Newt Gingrich, The Ship Be Sinking

[Freelance Hack]

What do you think is happening to Newt's presidential campaign hopes now that all senior advisors in the early states have abruptly resigned?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43343808/ns/politics-decision_2012/

 

[PCLoadLetter]

What do you think is happening to Newt's presidential campaign hopes now that all senior advisors i the early states have abruptly resigned?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43343808/ns/politics-decision_2012/

Well, honestly, I'm not sure his hope is changed, because he didn't have any anyway.

Bizarre thing. Interesting that some of them are former Perry people -- I wonder if they're lining up to be with him.

 

[Spartan Squad]

It's certainly interesting and could be a sign of things to come for Newt. But John McCain had a similar reshuffling of his campaign staff and came back from near defeat in the primary to clean up. His campaign then fell apart in the general election, so we'll have to see what happens to Newt. This is going to be an ugly season for the GOP just because so many of them are clamoring to set the Republican agenda, so something as serious as this could sink Newt and won't be able to recover like McCain did.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Newt's a joke.

 

[TigerVols]

What do you think is happening to Newt's presidential campaign hopes now that all senior advisors i the early states have abruptly resigned?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43343808/ns/politics-decision_2012/

Well, honestly, I'm not sure his hope is changed, because he didn't have any anyway.

Bizarre thing. Interesting that some of them are former Perry people -- I wonder if they're lining up to be with him.

If Perry gets in the race, it will be game-over for the nomination battle. And it will mean one very nasty, ugly, brutal election fight.

 

[poindexter]

It's certainly interesting and could be a sign of things to come for Newt. But John McCain had a similar reshuffling of his campaign staff and came back from near defeat in the primary to clean up. His campaign then fell apart in the general election, so we'll have to see what happens to Newt. This is going to be an ugly season for the GOP just because so many of them are clamoring to set the Republican agenda, so something as serious as this could sink Newt and won't be able to recover like McCain did.

Yeah, but its not like McCain hurt his chances by callously dumping his wife in ill health, like Newt did.

Wait a minute..

 

[YankeeFan]

What do you think is happening to Newt's presidential campaign hopes now that all senior advisors i the early states have abruptly resigned?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43343808/ns/politics-decision_2012/

Well, honestly, I'm not sure his hope is changed, because he didn't have any anyway.

Bizarre thing. Interesting that some of them are former Perry people -- I wonder if they're lining up to be with him.

If Perry gets in the race, it will be game-over for the nomination battle. And it will mean one very nasty, ugly, brutal election fight.

You think the nomination would be Perry's to lose?

I don't see it that way.

He has no natural constituency. He's not associated with any particular issue. He doesn't have much of a national profile. And, while the Texas economy has been better than the rest of the country, people aren't giving Perry a lot of credit for that.

 

[Mark McGwire]

Clown Car down one.

And agree with YF. What's Perry got that Mitt ain't got?

 

[DanOregon]

Gingrich reminds me of Mike Damone from Fast Times.

"I don't know what just happened. I woke up in a really good mood."

 

[YankeeFan]

It's the wife's fault:

The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate’s wife since 2000.

The euphemism offered by departing staffers was they disagreed with Gingrich’s “strategy” for the campaign. Indeed, they did disagree. But it was a strategy – a part-time campaign, in effect – that Gingrich’s wife favored.

Several aides, including campaign manager Rob Johnson, met with Gingrich on Thursday morning and told him of the senior staff’s unanimous decision to quit. Gingrich later put out a statement saying he was staying in the race.

The last straw for the campaign staff was Gingrich’s decision to go on a two-week cruise in the Mediterranean, from which he returned on Tuesday. His advisers urged him not to go and take so much time from a campaign that was already in trouble. But his wife wanted him to go and she won the argument.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/problem-was-wife_574027.html

Between this, the Tiffany's bill, and the second divorce, Newt would have been better off if he could have kept it in his pants.

 

[DanOregon]

Honestly, taking that cruise might have been the best thing Gingrich has done for his candidacy. He was his own worst enemy.

 

[finishthehat]

Clown Car down one.

And agree with YF. What's Perry got that Mitt ain't got?

The Christian right. Perry's making a big play for them, hosting a Reliant Stadium prayer event later this summer to which he has publicly invited all 49 other state governors.

 

[YankeeFan]

Clown Car down one.

And agree with YF. What's Perry got that Mitt ain't got?

The Christian right. Perry's making a big play for them, hosting a Reliant Stadium prayer event later this summer to which he has publicly invited all 49 other state governors.

Mitt certainly doesn't have the Christian right, but neither does Perry.

Perry might have a chance at them -- and Romney really doesn't -- but right now, he's not looked upon as a Christian Right standard bearer.

 

[rmanfredi]

Clown Car down one.

And agree with YF. What's Perry got that Mitt ain't got?

A can of Coca-Cola?

 

[imjustagirl]

I've never heard of Perry. I don't love him, but at least I've heard of Mitt.

 

[YankeeFan]

I've never heard of Perry. I don't love him, but at least I've heard of Mitt.

Exactly.

He's been Gov. of Texas since December of 2000 (stepping up from Lt. Gov when GWB left office), and he had no national profile.

I lived in Texas at the time (and for another four years), and I'm a right wing political geek, so I've heard of him. But, he has no accomplishments to claim and no signature issue.

(Texas has a very weak Governor. GWB's election aside, it's a tough place to implement your political philosophy and use it as a launching pad.)

 

[UPChip]

I've never heard of Perry. I don't love him, but at least I've heard of Mitt.

Exactly.

He's been Gov. of Texas since December of 2000 (stepping up from Lt. Gov when GWB left office), and he had no national profile.

I lived in Texas at the time (and for another four years), and I'm a right wing political geek, so I've heard of him. But, he has no accomplishments to claim and no signature issue.

(Texas has a very weak Governor. GWB's election aside, it's a tough place to implement your political philosophy and use it as a launching pad.)

If anything, he may be best known nationally by the epithet given to him by the late Molly Ivins: Gov. Goodhair.

 

[Starman]

I've never heard of Perry. I don't love him, but at least I've heard of Mitt.

Exactly.

He's been Gov. of Texas since December of 2000 (stepping up from Lt. Gov when GWB left office), and he had no national profile.

I lived in Texas at the time (and for another four years), and I'm a right wing political geek, so I've heard of him. But, he has no accomplishments to claim and no signature issue.

(Texas has a very weak Governor. GWB's election aside, it's a tough place to implement your political philosophy and use it as a launching pad.)

If anything, he may be best known nationally by the epithet given to him by the late Molly Ivins: Gov. Goodhair.

That, and repeatedly pumping the idea, in all seriousness, of Texas seceding from the United States.

 

[Mark McGwire]

I can tell you what Mitt has that Perry ain't got: A ****load of money. And that really might make all the difference this time out.

 

[TigerVols]

Rick Perry has access to Texas oil money, and lots of it.

Romney's Mormon money is Chris Rock money; Perry's oil money is Oprah money.