Oh look! Newt Gingrich’s preposterous Presidential “campaign” has imploded. His top strategists and campaign staff have resigned en masse and so has his Iowa staff. What a shame. Turns out that staffers didn’t appreciate Newt taking his latest wife on a cruise around the Greek islands while they were working hard to sell the impossible dream of President Gingrich. Hence the Newtiny. Newt 2012: Making Rudy 2008 look good.
Since Newt’s campaign manager Ron Johnson also ran Texas Governor Rick Perry’s re-election campaign last year and Newt’s erstwhile senior strategist Dave Carney has also worked for Perry it’s dollars to brisket that all this increases the chance Perry will enter the race for the GOP nomination. If he ever wants it, this is the moment since there’s a Texas-sized gap in the market.
Sure enough, word comes that Perry is indeed considering a pop at the Presidency. Indeed, it seems quite plausible that these people were only working for Newt on the assumption that Perry was not running. Once that assumption began to be tested even the obvious appeal of taking money from Newt and his rubes might begin to pall.
Happily, for fans of political balderdash and nonsense anyway, Newt is promising to soldier on. How long tht lasts is anyone’s guess, of course, since the main aim of Newt’s campaign has evidently been to keep Newt in the news. In that respect ignominious failure is almost as good as actually being a credible player. Which is just as well since that’s all Newt ever had going for him in the first place.
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