CAIN to slow down, didn't expect all this success, thought he'd be kewl book touring by now

[UTUSN]

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http://gawker.com/5854318/herman-cain-is-tired-will-slow-down

Herman Cain Is Tired, Will ‘Slow Down’

We're at the point in the presidential campaign where Herman Cain was supposed to be dropping out and having a nice, leisurely tour to promote his latest motivational book. And yet here he is having to give, and screw up, all of these national media interviews all the time, as the frontrunner. Some "supporters" those supporters are, giving him all of this support! It's time to "slow down," says his campaign.

Cain's many real or perceived gaffes over the last few weeks, including a comical inability to clarify his pro-life stance, a suggestion that he'd release all prisoners from Gitmo in a swap with Al Qaeda for one U.S. soldier, and the biggest one of all, allowing someone to smoke a cigarette in a campaign web video, are the result of him being too busy and not having a teleprompter (har har har), according to his spokesperson:

"We're trying to slow down a little bit, make sure he's rested, make sure he's focused," says J.D. Gordon, the campaign's vice president for communications. The goal is to achieve a "more deliberate pace…so we don't make those kinds of mistakes."

Gordon says his boss has been doing as many as seven or eight events a day, "and when you do that and don't use a Teleprompter, sometimes you can make a mistake… People understand he's not a career politician; he's very spontaneous, they know how fast he's going. People give him more leeway than they would someone who's in Congress or a governor."

Won't you love this, when he's president and fucking up important things 20 times a day, and the White House Press Secretary says "c'mon guys, you all know that he's not really a politician so it doesn't count"? The joke won't be on him.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. I am waiting for the media (besides Gawker) to call bullshit on this man.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Very telling that the republicans consider Cain the least worst alternative right now.

They really don't like the people running. I think the Obama enthusiasm gap may have been overestimated, especially since Obama is going to run like a progressive populist and 9 out of 10 people will fall for it again.

Obama 2012 in a walk

[tanyev]

3. So he'd need someone else to take a message on a 3:00am phone call?

"OK, we'll notify the President of that crisis just as soon as he's all rested up."

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. He'll probably think it's someone ordering pizza.

[Bake]

9. If you order it ... PIZZA WILL COME!

:rofl:

Bake

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. He never intended to get this far, and he knows it.

He'll be in the dustbin of politics before you know it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. He's trying to sabotage his own campaign by doing weird things

I thought he was weird and running as a goof when he talked about building moats with alligators in them to kill illegal aliens, but his latest campaign ads are the most bizarre things I've ever seen from a political candidate.

Cain doesn't want to be President and didn't intend for this to go as far as its gone. He's even admitted that his statements are jokes. He intended to run to sell books.

However, the weirder he gets, the more the insane conservatives in his party eat it up.

[rgbecker]

7. I agree this shows just how bad off the Republican party is.

The "Tea Party" has taken over and the establishment big money guys are even funding these wackos as it is only way they can retain control of the GOP. Cain appears to be Koch brother's boy and poor Mitt Romney can't get his right wing talking points in order.

[Tsiyu]

8. Shades of doddering Ronald Reagan

meets "Hard work is HARD!" Dumbya. Add some "I'm a Former Fed Chairman but Get OFF My Lawn!" and you've got a trifecta of Republican qualities.

None of them Presidential, mind you.

But all of them like a Siren Call to the Right Wing Wacknuts..