Herman Cain won’t make an Iowa endorsement
If you remember your ancient Republican history – about four weeks ago – you’ll remember that Herman Cain, as he bowed out of the race, strongly hinted that he would make an endorsement in the presidential contest.
But we haven’t heard much from Cain since, and the plains of Iowa loom.
Several times during Cain’s final rough patch, Newt Gingrich spoke up for his Atlanta comrade-in-arms. Each cited a friendship that stretched back decades. They even staged that love fest in Houston for Texan tea partyists.
But also remember that Cain endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the 2008 campaign.
By way of straightening things out, my AJC colleague Jeremy Redmon shot an e-mail to Mark Block, who remains Cain’s chief of staff.
Replied Block:
There are no plans currently to endorse any of the candidates. Keep in touch.
You’re on your own, Newt.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
8:36 pm
I am sure the libs on hear will say your link is all lies or blame all the numbers on Bush. They can not face the reality that Obama is the worst President (Passing Carter) that this country has had.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
Just a heads up, Centrist is another one of TD’s alt accounts.
td
December 29th, 2011
8:56 pm
Double
December 29th, 2011
8:52 pm
Dang I could not even get my prediction typed fast enough before you were on here blaming the condiditon of the country on Bush. When do you think it would become Obama’s economy? When it really improves instead of the current spin from the WH?
td
December 29th, 2011
8:56 pm
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:55 pm
Wrong again Billy.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Please do not reply to TD unless you’re telling him not to post.
Thank you.
td
December 29th, 2011
9:00 pm
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
8:57 pm
Please do not reply to TD unless you’re telling him not to post.
Thank you.
Have you not figured out by now that no one listens to you.
TOUCH DOWN!!!!! DAWGS score another one.
Darvoset spending
December 29th, 2011
9:01 pm
If you’re thinking about replying to TD, just remember: NO
FlagFlyer
December 29th, 2011
9:04 pm
Reading the comments here, does that make Steve Bloom’s article more relevant?
FlagFlyer
December 29th, 2011
9:06 pm
If these comments are his journalism students assignment, fail!
Double
December 29th, 2011
9:21 pm
What happend to the Cain train?Guess they won’t run on mold and refrigerant.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:28 pm
@ Darvoset spending – It is hard to believe that there are actually some non-liberals (other than td) who post on this leftist AJC blog site. There are a few.
I am not very conservative (pro-choice, atheist, and support increased taxes on income above a $ million), and usually vote for Libertarians. The only GOP presidential candidate I could possibly support would be Romney – a true thoughtful executive.
Jack
December 29th, 2011
9:33 pm
Looks like Romney gonna be the man.
Double
December 29th, 2011
9:40 pm
Sintrist TD, ain’t no use you voting.Just be wasting your vote.With Hillary done deal. with/without Ga. Ps. done deal don’t mean crooked deal.Need to splain that to you,fore you confuse it.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:45 pm
“A person who is addicted to Darvocet will be preoccupied with obtaining the drug. You may notice a change in their spending.” – http://darvocetaddiction.net/darvocet-addiction-symptoms/
Wonder if you can be addicted to liberalism as well.
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:49 pm
Herman won’t make an endorsement?
Well that will probably bring the proceedings to a halt.
At least while the Iowa caucaussers (is that a word) stop to ask ‘Who’s Herman Cain’?
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:51 pm
Centrist (of something somewhere that is obviously missing a center)
Well, GA has certainly shown it is possible to be addicted to post-dixiecrat-republican incompetence.
And it ain’t likely to improve.
td
December 29th, 2011
9:57 pm
honested
December 29th, 2011
9:51 pm
Isn’t past your bedtime my friend? I never see you on this late.
td
December 29th, 2011
10:00 pm
I’m afraid to post with my real name because I’ll get fired.
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
10:01 pm
My other name is td so I can have faux discussions with myself.
honested
December 29th, 2011
10:09 pm
Darvoset spending, Double and I do threesome daisy chains together. It’s fun being liberally minded.
Big Hat
December 29th, 2011
10:30 pm
Herman is not an “Uncle Tom.” That’s an insult to white America’s favorite in-laws, Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima.
Hot Dog
December 29th, 2011
11:13 pm
Pimp Daddy Cain was too busy running women, especially White Women to make a run for the presidency seriously. His only interest was to be a liar and serial adulterer like his pal Newt, the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Newt is still signing pledges that tramp stamp #4 is not waiting in the wings after the Iowa primaries. We all know that Newt is just waiting to dump tramp stamp #3 so he can continue the same pattern of behavior…CHASING WOMEN!
As for HERMMIE, can you just imagine an Old B**T**D like Pimp Daddy Cain at 66 still trying to run women? No wonder Gloria supported President Obama. The thought made her sick to her stomach learning that her husband was out trying to pick up WHITE WOMEN.
GOODBY HERMMIE AND GOOD RIDDANCE!
Oldman
December 29th, 2011
11:38 pm
Herman is going to do whatever helps Herman. He could care less about anything else. He’s the Sanford Bishop of the Republican Party.
Darvoset spending
December 30th, 2011
12:34 am
Centrist
December 29th, 2011
9:45 pm
Wonder if you can be addicted to liberalism as well.
I doubt it. I used to be one of you, so I know all your tricks and how you think–which is to say “slowly”
Darvoset spending
December 30th, 2011
12:36 am
honested
December 29th, 2011
10:09 pm
Darvoset spending, Double and I do threesome daisy chains together. It’s fun being liberally minded.
lol
Double
December 30th, 2011
1:29 am
TD student of newt.can understand you being tops in his class.Was you daisy chaining for his entertainment?Apple for the teacher?
BitterEXdemocrackkk
December 30th, 2011
6:41 am
Strive to be smarter than the EVIL, corrupt, and criminal democrackkks WANT you to BE!
Ron Paul 2012! He’s the ONLY one with no credibility issues!
http://www.RonPaul2012.com
Thanks Mr.Cain for have the good sense NOT to endorse at this time. If you endorse Romney later, then you will be the traitor.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
6:51 am
I guess Herman is back at the house living off his capital gains tax cuts.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
7:02 am
80% of America say that Republicans are doing a lousy job, while 50% are not satisfied with Obama. If you are among the 20% who are satisfied with Republicans and dissatisfied with Obama, just admit that you are truly in the minority.
Attack Dog
December 30th, 2011
7:22 am
Cain should endorse the only religious-hawkish-conservative…Rick Santorum. When it comes to Dixiecrats, the only thing Romney has going for him is that he is supposedly electable.
honested
December 30th, 2011
7:50 am
Attack Dog,
Bring that home to GA.
How many people (other than dirt scratchers and polluters) are happy with the job our strangle hold republicans have been doing since 2003 and are still doing today?
Do people intentionally vote for the least competent?
nelsonh
December 30th, 2011
7:51 am
The other candidates were not looking for his endorsement. They are not looking for my endorsement. I will give it none the less. I endorse Mitt Romney. Has a record of success, business and politics. I am leaning towards joining the Mormon community myself. The healthy lifestyle and fresh air. A new day where honesty and integrity and forthrightness reign supreme.
Lib in Cobb
December 30th, 2011
8:55 am
The only candidate I can think of who would appreciate the endorsement of a lying, cheating, christian hypocrite would be Newt.
Lib in Cobb
December 30th, 2011
8:57 am
nelsonh: The Mormon church also has a very long history of racism. Would jesus want this?
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
9:08 am
It sad that these republican teaparty on this blog is trying to blame president Obama for everything that Bush have done wrong.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
9:18 am
President Obama going to win 4 more years. Look at these republican candidates look like clowns on tv. I bet Ron Paul going to run as a 3rd party candidates.
tiredofIT
December 30th, 2011
9:33 am
After watching the numerous debates, I have lost a lot of respect for my hardcore republican friends.
Honky for Herman
December 30th, 2011
9:35 am
SO let me get this straight.. If one makes racist remarks about the great community organizer, B HUSSEIN Obama, then that is the lowest of the low; the person should be charged with a “hate crime” and then go through sensitivity training. But if one makes vile, racist remarks regarding a conservative black, it’s all OK, huh? Only to the “tolerant”, “open-minded”, “inclusive” liberal bums could this be perfectly fine. Hypocrites. Can’t wait for GOP control of House and Senate. Even if BHO gets re-elected, neither he nor the libs will be able to do any more damage to our great Republic.
Honky for Herman
December 30th, 2011
9:41 am
“Independent Voter”- Which actually means liberal Democrat who hasn’t come out of the closet, in what year, will you bed-wetters stop blaming Bush for all of Man’s ills? 20/30? 20/40? Tell me, moron.
Frederick Douglass
December 30th, 2011
10:03 am
GOP mantra: Let’s get that N-word out of the White House, we’ll figure out what to do next after that’s done. Regardless of what Honky for Herman and others say, that’s the plan in a nutshell.
Look before I leap...
December 30th, 2011
10:06 am
BitterEXdemocrackkk
December 30th, 2011
6:41 am
Strive to be smarter than the EVIL, corrupt, and criminal democrackkks WANT you to BE!
Ron Paul 2012! He’s the ONLY one with no credibility issues!
No credibility issues? Seriously? The man wants to give Israel back to the Palestenians, does not believe that Iran becoming a nuclear power is a problem. He thinks of Martin Luther King Day as “Hate Whitey Day”, believes the 1993 WTC bombing was an Israeli operation and thinks the US Government is planning to build a secret 10 lane NAFTA superhighway connecting Mexico the US and Canada which will lead to a North American Union elimination the US as a soveriegn nation.
Ron Paul is a paranoid, conspiracy hunting whack-job.
If you want Obama out of the WH in 2012, Ron Paul is NOT the answer. The Dems will eat him for lunch.
yellowdog
December 30th, 2011
10:22 am
whatever!
Slip
December 30th, 2011
10:23 am
On the day before inauguration in 2009, “This the toughest foreign policy in-box that any president has faced in 55 years,” said Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “We are in a deep hole on a whole lot of issues where he’s going to have to climb out of before he can even start to achieve.”
Immediate crises such as the violence in Gaza, first-term priorities such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, long-term endeavors such as the American relationship with China and Russia, and epochal concerns such as globalization and global warming.
ADD to this foreign policy morass, a national economy less than three months from near total calamity, that foundered for six months into this President’s term. He took heat for GM, for too much stimulus, for not enough stimulus and endured the constant underground racial banter.
The economy is still rocky and will be regardless of who is President because the failure of the banking system has not been repaired and that rests at the feet of Congress. Credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations. Learn about these things first before you blame the President
Frederick Douglass
December 30th, 2011
10:35 am
Slip @ 10:23
Do you actually think crazed loonies care about facts as they were on the ground from day one for Obama? The only thing that matters is childish name calling, false accusations, and inbred prejudice.
cartoon
December 30th, 2011
10:37 am
Cain’s endorsement is not welcome by any candidate. They’ve told him to stfu. And he did.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
10:55 am
The republican congress approval is 12% so that tell why american would not put them back in office. That why the republican trying there best to take voter act away from people of color.
The republican dont have a chance winning the white house or congress, senate.
Independent voter
December 30th, 2011
11:21 am
Racist people never win..
B. Thenet
December 30th, 2011
11:29 am
Nobody wants it
liberalefty
December 30th, 2011
12:06 pm
the minstrel ashow is finally ova
Double
December 30th, 2011
12:15 pm
Independent voter About 90 % of the elected in GA. are racist,by my estimation.