It is time for Herman Cain to leave the race.
Just based on polling data, a lot of conservatives will not like this message. Those taking the TPN survey say Cain should stay in the race, 83-17.
Herman Cain has got to go.
I will repeat what I have said earlier. I like Herman Cain. Of all of the candidates, he would probably be my first choice to sit down and have a pizza with. But to quote the famous line from the Godfather, its not personal, its business.
I do not believe Cain’s accusers. There are too many questions about them.
The allegations are not why Cain should leave. The campaign’s response is why he should now withdraw.
According to published reports, the Cain campaign knew about the Politico story TEN DAYS before it was published.
TEN DAYS!
What the hell were they doing?
I can tell you what they were not doing. They were not preparing for this. Just in case anyone missed it, an allegation of sexual harassment could be a game changer. It could seriously damage or even destroy a candidate.
When you have that kind of notice you prepare for the hit. You hire crisis management experts. You get your story together and you create and execute a strategy to deal with the story.
Cain’s campaign did none of that.
Amateurs run the Cain campaign and you cannot have amateurs running a political campaign.
The final straw for me was Mark Block’s appearance on Hannity claiming that the son of one of the accusers, Karen Kraushaar worked at Politico, which originally broke the story.
Oops. No, Josh Kraushaar who had worked at Politico and now works at the National Journal is not only not her son, he is not related to her.
This comes after last week’s spray and pray spread of blame against Rick Perry.
Herman Cain finally did a press conference yesterday. He was strong in the press conference but it was too little too late.
Herman Cain’s selling points are his business background. To steal a line from a TV commercial, he is telling us that his core competency is competency.
No it isn’t!
Herman Cain should have been in a conference room with the senior leadership of his campaign 24 hours into this “crisis” demanding to know from them why the hell they were not ready for the crisis and what they were doing about it?
Ten days in, the Cain campaign is still stumbling around like newly castrated cattle.
Mark Block should have been gone nine days ago. Cain should have a competent team in place by now as well as someone really good at crisis management. So far, it is not there.
If Cain cannot run his own campaign, how is he going to run the country? A few days ago, I would have been willing to accept Cain as the nominee. Cain was not my first choice but I could have easily supported him.
No longer.
If Cain cannot manage his own campaign, what is he going to do with the country? If he cannot get good people in to handle a crisis like this, who is he going to put in to handle the crisis when that phone in the White House is ringing at 3AM and he is told that Ahmadinejad has a nuclear weapon and is threatening to use it against America?
I like Herman Cain on a personal level, but not as President.
It is time for him to leave the race.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on -
pictures are worth a 1000 words. people remember images longer than words written.
but I will be more selective
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Permalink Reply by M. Komarek on
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Keep on doing your thing, Doc. We love it. You're a Patriot, No Question !
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on
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Thank you!
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Permalink Reply by PUMABydesign001 on
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Rock on Doc.
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Permalink Reply by Diogenes on
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Jerry your basis of not digging into a candidate's background, as in the case of Cain is the same as being
a groupie.
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Permalink Reply by DocHollywoodMD on
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THANK YOU BUT I DISAGREE
However, I will think about what you said.............OK I disagree :)
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Permalink Reply by Debra Rae steinman on
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I 'dig' into every canidate con or lib. We're supposed to be for upholding the constitution, and supporting all the conservative canidates, not chowing down on each other's throats!
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Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on -
Diogenes is said to have been an irascible, cynical character.
Or, in Modern Europe, either a really obese guy, or opposed to obesity.
It's hard to tell from his moniker or photo!
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Permalink Reply by Annette Meisner on -
Diogenes & Jordan ... you are uninformed if you think Mr. Cain is an affirmative action participant.
In case no one has previously posted Cain's bio ... here is a quick list of his work record:
- Business analyst for Pillsbury - 1978 - ?
- Burger King [Pillsbury Subsidiary] his region posted gains - 3 yrs 1980 - 1983
- Chairman of the Bank Omaha Branch Board, from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1991
- Chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza - 10 years from 1986 to 1996.
- Opposed the Clinton health care plan of 1993. As president-elect of the National Restaurant Association, he challenged Bill Clinton on the costs of the employer mandate contained within the bill and criticized its effect on small businesses.
- Senior economic adviser to the Bob Dole presidential campaign in 1996
- Deputy chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - appx 4 yrs from 1992 to 1994, and as chairman from 1995 to 1996. He resigned to become active in politics.
- Mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy. [dates??]
- President and CEO of the National Restaurant Assoc, Washington hdqtrs - 3 years from 1996 to 1999.
- Syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. [dates ??]
- Board of directors of Aquila, Inc. [1] from 1992 to 2008
- Board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest, and AGCO, Inc.
- Returned to Omaha for about a year in 1999
- Returned to his hometown of Atlanta in 2000.
- Republican presidential candidate in 2000.
- Ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2004
- Worked for the Koch family [2] funded Americans for Prosperity [and Herman's campaign] alongside Mark Block. Block would later become campaign manager for his 2012 Presidential run.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila,_Inc.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_brothers
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Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on -
Jordan is no longer around to see this post.
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Permalink Reply by Debra Rae steinman on
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but Diognes is. Me thinks they sound a lot a like ......
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Permalink Reply by Debra Rae steinman on
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Thanks for the info. It's because he didn't come up 'through the system' that the RINOS & the Demos want to destroy him.
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