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Charlie Langton: Cain Has Become a Drain

The national spotlight will be on Oakland University tonight for the Republican presidential Debate. Although it's billed as a policy debate on the economy, the only thing that's really on most people's minds is sex...Cain style!

The Cain Train should do himself and the Republican party a favor by taking a midnight Cain Train back to Georgia. Specifically, get out of the race but do it in style by announcing his resignation on stage and walking off. I realize that's not going to happen, but it should.

As much as I admire Herman Cain, every time I think of him I think of crotch-grab on bimbos. Is 9-9-9 just a pickup line-line-line? It's too easy to spoof. "Hey baby...hop aboard the Cain Train and let me show you my 9-9-9!" No lie-detector on this planet will erase the damage of the last few weeks and there's nothing in the journalistic book of ethics that will keep reporters from reporting this story unless he says, "It's not me, it's you. I have to say goodbye"...

So tonight you have the opportunity to save face, turn off the light, and crawl under the covers- alone and let the Republican party get the train back on the tracks.

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