Herman Cain drops out of presidential race

[The Murtunian Tribes]

Or we could collapse all the parties, just to fuck with the nation.

So I can take over.

I'm actually for this motion.

[Cannot think of a name]

They could try Newt, but we already knows he can get it without harassing his employees.

Most likely. I'm pretty sure that planned and coordinated allegations can lead to total Republican Party collapse in the race.

That would take some incredible coordination and planning, finding women in each candidates past with a litigated history and inexplicable phone records willing to come forward and make allegations against someone they used to work with, that's a lot of leg work especially if you have to fabricate all of that. And then keep all those machinations secret, to boot.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

So I can take over.

I'm actually for this motion.

I'd put intelligent people in office, for one.

[Cannot think of a name]

I have a feeling the accusations were false and the accusers were supportive of his opponents.

Based on...

[Farnhamia]

I have a feeling the accusations were false and the accusers were supportive of his opponents.

Based on...

Based on the long-proven truth that Republican candidates are upholders of American Family Values and the Sanctity of Marriage and the Holiness of Women, so any such accusations must be false. Democrats work through the evil media to concoct these stories, paying diseased whores to make accusations against fine, upstanding men like Mr. Cain and former Speaker Gingrich.

[Cannot think of a name]

Based on...

Based on the long-proven truth that Republican candidates are upholders of American Family Values and the Sanctity of Marriage and the Holiness of Women, so any such accusations must be false. Democrats work through the evil media to concoct these stories, paying diseased whores to make accusations against fine, upstanding men like Mr. Cain and former Speaker Gingrich.

And when they do cheat on their bed-ridden wives, it's just because they love the country so damn much...

[Farnhamia]

Based on the long-proven truth that Republican candidates are upholders of American Family Values and the Sanctity of Marriage and the Holiness of Women, so any such accusations must be false. Democrats work through the evil media to concoct these stories, paying diseased whores to make accusations against fine, upstanding men like Mr. Cain and former Speaker Gingrich.

And when they do cheat on their bed-ridden wives, it's just because they love the country so damn much...

Yes, I should have mentioned that, thank you. Hearing Mr. Gingrich recount that story brought a tear to my eye, I can tell you.

[Your lives are mine]

ron paul has never been the top contender but do you rember the top contenders we have already trump cain buddy rhoemer even at one oint and now they are gone and now bachman and perry who were both huge competitors are barely hanging on im telling you ron doesnt have the most voters but he does have one noone else has the most loyal and vocal supporters they will never abandon him and trust me i know they will share their oinion about them and they WILL show up to vote

[Cannot think of a name]

ron paul has never been the top contender but do you rember the top contenders we have already trump cain buddy rhoemer even at one oint and now they are gone and now bachman and perry who were both huge competitors are barely hanging on im telling you ron doesnt have the most voters but he does have one noone else has the most loyal and vocal supporters they will never abandon him and trust me i know they will share their oinion about them and they WILL show up to vote

Like they did last time when all that internet support and fund raising equaled a handful of votes?

[Farnhamia]

ron paul has never been the top contender but do you rember the top contenders we have already trump cain buddy rhoemer even at one oint and now they are gone and now bachman and perry who were both huge competitors are barely hanging on im telling you ron doesnt have the most voters but he does have one noone else has the most loyal and vocal supporters they will never abandon him and trust me i know they will share their oinion about them and they WILL show up to vote

If that's so, why didn't he get the nomination in 2008?

[Maurepas]

I should be happy about it, but I'm really not. I think it's incredibly sad that it was irrelevant "sexual allegations" that caused him to drop out.

Not his complete disregard for human rights, not his complete ignorance of US Foreign Policy, not his complete and total idiocy with regards to US and World History and Geography. No, it was some stupid sexual bullshit that people couldn't handle.

It says something about this country, and what it says isn't good, >_>

[Wikkiwallana]

ron paul has never been the top contender but do you rember the top contenders we have already trump cain buddy rhoemer even at one oint and now they are gone and now bachman and perry who were both huge competitors are barely hanging on im telling you ron doesnt have the most voters but he does have one noone else has the most loyal and vocal supporters they will never abandon him and trust me i know they will share their oinion about them and they WILL show up to vote

Look, I'm already sick enough. Could you at least punctuate that, so my brain doesn't melt any further?

[Wikkiwallana]

ron paul has never been the top contender but do you rember the top contenders we have already trump cain buddy rhoemer even at one oint and now they are gone and now bachman and perry who were both huge competitors are barely hanging on im telling you ron doesnt have the most voters but he does have one noone else has the most loyal and vocal supporters they will never abandon him and trust me i know they will share their oinion about them and they WILL show up to vote

Like they did last time when all that internet support and fund raising equaled a handful of votes?

Hey now, he was the most popular third party candidate of 2008. He got an entire half percent of the votes.

[Lackadaisical2]

I should be happy about it, but I'm really not. I think it's incredibly sad that it was irrelevant "sexual allegations" that caused him to drop out.

Not his complete disregard for human rights, not his complete ignorance of US Foreign Policy, not his complete and total idiocy with regards to US and World History and Geography. No, it was some stupid sexual bullshit that people couldn't handle.

It says something about this country, and what it says isn't good, >_>

Yeah, probably.

Look, I'm already sick enough. Could you at least punctuate that, so my brain doesn't melt any further?

Melted brain syndrome, typical case of NSG exposure. *nods sadly*

[Tmutarakhan]

The Godfather sleeps with the fishes.

[Wikkiwallana]

I should be happy about it, but I'm really not. I think it's incredibly sad that it was irrelevant "sexual allegations" that caused him to drop out.

Not his complete disregard for human rights, not his complete ignorance of US Foreign Policy, not his complete and total idiocy with regards to US and World History and Geography. No, it was some stupid sexual bullshit that people couldn't handle.

It says something about this country, and what it says isn't good, >_>

Yeah, probably.

Look, I'm already sick enough. Could you at least punctuate that, so my brain doesn't melt any further?

Melted brain syndrome, typical case of NSG exposure. *nods sadly*

In this case it's because of a sinus infection. Man was not meant to contain this much slime.

[Farnhamia]

Yeah, probably.


Melted brain syndrome, typical case of NSG exposure. *nods sadly*

In this case it's because of a sinus infection. Man was not meant to contain this much slime.

... but someone's got to do it.

[The Mighty Islands]

I'm going to miss adds with people smoking randomly for unknown reasons.

[Wikkiwallana]

In this case it's because of a sinus infection. Man was not meant to contain this much slime.

... but someone's got to do it.

Thank you.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shove a shop vac up my nose and hope for the best.

[Inky Noodles]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-announcement-20111203,0,889996.story

Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a "cloud of doubt over me and this campaign."

"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," he said at an event in Atlanta. "I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter."

Cain's campaign had sent mixed signals as to his future since Ginger White, an Atlanta woman who claims to have had an affair with Cain for more than a decade, went public with her story earlier this week. While Cain has said he has been "reassessing" his candidacy, he also, at times, has been fiercely defiant, suggesting that unnamed enemies have been trying to do him in and vowing to press forward.

"The pundits would like for me to shut up, drop out and go away," he said. "I am not going to be silenced and I am not going away."

White's claims came after Cain faced weeks of allegations of sexual misconduct by at least three women stemming from his tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s.

Even as Cain continued to decry the claims as "false" and "baseless," they sheer weight of the scandal has taken a brutal toll on the campaign, diverting Cain from advocating the "9-9-9" tax plan that helped turn him into a household name almost overnight, costing him financial support, and damaging him in the polls.

He was also hurt by a series of costly gaffes and confused moments, particularly with regard to foreign affairs, that exposed the Atlanta businessman's lack of experience on the national political stage. Added together, the tumult persuaded conservatives looking for a champion to turn elsewhere, with most now casting their eyes at Newt Gingrich.

All I can say is, one down.

All I can say is he is better than the one we have now.

[Arkotania]

I predicted he'd be out like a month ago.

[Antilon]

If he hadn't stepped down, one part of his speech would of given him the nerd vote. He quoted Pokemon and acknowleged it was from Pokemon.

source

Cain rose to prominence in the race for Republican Presidential nominee and briefly led in the polls almost entirely due to his "999" plan to simplify the tax code. He denied that he plucked that plan from the video game Sim City, which had featured its own "999" tax plan.

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[Hippostania]

This is a sad day. Herman Cain was the best presidential candidate after Mitt Romney. He had the courage and guts to say the things as they are, and not lie like most politicians. He was one of the few politicians who dared to say the truth about the OWS movement for example.
But yeah, this is quite sad. I would've loved to see Hermain Cain as the president of the United States

[Hippostania]

This is a sad day. Herman Cain was the best presidential candidate after Mitt Romney. He had the courage and guts to say the things as they are, and not lie like most politicians. He was one of the few politicians who dared to say the truth about the OWS movement for example.
But yeah, this is quite sad. I would've loved to see Hermain Cain as the president of the United States

hardly, he was another puppet like the rest, only difference was he apparently was a Sims Fan Ron Paul only real difference there, and a good one at that , tis a good day now if only half the other puppets drop out, then it be a happy month . regardless cain is gone, and whether guilty or not, its painfully obvious all those sex accusations got to him in earnest . the man jus cant handle the pressure. after all rremember the libya flub ....

Ron Paul is an idiotic, isolationist old geezer who has no idea how the world works, and I sure am glad that he will never become the president. He is only popular among an extremely small but loud minority of internet überlibertarians. Even Bachmann is better than Paul, and god do I hate Bachmann

[Cameroi]

too bad. i'd have been tempted to vote for him in the primaries, if california allows cross party primary voting, just because of his having been accused of being perverted. hell, what politician isn't. some are just smart enough not to get caught at it. or at least until after they'd gotten elected.