{"id":6299,"date":"2012-01-28T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2012-01-28T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T07:02:22","slug":"endorsement-news-herman-cain-and-jon-voight-declare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6299","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement News: Herman Cain And Jon Voight Declare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shape of the Republican campaign is getting more abstract by the day.<\/p>\n<p>At a Newt Gingrich rally today in Florida, Herman Cain popped in to announce that he was <em>&#8220;officially and enthusiastically&#8221;<\/em> endorsing the former House Speaker. This was an entirely predictable event. Who else would Cain, a serial sexual harasser, endorse other than Gingrich, a serial philanderer? If Gingrich gets the nomination he could pick Cain as his running mate and be the misogynistic ticket. The Cain endorsement also produced one of the best headlines of the season in the Los Angeles Times: <em>&#8220;Cain endorsement could boost Gingrich campaign.&#8221;<\/em> Yeah, right. Gingrich said in a statement. <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m honored to have Herman&#8217;s support, and I look forward to working with him to help put the American people back to work&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> &#8230;delivering pizzas. In order to pledge his support for Gingrich, Cain must be revoking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6234\" target=\"_blank\">the endorsement he gave previously<\/a>. He must no longer be in favor of <em>&#8220;The People.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Angelina Jolie&#8217;s estranged and disturbed Tea Partying father, Jon Voight, gave his support to Mitt Romney. Voight praised Romney as <em>&#8220;strong, honest and wants to bring the country back to its exceptional place where we have been for hundreds of hundreds of years, until President Obama decided to follow his father&#8217;s footsteps and take us to socialism.&#8221;<\/em> Romney was actually on the stage with Voight as he delivered that lunatic screed that managed to lie about Obama and insult his dead father whom he never knew. That&#8217;s just what Romney&#8217;s campaign needs: more Glenn Beck inspired dementia to pull in the Tea Party crowd that isn&#8217;t yet convinced by Cain&#8217;s endorsement of Gingrich.<\/p>\n<p>This is just too much fun, and we haven&#8217;t even gotten started yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shape of the Republican campaign is getting more abstract by the day. At a Newt Gingrich rally today in Florida, Herman Cain popped in to announce that he was &#8220;officially and enthusiastically&#8221; endorsing the former House Speaker. This was an entirely predictable event. Who else would Cain, a serial sexual harasser, endorse other than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[898,965,260,568],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-herman-cain","tag-jon-voight","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1DB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9105,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9105","url_meta":{"origin":6299,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Hires Herman Cain To Fill Network&#8217;s Wingnut, Philandering, Birther Role","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/15\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In Keeping with their mission to elevate the most ignorant, delusional, dishonest, self-serving, partisan extremists of the far-right Tea-publican Party, Fox News has just announced that they have added former pizza chain magnate Herman Cain to their payroll. 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