SPEAK OUT: Boortz Retires, Cain Takes Over

Neal Boortz, the self-proclaimed "minister of the church of the painful truth," announced Monday that he will retire from the WSB Radio talk show in 2013, on the day the new president is inaugurated.

Boortz's last show will be on Inauguration Day. In typical biting fashion, he said, “If it’s Barack Obama, then I’m going to disappear into the mountains somewhere and come out after he has completely destroyed this country,” Boortz told his audience Monday. “If it is Mitt Romney….We’ll start drinking as the show begins and they will carry me out of here on a stretcher or something at the end of the show in celebration.”

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Boortz, 67, is passing the torch to his friend and colleague, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of Atlanta.

Boortz is a self-described Libertarian. He has said the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that “Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government and spend money just a bit faster than the Republicans do.”