No matter which way you slice it, the pizza CEO’s cam paign was probably doomed from the start.

Herman Cain, a former front-runner in race for the 2012 Republican nomina tion, announced this past weekend that he would be suspending his campaign for the presidency.

Approximately no one was surprised by this. The an nouncement came out after Cain spent a week trying to clean up the public relations disaster caused by Ginger White, who came forward to an ABC affiliate in Georgia to reveal her alleged 13-year af fair with Cain. Whether this is the truth is not the issue. White has proven herself to be a questionable woman at best, but 13 years is a rather big claim.

Had this been an isolated incident, White could have been written off as crazy, someone trying to scam money out of Cain. Howev er, in the late 90s, when Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association, four women complained of being sexually harassed by Cain, with two of them receiving compensation, according to USA Today.

Apparently, when you add adultery to four instances of sexual harassment, that’s the tipping point. Cain put an end to the campaign, citing the “continued distraction, [and] continued hurt” the al legations had caused him and his family.

Rumor has it that Cain will officially announce his en dorsement of Newt Gingrich sometime this week, mean ing all those Cain followers will have to watch someone else be weird in the Republi can debates.

That is, if there are even any Cain followers left. After all of the scandal, the 9-9-9 criticisms and the unsettling “Now is the Time for Action” campaign advertisement, was anyone out there honestly planning on still voting for him?

It wouldn’t be a great be ginning to the presidency, for starters. No one wants to wonder if their president was an adulterer. Well, not again, at least. The American public is the type to hold grudges, and Cain probably wouldn’t have lived it down.

He’s certainly not going to live down his farewell to the campaign. During his fare well speech last Saturday, Cain left his audience with these parting words: “Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, it’s never easy when there is so much on the line. But you and I can make a