Herman Cain may not know it yet, but Suspension is the New Quitting

I managed to catch Cain's big-deal announcement, and it struck me as a bit rambling and odd. His description of his placement in the "Final Four" of this election is a little odd--he's proud that he came to show, but managed to place?  But it's a little irrelevant before the primaries have actually started.

Also, it's interesting that his announcement isn't that he's ending his campaign, but merely suspending it.  I understand this is because if the campaign is suspended, he can still accept donations--that's swell, but I think even his die-hard supporters should be catching a clue: Cain already tried Plan A, running for President.  He is now prepared to do the important business of Plan B: sell books be the voice of the people!  Are those people probably going to sound a lot like the Koch brothers? Sure, but they are people, too. Rich people!  Brothers from another mother!  This is the time to look into other candidates and get to know them.  Maybe Google Santorum.

As political speeches go, once he got past the "suspending his campaign" part, the whole "uniting the United States" and "putting the shining city on a hill back up the top of the hill" stuff seemed pretty flat, like he was just stringing cliches together at that point.

What a not-particularly long, but definitely strange trip the Cain Train has been!