Gingrich Says Herman Cain Needs to Think Prayerfully About What’s Next, and As For VP Cain…..
EmailWEST DES MOINES, IOWA – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had some advice for his fellow Republican presidential candidate, embattled businessman Herman Cain: Stop, open up your heart, and think prayerfully about what you owe your family.
Gingrich also seemed to suggest that Cain would no longer be on his vice presidential short list, as he had suggested in the past.
Our interview with the new Republican frontrunner will air on World News Thursday night, and Good Morning America Friday morning.
TAPPER: Your friend Herman Cain who probably has had better months in his life, you have been through difficult political storms, what would your advice to him be and do you still think he would be on your short list for vice president?
GINGRICH: Well, I mean, my advice to Herman having lived through a lot of different experiences is he has to stop and open up his heart and he has to think very prayerfully about what he owes his own family and what he owes his own future. I don’t think any of the rest of us can tell him what he ought to do and I think he needs to deal with it and I don’t have any comment on Herman beyond that until he decides what he’s going to do.
TAPPER: Do you still he’s still vice presidential material?
GINGRICH: I think he’s a very fine person, but I think he’s got to sort through where he’s at. And that’s something that’s very personal and it’s something he and his family need to do together.
-Jake Tapper and Team Iowa: Stephanie Smith, Shushannah Walshe, and Elicia Dover
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Gingrich advising people on the topic of marital fidelity is priceless. Like when he was insisting on the impeachment of Clinton for an affair while being out with a mistress of his own. Newt is a glass house who shouldn’t throw stones.
Posted by: gphx | December 1, 2011, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm
I was concerned for Obama for a while. Then came the Tea Party and their henchmen, Republican US Congress and the rest is history. The are actually people still giving money to Cain. They say he is being “attacked” by these terrible women. All five, six, seven…of them. Nobody tha is nominated by these people will win the presidency. The Tea Party sticker is like an expiration date long past.
Tea Party: you are not very smart. Really. Not the brightest bulbs.
Posted by: Jay | December 1, 2011, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm
Hello? What is this man talking about? Mr. Gingrich married his high school Math teacher when he was 19 and she 29. Then, he divorced two wives who had cancer. He says it was NOT while they were sick. Whatever. This is hardly a man who should give others advice about prayer and marriage, OK?? Some people don’t know when to shut up. Guess who is at the top of THAT list.
Posted by: Jesse Harrol | December 2, 2011, 12:12 am 12:12 am
Arrogance knows no bounds epecially in politics. What these arrogant politicians are unwilling to realize is if Herman Cain who has a 40 year stellar career can be taken down by false and misleading accusations so can they. There is definitely a group probably Republicans that are unwilling to give up the behind the scene power that knoew if Herman made it much farther it would be impossible to stop him! How unbelievable in America and personally I believe we have seen our best days when accusations by what James Carvel would say is “White Trailer Trash” can destroy a man and do it with out impunity with the total support of the MSM including Fox News who has been co-opted as well. Only by God’s Grace does America continue FREE!
Posted by: DLCLS | December 2, 2011, 4:16 am 4:16 am
Nothing’s new here. Just another jerk politician thinking he’s telling you what you want to hear.
Too bad he can’t even get that right. Newts egotism alone will do him in and that’s fine with me.
One less warmonger to gum up the revolution.
Posted by: Dan | December 2, 2011, 4:45 am 4:45 am
The last federalist/conservative standing is Rick Santorum in a battle within the liberal wing of the Republican Party between progressives/libertarians. Santorum/West. As Gingrich has aptly noted, do not seek the middle. Let the middle come to you. In essence to all the self-declared progressives/libertarians/moderates/independents aka homosexuals/bisexuals with an irrational hatred of straight people for whom they would never cast a vote, piss off.
Posted by: rjligier | December 2, 2011, 7:36 am 7:36 am
How can anyone believe a word this man says? If he betrayed his own family, he’ll betray you too, the moment the next best thing comes along. The Republican Party should not nominate an adulterer (and in this case, an adultress), period. Adultery should disqualify anyone from being President. How could we go so far from our family values roots? Yes, Newt can repent and we can forgive. However, it would be foolishness to forget. Bernie Madoff can repent and I can forgive him, but if I then make Bernie the Secretary of the Treasury, what does that make me?
Posted by: hrs44 | December 2, 2011, 8:40 am 8:40 am
If Cain leaves, I hope he endorses Newt and….gives him some workers and staff for the upcoming battles. One thing Newt can do except give advice is to tell voters that any conserv is open season for distortions, lies, smears and WH and MSM blasting. If if if Cain is not guilty and we all find out some pol or group funded these women to lie about him, then one knows that voters will have to really be careful of any MSM or Dem reports on Pub candidates. This has been a strategy for the Left for decades and guys like Bill Press, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart , Bob Beckel, and Bob Schrum all pile on with the smears and think they are funny. Perhaps in 2012, the last laugh will be on them especially if Newt wins the nomination.
Posted by: Glenn Koons, LB, Ca. | December 2, 2011, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
If the Republican nominee ends up being a squirrel in a suit and tie, we need to vote for the squirrel. We are really at the same place we were in 2008 when the “conservative” choice was McCain. And look what happened. Learn from it.
Posted by: Recruiterdeb | December 2, 2011, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm
This man can’t even give a straight answer. When ask if Cain would make a good VP, he did his best not to answer it. Ron Paul for me!
Posted by: Bishop | December 3, 2011, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Us women are very familiar with the likes of Herman Cain. We’ve been hit
on in piggish manners by these kinds of men – Cain isn’t man enough to own
up to his misbehavior so all vestiges of respect are completely gone.
Clinton was piggish too……..but his charm let him get away with it
Most of these “types” lack charm however. The married ones are
the worst. Judge Thomas was another arrogant sort who thought
it was okay to disrespect a lovely woman. When will these guys
learn that eventually they have to pay the price of being a jerk?!
Posted by: lollykins | December 4, 2011, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
What a poor selection of candidates we are offered. Obama will
win again by default, not because we love him either. Cain should
go back to his pizza parlors this time as a short order cook.
PLEASE……NO MORE LIARS & CHEATERS RUNNING FOR THE
MOST IMPORTANT POSITON IN THE WORLD.
Posted by: Lolly | December 4, 2011, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm