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Sister Toldjah tells us about Herbie Cain’s decision to “re-assess” his dwindling chances of even getting a remote sniff of the White House campaign, in light of the latest accusation d’ peccadillo&#160 against him.

An Atlanta businesswoman is breaking her silence, claiming she has been involved in a 13-year-long affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, FOX 5 senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell sat down with Ginger White, who had a story to tell.

“I’m not proud,” White told Russell. “I didn’t want to come out with this. I did not.”

Don’t believe it for a nanosecond, Denizens.&#160 Unless she & Herbie were an item alllllllll over Hotlanta, all she had to do was keep her effing mouth shut.&#160 No one gave two flying fucks at donut holes who she was before this, and nobody’ll give so much as one after Herbie drops out of the race.

Which, if he can figure out what “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin” means, should be AnyDayNow&#153.

Ginger White says she met Herman Cain in the late 90s in Louisville, Kentucky, when as president of the National Restaurant Association, he made a presentation. She was impressed. She says they shared drinks afterwards and he invited her back to his hotel room.

“’I’d like to see you again,’” White said Cain told her. “’You are beautiful to me, and I would love for us to continue this friendship.’”

She says in his hotel room, he pulled out a calendar and invited her to meet him in Palm Springs. She accepted, and she says the affair began.

[…]

She says during the next 13 years, he would fly her to cities where he was speaking and he lavished her with gifts. She says they often stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Buckhead and dined at The Four Seasons restaurant. She says he never harassed her, never treated her poorly, and was the same man you see on the campaign trail.

[…]

She says the physical relationship ended about eight months ago, right before Cain announced he was running for president. But the communication did not.

Don’t get me wrong, Denizens.&#160 I don’t for a minute believe a single syllable this tawdry trollop is saying.&#160 There has been too many of these accusations, saying exactly the same thing, to think these bimbos haven’t been coached.

But it doesn’t matter what you & I know, guys.&#160 The majority of the American Idol-fed, pablum-scarfing douchebaggery that we foolishly call citizens, will lap it up like cats on a saucer of milk laced with catnip.

Cain, as much as I dislike the man for his disrespect of Rick Perry, is bang on right about this one:&#160 Like Clarance Thomas before him, he is a victim of an attempted “high-tech lynching”.&#160 Problem is…this time, it worked.

And while I might not mind too much, all things considered – I do think that anyone who was involved in spreading this maliciousness (all&#160 of it) should be taken out back…and properly ventilated, if you know what I mean.

Asshats.&#160

UPDATE (hat tip Jim Hoft):&#160 Uh, oh.&#160 Maybe there is&#160 something to this one, after all.

Herman Cain acknowledged Thursday that he repeatedly gave Ginger White money to help her with “month-to-month bills and expenses” without telling his wife of more than 40 years.

In fact, the embattled presidential candidate said, his wife, Gloria, “did not know that we were friends until she (White) came out with this story” alleging that the two had a 13-year extramarital affair.

In his most candid interview since the latest allegations emerged, Cain adamantly maintained that he and White were no more than friends.

Uh, huh.&#160 To quote a certain SpatulaGoddess, “Yeah, right, whatever”.

Doesn’t matter if this specific episode was platonic or not.&#160 Doesn’t matter if he was merely “trying to help her financially” or whatever.&#160 The mere appearance&#160 of impropriety in this case is enough to torpedo this&#160 campaign.

G’night, Herbie, thanks for playing.

UPDATE the Twoth:&#160 Sure enough…

Herman Cain, the insurgent populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a “cloud of doubt over me and this campaign.”

“As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” he said at an event in Atlanta. “I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me, on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter.”

“…but because I am a horndog on a Clintonian scale, and where it was okay with Slick Willie, a Republican – ‘specially a black&#160 Republican – ‘Cain’t’&#160 gets away widdit.”

And, whereas before I thought the Ginger White story was 100% bullshit…now I’m not so sure.

(shrug) Meh, whatever.