I guess Newt will see a suige in the polls since he will likely get Cain’s supporters. I never supported Cain even from the beginning because he was a lobbyist. That is an instant disqualifier in my book.

But I am supporting Rick Perry as long as he is a candidate.

If it unfortunately comes down to a choice between Gingrich and Romney, Romney is by far the better choice.

For crying out loud, will you get a grip? You don’t like Herman Cain. You’re pretty close to worshipping the ground that Perry walks on. We get all that.

Just act with a little dignity, please.

I was never a Cain supporter because I didn’t feel he had all the necessary qualifications to be President. I’m not sure what you feel is to be gained by kicking him in the ass on his way out the door. I’m sure that will make any Cain supporters who visit the site really want to support Rick Perry.

What a disappointment, though. He left covering his rear first and foremost and insists he is an innocent victim. The problem with that is he has left many questions unanswered and the bottom line is, if he were truly innocent, he would not have quit but he would have fought, defended his honor, and proven his innocence.

At least, that’s my take.

I was glad to see Herman get in the race, and I was glad to see him go. When he announced, I was excited because I had listened to his show and liked what I heard. Then, as I’ve said before, I started asking myself about his substance and really felt that something was missing.

Enter Rick Perry. I’ll spare everyone the rise and drop of Rick Perry (who I am enthusiastically supporting). Gov. Perry had the beliefs and experience that I felt that Herman was missing. Whether his support in the polls was artificially inflated, or artificially deflated is also another matter.

I don’t worship any man, but I do feel like Perry is a good man and has the right beliefs and experience to be President.

At the end of September Herman won the Florida Straw Poll.

Then, Herman allowed himself to be a tool of the media by being a willing participant in the slander of Perry with the rock. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t like to see anyone, and I mean anyone falsely put down. To my knowledge, Cain never apologized to Perry about this.

Then Cain said that if Perry were the nominee, he couldn’t support him. Then he said he would support him, just not 100%. And this was based on Herman’s misrepresentation of Perry’s stance on immigration.

Oh, and let’s not forget that he blamed the Perry campaign for leaking the harassment story WITHOUT ANY PROOF.

I truly am sorry that it happened like this, but I kind of felt like Herman had a day of reckoning coming. Sooner or later, blaming someone like he did will catch up to you. Call it karma or what have you.

Needless to say, I feel like Herman, Bachmann and Newt have not been serious candidates as they either have books already out, or they are shortly to come out and they’ve used the Presidential race as a book tour. Herman was going on a book tour before he started to gain in the polls. Bachmann’s book is going to come out soon, based on what I’ve read. The facts that Newt didn’t file in Missouri and he didn’t file for all of New Hampshire’s delegates tell me that he wasn’t serious (not to mention the fact that his staff didn’t think he was either).

When did Herman write his book? He declared in May so I’m thinking that it all was very carefully concocted.

This truly is the weirdest nominating season I can remember. All at a time when this country needs someone take this country as far back to what the founding fathers had in mind as Obama has carried it away.

Not that you have any reason to care what I think, but this post does seem a bit over the top.

I am inclined to agree with you that Cain was a horrible nominee, and not the “man of character” that we were too often told to believe he was without evidence. Certainly, I will never believe he was the staunch conservative that people claimed, despite his tacking moderate-to-liberal practically everytime he was off-prompter.

That said, he’s out now. He won’t be the nominee, and likely won’t take significant votes from anyone. Certainly, you can argue that without a Cain rise, Perry is still a frontrunner instead of potential frontrunner, but we’ll never know.

Cain’s campaign was a book tour in disguise. He spent a substantial amount of time in non early primary states. And he spent quite a bit of time in book stores. When I watched him be intervieed by Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, Cain was in a Barnes & Noble in TEXAS. What is a serious presidential candidate doing at a B&N in Texas. That is not an early state, and he knows perfectly well PErry will win the state. And when Neil Cavuto interviewed him this week, he was in Ohio. What is in Ohio that is so important? Barnes & Noble?

Why not post what you really mean? TRANSLATION: you are glad Cain is gone because he was KILLING your favorite nominee. At least be intellectually honest enough to tell the truth.

Cain is gone because he scared the establishment and the ruling class. Pure and simple. If you are going to sit here and tell me that the American people care about his sex life, I refer you to Clinton’s reelection.

Cain is gone because he didn’t get it done from a professional standpoint. He just couldn’t articulate the issues on a level that went beyond general statements. Foreign policy silliness, inept reponses to allegations, and inadequate replies to questions on the sales tax portion of his 9-9-9. It’s not that he was a bad candidate, he just didn’t run a good campaign. It wasn’t a giant conspiracy to get him out.

Cain may not be ready to be president, but he is a very eloquent advocate of conservatism and a victim of media-perpetuated unsubstantiated accusations. The 30+% of likely Republican voters who supported him at one point or another would beg to differ about the “BS meter”.

I don’t think you posted this kind of diaries when Palin was ground down by the media, and if anyone had expressed similar sentiments about Perry’s debate gaffe you’d have screamed bloody murder.This is a defeat for conservatism, and no victory for the next front-runner who will be similarly attacked.

In honor of Cain’s numerological tendencies…

In honor of Cain’s numerological tendencies…

it would be a great plan, but since we don’t have kings any more (bad Obama jokes not withstanding), I think it would have ended up getting goofed up.

My first impression of Cain was he a BS artist. He was one of those people who cover their ignorance with BS hoping that people don’t see through it. Unfortunately for him, we eventually did. I can see why he was a became an executive, he BS’d his way to the top.

I would be surprised if he was even a capable executive considering his monumental lack of executive ability in his failed campaign. An executive must be able to make clear decisions. You cannot run to your advisers to see what to do. You must know basically what to do in your gut. Herman Cain just is an empty suit and this whole charade was a bad joke and a terrible waste of time.

He may be a good voice for conservative viewpoints but, he clearly does not take these views to heart. He merely parrots what others say is conservative and runs to the bank. He seems to be motivated by greed and vanity. It makes me pity those who he tricked into supporting him. He frankly owes you and all of us an apology for this stunt.

At least we’ll never need to hear the phrase “9-9-9″ ever again!

Never talk down another Republican. The way you all are going Obama is going to win because none of you are open to the other guy. If any of you here believe Cain is a racist, you are crazy. Next thing to happen is tbone will be complaining about Newt. If this is the state of the GOP, we are in real trouble.

And it should not have taken multiple sex scandals for people to wake up to the fact that Cain was a very weak and ill-informed candidate whose biggest asset was his personality and charisma. Haven’t we had enough of the cult of personality thing? Good grief, I’m so sick of the fact that so many on our side are still falling for this kind of schtick – and Newt is the latest flavor of the weak in this area. We’ve had 4 years of it with Obama, so when are we going to finally learn our lesson?

Also, when are we finally going to learn that debating skill is only 1 facet of evaluating our candidates? Again, we already have a good debater in the WH, so how is that working out for everyone?