Washington Post: Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign imploded Thursday afternoon with his entire senior staff resigning en masse… “When the campaign and the candidate disagree on the path, they’ve got to part ways,” said Rick Tyler, a longtime Gingrich spokesman who was among those who left the campaign.
Tyler as well as Rob Johnson, Gingrich’s campaign manager, Dave Carney and Katon Dawson, senior strategists to the effort, media consultant Sam Dawson, Iowa strategist Craig Schoenfeld, South Carolina operative Walter Whetsell and Georgia-based adviser Scott Rials have all stepped aside. Much of Gingrich’s early state operation was also headed for the exits…
…Gingrich released a statement via Facebook pledging to continue in the race: “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring,” Gingrich wrote. “The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles.”
Among the issues leading to the resignations … was the two-week vacation that Gingrich and his wife, Callista, insisted upon taking against the advice of his top political staff. Coming as it did after one of the most disastrous campaign launches in recent memory….
…Carney and Johnson are longtime aides to Texas Gov. Rick Perry who has said in recent days that he is contemplating a run for president himself in 2012. The Carney and Johnson resignations will fuel speculation that Perry is moving toward the race.
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No real surprise there……just a happy dance that he’s most likely toast!
The mankini did him in 🙂
Ha!
Yup!
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Couldn’t have happen to a nicer guy. Every time i look at this man I have this urge to go take a shower.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!
sometimes all you can do is laugh.
good riddance to bad rubbish 😆 😆
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!
That’ll teach him to go to the beach like that.
This guy couldn’t purchase a clue. The other thing to note is that a couple of these deserters are former campaign staff to another right-wing joke, Rick Perry. So keep an eye on that situation. UGH.
I don’t think his was a truly serious presidential campaign. More likely it is just a money-making adventure, but at this rate he may not be able to dupe the fools out of their hard-earned cash. Poor Leroy 😦 .
PJ you are correct. That’s why Newt went on this vacation. He doesn’t care what folks say. He is in this for the money. Rachel can add this to his scams. 🙂 I get the feeling that Rachel detests Newt.
And we all know why Jim Webb is so against Libya scuffle!
He is getting out, so the oil lobbyists and bankers that have connections to Libya, are pushing him. Don’t worry about Jim Webb, he will have a nice job on k street in a year!
Just like Evan bath!!!!!!!
democRATS both Webb and Bayeh 😡
Donkey donkey pay your aide
or he’s quitting I’m afraid
Donkey donkey time to go
No one cares for your silly show
Biden to meet three times next week with budget negotiators!
HE CAN WEAR HIS MANKINI AT HIS BON VOYAGE PARTY…I IMAGINE HE’LL INVITE ALL THE OTHER MUPPETS!
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Sue, I make sure not to drink anything near the keyboard when you are on a roll. 🙂 🙂
Household incomes rose (in the US)943 billion in the first half of 2011!
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Odds are the Gingrich staff will jump to the Perry’s campaign as the campaign chief and top NH aide both worked for Perry camaigns in the past. If Perry runs, I think the primary instantly becomes Perry vs Romney with everybody else pushed to irrelevance.
Perry’s another joke who won’t get anywhere near the White House. He’s vile and evil. Why do you want to lead the country you hate so much, that you want to secede (sp)?
“Fox News reported staff were angry after he took a recent holiday cruise.” A “high-end” one at that.
Well who’da thunk that repugs wouldn’t take kindly to this, but something tells me there’s more to it than that.
It’ might be a nasty sex scandal about to hit the roof.
One can only hope… “Mankini” photos or worse! I know..yuk!!!
After campaigning for three weeks he and his third wife went on a two week cruise in the Greek Isles.
He’s just following the George W. Bush work ethic.
I an so happy for him, for Newt. It couldn’t happen to a nicer man. Ha! Ha!Ha!
How many times can he begin “anew”? He’s old and a retread…there is no anew for him.
In a recent poll in Texas, the result was that Perry would garner the votes of only 4% of Texans for president. My son and daughter-in-law live in Texas, they and many others have no use for him. We do NOT want another Texas governor as president!!!
You took the words…hasn’t he already done the begin “anew” thing?
Newt the job killer and The Quitter and The Chump – these people just use the election process like an ad agency. Just open a PAC, collect a lot of money, sell books and reality shows, hike speaker fees and away they go. Hopefully, this will be the last round for Newt but who knows? He’s been pulling the same game for years.
“I am committed…uh…I am to be committed…and soon”. Newt Leroy G.
Schadenfreude. Apparently this is a new one as he got ‘fired’ by his staff . Why anyone would take this guy seriously is beyond me.