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Herman Cain To Sean Hannity: ‘I Am Now Going To Change Washington D.C. From The Outside’

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Herman Cain joined Sean Hannity on Thursday night for his first major interview since suspending his campaign last weekend, and the two ran through several topics, from Cain’s future plans to what, exactly, “suspend” means.

“It means ‘end,’” Cain said. “There are no plans to re-emerge.” When asked what caused him to drop out, Cain said that, “it boiled down to two words: family first. I saw the pain it was causing my wife, and I wasn’t going to let that happen.”

Cain also revelaed that there will be evidence coming out soon that will prove he is innocent of the accusations levied against him. He believes that if he continued in the race, however, more accusations would have been coming down the road, based on how the first few played out. He told Hannity that he felt both the left and right were behind the personal attacks (although he admitted he had no proof). Still, Cain did say that if he kept going, he could have eventually bounced back and recaptured the hearts of the American people:

“Once you put that little cloud of doubt, and it grows, it started to show in my poll numbers, it started to show in the drop-off in contributions, but, most importantly — I could’ve lived with the drop in the poll numbers, we could’ve gotten that back up — but it was the pain that it was causing to my wife and my family.”

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As for future plans? An endorsement, he says, is on the way. He just wants to study the candidates a little more. And he didn’t rule out a television or radio career, but he told Hannity that, “I am now going to change Washington, D.C. from the outside, with the backing of the American people.”

Watch the clip of Herman Cain’s interview with Sean Hannity below, courtesy of Fox News:

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  • Anonymous

    Cain, you have lost all relevance and credibility. Please go away.

  • Anonymous

    Can everyone stop using the phrase “Going to change Washington”. Both sides use it and its never true and its never going to happen.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Herb, you ain’t goin’ to do nothin’, not even any cattin’ ’round these days. Your life is going to to be extraordinarily dull and non-productive. I hope you have plenty of Haagen Daas Black Walnut on hand. In a cup, or in a cone. Doesn’t matter. It’s pretty much going to be the high point of your life these days. But. I’m glad you have O’Hannity to put you on the air from time-to-time. O’Hannity: Where Dinosaurs Go to Die.

  • Anonymous

    He’s cheating on Georgia with DC.

  • Anonymous

    Losers Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, and Donald Trump always sound like the unmasked Scooby Doo monster:

    “..and I would have been president, too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling journalists.”

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget that they also all were going to change Washington from the outside.

  • Anonymous

    Good Herb.  Stay far away from DC.

  • Mo Fokker

    It is troubling that there are people in this country who took him seriously as a candidate.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I tend to agree. I think it is immutable. Short of a full, complete revolution, which is not ever going to happen in the USA (unless someone takes away our car keys, seizes the television stations and cable and satellite centers, closes WalMart and McDonald’s), we’re stuck with it

  • Anonymous

    “One woman at a time” – ODB Herb Cain elaborating on how he will change Washington “from the outside”.

  • Henry Wood

    If you can’t keep your hands to yo’ self…blame yo’ self!

    “Life can be a challenge.
    Life can seem impossible.
    It’s never easy when there’s so much on the line.”

    -Unknown Poet

  • Anonymous

    someone else talked like this who was trying to be in the white house and lost ,,,hmmm

    sarah?

    like watching the losers on American Idol tryouts..YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE END OF ME–I WILL SHOW YOU ALLLLLLLLLL~

    by hermie—you are now and forever will be in the anals of history–the first black republican presidential hopeful-joke…
    just like palin -another stain on American intellect and pride~

  • Anonymous

    Obama talked like this and won and nothing has changed in Washington. They all do it. Its nothing more then a throw away line at this point.

  • Anonymous

    they are called Republicans –you know same people who wanted Palin and Trump?
    the same ones who HATE OBAMA FOR INSURANCE MANDATES…and yet have 2—TWO-top candidates that FATHERED THE BASTARD(mandates-not obama)..
    this is what we are dealing with~
    the same ones who put the face of GW Bush on the body of Christ and then had the nerve to  claim that liberals had deified Obama>>>
    YES–THIS IS WHO WE ARE DEALING WITH~

  • Anonymous

    His presence just puts a smile on one’s face.. sometimes coupled with a muffled scoff.. occasionally a from the gut guffaw… Who needs comedy central, all hail fox news

  • Anonymous

    “Cain” won’t produce any proof of being innocent.The “tea” party has proven time and time again, morals are just a word they like to say. He is so arrogant and pompous, had it been possible to stay in the race, he would have done so.

  • Anonymous

    Is it like the “proof” he had that the Perry campaign was behind the original leak?

  • Anonymous

    The Herman Cain Comedy never stops…

    Exactly which gullible people does this narcissistic man think he’s trying to convince now?

    …His wife.

    The dust is settling on the Cain Stupidity.

    A Model Prototype of how not to run a political campaign, which no doubt will be perused in Political Philosophy Classes up and down the country.

    Good Work Mr Cain..

  • Anonymous

    It’s funny how the Republican fallback plan, when their presidential aspirations are sunk, is to be community organizers.

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    Herman Cain’s Plan to Change Washington:
    Create a pizza restaurant outside serving people with his $9.99 Pizzas.

  • Anonymous

    …one woman at a time.

    (Oh, SoTexSailor already said that.)

  • Anonymous

    Watch it Sean,  Herman has an eye on your job.

  • Anonymous

    Huzzah! Too late, Trevor! LOL

  • Anonymous

    Cain is using the Donald’s investigators just back from their Hawaii Birth Certificate fact finding mission. The Trump debate preshow will feature his investigators revealing their “shocking revelations” about the Presidents birth certificate along with the “proof” of Herb Cain’s innocence.

  • Anonymous

    At least he admitted that there are more women he had inappropriate relations with.

    MICHELLE, PLEASE LINK US TO YOUR REPUDIATION OF CAIN THAT YOU SAID YOU’D DO

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    As if Cain had any credibility in the first place quoting from Pokemon Seriously ?.
    Changing Washington from outside, thats what Sarah Palin said when she resigned
    as a governor and cashed in.

  • Anonymous

    Cain and Gingrich should spend the holidays enjoying college dorm panty raids. 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Yeah, good luck with that Mr. Cain. Perhaps you should be working on repairing your marriage.

  • Anonymous

    lol…..keep dreaming…..Michelle avoids commenting when she has no room to spin

  • Anonymous

    It was obvious cain the unable was being “interviewed” for a position on fox, either radio or analyst. . sean, the little frog tried to be so compassionate. . . cain did nothing but repeat the same stupid rationalizations that everyone was lying except him. . . he would be a bad choice. . he has no knowledge of politics. . but put him on anyway, right beside coulter, malkin, crowley and his other bevy of stable girls. . he’ll fit right in. . .

  • Anonymous

    She’s going to honor that ban she received now.

  • Anonymous

    huh? Michelle got banned? lmao

  • Anonymous

    My, My, My….Herman & Sean are the best Liars on Fox News, and that is saying a lot!
    Herman wants us to believe that all these women were lying (and there may be more), and his wife took this in stride.  Sean wants us to believe that he never believed these women and he has the utmost respect for Herman.  The biggest pile of B.S. to flow across the airwaves.

    Herman is going to ENDORSE someone?  L.O.L.
    Sean wants him back to critique the next DEBATE?  L.O.L.
    Send in “The Rest of The Clowns”, the Show Must Go On!

  • Anonymous

    I’m going to take that as you joking and rubbing it in that she’s been banned so many times lol.

  • Anonymous

    I knew that she was banned once  but to hear that she was banned again is just funny!

    Maybe Michelle is a masochist……a glutton for punishment……or she has a desire for banishment 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    By pimping one GOP politician at a time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sootsme Ed Williams

    Herman,
    You had to know that the left would pull their crap. This should nave been when you got serious… If you couldn’t handle and rise above it, you are correct in leaving the race. I had hopes that you were the right’s man to grow a pair and whup ‘em. Our Founders risked and in many cases lost “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” in the fight for our liberty. We need to be willing to risk the same, each of us in our own way, if we wish to have said liberty. Enough of “bringing a knife to a gun fight” on the part of the right…

  • http://twitter.com/ZonaCumia Zona

    Gee, he is not ruling out a tv show?  Who saw that coming? 

    Fox, here he comes.  Of course you will take him on.  Oh and if he dropped out for his family, why would he get on a tv show?

  • http://twitter.com/ZonaCumia Zona

    Cain or Trump?

  • Anonymous

    Cain thinks of Washington as a v@gina that can be stimulated from both the inside and outside. Good luck pizza man… Just bring in those 12 inches with that pepperoni pizza lol

  • Ricci Dats Me

    HERMAN CAIN, will “move on up” and create a new white house! IN IT, dancing will ensue? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • Ricci Dats Me

    He’s been on TV BEFORE!! About 30 years or so ago.. THIS whole campaign thing was just to get ready for his ROYAL RETURN TO THE TV SET!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU HE’S BACK!!!

  • Ricci Dats Me

    His marriage is fine. CAIN’s pimp hand is strong and besides WEEZEY aint going ANYWHERE!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • shonangreg

    Cain says “false accusations” every time. He makes a terrible liar. Weird, huh? And Cain knew more women would be coming too? I wish he would unsuspend his campaign.

  • shonangreg

    He sold books, though. He is honing the model for future charlatans, as George Will, I believe, recently related.

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