We're going to miss you in more ways than you can count, Herman
(Jonathan Ernst, Larry Downing, Downing, Jason Reed, Reed / Reuters)
9-9-9 made more sense then
this gibberish:
Asked by ABC News after a rally in a hotel ballroom outside of Cincinnati if he will drop out of the GOP race, Cain replied, “We are reassessing.”
As he moved along the rope line greeting supporters, Cain elaborated little on his answer.
“We are reassessing as we speak,” he said. “Reassessment means reevaluation.”
Okay, so reassessing means reevaluating, but that's not the question. The question is what is Herman Cain reassessing? And on that question, Cain has been all over the map. Last night, he said he wasn't reassessing whether to run, but rather how to run. But during yesterday's conference call he said he was reassessing whether to "plow ahead" with the campaign. And in his conversation with ABC, Cain simply wouldn't say.
It's damaging enough that Cain refuses to address allegations by Ginger White that she and he carried on an affair for 13 years. (Given that they had daily contact as recently as this month, it's obvious that something was up.) But the fact that he refuses to give a straightforward answer about whether or not he plans to continue his campaign tells you everything you need to know: Herman Cain knows his run is over as a legitimate contender for the GOP nomination. But as long as he's got books to sell and speeches to give—and suckers willing to pay him for them—he's got no reason to get off the campaign trail. After all, he's a businessman.
10:25 AM PT: Now he says he'll stay in:
“They want you to believe that with enough character assignation on me, I will drop out!” he said. “The American people have a different idea.”
“The American people are going to raise some Cain in 2012,” he said.
As long somebody's willing to buy what he's got to sell, he's got no reason to actually quit. But as for being a serious candidate ... those days are long gone.