Looks like the joke review was just in time. If Bob had been late posting it, the headline would’ve been serious. Cain is dropping out, and his voters are generally likely to go to Gingrich. Although I wouldn’t term them the pro-adultery voters so much as the pro-sexual harassment voters. They seem to have been fine with the harassment, and only abandoned him once word of the affair came out. Remember, Republicans only object to sex if it’s consensual.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-announcement-20111203,0,889996.story
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Any reasonable political organization would have jettisoned Herman Cain long ago. Newt Gingrich is just as bad. The commentary, while tough, is right on the money.
“Republicans only object to sex if it’s consensual”? Bingo. Amen.
and was cheating on his wife while leading a moral crusade against Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife.
So this is all kinds of hilarious. Millions of Republican voters are leaving the adulterer for committing adultery and moving their votes over to the cheats-on-his-cancer-striken-wife adulterer. Seriously amazing that these people are that dense.
A second amen to that brother David.
As to the dropping out I think the affair was a string of not ready for primetime moments for the Cain campaign. The adultery doesn’t matter in so far as Cain was obviously completely unready to lie while moralizing about others sexual preferences with a straight face. Gingrich has decades of experience doing just that. He is really that good. The other irony is that Romney is just as much of a religious and political apostate and naked panderer as Gingrich. In fact his flip flops are at least for the low principle of getting elected instead of for the really low principle of cold hard cash (Newt had to raise funds to keep wife #3 happy) and he and his family are actually wholesome-and to an annoying degree. Man Mitt your party really doesn’t like you and yet there you go plodding onward. Honestly if the base is making Gingrich into a conservative saint than it really must be about Mitts deep seated personal hatred of Jesus. At least Newt’s shifting principles show the free market at work.
Its really quite sad his private life instead of his public ignorance doomed his candidacy. It’d have been quite shocking to see how far this idiot would have gone had he kept his pants on.
Without knowing all the facts, Cain’s decision to drop out of the POTUS race is not surprising (to me, anyhow), given the fact that he’s a bullsh**ter on top of everything else.
Let’s be clear: Cain came across increasingly as an idiot. But…
It’s funny that all this didn’t come out when Cain was running, but only when he was doing really well. Cain wasn’t part of the machine. Unlike Gingrich and Romney, he wasn’t a bought-and-paid-for conservative, but somebody who came by it through his ideology. The Chamber of Commerce and other owners of the GOP couldn’t guarantee that he’d follow their orders and call it a set of sincere beliefs.
So now that an unpredictable candidate was leading, all this stuff becomes publicly important (I’m sure every campaign knew about this to start with). I don’t think anything was truly “revealed”, just publicized. Is Gloria Allred working for free? Do you think Gingrich was trying to eliminate a fellow non-Romney? Do you think the owners of the GOP were trying to eliminate someone they don’t control?
Nothing about him was presidential ready. OTOH, I wonder who was behind his demise. I find it curious how the allegations against him were publicized. It seems as if they were rolled out like a marketing campaign, increasing in intensity as each preceding complaint failed to produce the desired effect of driving him from the race. The affair finally did it. One wonders what the next one would have been if he resisted and stayed in the race?
Herman Cain was woefully incompetent and that should have disqualified him long before his private skeletons were made public. The best anyone can (truthfully) say about his “9-9-9” plan is that it’s bumper-sticker friendly. His abysmal ignorance of foreign affairs is staggering.
I’m glad he’s gone.