured handicapped veterans wouldbe walking around perfectly healthy and not costing us billions in VA bills. A bad republicans is NOT something to support!
Posted by: Johnnyboy | December 3, 2011, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
Plan B? Seriously? Too late. Plan B is the abortion pill.
Posted by: norasalias | December 3, 2011, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
LOL – I voted for John Kerry and I voted for Al Gore before that. I never voted for Bush Jr. However, Obama is not the answer to this country’s problems. He has created more problems.
Posted by: sheba | December 3, 2011, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
Another Jimmy Carter cannot solve the problems of this country. Don’t give Obama another 4 years to destroy this country.
Posted by: sheba | December 3, 2011, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
Doing this is all but an admission of guilt and now I consider him a quitter as well. Mr. Cain I am saddened not only by your lack of honesty but your lack of initiative to finish your campaign despite the slander and negative comments. I guess you arent the man for the job. Also your advisors gave you bad advice if they said to quit. A few weeks and maybe you would have been vindicated.
Posted by: Paulie | December 3, 2011, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
Among the many segregationists from the South were the original KKK folks like the very, very long-serving Robert Bryd, (D), David Duke (and many, many others). A serious study of the Democrat party before they figured out how to secure life-long devotion from the black community is all you need to know about what the Democrat party was all about. You’re so far off the mark it’s pathetic. You’ll have your modern liberal heroes no matter what they’ve done to generations of minorities.
Posted by: s | December 3, 2011, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
ABC – sensor much??? Allow some of the comments through. No wonder MSNBC has a bigger following.
Posted by: sheba | December 3, 2011, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm
Why, why, why do Republicans expect the rest of us to accept personal responsibility for bad choices and decisions, but they never EVER accept responsibility for their shortcomings?
Posted by: midfield91 | December 3, 2011, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
Get that pizza out of the oven, it’s cooked.
Does this guy remind you of the song “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy?
they caught me in a car with a girl needing a job – It wasn’t me
they caught me groping a girl at the convention – it wasn’t me
they even found out about my sex buddy of 13 years – it wasn’t me
I love this GOP race! The news has been a bit depressing and boring of late so this circus it the best show in town! Who’s next? The man with the magic underwear? Oh yea!
Posted by: tankingthinker | December 3, 2011, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
To all who have responded to this ABC item about Herman Cain and what has happened to him. First let me say how fortunate we are to be able to voice our opinion w/o fear of being thrown in prison. Do you think it just haooens? We earned the right by virtue of our government and the way it operates, but what we have now is slowly bringing us to our complete collapse. When you have the fox guarding the hen house and this is what we are faced with. Who amonge these public officials are not guillty of grievous wrongs??
Posted by: Albert Cherry Wilmington N.C. | December 3, 2011, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
I don’t know who is less credible, Herman Cain or Jerry Sandusky. I do know who is more incredible…anyone who believes either one of them!
Posted by: Troy Wood | December 3, 2011, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
Hey all you oh-so-sanctimonious people: somehow you all just *know* the truth because you’re all-knowing or mind readers (whatever). Well, since you know so much, while you’re congratulating yourself that you foresaw that this “scumbag” didn’t stand a chance, you also must know that we’re left with a heaping helping of horse manure. Take your pick from these options: Gingrich, Romney or OBAMA. Guess the jokes on you, huh?
Posted by: thatwasobvious | December 3, 2011, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
What a bunch of foolish sheep we Americans have become. We SAY we believe in “innocent until PROVEN guilty,” but then instantly jump at any opportunity to dig up or create dirt and/or slime that will incriminate those with whom we disagree, especially in the political realm. How sad to see the hatred and venom displayed in such rude and childish ways by one persuasion of Americas toward Herman Cain and other persuasions of Americans just because they are on what is perceived to be the “wrong” side of the political fence! We point fingers of accusation calling each other “stupid” and other ugly names. Have you ever noticed that when you point a finger of blame or accusation at others that there are THREE fingers of blame and accusation pointing right back at yourself? As they say, “It takes one to call or recognize one!” Grow up, America! We’re throwing our wonderful FREE country away!!!
Posted by: Barbara | December 3, 2011, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm
“Saturday announcement,” “suspending campaign”—when is this dude going to admit to all these allegations about sexual assaullt?
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm
@ABCNEWS.COM___Cain says, “I chose to run for president because the politicians in Washington, D.C., wouldn’t do their jobs, that’s why I chose to run,” Cain said. “They have failed to provide economic growth, they have failed to get spending under control. They have failed to make us less dependent on foreign oil. These are some of the reasons that inspired me to run for president.”______________And you, Mr. Cain, have failed to keep your pants zipped up. LOL
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
Ladies, take it from a man: Never feel powerless or intimidated when a man flexes his muscles to influence, seduce, and harass you. Be courageous, speak up, and let your voice be heard. In the end, it is your testimony that will bring down these scumbags.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm
. Don’t give Obama another 4 years to destroy this country.—-oh yes, of course, let’s put in Fannie and Freddie’s lobbyist instead. LOL!
Posted by: DanDman | December 3, 2011, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm
Left-wing hypocrits act like scandals are always on the “right”…. I’m sure David Wu, Anthony Weiner, Kwame Kilpatrick, John Edwards, David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer, Gary Condit, Mel Reynolds, Barney Frank, Gary Hart and Bill Clinton all agree with you!!!
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | December 3, 2011, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm
@ LADYDAEE |_____ “Ms. White??? Are you satisfied? Did you get enough money? Is it worth it? You have become an Honorary Jezebelle!”_________________YES! Next question.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
He talks about wanting to help the country? Yet he suspends his campaign instead of ending his campaign so can continue to raise funds and get matching federal funds. Sorry folks but the US is broke. (We have been broke for 30+ years by the way.) How come 3 trillion in debt wasn’t a bad thing but now 15 trillion is? In any household or business when you are running in the red….it is a bad thing. Thanks Herman for continuing to take federal matching funds to continue hurting the working american taxpayers for nothing. Please just go away. All politicians need to wake up. There is no place to hide during armegeddon.
Posted by: fedupamerican | December 3, 2011, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
I don’t know about you folks, but I am getting my Herman Cain’s T-shirt tomorrow.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
Barney Frank,——????? —-Barney Frank??? Newt LOBBIED Frank on behalf of Fannie & Freddie. How can you possibly have a problem with Barney Frank and NOT have a problem with Newt ?????? How do you spell hypocracy? R I G H T W I N G N U T
Posted by: sayagain | December 3, 2011, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
Can you imagine having a ‘special friend’ for 12 years, whom you pay all their bills, and not tell your wife, and imagine that you can run for president and you’re secret will never get out. I’m not even judging whether or not he had sex with her, just his cluelessness that this relationship would not be found out is amazing to me. Along with the two settle sexual harassment suits. He actually thought his former employee would settle twice, for sexual harassment by him, and no one would find out?????? We had investigators combing through Hawaiian records and travelling to Indonesia long after the state of Hawaii said “HE WAS BORN HERE” and EVERY conceivable piece of anything has been dug up on Obama, yet Cain thinks suits settled and on pubic record, and a ‘special friend” he neglects to tell his wife about, will remain secret. this guy is not dealing with a full deck.
Posted by: Luke | December 3, 2011, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
So men on this board, would you have a problem with your wife having a special friend who sends her hundreds of texts that she goes to see and gives money to, and she never tells you about him? And he claims he’s had sex with your wife. You believe your wife??? who never told you he existed? And only after he says he’s been doing her for 12 years says “oh him???? oh, he’s just a friend” Yeah. Spare us the ‘he’s innocent until….” because you KNOW you’d NOT be saying “oh that’s fine honey. You’re innocent untril proven guilty. Go ahead, go see him again and give him more of our money…”
Posted by: SandyD | December 3, 2011, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Actually, i think absolutely he had a long term affair. however, that would not preclude me from thinking he’s unable to be president if he was competent and had a long track record of success and competent governance. My problem with Cain is that he’s a dumb man. He’s nowhere near able to president of the United state. Aside from some sympathy for his wife, I dont care that he had an affair, however, his lack of foresight that this would come out is a testament to his lack of thought process. My condolences to his family for being his family.
Posted by: Ted | December 3, 2011, 10:47 pm 10:47 pm
ARROGANT TILL THE END. THAT IS HERMAN CAIN
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | December 3, 2011, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Forget about policy for a second and look at the irony. We have in the Whitehouse, at this moment, a handsome, articulate, well educated half black, half white man and a beautiful, graceful and gracious black first lady. Both are totally committed to each other and to their daughters. But that wasn’t good enough for the right, they tried to cast him as a non-citizen, Kenyan born non-Christian Muslim. Well, that didn’t work, although there are still some who believe that tripe, and they ended up looking like nothing but a bunch of racists. Couldn’t have that, could they? So they trotted out good old Hermie, a salt of the earth, good Christian businessman. Now it’s “oopsie” time for the right. Hermie appears to be a long way from being a good Christian or a good family man. Don’t know about any of you but I’ve not seen much from the right lately in any posts regarding stories about Hermie. Maybe he just got his numbers turned upside down and meant 666 all along.
Posted by: Realityhound42 | December 3, 2011, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
His poor wife, going on tv publicly and saying “I stand by my man”. why would he let her do that? Talk about selfish.
Posted by: PoorGloriaUShouldntHaveDoneIt | December 3, 2011, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm
You didn’t win the Republican nomination, Herman?
Look in the mirror Herman, and blame yourself.
Posted by: BlameYourselfHerman | December 3, 2011, 11:48 pm 11:48 pm
Since he’s suspended his Campaign, now he should have ample time to secure legal means to pursuit those women who filed all those “false accusations” against him which caused “the continued hurt” to him and his family. On the other hand if he chooses to do nothing – then the whole world will know that he’s nothing but a liar and just one of many corrupted businessmen. Mr. Herman Cain, talk is cheap especially empty one!
Posted by: Get_Down | December 4, 2011, 1:28 am 1:28 am
VICTORY ACCOMPLISHED….
Congrats to ABC.
Posted by: Karl Stalin | December 4, 2011, 7:41 am 7:41 am
Left-wing hypocrites act like scandals are always on the “Right”….
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | December 3, 2011, 10:19 pm.
And Right Wing hypocrites act like sex scandals are always on the Left. Funny how that works. I remember the utter GLEE with which the Right attacked Anthony Weiner last summer. And he wasn’t accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, or carry on a 13 year adulterous affair while touting his Conservative Christian ideals. Yet they absolutely excoriated Weiner. As the Right is so fond of saying, “Turn about is fair play”…..
Posted by: Searambler | December 4, 2011, 8:42 am 8:42 am
Friday, the day before Cain finally bailed, his wife started an organization called “Women for Cain”. I think it’s some kind of new dating service……..
Posted by: Searambler | December 4, 2011, 8:45 am 8:45 am
“I chose to run for president because the politicians in Washington, D.C., wouldn’t do their jobs, that’s why I chose to run,” Cain said.
LOL! Doubtful, Herman. I think you ‘chose’ to run because it would bring you a lot of publicity to hype your book sales. And because the Koch brothers PAC, Americans for Prosperity, said “Don’t worry, Herman. We’ll take care of everything”. Which is why you never bothered to hire an actual campaign staff of your own. One was handed to you. And that is really ironic, considering the Koch brothers of today would have been the plantation owners of the South, pre-Civil War……………..
Posted by: Searambler | December 4, 2011, 8:51 am 8:51 am
Just a little too coincidental… don’t you think??? —— Nobody cared that Sharon Bialek just happen to live in David Axelrod’s apartment building in Chicago…. Nobody cared that Kraushaar was hired a year ago by the Obama Administration to work in the Treasury Department…. very well orchestrated!!! —– They are lining up dirt on Gingrich now!!
Posted by: TheLoyalOpposition | December 4, 2011, 9:16 am 9:16 am
TheLoyalOpposition | December 4, 2011, 9:16 am post —————— LOL! I guess it wouldn’t be yet another self-inflicted negative story about a Republican without a good old fashioned conspiracy theory…………
Posted by: Searambler | December 4, 2011, 9:30 am 9:30 am
Just a little too coincidental… don’t you think??? —— —?????? —– how about dealing with reality. (1) the two sexual harrassment settlements are part of public record. VET YOUR CANDIDATES (2) He DOES have a ‘special friendship’ with this women, who’s bills he’s been paying for the past 10 years, who he did NOT tell his wife! Pal, deal with reality. VET YOUR CANDIDATES!! I actually dont think an affair is a reason to end a candidacy per se, but apparently, HIS WIFE DID NOT KNOW and his marriage is in big trouble! Typical republican you are blaming others . It’s nobody’s fault but Cains that any of this existed in the first place. Dont blame people for vetting a candidate. That’s what’s supposed to happen during an election cycle.
Posted by: republicanswhiningagain | December 4, 2011, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
Cain’s run has dispelled the misguided notion, propogated by the Left, that Republicans are racist. Obama got the Democratic nomination over Clinton for one reason—Blacks voted as a block. Cain was on top in the polls (self-described Republican voters) until the allegations of sexual misconduct hit the news. There is no black constiuency large enough among Republicans to have any significant effect on those polls.
Posted by: free_2_choose | December 4, 2011, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
It is so funny to see all the Democrats cheering the ruin of another American who didn’t do anything wrong! Where is the proof? Why do you accept the women’s words as fact, yet immediately discredit Cain’s? Oh, right, he’s a Republican and can’t be trusted. Congratulations, Dems, you (indirectly) smeared yet another innocent American’s name and almost ruined his life. So, so sad.
Posted by: Em In OH | December 5, 2011, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
Newt is next…….the wings are on fire. Bye Bye Newt.
Posted by: fedupamerican | December 8, 2011, 11:35 pm 11:35 pm