Herman Cain and his wife’s permission
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, with his wife Gloria in the background, salutes the crowd before announcing the suspension of his campaign. AP/David Tulis
In the end, Herman Cain’s wife, the diminutive woman he said held the key to his future as a presidential candidate, was a case of misdirection.
For days, Herman Cain had told the friendly faces on cable TV that he would head home to Atlanta for a face-to-face discussion with Gloria, his spouse of 43 years – the woman he first romanced with a movie date at Lenox Square, but who had declined to become part of his political quest.
Without her support, Cain said, his Republican campaign would collapse in the face of a new allegation that he had engaged in a long-time affair with another woman – a charge that he had denounced not just as untrue, but unproven.
So on Saturday, a very specific question hung over the new state headquarters for the Cain campaign, a storefront operation close enough to I-85 in DeKalb County to catch the breeze created by the traffic. Would Gloria Cain be there? Several hundred Cain fans were given two hours to mull the situation over.
Kay Godwin and Pat Tippett drove more than five hours from south Georgia to be there. If you are a politician in Georgia interested in winning a statewide race, you know that the two women are the fulcrum for thousands of Republican votes below the gnat line.
Godwin has known Cain for 20 years. She thinks the sexual accusations against him are hogwash, a creation of a fearful Republican establishment and the liberal media. But on Saturday, during the waiting, she also declared that she thought that Cain had been ill-served by his national staff.
“Pat and I have the 1st Congressional District. We have 26 of our 29 counties already organized. We have a conference call with them every Tuesday night,” Godwin said.
Cain supporters in south Georgia had come to two conclusions. “No. 1, if he doesn’t get rid of [campaign manager] Mark Block and those people surrounding him, he’s going nowhere,” the GOP activist said.
That included Atlanta lawyer Lin Wood, who, in Cain’s defense, had issued a letter declaring that what two consenting adults do behind bedroom doors is nobody’s business.
Demand No. 2, Godwin said, was for Cain’s wife to be by his side that afternoon. “We can stand behind him and know he’s telling the truth if his wife stands behind him,” she said. “If she’s not going to be there – I’m driving five and a half hours from south Georgia up here for somebody whose wife isn’t going to cross town to stand by him?”
At 1:30 p.m., the bus with Herman Cain’s face on it pulled close to the headquarters. The candidate was the first out. He held out his right hand, and helped his wife down the stairs.
“Gloria! Gloria!” the crowd shouted, their hopes lifted by her presence, as she and her husband came to the stage. Block, the campaign manager with the famous cigarette habit, stood silently in the background, holding Cain’s trademark black cowboy hat.
The candidate spoke of the remarkable distance he’d traveled from his birthplace, on Pelham Street in Atlanta’s old Fifth Ward, the son of a maid and a Coca-Cola chauffeur.
He was one of a trio of men in line, on the Republican side, to become the most powerful figure in the world. Add President Barack Obama for good measure, he said. “I’m in the Final Four. We’re in the Final Four.”
But Cain admitted that the last few days had caused irreparable damage. “That spin hurts. It hurts my wife. It hurts my family. It hurts me. And it hurts the American people, because you’re being denied solutions to our problems,” he said.
But he wanted the crowd to know this: “I am at peace with God.” And then Cain pointed to the woman behind him. “I am at peace with my wife. And she is at peace with me,” he said.
The hopeful chants began again. “Gloria! Gloria! Gloria!”
“That being said,” Cain continued – and finally pulled the rug out from under the grand opening of his campaign headquarters. He would suspend his campaign, he told a stunned and befuddled crowd.
As it turned out, Gloria Cain’s permission wasn’t the key to continuing his candidacy. Her husband admitted that, in the wake of five weeks of scandal, his contributions had dried up.
But his wife’s presence was absolutely essential to Cain’s ability to retire from the field with his reputation intact – so that he might maintain his influence as a Republican player.
For Cain, Plan B is something called thecainsolution.com, a place on the Internet where he can still push his “9-9-9” plan. The Stockbridge entrepreneur will follow the lead of Sarah Palin, and attempt to become a political persona who operates outside the political process – as his campaign tried to do, but failed.
“One of the reasons that I ran for president of the United States was that so I could change Washington D.C. from the inside,” he said. “Plan B is that we’re going to have to change it from the outside.”
And with that, the Saturday crowd began to drift away, perhaps to their TV sets. The Bulldogs were still an undefeated possibility.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Eddie Long
December 4th, 2011
3:38 pm
Hang in there HERMAN, they always trying to keep a strong black man down.
td
December 4th, 2011
3:40 pm
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:35 pm
Sorry wrong again. The killing of OSB is one of the few things I will give credit for doing right in his administration. Although, I bet none of you libs will admit that Obama was following the policies put in place by Bush?
Eddie Long
December 4th, 2011
3:41 pm
@td
told ya ya’ll’s playbook is the same as your predecessors the KKK. same song same dance
linberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:42 pm
@fred douglass
he’llgo back to talk radio and bash blacks to make his idiot racist callers feel good about themselves
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:45 pm
what do black conservatives do to curry favor from whites? they bash black people, becausev they know it gives racists a warm fuzzy feeling.
rudikkingme
December 4th, 2011
3:46 pm
Obama has three years of experience being the prez, morons. Newt has zero.
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:46 pm
Enter your comments here
liberal
poo Bear
December 4th, 2011
3:46 pm
Straight Talk, You need to let in go, Take a deep breath, go for a walk, Take a cold shower, Walk your dog, Do something else besides posting on this site, Please!!!!!
Sister Sarah
December 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
@td
I am AMAZED that you cannot see even in your OWN posting (from the Tea Party website) what is so problematic with the declaration. Well, actually…I am not at all amazed, just being sarcastic. The “actual credit for the movement is still under debate”(??). Why do you suppose that is so td?? Maybe because there has been an effort to downplay the fact that the Tea Party protests and the physical movement showed itself after Obama took office?? Do you think it strange that Ron Paul and his organization have nothing to do with the current Tea Party movement? In other words… the TPM attempted to latch itself onto the Ron Paul Tax day thing, but it is WELL documented that that was an altogether different movement. There is documentation all over the place that verifies that the Tea Party Movement began in 2009. It all started with the Tea Bag thing which we all saw on television all over the country. You can keep spouting the same B-S all you want; it does not change the facts. And really, I am done dealing with you. Your skull is about as thick as concrete and you are a WASTE of all of our brain cells.
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:48 pm
one minute the conservatives want an outsider with no washington experience, next minute they tout all of NEWTS experience. will they make up their minds already?
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:51 pm
if the PEE PARTY started before OBAMA took office, why had nobody talked about them before? why werent they on tv protesting the PATRIOT ACT? why come we didnt see any of these angry fools carrying guns until a black man got in office?
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
3:59 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
2:58 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
2:30 pm
Did you know you can take every dollar made by the top 1% in a year and not even cover the deficit? This tells you we have a spending problem and not a revenue problem. Ever since the 1980’s people have been saying SS would run out of money when the baby boomers retire. SS, Medicare and Medicaid has to be reformed if you want to have anything left 20 years from now.
I am not sure what debate you are having, but I never said the revenue would come entirely from the top 1% nor was I arguing that SS/Medicare-Medicaid should not be looked at in order to shore up its liquidity problems. But if you think SS and Medicare are going to become solvent by CUTTING benefits, then consider the following:
For a single individual:
You can cut the average annual SS payout by 17% before they hit the current poverty line and save about $120B/year. That means (at current levels) 56 million more poor people.
You can cut Medicare/Medicaid by a corresponding percentage and save another $120B/year.
But that would leave by some estimates about 38 million more people with access to proper medical care. Most of these folks will get sick at some point and require care, so who will pay for that? Lacking the care, many of them will die. Which provides one upside, they will no longer be a drain on Social Security.
Obviously the above is an extreme example, but my real point is, quit pitching cuts to SS/MC as a fiscal solution if your plan involves forcing old people to eat kibble and die early.
pierre gustave toutant beauregard
December 4th, 2011
4:06 pm
@ Sister
Did you read td’s list of the 20 richest Americans, with 17 of them Democrats? Not only was the list inaccurate, half of the his Democrats were either Republicans, Independents, or Non-partisans. He either gets his made-up facts from some right wing website, or makes it up himself.
td
December 4th, 2011
4:08 pm
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:51 pm
Like I said before I guess you all did not listen to Herman, Neal, Sean or Rush prior to the 2008 election. If you had then you would have heard of the movement. It only got national attention once Carl Rove and the Koch brothers pumped money into making it a national movement after the 2008 election.
Tina
December 4th, 2011
4:10 pm
This is nothing new. What I dont understand is why he would even run, knowing this mess could come back to haunt him.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:12 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
3:40 pm
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:35 pm
Sorry wrong again. The killing of OSB is one of the few things I will give credit for doing right in his administration. Although, I bet none of you libs will admit that Obama was following the policies put in place by Bush?
You’re kidding right? You don’t think that had we not wasted time, resources and money invading Iraq, we would have stood a far better chance of finding Bin Laden much sooner than the 10 years it took to find him? Not to mention the fact that Bush should have told Musharraf he had 90 days to locate and turn over Bin Laden or we were coming in after him.
The only thing the “Bush” policies did not do was give Bin Laden a disguise, a suitcase full of money and a fake passport.
td
December 4th, 2011
4:15 pm
pierre gustave toutant beauregard
December 4th, 2011
4:06 pm
@ Sister
Did you read td’s list of the 20 richest Americans, with 17 of them Democrats?
You really need to go back and look at the original post. The 20 listed were not the top 20 riches Americans it was a list of people in the top 1%. The whole point was to point out that there are more Dems in the top 1% then there are Republicans and to make make that silly argument about the Republicans are only for the rich go away.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
4:08 pm
liberalefty
December 4th, 2011
3:51 pm
Like I said before I guess you all did not listen to Herman, Neal, Sean or Rush prior to the 2008 election. If you had then you would have heard of the movement. It only got national attention once Carl Rove and the Koch brothers pumped money into making it a national movement after the 2008 election.
Kindly find and cite a media reference that mentions Tea Party prior to early 2009? Other than the one in Boston over 200 years ago?
td
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
4:12 pm
Obama had two years to tell Musharraf the same thing. What happened? Do you really think Masharraf would be shooting at our troops if Bush were still in office?
I guess we shall disagree on the importance of the Iraq war because I and many others (including Hillary and Kerry) thought it was important and voted to allow Bush to go in.
td
December 4th, 2011
4:26 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz. I am pretty sure you could back and read Ann Coulter or Michele Malkin and find some reference also. Like I said before the original tea party movement was local anti tax movements so go back and read the their planks and you will find the Tea Party. I was part of the anti tax movement here in Atlanta and can tell you first hand that a great deal of the leaders of that movement are now leaders of the local Tea party movement.
td
December 4th, 2011
4:34 pm
Here is something for you progressive Dems to ponder. BTW: it is not being covered my the main stream media as well:
“There is just no way to describe this without a smirk and a chuckle. When you read how some of New York’s Russian immigrants (who know Soviet-style Communism all-too-well) are aligning with Republicans—because they view Democrats’ policies to be too similar to the failed policies of their homeland—there is just something richly ironic there. However, when you read how their never-met-a-Marxist-she-didn’t-love Democrat legislator reacts to be having her party compared to Soviet Russia, now that is just over-the-top funny:
Businessman Arkadiy Fridman said that the newly formed Citizens Magazine Business Club, a confederation of more than 50 Russian-owned businesses here and in Brooklyn, has aligned itself with the Molinari Republican Club (MRC) in an effort to increase the Russian community’s political and economic clout.
“We decided we had to support this club,” said Fridman, a former Soviet Army officer who came to the United States in 1992. “They are very close to our political and business vision.”
Fridman said that the Democrats “are going in an absolutely different direction,” focusing on “income redistribution” and rich-versus-poor “class war.”
“It’s too socialistic,” said Fridman, head of the non-profit Staten Island Community Center and president of Citizens Magazine, a public affairs publication. “It’s very painful for us to see.”
And, if that weren’t bad enough, the Democrats’ are reminding the Russian immigrants of something they thought they left behind:
The Big Brother approach reminds Fridman too much of what he left behind in the former Soviet Union.
“It’s the same rule like it was there,” said Fridman, who estimates there are around 55,000 Russian immigrants here.
Michael Petrov of the Digital Edge data management firm in Bloomfield, said that he objects to the “micro-managing of the economy” he’s seen from city as well as federal officials.
“Government is affecting small business more and more,” said Petrov, who came to the United States in 1994. “It’s the same as what’s happening in Russia.”
The Russian immigrants seem to know the path the Democratic Party is leading the nation down far better than many Democrats, which is why it seems the GOP is a better fit for the Russians.
Of course, the danger of being exposed is not lost on their Marxist legislator, union-boss-turned-Democrat-politician, State Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn), who just seems to cringe at the thought of being exposed and being labeled either a Socialist or a Communist:
State Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn) said she understands the Russian aversion to anything that looks like big government, but thinks the criticism of the Democratic Party is off-base.
“You can’t ignore the fact that the Russian population here came of age during the Soviet era,” said Ms. Savino, who counts many Russians among her Brooklyn constituents.
“They have different thoughts on what communism and socialism mean. They are a little more sensitive to it.
“But, that being said,” she added, “you can’t compare the policies of the Democratic Party with communism. It’s absurd”
redstate.com
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:35 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
4:15 pm
pierre gustave toutant beauregard
December 4th, 2011
4:06 pm
@ Sister
Did you read td’s list of the 20 richest Americans, with 17 of them Democrats?
You really need to go back and look at the original post. The 20 listed were not the top 20 riches Americans it was a list of people in the top 1%. The whole point was to point out that there are more Dems in the top 1% then there are Republicans and to make make that silly argument about the Republicans are only for the rich go away.
You realize the list of the top 1% by definition has about 1.5 million names. And you are extrapolating 17 names from a list of 20 that are not even the top 20 names and deducing that more democrats are on the list than republicans?
Interesting.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:38 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
4:12 pm
Obama had two years to tell Musharraf the same thing. What happened?
I think maybe it had something to do with the fact that Musharraf left office 3 months before Obama was elected.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:42 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
4:12 pm
Obama had two years to tell Musharraf the same thing. What happened? Do you really think Masharraf would be shooting at our troops if Bush were still in office?
I guess we shall disagree on the importance of the Iraq war because I and many others (including Hillary and Kerry) thought it was important and voted to allow Bush to go in.
Not going to do your research for you my dear.
You made the claim, I asked you to back it up with a specific, credible citation and you are unable or unwilling to do so. Until you do, I will have no choice but to discount your statement as nothing more than delusional, partisan hackery.
pierre gustave toutant beauregard
December 4th, 2011
4:46 pm
@td
“Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz. I am pretty sure you could back and read Ann Coulter or Michele Malkin and find some reference also.”
This is synonymous with a jury listening to only one side in a trial – say, only listening to Johnny Cochran’s made-up defense in O.J.’s trial.
If you had good sense, you would listen to both sides, but you have already established your position on that issue…
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
4:46 pm
Ooops – cited wrong post at 4:42
td
December 4th, 2011
4:26 pm
Look before I leap…
December 4th, 2011
4:19 pm
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz. I am pretty sure you could back and read Ann Coulter or Michele Malkin and find some reference also. Like I said before the original tea party movement was local anti tax movements so go back and read the their planks and you will find the Tea Party. I was part of the anti tax movement here in Atlanta and can tell you first hand that a great deal of the leaders of that movement are now leaders of the local Tea party movement.
Not going to do your research for you my dear.
You made the claim, I asked you to back it up with a specific, credible citation and you are unable or unwilling to do so. Until you do, I will have no choice but to discount your statement as nothing more than delusional, partisan hackery.
Sister Sarah
December 4th, 2011
5:16 pm
*having a glass of red wine (in honor of Herman Cain and Eddie Long – two “brothers from another mother”)* Cheers!
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
5:45 pm
Sister Sarah
December 4th, 2011
5:16 pm
*having a glass of red wine (in honor of Herman Cain and Eddie Long – two “brothers from another mother”)* Cheers!
Were it not for the fact that Mrs Bishop Eddie Long is obviously a woman in pain and I am sure facing overwhelming pressure from the bishop and his church minions, that whole soap opera on Thu and Fri would have been a terrific episode of RHOA.
I hope she stands strong and stays the course, and takes Eddie for EVERYTHING.
Sister Sarah
December 4th, 2011
6:31 pm
To all my conservative friends…I wonder how well you receive stuff like this:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/george-will-calls-herman-cain-entrepreneurial-charlatan-who-used-campaign-as-a-book-tour/
When the intellectual arm of conservative thought (i.e. George Will, Bill Crystal, Ed Rollins, et al) occassionally break real in an attempt to firewall the party off from the kooks. This is one thing I do admire about those particular individuals in the conservative movement. They see CLEARLY who Herman Cain was FROM THE BEGINNING, though they did the Republican party a terrible service by not being so vocal about it until now really.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
6:56 pm
Sister Sarah
December 4th, 2011
6:31 pm
To all my conservative friends…I wonder how well you receive stuff like this:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/george-will-calls-herman-cain-entrepreneurial-charlatan-who-used-campaign-as-a-book-tour/
When the intellectual arm of conservative thought (i.e. George Will, Bill Crystal, Ed Rollins, et al) occassionally break real in an attempt to firewall the party off from the kooks. This is one thing I do admire about those particular individuals in the conservative movement. They see CLEARLY who Herman Cain was FROM THE BEGINNING, though they did the Republican party a terrible service by not being so vocal about it until now really
I grew up reading Will in the Washington Post and cut my political teeth following his commentaries.
I don’t agree with his position on many issues, but he is balanced, erudite and articulate. He is the absolute opposite to the bombastic rantings of Rush and Hannity and Coulter.
He was a front-runner from the conservative side in condemning Nixon and his shenanigans, but I have noticed that over the past 10-15 years, he has a tendancy to follow more than lead. Perhaps that comes from being older or maybe in comparison to the knee-jerk insta-reponses and news as entertainment media, he just seems slower.
Perhaps he wanted to see if Herman’s grass-roots campaign had any real substance before making a pronouncement. Or maybe the media markets have just outgrown him.
clem
December 4th, 2011
8:12 pm
tiberius, said i would be back….i got my uncle sam greeting in summer of ‘69. you served in 78-82. there was no draft then, so i doubt you really understand what was going on then.
it was good to see today on ga gang acknowledgement that cain needed to go. also, on same prevailing attitude on other talk shows conservative and liberal…george will said something akin to cain was an entrepreneurial charlatan….
also, amazing comments from senator coburn regarding gingrich.
Hypocrisy Runs In The Cain Family (Gloria Cain)
December 4th, 2011
9:42 pm
The American political primary system has been hijacked by “charlatans, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial charlatans.”
**********************************************************
Cain Supporters KNEW that this man was a FRAUD and a HYPOCRITE!
White people were using him against Obama when they KNEW he was a FRAUDand a HYPOCRITE!
They wanted to kick Obama out of the white house BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
How did that work OUT?
Cain supporters GOT PUNK’D by Herman Cain and Gloria Cain!
Hypocrisy Runs In The Cain Family (Gloria Cain)
December 4th, 2011
9:49 pm
@td December 4th, 2011 4:34 pm – Here is something for you progressive Dems to ponder. BTW: it is not being covered my the main stream media as well:
*************************************************************************
GIVE US A BREAK WITH ALL OF THAT b******t! You ought to be tired of all of that typing!
You are what stupid people think smart people sound like,
Yuk!
Don
December 4th, 2011
10:10 pm
Look, Cain was LYING about the harassment settlements. He was the head of an organization that paid out 10’s of thousands of dollars in settlements. It was his responsibility to know, and to make sure that there wasn’t more exposure. That’s the minimum, even if the charges weren’t against him. How could he not know about the settlements? Incompetence? Or liar?
Don
December 4th, 2011
10:12 pm
And if you ever thought that he was a viable candidate…. well, I guess that’s a comment on our educational system.
td
December 4th, 2011
10:16 pm
Hypocrisy Runs In The Cain Family (Gloria Cain)
December 4th, 2011
9:49 pm
You my friend are what a typical liberal sounds like. If you can not argue the facts or the philosophy the just call names and sound angry.
Yuk
td
December 4th, 2011
10:20 pm
Don
December 4th, 2011
10:10 pm
Sorry for picking on you but you are about the 50th person to post your opinion as if it were fact. Where is your evidence? What court of law was this evidence presented in?
You my friend and the other 50 people on these blogs are making this stuff up and trying to present it as facts. You do not know as I do not know.
Look before I leap...
December 4th, 2011
11:01 pm
td
December 4th, 2011
10:20 pm
Don
December 4th, 2011
10:10 pm
“Sorry for picking on you but you are about the 50th person to post your opinion as if it were fact. Where is your evidence? What court of law was this evidence presented in?”
Ummmm…er….ahem…. uh….
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
GTPHISH
December 4th, 2011
11:01 pm
Gotta give it to Mr. Cain, his paramour makes Bill Clinton’s Monica look like a playboy bunny…..
BTW, all you self-righteous bible thumpers who despise Bill Clinton and yet still worship Herman Cain are being laughed at all over….
honested
December 4th, 2011
11:35 pm
Oh well, hermie is now so two-weeks-ago.
He had no chance and he did his best to prove it.
Whether he tagged anybody or not makes no difference.
I do wish he had stayed in just to see if the gop was in fact stupid enough to nominate him.
honested
December 4th, 2011
11:38 pm
td,
Aren’t sealed settlements a pain.
You can pretend that absolutely nothing happened and hide behind the shield of the ’seal’.
But if it needs to, the truth will always find it’s way to the surface.
Of course, hermie always had the opportunity to make an offer to the plaintiffs to open the claims and make public all the details….
But that would never have happened.
The Death of Politics
December 4th, 2011
11:54 pm
You ‘people’ are the reason I, and many others like me, can’t stand to get involved with politics. You never debate policy or decisions that can actually help our country. All you do is malign the candidate, be them Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or otherwise, and insult the intelligence or lineage of those that disagree with you or your candidate.
The sad part is you are the small percentage that makes the most noise. And as more of the rest of us become frustrated and disinterested in matters of politics, our country gets deeper and deeper in the hole and further away from what our country should be.
Tiberius
December 5th, 2011
12:21 am
I’m simply amazed at the amount of liberal bloggers who have posted such bigoted and racist descriptions of Herman Cain since this morning, firmly dispelling their lie that the right is the home for bigots and racists.
RUSH LIMPNUTTTTS
December 5th, 2011
12:49 am
@Tiberius 12;21
u tell’em boy
William Omer
December 5th, 2011
3:58 am
How is it that people think this is media driven? The man pulled out of the race after yet another woman came forward. Why did he never take the lie detector test that he said he would if need be? Would that not solve the earlier accusations? And how is it that he has this “friendship” with a woman whom he provides money to that his wife does not know. How is it that it’s the media’s fault? I understand that his personal life should not be in the discussion when it comes to debating the future of the country, but the man never came clean and owned up to his infidelities. I get it, no evidence to prove otherwise, but then why not continue to campaign? If he truly is innocent he owes it to the people that gave money to his campaign. If he’s guilty, he needs to concentrate on his marriage, which is what he’s doing. Is Gloria concerned other women might come out of the woodworks and cause further damage to their marriage? This whole thing bothers me because it’s yet another politician that is flat lying. Poor Gloria, she’ probably taken care of but man, it’d suck to be in her position.
Attack Dog
December 5th, 2011
5:28 am
Since 17 of the top 20 richest Americans are Democrats, why are the Republicans so bent on protecting the 1.5%? Like Cain said, there is that word again, “clarify.”
Attack Dog
December 5th, 2011
5:31 am
There are some who asks for facts, after they have been given, but present opinions or contextual misstatements.
Attack Dog
December 5th, 2011
5:33 am
Cain shouldn’t have dropped out since it was alleged that his affair was only 13-years. George W. Bush had an alleged affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald that lasted at least two decades.
Ackshun
December 5th, 2011
5:45 am
Hmmmmm so Herman Cain never thought anything in his past would come out once he became the anti-establishment candidate? If that’s true then no way was he smart enough to run this country. Thou shalt not threaten the IRS now go home pizza-boy.
charles mcghee
December 5th, 2011
6:11 am
What amazing to me is we expect political candidates to have prefect pasts when they never confessed to being saints. The only thing we want from a politician is to look out for our materiality benefits; now on the other hand most ministers I know have been drug users, womanizer, con-artists, alcohol abusiers, wife beaters and on and on, we have no trouble with their past and these are people who’s teaching us how to have enternal life. That would be fine to not worry about preachers past if once they accept the calling they lived honest lives afterward; however, just as many preachers screw-up as politician so while worry about a politician past?