Gingrich Campaign Staff -- We're Outta Here!

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The Associated Press has just moved an alert reporting that GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s staff has resigned en masse:

Gingrich press spokesman Rick Tyler told AP that he’s resigned along with campaign manager Rob Johnson, senior strategists and aides in key early primary states.
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No doubt Gingrich’s decision to go on a seven-day Mediterranean cruise was a factor.
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I gotta say, Newt just might be my favorite candidate this cycle. It'll be a pity to see him take a powder, some day soon, I suspect.

What really surprises me is how much of an amateur he seems to be. First, he botched his exploratory committee announcement and website launch. Then he pretty much torpedoed his campaign right out of the blocks by calling the budget plan that the entire House GOP caucus had just voted for "right-wing social engineering." Now he's taking his 2nd 2-week vacation since announcing his candidacy.

Get the crash cart! Stat!
 
The staff realized that there was no money flowing into the campagn, and with no money, they weren't going to get paid.
 
Perhaps he realized that if cyber-sex is an offense people want elected officials ejected with, then his past is definitely too checkered.
 
Speculation is that this has less to do with Gingrich than it does with Rick Perry looking more and more like a candidate.

One potential hitch in any Perry planning is the fact that his long-time chief political adviser, David Carney, is now helping former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in his presidential campaign. In addition, Rob Johnson, who managed Perry’s reelection campaign last year, is now Gingrich’s campaign manager.
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Brainster said:
Speculation is that this has less to do with Gingrich than it does with Rick Perry looking more and more like a candidate.
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That might explain two of them. But the entire paid staff in Iowa? No, I'm going with theory presented by the eater of mountain men -- he's not raising the money. Staff need to eat. Those Iowa staff will all have jobs by next week with other candidates not named Rick Perry.
 
Brainster said:
Speculation is that this has less to do with Gingrich than it does with Rick Perry looking more and more like a candidate.
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You're kidding.

After the hangover that so many people still have from the Bush years, I don't think being a former governor of Texas is going to be seen as anything but a liability. But it'll be great for the laugh factor :rolleyes:

I agree with what others here have said: it's about the money. Well, more like it's about the fact that Gingrich won't pay his campaign staff while he jets off on another vacation.
 
hgc said:
That might explain two of them. But the entire paid staff in Iowa? No, I'm going with theory presented by the eater of mountain men -- he's not raising the money. Staff need to eat. Those Iowa staff will all have jobs by next week with other candidates not named Rick Perry.
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Who do you think hired the staff in Iowa? I'll bet you an avatar for a month that Schoenfeld goes to work for Perry.

GOP Consultant One: “Knew this was coming… I bet Perry is in this thing sooner rather than later – these guys aren’t jumping off without somewhere else to land.”
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hgc said:
No, I'm going with theory presented by the eater of mountain men -- he's not raising the money. Staff need to eat.
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Alf might suggest they follow his lead and only eat Democrats.
 
I have to admit, I find this Gingrich development a bit surprising ...

Although I was sure that Gingrich really did not want to be President, however I was sure that he would play it out for a good while at least until him and his agent could work out a lucrative book deal and speech tour for his efforts.

After all, even Palin has shown how one can be a political looser/quitter and still make a good bit of money in the process.
 
I see he's promising to fight on.... I wonder if he needs some good yes-men for his campaign? I could do that.... But I'd want to get paid up-front....
 
Crossbow said:
I have to admit, I find this Gingrich development a bit surprising ...

Although I was sure that Gingrich really did not want to be President, however I was sure that he would play it out for a good while at least until him and his agent could work out a lucrative book deal and speech tour for his efforts.

After all, even Palin has shown how one can be a political looser/quitter and still make a good bit of money in the process.
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This. I dont think Newt wants to be President. Too much like hard work. And you actually have to come up with solutions, not just criticisms once you have the job. This was just him having to be seen to put his money where his mouth is for once to maintain his "credibility" with his supporters.
 
"all the above reasons"
Resigning together is totally the best way. You have a fine element of 'behind his back' meetings and scheming. Smiling in his face while thinking of another lover. Figuring out the timing, doing it while he's on vacation. Small white lies gradually growing into full betrayal.

Heck of all people, Newt should know about this feeling.
 
Probably a combination of money, and the proverbial snowball in hell syndrome.
The lack of donations is an indicator of the snowball's demise, and when the incoming money is in nickles and pennies from the radicals, with the occasional larger donation from known idiots, people who have had success in the past are not going to throw that success away on a losing cause.
(The above is supposition-I have no crystal ball, and no skill at Tarot...)
 
He sure has been flapping in the political winds as far as what his positions are. He was against the Ryan budget, until he heard the reactions. He was in favor of the individual health insurance mandate until it was incorporated into the Democrats' law, so now he's against it. (And apparently the constitutionality of it has changed right at the same time.)

So he's sure acting like someone who wants to win a political office.
 
rwguinn said:
Probably a combination of money, and the proverbial snowball in hell syndrome..)
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And a two week vacation in Greece didn't help either.

Newt Gingrich has decided, like John McCain before him, to suspend his presidential campaign in order to go off and solve a devastating world crisis. He is, after all, the Republican Party's idea man, and with the power of his incredible intellect comes the responsibility to aid people in danger, wherever they may be.
That's why he is on what seems at first glance to be a luxurious cruise liner, where week-long cruises start at $2,499 a person, with his wife, Callista. But look at where that cruise ship -- the Seabourn Odyssey -- set off from: Greece! Newt Gingrich is clearly using his many thousands of ideas to save Greece from its sovereign debt crisis.
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/06/gingrich_vacation
 
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