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Perhaps in anger over Newt and Callista taking a two-week cruise in the Aegean Sea after the worst campaign launch in modern American history, the senior staff of the Gingrich campaign for president has quit en masse.
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager, senior strategists and key aides in early delegate-selection states all resigned on Thursday, a mass exodus that leaves his hopes of winning the Republican nomination in tatters.
According to reports, Newt and Callista returned to the US earlier this week to find the campaign staff in “a rebellion that had been brewing for some time among the senior echelon of his campaign.”
Never fear, though, Newt4.2 is on the way. The disgraced former Speaker posted this on Facebook:
“I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring. The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles.”
And it wasn’t just the new guys, apparently:
The defections included several veteran Gingrich political advisers, along with new aides who were recently hired. The list, according to two aides, included: David Carney, a New Hampshire-based political strategist, Sam Dawson, a strategist, Katon Dawson, a South Carolina consultant and Craig Schoenfeld, an Iowa consultant.
And, ouch:
“There was a path to victory, Newt had a different path. When that happens, the people who work for the campaign have to leave,” Rick Tyler, who resigned today as Gingrich’s spokesman, told CBS News.
In addition to Tyler, Gingrich’s campaign manager, Rob Johnson, and senior strategists and aides in important early voting states have stepped down.
Hey Newt? You can’t treat campaigns like wives. With so many candidates running, there’s only so much senior GOP staff to go around. You appear to have pissed off your Team A. There may not be a Team B available now.
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Anyone who’s worked on a campaign knows it’s a bad idea to absent yourself at a critical time, especially if you take your primary ally with you. It sounds to me as if Newt’s team hashed over the piss-poor launch during the two weeks he and Callista were away, only to decide none of them were to blame but that they wanted out.
All of them!
I saw that Carney and Dawson are long-time advisers to Rick Perry, and this is maybe a signal that Perry is going to run.
So what’s the net effect with these guys; exiting one clown car and getting into another?
I’m beginning to think that the GOP Establishment has a ‘dilute the radical vote’ strategy, enabling the candidacies of Bachmann, Perry, Santorum and maybe even Palin in order to allow Pawlenty to slip into the nomination with much less than a majority of delegates going into the convention.
As we’re starting to see between Camp Bachmann and Camp Palin, there’s little love lost among adherents of these cult leaders. Their infighting, while entertaining, may be intentional and may result in the nomination of a palatable ‘moderate’ i.e. non-insane person.
Or: Herman Cain. Also.
For reference, have you a link to the Carney/Dawson–Perry link somewhere handy to drop into this thread?
Found it:
Carney and Johnson were previously two of Perry’s top aides.
The news comes hours after the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal both ran stories about growing interest in Perry running for president. The Washington Post quoted Perry someone close to Perry as saying, “I don’t want to do this without Carney.”
Perry and Gingrich have long been political allies. Gingrich wrote the foreword to Perry’s last book. In November, the pair appeared together at a book signing in southwest Fort Worth.
Read more: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/politex/2011/06/gingrichs-campaign-aides-resign-in-masse-possible-sign-of-perry-bid.html#ixzz1OobW1hDk
Ahh, that’s a good one. I had just seen the TPM story, here:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/report-newts-top-aides-resign-en-masse.php?ref=fpa
Perry’s a big enough assclown that he could win the Repub nomination. And if the economy is still piss-poor in 2012, maybe the White House. Should that happen, Texas will at least have reason to secede.
History lessons, cat fights, mass exoduses and Cain’s daily ignorant statement – the republican parade of prezwannabes is getting more entertaining all the time!
It’s a comedian’s dream — and also Rachel Maddow’s, which is kind of unfortunate since there is lots of other (actual) news worth reporting.
One of these dupes will be the nominee. Which one the GOP picks is of little consequence to me.
It would be even more amusing watch super-rich gazillionaires behaving like assclowns & then being pwnd for it… that is, IF our economy/nation wasn’t in such a shambles & disarray.
WTF? What a bunch of jerk-offs all of these fools are. Not that the so-called “Democrats” are any much better, mind.
A pox on all of their houses!
There never was really much of a path to victory for Newt. Newt’s always known that he’s got no chance. Rick Tyler, who resigned today as Gingrich’s spokesman, didn’t know that Newt’s never really had a path to victory when he took the job?
The only path Newt had was to the Pancake House.
I thought the only path Newt had was to Tiffany’s in order to buy off Wife #3 to stay by his side a while longer…
After pancakes.
So the Newtist colony is revolting, huh?
Newt seems to have had a clear path to Tiffany & Co and the Greek islands, too.
Newt Gingrich is a secular Pat Robertson. He, like Robertson has figured out a sure way to get the old and feeble minded people to part with their money. You can lump Palin, Bachmann and any other tool from the GOP who is thinking about running for president.
These so-called professional candidates are doing nothing more than raising money to support their lavish lifestyles, in particular the ones who have no governing or legislative power. Fools are just supporting class c bus style family vacations and cruises on the Aegean.
Campaign finance laws are a joke and easily sidestepped so these clowns like Newt can continue to take advantage of people, just like any other tele-evangelist. Only difference between these secular hucksters and the purveyors of salvation is that they are talking about saving the soul of Amerikkka.
Looks like the clown car might have to turn into a mini-bus
I’m not so sure that the person who will be the actual nominee has declared yet. I can’t really see them picking any one of these clowns, too much baggage all around.
couldn’t happen to a nicer amphibian.
Well said, and sadly, far too true. Couldn’t agree more. Buncha shysters, grifters, shills and rip-off artists. All form & no substance at all.
heh…
Unfortunately, this is more evidence the Christian dominionists on the far, far, far right are in control of GOP party machinery.
Couldn’t happen to a nastier guy.
still enjoying the moment of schaden-gingrich. what a horrible human.
Some Say Newt …
Is an erratic, bomb throwing, jobless PAC Queen. Hard to argue those points but how does that separate him from the rest of the GOP crop?
http://waronignorance.net/index.html … monitoring Right Wing Extremism
from Roger L. Simon, pajamas media:
Say what?
The GOP are owned and controlled by the rich and corporate – many of whom are atheists, trust fund babies, and other belief systems.
The use of wedge issues – like Christian dominionists – are planted by the rich and corporate to stop folks from fighting the rich and corporate – getting folks into wasting their time fighting other belief systems.
This might be the warm up act to make an actual preselected candidate look reasonable.
Newt, Perry, Guliani, Trump, Palin.. My God. Mental defectives all.
BRAINS AND EGGS reports from Texas that they are quitting Newt to join Rick Perry’s campaign
http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2011/06/newt-loses-campaign-staff-theyre-going.html
Thanks I needed a laugh.