Cain said his “plan B” is a website called The Cain Solutions, which is not yet active as of this writing.
So, Cain said he was suspending his campaign, not quitting, he is refusing to go away, he is setting up a website to keep his ideas in the media, and then he said he is going to soon make an endorsement, which essentially destroys his intentions of suspending his campaign, although allows him to continue raising money. Stay tuned for more details on this critical issue.
Cain, who is 65, made the announcement live Saturday afternoon, standing alongside his wife Gloria, at what was to be the grand opening of his new campaign headquarters in his hometown of Atlanta. Reports claim that the Cain campaign, had been in touch with the Michele Bachmann campaign and debated throwing his support to Bachmann, the only woman of the GOP presidential candidates.
“I am at peace with my God. I am at peace with my wife, and she is at peace with me, and I am at peace with my family, and I am at peace with my self,” Cain said during his 20-minute oration.
Cain Saturday afternoon also said, “As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” adding “message was more important than money,” and that “we showed you didn’t have to have a political pedigree to run for president.” He also said to the audience, “I’m one of you.”
Lambasting the “political elites,” Cain said, “as false accusations about me continue they have sidetracked my ability to present solutions to the American people,” but added, “I’ve made mistakes.”
Cain used the phrase “unproved allegations” several times, and said the media’s “spin… hurts my wife, it hurts my family, it hurts me, and it hurts the American people, because you are being denied solutions to our problems.”
On Tuesday, November 29, Cain said to his campaign on a conference call that he was “reassessing” his campaign.
Cain has been plagued by allegations of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault by four women, beginning in late October. Two of those women, Sharon Bialek and Karen Kraushaar, came forward publicly. Then, this past Monday, November 28, Ginger White, an Atlanta businesswoman, was interviewed by a local Fox affiliate and stated she had maintained a 13-year sexual relationship with Cain, which included his contributing financial support to her household. Cain has denied all these allegations and, essentially, called all of these women liars, a point made by one of the women’s lawyers, Gloria Allred.
Cain was also plagued with a faulty centerpiece, his “999” tax plan, his inability to grasp key issues on both foreign and domestic policy, and even his hiring of Mark Block, a political operative so flawed he was forced to agree to stay out of politics for three years for ethical violations.
This was Cain’s first campaign for public office, which had publicly announced his interest in pursuing last year, on September 24, 2010. Cain formed an exploratory committee on January 12, 2011, and formally announced his candidacy on May 21 of this year.
Cain has been a CEO, “industry lobbyist, syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. Cain was chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza from 1986 to 1996, deputy chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1992 to 1994, and chairman from 1995 to 1996. Cain was president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999. Before his business career, he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy,” according to Wikipedia.
(Image: Poster: Protester of Herman Cain in Scottsdale, Arizona. By Gage Skidmore.)