Gloria Cain, lejos de los focos

POLITICO.com:

“Some people have certain expectations concerning the traditional politician’s wife, though, and I’m often asked: ‘Where is your wife? Why isn’t she campaigning with you?”

“‘She is at home,’ I answer,” he wrote.

“And Gloria will tell them she’s not running but she supports me 100 percent. That’s all I need.”

The Cain campaign declined to make Gloria Cain available for an interview. But asked to elaborate, Cain’s campaign provided a statement from the candidate saying she’s attended several events.

“She has watched all the debates on TV,” Cain adding, explaining, “She prefers to maintain the calmness and tranquility of our family life.”

As to whether she’ll be taking a more active role, Cain said, “Yes, they will see her — on her terms and her timetable.”

“P.S.,” the candidate added, “she is my biggest supporter.”

In the book, Cain bragged not of his wife’s political prowess and conservative bonafides, but of her Southern cooking. He wrote that her “fork-tender roast, collard greens, green beans, candied yams, hand-shucked corn and homemade cornbread” — a meal she prepared for him the day before the June GOP debate in New Hampshire — would be the meal that he would want at his deathbed.

But Cain did project a role for his wife as first lady that he promised would be different from in previous White Houses, and wouldn’t involve designer fashions at state dinners.

“I’ve also been asked, ‘What about the first lady? Will she be in the mold of Nancy Reagan or Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama? My answer is ‘None of the above,’” Cain wrote in his book. “Gloria wants to come up with a ‘Grandmommy Project,’ something to do with the children. As she has told me, ‘I don’t know what it’s going to be but it will be something relative to grandkids,’ which has been one of my themes.”