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Herman Cain Goes Down Swinging The Stupid Stick As He Quits The GOP Race
While quitting the race for the 2012 nomination, Herman Cain seemed not to be aware of how presidential elections actually work.
Here is the video from MSNBC:
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Taking a page from his political role model Sarah Palin, Cain claimed to be a fighter while he was quitting, “As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign. I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family. Not because we are not fighters.”
Just like any good right wing media star wanna be, Cain denied that he has done anything wrong, “As false accusations continue, they have sidetracked my ability to present solutions to the American people.”
Herb went down swinging the stupid stick by claiming that he made the “Final Four” for the presidency, but how can he make the final four when he quit before the first primary and caucus? Herman also doesn’t seem to be aware that the winner of the Republican nomination doesn’t get to be president. There is this thing called a general election in November where the Republican nominee will have to defeat Barack Obama before they can take up residence in the White House.
Rick Perry didn’t know the voting age and date of the election and Herman Cain doesn’t seem to know how elections actually work.
Herman Cain essentially claimed that the media hurt his feelings by reporting on his mistress and history of sexual harassment, so he decided to take his ball and go home. Cain repeatedly called the allegations against him false, but if the allegations are false why did quit? Someone needs to explain to Herb that falsely accused people don’t quit.
The real reasons why Can quit was because the allegations are true, his poll numbers plummeted, and his fundraising has dried up.
Later Cain revealed what the real motivation was for his presidential campaign, he wants to get into the lucrative right wing grifting market, “Plan B, and I call it thecainsolutions.com. You see there are three audiences out there folks that I have had to deal with. There’s the media class. There’s the political class, and there’s we the people. It is we the people that got us to this point, this far…Plan B is that I will continue to be a force for the people.”
He then spent the rest of his statement touting his new website and con in order to stay famous. Cain promised that he is not going away, but just like Sarah Palin, he is about to find out that once he is no longer a candidate, no one will care about Herman Cain.
You could almost hear shades of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech where she quit on Alaska in Herman Cain’s remarks today. Much like Palin, Cain believes that he can still feed his monstrous ego without having to actually run for anything. The Herman Cain vanity circus kicked into full money making mode today. Cain will never understand that for a brief shining moment he was nothing more than a mainstream media creation that embodied the Mitt Romney protest vote.
Cain personified everything that is wrong with the 2012 GOP field. Herman Cain was unqualified. He had no knowledge about anything. He offered catch phrases instead of positions. He was scandal plagued, and a genuine embarrassment to political dialogue.
In a political field that is an all star team of GOP ignorance, Herman Cain stood out. Even without the personal scandals, Cain’s infamous Libya stumble sent shudders through the nation as the ghost of Sarah Palin reared her head. Not since Palin has a candidate been rewarded so much for knowing and doing so little.
Herman Cain’s ignorance may be gone, but like Palin he promised to poison the well of our national discourse as long as he can make a buck.
The Republican Party lost a candidate today, but conservative media has gained a new grifter.
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49 Responses to Herman Cain Goes Down Swinging The Stupid Stick As He Quits The GOP Race
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Reynardine
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I misread the headline as: “Herman Cain goes down…as he quits the human rce.” What the Hell was I thinking?
Jolene
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Apparently in the GOP you don’t have to know anything, stand for anything, or believe in anything but your own wonderfulness and sense of entitlement to run for President. Wonder when Newt’s frontrunner status will come to a crashing, embarrassing halt?
Paul Perry
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Hopefully after he’s a;ready got the nomination. Tailspin mid campaign would be truly beautiful!
Gemini
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:07 am
I just love how it is only the GOP you claim this about, but I have seen this on both sides. I am amazed that anyone in this country can have any belief or trust in a politician, be it a Democrat or Republican politician. I went from being a Democrat at age 18, a Republican at the age of 25, and by 30 I was more a combination of the two than one or the other. At 35 I am so disgusted with both major parties, but don’t see the other political groups as a good fit for me due to belief differences. I have been a registered voter since I turned 18 and will continue to vote for my voice to be counted.
It seems that too many politicians are abundant in the dishonesty department but lacking in the integrity department. I am tired of hearing people on either side point fingers with adjectives such as womanizer, narcissist, liar, and other such terms. It seems like they either fail to remember the politicians in their own party that have been guilty of the same, or they simply don’t care when it is someone in their political party. When I hear a Republican bash Clinton or Edwards it is just as irritating as when they bash anyone on the other side because they are all just as bad for doing those things. I no longer care what side of the aisle they sit in as long as they are going to do the best thing to help get this country out of the mess we are and have been in for years. I couldn’t care less any more about who is responsible for this or that, but I do care a lot about who will be responsible for fixing it.
Dan the Man
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 5:44 am
Bravo Gemini, exactly how I feel. Voting GOP or Democrat will change nothing at least on the Federal level. As long as these two corrupt institutions are in power hope for nothing because nothing will change. Obama is the illustration of this. I don’t know what to suggest, vote for anyone else!
joemama
Dec. 5th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
well here’s a thought for both of you Dan and Gemni, don’t *believe* in any Party but support the human beings who seem to be the most qualified, intelligent, courageous and have the most integrity…if you identify with some label as “Democrat’ or ‘Republican then you’re bound to be dissapointed in the *party* and yourself…and it’s not a question of ALL politicians being corrupt, the system is DESIGNED so they have to pimps themselves out to the biggest $$$ corporate whores…if anyone is MOSTLY to blame it’s the so-called conservatards who ALWAYS want to be allowed to BUY their polticians, cuz they have more $$$ than the rest of us combined plus their return on investment in politics is MUCH higher than they could get in the stock market!
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Sorry you two: I’m gonna have to call B.S. on your tactic of throwing up your hands and blaming both parties whenever your Republican/conservative position become untenable. Good try though, now call your congressman and tell him to stop blocking anything and everything that Obama and the Democrats try to pass. I’m just sayin’…
joemama
Dec. 5th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
well said, and spot on…that is a Repugnant default position and they need to be called on it each and every time, it’s wht they do, it’s wo they are…
Cory!! Strode
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:08 am
You’re wrong. You have to KNOW Obama and Democrats are horrible, stand against Obama and Democrats (even if they are pushing things you used to be for) and believe that Obama is a far left wing socialist Muslim.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Truly hilarious! Thanks for the early sunday morning hysterics!
Penny
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:53 am
dude, if you knew anything about the muslim faith – the actuality of what the q’ran sayd you would know that Obama isn’t a muslim. because if he were then Michelle would be the one running everything and he’d be the puppet in her hands. See the book says that Heaven lies at the feet of the Mother and commands allmuslims t give honor to their women. I’m talkign the actual faith not faux noise’s version of it. buy a clue dude it might serve you well
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Not only that, has anyone ever seen a muslim who was a socialist marxist?
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Or a Republican or Tea-Bagger who’s really just upset because he or she doesn’t “like the direction the country is going in”?
Matt Osborne
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Remember the Cain!
Reynardine
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Well, it wasn’t actually the Cain Mutiny, because he did it to himself. He does seem to have gone around shaking his balls a lot, though.
Anne
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Cain is just one of the many ignoramuses who are and have been in the GOP nomination race. He is so much like Palin in his arrogance, ignorance, and narcissism that it’s scary. Also like Palin, he will never own up to responsibility for the actions that put him on the path he traveled. He was nothing but a not-Romney gimmick, presented to show that the racist GOP/TP is “not racist.”I have to laugh when Democrats are blamed for his downfall,because they wanted him to be the nominee, as dumb as he is. He would do better to look closer to his political “home,” because this has all the earmarks of a Rovian operative. Since he was unlikely to get the nomination in the first place, it would have given him an importance he didn’t rate for the Democrats to attack him. I WILL say he did a good job at self-destructing.
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
“That’s why our blacks are so much better than their blacks.” circa 10/2011, Ann Coulter.
Sorry Annie, your little tar baby was a little too stupid to compete.
Bruce VB
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Remember: After your boy got the nomination he was still visiting the 57 States. And after becoming President couldn’t pronounce Corpsman. I wouldn’t be too critical.
Anne
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 7:31 pm
The fact that 3 years later you are still harping on the 57 states remark shows you are stuck on the stupidity of 2008. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Cain’s proud ignorance of national/global affairs which was apparent in one interview after another. He was also tone-deaf and lacking in any kind of empathy for those who are down and out, which alienated women, gays, blacks, Muslims,and Hispanics, along with the unemployed. Even without the sexual harassment allegations (which I have come to believe) and the 13-year relationship as a sugar daddy to a woman 20 years younger than he, Cain was an exceptionally inept candidate. He never should have run both because of the past that has come back to bite him and his total unfitness for the office of the presidency.
Reynardine
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 8:26 pm
“Boy”, huh?
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Hey Bruce your racist is showing!
Well your “Boy” quit! After one too manyWHITE Ladies tumbled out of the closet. The only one who could of been stupider than him is Palin who is I suspect your first choice.
What now for you? Newt? Perry? Bachmann? Mittens? Or Ron Paul who is the only one in the clown car with a working brain…
dabble53
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Don’t forget Bachman….wer’e talking (at a minimum) a 3-way race for stupid and incompetent.
Pepper17
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 9:29 pm
If you ever looked up the video clip where President Obama said ’57′ states, you’d know he meant to say 47. He was talking about the states he had visited as during the campaign so far.
t
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 11:07 pm
I wouldn’t even waste my time with that guy, him and his ilk have brains made out of concrete. No offense to concrete. Not only are the neo-cons stuck in the past they’re also stuck on stupid and should have to pay a fee to express their views because they’re not at a component level. I feel like I lose brain cells listening to the best thing limbaugh or vannity told them to think for the day. At least we have john stewart who can make use out of these idiots.
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Hey hold on there: they HAVE paid for their “right” to express themselves 24/7 on every AM station in the country. Clear Channel is a person too!
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Uh, do you mean the “boy” who is trained as a constitutional lawyer? They don’t just give you a certificate for that one Bruce Bruce. BTW what are your credentials?
Jolene
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Not a “boy.” He’s the President of the United States, loser. Get used to it!
NebraskaNative
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Brilliant analysis!!!! Buh bye Herb!
Jay
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
“Plan B is that I will continue to be a force for the people.”
I think he meant to say “farce”.
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Good One!
Basheert
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Now Palin The Quitter has a rival for the pennies of the uneducated and ignorant. Perhaps they can come together and create the Quitter Party?
Good riddance to bad rubbish…both of them.
Amber
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Point of interest, while I’m delighted that Cain is out of the race (one idiot down, a handful more to go) the author inserted a personal belief as if it were fact.
Some innocent people just give the hell up. It’s called picking your battles. It’s not wrong and shouldn’t be construed as guilt.
That said I don’t think Cain was innocent of what he’s been accused of. Not because any evidence has been presented (and you know, that whole presumption of innocence is as facet of American rights… not whether or not you give up a fight). Mostly I think he’s guilty because he seems like a lying sack of shit and I wouldn’t trust him to NOT act like a tool regarding women. FSM knows he’s acted like a tool regarding a lot of things.
Just saying.
Mary Wood
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:39 am
Very true Amber. Herman “If you don’t have a job blame yourself” Cain is illustrating exactly how so many, often most, jobs are lost through outside forces. It it the bane of my existence in the workplace. The alpha employee/boss’ best friend decides she doesn’t like me (Because I’m not pretty? Because I’m a social dork? Because I’m doing the job better than she is?) and accuses me of whatever. Doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong, if I say nothing the accusation stands. If I try to defend myself, at best I’m now part of the workplace drama the boss says is a no-no and I’m trying to railroad his best friend/alpha employee.
To that end, I agree. The harassment allegations appear to be true. Apparently, Cain’s own “blame yourself” rule applies only to liberals and poor people.
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Innocent until proven guilty, true. But there is such a preponderance of evidence it makes you kinda wonder though…
Nicole' Felton
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 7:24 pm
It seemed to me that that the initial cheering was for his wife, Gloria…honestly I could care less about Hermain…he’s what we in the South call a Hott Mess…he’s doing all he can to talk about what everyone else has failed at doing…well Herman, you FAILED at being a husband, FAILED at being a good father, FAILED at being honest, FAILED to know you cannot just drop your mistress just because you want to be President…and in the end…you FAILED at attempting to run for the candidacy…read Obama’s book…The Audacity of Hope…The Audacity to even think you could compete in a world that just reminded your that being a Narcissist will not get you in the White House…Seriously do you honestly believe that “delivered within an hour or it’s free” can compete with any degre from anywhere…you are not in highschool…you are not part of some secret club of which you are the final four…last I heard that was Storm, Wolverine, and two other people who had special powers….get a grip…there is no such thing…either you are the President or you are not…the walls you are trying to tear down have already been torn down…President Obama already did that…”there can be only one” if you see walls you are moving in the wrong direction. You have proven that you are a common man and not fit to rule this nation….but if it makes you feel any better..go ahead and tell yourself that you have accomplished something…because you did…you managed to disrespect other women, disgrace your wife, make a mockery of the GOP, and waste the time and money of your supporters..Always remember Herman, “do not believe the lies you tell other people”. Good luck to you as you find yourself and learn to appreciate what you have…your wife and your family..at this point..that’s all you have and I pray you earn their respect back.
Reynardine
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Shit, in Cain’s case, it’s more like the Hope of Audacity.
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
That was beautiful, Nicole – sums it all up! But he did run into the only brick wall that’s left standing – the GOP “no blacks allowed up here” wall. Everyone who tries to top it gets speared by his own party!
CB
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Which does kinda beg the question of which blacks Coulter was referring to. And, I agree with your assessment. He fell on his own sword to avoid that spear.
marpwv18
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 8:18 pm
One less clown on a stage full of clowns viewed by a party full of idiots. It’s taken years, but they’ve finally dumbed down their base to the point where they will believe whatever is put in front of them. I wonder who will be voted off the island next.
Rick Shreiner
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 9:22 pm
The fork was true, lodging finally it it’s UNFORTUNATE VICTIM . . .
Deborah Montesano
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Any Republican with half a brain–and believe me, I have my doubts that they exist–is sitting this election out. See “Obama vs. Whoever”, thepoliticali.blogspot.co....
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 10:12 pm
The first 4:30 was all truthful.
After that it turned into a Koch speech, the people are in charge. Thats a huge joke
The divorce date is not yet announced
The last person I wanted to represent this country out in the world was Herman.
He isn’t going to be silenced, he is turning into Palin
The people are in charge Herman? Is that the people known as the Koch Brothers? Will the Koch allow you to let us become energy independent? No.
Are $90,000 buyoffs unproven accusations?
Herman will be back in the candidacy, make no mistake about it
Gina Myers
Dec. 3rd, 2011 at 11:04 pm
He quoted Pokemon, again.
Bobsyeruncle
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Cain Ain’t Abel
Mike B
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Bah-Bye Herman! One down three to go!
Richard Jones
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
I’ve been waiting to be able to say this: “Get off your lazy ass, Herman, and GO GET A DAMN JOB!!!
James
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
He mentions Sarah Palin as apparently having not gone away. Seems to me we haven’t heard much from her lately. I would call that gone away. These people are so dumb.
rod
Dec. 4th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Excellent Article and so TRUE!!!!!
jeff
Dec. 12th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
This pretty much sums up the Herman Cain campaign debacle. Comedy short from jeffisgod.com titled, “Leave Herman Cain Alone.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l...
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