I'd Like to Vote for Cain, but at This Point, I'm No Longer Able.

I think that is a good guideline for many leaders. If they cannot be trusted in their own home and family why should we think of them running the country?

It's a pity too because I really liked Herman Cain and think he could have done a lot of good for the USA. But you are right that trust is a major issue and it appears he has been untrustworthy in his personal life and also in his public life by not coming clean on everything from the beginning.

I was seriously considering voting for him and did not believe the various allegations as more than some women looking for their 15 minutes of fame and any monetary gain. However I aalso think that his long association with this other woman involving a large sum of money and hiding this situation from his wife has completely changed my original views on his character and trustworthiness.

Gee, Ted, I'm sorry I took so long with this response; so long it's a completely moot point now, but I wanted to add my two cents just the same. More specifically, I wanted to let you know how much I agree with you and how much I appreciate your views on this topic. I can understand how some of Cain's supporters were rather cynical when these allegations started to come out and pile up. I guess it's only human nature that most of us tend to give someone we like and/or respect the benefit of the doubt while we'll take something negative like this at face value when it's about someone we're not so fond of or with whom we disagree. However, in my opinion the whole mess with Herman Cain went a bit beyond he said/she said situations. I sincerely mean it when I say a candidate having possibly had an affair isn't in itself enough to make me unable to vote for that candidate. Nobody knows what goes on in a relationship except for those involved so I simply believe it's none of my business or anyone else's. When it came out that Cain had been giving this woman money on a regular basis and his wife knew nothing about it something didn't seem right to me but I told myself what may seem impossible to imagine in my marriage may be quite different for a multimillionaire. Then when I also heard Cain say his wife knew nothing about the friendship or even that this woman existed I KNEW something wasn't right! I don't know either if there is or was an affair and I really don't care, but I think there was SOMETHING going on that wasn't on the up-and-up or Cain would have been honest with his wife...PERIOD. Annie

I don't know. But I haven't really been keeping up with the news on him. So, I don't know all of the details. He does lose me on some of the issues, mainly his foreign policy. I am still on the fence. The loaning money doesn't bother me so much. That is unless it actually caused damage to their finances. Then I would question it.

With friends like the woman whom Cain was "helping". who needs enemies? Here he was supposedly helping her financially for 13 years and then she puts the knife in his back. Personally, I think that he did have an affair with her and he was paying her hush money or maybe she was out and out blackmailing him. But then, i think that someone paid her more to out him. That's what I am thinking. With all the skeletons that Herman Cain had in his closet, he must have been delusional or crazy to run for President.

Then I suppose you will have to dump most of the candidates. I am sure they have all demonstrated bad judgment at some point in their lives. Many point to Newt's personal life as containing unacceptable issues with his divorces. Then, if I consider Mitt - his serious flip-flopping on key issues indicates that he is not one to trusted, but he may be the most slick politician in the group.

Well, you don't have to worry about giving Herman Cain the benefit of the doubt anymore [em]lol[/e] ParaTed2k, he has finally buckled to the political pressure that was being applied so effectively to his campaign. You know they had the affair no pays continually a woman's bills and your wife haven't a clue to what's going on. Evidently his wife doesn't trust him either or he would have stayed in the race. ......

I'm going to wait and see what happens today when he talks to his wife. I still think chicago (Rahm Emanuel) is behind this, because that's how he helped his buddy get into the White House.

I am not a republican, and wouldn't vote in a primary so my vote doesn't count. But, I think that you are correct that he does have some credibility issues which what we have learned about his private life. I agree that your private life shouldn't decide your professional life, but remember that right wing CONSERVATIVE republicans listen to a man who's private life is as about liberal as can be, but his professional life over shadows that by a long shot. So, who knows what will happen.