Herman Cain ‘reassessing’ his presidential bid
We’re getting slightly mixed message from Herman Cain’s campaign staff on whether the candidate intends to remain in the Republican presidential hunt. From the Associated Press in Atlanta:
Herman Cain’s Iowa campaign chairman [says] that the candidate is reassessing his presidential campaign a day after an Atlanta businesswoman alleged a 13-year extramarital affair with the Republican.
Steve Grubbs says that on a conference call with senior staff early Tuesday, Cain said the allegations have taken an emotional toll on his family but that he’s moving ahead with the campaign.
Still, Grubbs said Cain told his staff he would be reassessing how to move forward given that the allegations have damaged his fundraising.
The Iowa chairman said Cain still planned to deliver a foreign policy speech in Michigan later Tuesday.
On the other hand, Daniel Malloy, the AJC’s man in Washington, just got off the phone with Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon, who sent this note:
Gordon acknowledged that Cain in a staff call this morning used the word “reassess” about the campaign, but said it was not about whether or not he was going to drop out. Similar reassessments took place after the Iowa straw poll and at one point when the campaign was low on money, he said.
“My interpretation of that is that we are looking to assess where we are at today and where we need to be moving into the primary,” Gordon said.
The campaign will rethink what states Cain visits, the types of speeches he gives and what interviews he conducts.
National Review Online was listening in on the five-minute conference call, and has already produced a transcript.
Earlier this morning, Atlanta radio talk show host Neal Boortz, for whom Cain often subbed on AM750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB, said that it might be time for Cain to leave the race.
Boortz was touted on Monday as a VIP who would be attending the Saturday opening of Cain’s new Georgia headquarters in DeKalb County.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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barry
November 29th, 2011
12:49 pm
To all the people who really think he is running for president just to sell books are idiots! I don’t believe a man would risk a 43year old marriage just to have a #1 bestseller.
Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, Sr
November 29th, 2011
12:51 pm
As an Yellow-Dog proud Democratic voter and contributor I am glad that Cain is getting what he deserved. He said that I and other African-American voters were stupid, ignorant, and brain-washed. Well Mr. Cain I do not go around harassing a bunch of white back-stabbing white women.who just go with me or the money thay can steal from my family. In this world we all get what we surely deserve and your time has now come. As a pround “brain-washed” African-American whose vote and money goes to the Democratic party I just want to say that you embarrassed the African-American community. People who embarrass us need to know we have lnog memories. By the way Cain I want you to tell us why you never marched for Civil Rights in the 1960’s. The African-American community does not tolerate any cowards!
REALITY
November 29th, 2011
12:51 pm
REALITY Folks..get ready for four more years of Obama..PERIOD…
sam
November 29th, 2011
12:52 pm
lol … Dave you funny … listen man … i dont care what you guys say about obama …. he is doing fine … put somebody on the ballots who makes sense …. no drama, and i will vote for them … i am a black man and i never liked cain from the beginning … he talks too much … shut up and do your job man. alot of people dont like obama for some other reason. if he was a Republican i would vote for him. the guy just make sense man
see no evil
November 29th, 2011
12:52 pm
Sure Herman Cain tells the truth and all of these women are liars… LOL. Herman Cain couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it. Just check out all of the “politifact” investigations into Cain. All lies and many of them “pants on fire”! It’s a fool who believes a word that crosses his lips.
p.s. Boortz is nothing but a blow-hard who likes to stir the pot. You get more intelligent news from TMZ of Entertainment tonight.
Chuck
November 29th, 2011
12:54 pm
Dave. Get Help! ASAP. And stop doing, whatever drugs, drugs you are on. Newt is no match for the President. I wish this would come to be but I know it never will.
Joke
November 29th, 2011
12:54 pm
hmm..so as Americans we ARE worried about Character flaws..maybe we should have been worried about REAL POLITICAL EXPERIENCE flaws..then we wouldn’t have ended up with the Wall Street Puppet aka “Obama.”
Carol
November 29th, 2011
12:54 pm
Dave
*groan……of course it’s about his skin color, Carol. Of COURSE it’s racism…..*sarcasm. You Libs always resort to the race card with Obumble because any time you see his poll numbers, “it’s because people are against Obama because he’s black!”….
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You have me mixed up with someone else. I don’t pull the race card unless I believe it’s actually true. None of my comments discuss race.
Yep, Carol...
November 29th, 2011
12:56 pm
…same ‘ol mantra -”get this country back on track” – you really meet the definition of insanity to a “T” – I believe with the Dems have been in charge of the congress for the past 6 years, and it is the Dems who have “ridden this train off the track” – and the Dems continue to be “led” by a bumbler who has no earthly idea about how to lead – but let’s not let facts get in the way of “the mantra”…
Black man's krytonite
November 29th, 2011
12:56 pm
Dave…Race issues still run deep in this country. Members of the house and senate on both sides have never embraced him. They won’t work with him, nor offer up any ideas of intelligence. Anyone that made it past 3rd grade social studies knows our system is set up so that the President does not have much power. It’s a checks and balance system. The real problem are the men and women in the house and senate. Again, any intelligent, black male with a degree in the corporate world has or is going through the same. It’s nothing new to us.
Tammy
November 29th, 2011
12:57 pm
A little bit too much “let me just put the head in” if you ask me.
Hey, Dave...
November 29th, 2011
12:58 pm
…”i am a black man and i never liked cain from the beginning … he talks too much … shut up and do your job man. alot of people dont like obama for some other reason. if he was a Republican i would vote for him. the guy just make sense man”
And just what is it about Obama that “makes sense”? He does not lead, he does not lead, and well, he does not lead…so to
blkshepherd
November 29th, 2011
12:59 pm
The Only one I feel bad for is Mrs Cain and their children. I would be offended if I were Mrs.Cain because its Clear to see what type of Flavor Hermy perfers in his ahem Time off. Clearly, Like Tiger Woods he has a taste for a certain Type. Yes, eventually whats done in the dark will come out. I know Mrs. Cain feels like a Fool being used. Its clear Mrs Cain, you were simply a Cover.
If he was SO in love with you he would never have crossed to the other side of the street and I refuse to believe all these women who Suppose to be his friends, whom he helped with then they had money problems made these stories up. Why oh WHy would they seek to destroy him? Friends DONT do that. They are throwing him under the bus while its moving.
Sorry Cain, You attack Obama. now how does it feel? BTW, I had no intentions of Voting for you Anyway. with or with out scandal. I simply Never like your face. and BTW I am very Black. So dont try to pull that race card crap on me.
Atlanta Native
November 29th, 2011
1:00 pm
ATTN: Cobb County New’t Neighbor
Right on, brother!
Uh, Dave
November 29th, 2011
1:00 pm
“i am a black man and i never liked cain from the beginning … he talks too much … shut up and do your job man. alot of people dont like obama for some other reason. if he was a Republican i would vote for him. the guy just make sense man”
Just what is it that Obama has done “to lead”? I wish, like you, that he would ” shut up and do your job man”…
GUNGA DIN
November 29th, 2011
1:01 pm
I’ve always questioned the sanity of these candidates that refuse to accept the fact that they can not win. how big is their ego. do you really want a candidate that is that out of touch with the real world. this includes cain, bachman and all those other low end candidates who are barley a blip in the polls. how delusional can you be !!
Winger
November 29th, 2011
1:01 pm
Carol – I don’t want our train back on Obama’s track to socialism. He’s already telling privately owned companies how much they can charge for their goods and services. Wait until he tells you how much you can earn, then tell me you like that train. Anyway, the media now elect our politicians instead of just reporting on the campaigns. They depend on people like you.
sam
November 29th, 2011
1:02 pm
Hey people I refuse to believe in this racism crap .. lets move on from that. out of all the guys running for office black or white …. who has any PRESIDENTIAL experience … tell me who. i am glad cain is done because he was an embarrassment the GOP and black people …
hl
November 29th, 2011
1:02 pm
If Cain’s values were pulling him down, Newt’s wouldn’t be rising.
Joe the Plumber Too
November 29th, 2011
1:05 pm
@ black mans: “the hate for president Obama has always been about color.”
I can’t stand the piece of crap, does that make me anti-black? Cause if it does I sure hope nobody tells my mama and I lose my invite to family reunions and ballgames. You need to get off your pity party race baiting garbage and be the best man you can be. Being black doesn’t hold blacks down in America anymore, it’s clowns like you always playing the race card that does. Coming up, I made sure I didn’t listen to the idiots on the street corner bit**ing about how wronged they’d been done, I saw past that and realized I could go as far as I allowed myself to go without some sympathy crutch because I was born American, you should try it sometime.It doesn’t matter who runs against urkle, the pretender in chief is toast. In a little over 11 months, he gets fired and in just 13 months him and me-shell get evicted.
RAMZAD
November 29th, 2011
1:07 pm
Herman Cain was never right for America, and he was not even bright enough to recognize that he would prove it himself.
Carol
November 29th, 2011
1:07 pm
blkshephard
The Only one I feel bad for is Mrs Cain and their children. I would be offended if I were Mrs.Cain because its Clear to see what type of Flavor Hermy perfers in his ahem Time off. Clearly, Like Tiger Woods he has a taste for a certain Type. Yes, eventually whats done in the dark will come out. I know Mrs. Cain feels like a Fool being used. Its clear Mrs Cain, you were simply a Cover
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I agree. I feel most sorry for his family. They never had to go through this if his ego hadn’t gotten in the way. But someone somewhere told him to run. He says it was God–maybe? I know that the Bible does say pride goes before destruction…
Hard Truth Soldier
November 29th, 2011
1:10 pm
I got the biggest question that’s never asked, where the hell do these women come from, and why is it so important to destroy a man when he running for office? Most of you so called “Moral” Americans need to quit with your lies, 60% of you can’t stand your spouses to the point where you divorcing in this country, and they pay these adultress sluts to talk. She was a slut, nothing more, nothing less, and the media eats this stuff for lunch. I wonder how often she thought about Hermans wife if any of this is true. Men in power aren’t the problem, women chasing married men that they know have a family is the real problem.
MB
November 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
I wonder if all of those who have contributed to the Cain campaign feel, well…… “cheated on”.
td
November 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
Black man’s krytonite
November 29th, 2011
12:41 pm
Ed, the hate for president Obama has always been about color. No one can point to one piece of legislation that has called for people to say the things that are being said. The president is going through what all degree carrying, intelligent black males encounter in the corporate sect. This is just being played out for the whole country and world to see
This is total bull and you know it. Obama got a total pass from the press on his rise. His version of his background was all that was ever played to the American people. He won the historical election and is the first African American to be President. The feel good story is over now and it is time to show him for the Socialist he is and all the gloves will be taken off this time. Has nothing to do with race and everything to do with philosophy.
The one great thing about Cains candidacy is this whole racist bull is over now and Obama can be treated as any other Socialist candidate is treated.
fred
November 29th, 2011
1:14 pm
Hopefully the idiot cain will pull out of the race instead of denying everything and shove his 999 up his rear! Good Day!!!
Mark
November 29th, 2011
1:15 pm
@ No, Carol…
November 29th, 2011
12:36 pm
…the Obumblers hope to re-elect the Obumbler, still with that hope and change mantra – by the way, how is the “hope and change” thingy working out for you – LOL – THAT is the insanity to which you Dems seem to aspire, and to which the insanity will apply if the Obumbler wins again…
You obviously have spent too much time listening to Sarah Palin
Mitzymy
November 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
Herman Cain never wanted to be president. He knew he wasn’t qualified, and it took him by surprise that anyone took him serious. He just wanted to be better known so that he could pad his retirement package. He was in his 40’s or 50’s when he was courting all of these women. Men who want to be president have already started working on it by that age, and realizing that what they do will end up on record somewhere. He had not thought about it until Obama was elected, as his latest woman acknowledged. She said their affair stopped in 2008.
Justin
November 29th, 2011
1:17 pm
@ td
November 29th, 2011
1:11 pm
Black man’s krytonite
November 29th, 2011
12:41 pm
Ed, the hate for president Obama has always been about color. No one can point to one piece of legislation that has called for people to say the things that are being said. The president is going through what all degree carrying, intelligent black males encounter in the corporate sect. This is just being played out for the whole country and world to see
This is total bull and you know it. Obama got a total pass from the press on his rise. His version of his background was all that was ever played to the American people. He won the historical election and is the first African American to be President. The feel good story is over now and it is time to show him for the Socialist he is and all the gloves will be taken off this time. Has nothing to do with race and everything to do with philosophy.
The one great thing about Cains candidacy is this whole racist bull is over now and Obama can be treated as any other Socialist candidate is treated.
I’m beginning to believe that you are just one ignorant @sshole!
Hard Truth Soldier
November 29th, 2011
1:19 pm
Don’t make this a RACE ISSUE, it’s stupidity, not race that got Herm backing up.
fred
November 29th, 2011
1:20 pm
:Joe the Plummer too……. Good statement. Seems like when one talks bad about the idiot from Kenya it ALL ABOUT RACE!!!! Thats not true, I dont like his White Half either. Hopefully Americans will boot his chicken lickin butt out of DC. If not, we sure got plenty more jokes for him.
rob
November 29th, 2011
1:21 pm
as an independant voter….Newt would absolutly crush Obama in the debates, Newt would speak and Obama would spend 10 minutes stuttering along trying to prentend he knows how to rebuttle…
catlady
November 29th, 2011
1:21 pm
Will he “reassess” what he thinks about the issues? or IF he thinks about the issues?
Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, Sr
November 29th, 2011
1:22 pm
As an African-American who is a Yellow-Dog Democratic Voter andContributor, I say that Cain’s behavior embarrassed the African-American Community. We do not tolerate any one in our community whose behavior is an embarrassment to our great community. There is no excuse his wpomaniziong and lies. We in the African-American Community do not tolerate liars in our midst and Cain owes usall an profounf apology for his womanizing and lies. Maybe if he would quit hanging around the adulterer Gingrich and McClain he could see the error in his way. Apolgize Now Cain!
Carol
November 29th, 2011
1:22 pm
Hard truth Soldier
Men in power aren’t the problem, women chasing married men that they know have a family is the real problem.
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Both are adults. Neither seem to have a learning disability. They are BOTH equally wrong. Who said she went after him? She may have simply said yes. And even if she pursued him, if he was so morally upright then the answer should have been no.
Fat Seecious
November 29th, 2011
1:25 pm
When Republicans started turning presidential races into morality plays, they should have realized that even good men and women make mistakes. Let’s not forget who told us that CHARACTER MATTERS. You bet it matters. And it’s destroyed half your field.
Carol
November 29th, 2011
1:26 pm
Justin
Obama got a total pass from the press on his rise. His version of his background was all that was ever played to the American people. He won the historical election and is the first African American to be President. The feel good story is over now and it is time to show him for the Socialist he is and all the gloves will be taken off this time. Has nothing to do with race and everything to do with philosophy.
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A pass you must be suffering from amnesia:
1. He’s not a U.S. Citizen
2. He doesn’t wear a flag pin so he’s not patriotic
3. He attended a racist church for 20 years.
4. He pals around with terrorist.
5. He’s a Muslim
And that’s just the beginning of the list. Almost every one of those has off shoots. You Repubs kill me with your history lessons after the fact.
itsme
November 29th, 2011
1:27 pm
How in the world could Herman Cain be forced to get out of the race and Newt Gingrich still be a viable candidate?!
flash
November 29th, 2011
1:29 pm
The biggest problem is that he is a big lie the other issues is between him and his wife.Only a fool would believe Cain a DAM FOOL
Linda
November 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
It’s over, too many character issues…..
Smoke
November 29th, 2011
1:30 pm
I wonder if Rep. Joe Wilson will be in the balcony when Cain goes to South Carolina?
MRB
November 29th, 2011
1:31 pm
Unfortunately, if there truely were nothing to all of these allegation, Mr. Cain would have already begun civil, slander proceedings against these women.
Hard Truth Soldier
November 29th, 2011
1:32 pm
O.K. didn’t wanna talk Race in this but since it is so relevant in this discussion, lets get real. President Obama has never been looked at as a Bi-Racial Prez, he’s been looked at as a black President. America will always find away to make race relevant in these issues, but be honest when you do. White people, Black People stop thinking you truly know each other, because although close, our worlds when it comes to race are a million miles apart.
honested
November 29th, 2011
1:32 pm
If only this could have waited until deep into the primaries.
Between this clown and the newtster, Democratic fundraising should break all previous records this year.
Is this the best repugs can put forward?
Paul
November 29th, 2011
1:32 pm
Thanks for the rare wise comment herein, Steve – moderate Hunstman or moderate Obama for me, steering clear of the nutjobs on BOTH sides. Actually, moderates are at around 88% of us, the rest are just louder and more obnoxious.
The Ruthless Way
November 29th, 2011
1:34 pm
All this love and support for Obama because every liberal is scared of an alternative voice! You always question the validity and morality of the GOP candidates. What exactly has Obama done while in office or before he got elected for that matter? Please….seriously list his outstanding accomplishments/achievements as president. It’s time for a new voice in this country and Obama is not the answer. You may not agree with GOP candidates, but sticking with the same ol same ol isnt going to get us anywhere. I do agree with Obama on one thing though….It is time for CHANGE!!!!!
Smoke
November 29th, 2011
1:35 pm
All Cain has to do is get Clarence Thomas to hold a special hearing and testify under oath down at the Georgia Pacific building.
Hard Truth Soldier
November 29th, 2011
1:37 pm
@ Carol, It’s a womans right to say no. Why go public, for money? Sorry that’ s a tramps move right there. Makes all women look like Goldiggers.
The Ruthless Way
November 29th, 2011
1:38 pm
Baseball analogy:
If Fredi Gonzalez had 4 straight years of losing seasons as the head coach for the Braves then everyone would be looking to hire a new leader. Period!!! Someone who could possibly get results. It may not be guaranteed, but its worth a shot considering Fredi wasnt getting the job done. You may not agree with potential coach replacements coaching methods or strategies, but you already know what you get with Fredi…..more losing seasons.
Now apply that to this hot mess of a political climate. We need a new Leader!!!
Fat Seecious
November 29th, 2011
1:39 pm
It never ceases to amaze me that the Republican response to a Republican scandal is DEMOCRAT this and LIBERAL that. If you can’t address the issues under your own roof, how in the world do you expect to be the leader of the free world?