Stunt candidate and presidential performing artist Herman Cain suspended his long-runnning performance piece, “Campaign 2012,” Saturday, November 3rd. Speaking before a packed house at Bucket-o-Laffs Improv Club in Atlanta, Cain donned his trademark clown shoes for the last time , and announced his retirement. He will no longer perform live, though webisodes of his more popular routines will continue to be posted on his comedy web site.
Tearful family-values conservatives who had longed to vote for a clownish adulterer in upcoming primaries were stunned. Some turned to the comedy stylings of porcine 90s prattfall artist Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich, but many diehard Cainiacs were inconsolable. The ventriloquism act of Willard Romney & Mitt, with whom Cain and Gingrich were touring, have announced that they may perform in some of the Iowa venues that Cain has vacated.
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