Mr. Super-Pseudo-Patriot, my love of country made me cheat on my wife Gingrich, who was calling for the resignation of President Clinton while he himself was having a more sexual affair, cheating on his first wife while she was recovering from cancer, and subsequently cheating on his second wife while promoting himself as a family values candidate, has rats leaving his sinking ship.
Newt Gingrich campaign manager and senior aides resign in jolt to presidential bid
Article by: DAVID ESPO , Associated PressWASHINGTON - 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.
Rick Tyler, Gingrich's spokesman, said he, campaign manager Rob Johnson and senior strategists had resigned, along with aides in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Other officials said Gingrich was informed that his entire high command was quitting in a meeting earlier in the day. They cited differences over the direction of the campaign but were not more specific.
The officials declined to be identified by name, saying they were not authorized to discuss private conversations.
Gingrich told the group he intends to stay in the race, they added.
I wrote a post a couple of years ago about Tim Pawlenty comparing him to a Brady Bunch character, Johnny Bravo. The storyline was a recording company needed someone to sell a song ... they did not care about the ability to sing, but could he fit the suit (think of any of the manufactured groups ... be it The Monkeys or The Spice Girls, company management just wants someone that will look good "lip synching" the tune.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's what we should learn from the GOP field ... dispite Gingrich's fall from power, he won the MN-GOP straw poll in 2007 ... that should tell you a lot about how the MN-GOP regards its candidates.
Think back to the pre-primary 2008 GOP field which was topped by Rudy Giuliani ... who in the end did not get one delegate. This year, your man, Donald Trump thought he would look good in the suit, until people started asking questions.
I gotta think Gingrich's lastest fail started not with his comments on the Ryan plan (which too many people never heard the complete transcript as the soundbyte of "radical left / right" took the center stage but if you listened to his complete commentary, his answer was sound) nor the Tiffany's jewelry, but instead his comments on Libya ... that's when people began to question his temperment for the job.
The buzz has been going on for the past weeks that Rick Perry, Texas' governor, might join the field ... and a number of the people who "jumped shipped" are considered to be fans of Perry ... so I would expect him to get in ... which would threaten Pawlenty getting the suit as Perry could use the southern strategy and strong TaxEnoughAlready philosophy to be a real player ... remember, Texas is re-writing the text books to please the religious right ... and having served in the Air Force will standout for military veterans over T-Paw, Romney, etc.
Staff leaving the Gingrich campaign might deserve a chapter in the "Making the Republican suit 2012" edition.
I think the word "Nutty" is an unnecessary redundency when talking about most of the Republican field.
ReplyDeletePawlenty's plan is to give MORE moeny to the rich and corporations in the vain hope they'll hire onshore. You see, they certainly aren't making profits right now and the rich certainly AREN'T getting rich enough that they'd be able to hire on-shore if they chose.
Yep.
Nutty.
And then there's Rep Bachmann and Half-Governor Palin. Bachmann has been spending the past 2 years searching for people "American" enough to be trusted, and Palin, well she's riding around the country "educating" America about our founding freedoms, including the freedom to not know anything at about whatever in the hell she's talking about.
Penigma, your interpretation seems to be consistent with a number of other analysts … for example (links and highlights featured)
ReplyDeletePawlenty’s Lies and Lunacy :
The point is not that Pawlenty’s numbers don’t add up, which is stating the blindingly obvious. The point is that they are a marker of two things—first, of how radical the Republican Party has become in just these last two years. I can promise you, Bush and Karl Rove would never have contemplated coming out with an economic plan that eliminated the capital gains tax! It would have been far too nakedly plutocratic even for them. (Bush reduced the capital gains rate to 15 percent for most investors in 2003.) Second, the bilious idiocy of Pawlenty’s numbers shows just how far removed from economic reality this country is getting to be. The Republicans have lost any connection to earth, and the Democrats are afraid (with a few noble exceptions) to tell the American public the truth.
Pawlenty’s Magical Economic Plan :
His economic policy runs the gamut from delusional to reckless. If growth remains at the expected level and does not soar in the wake of the Pawlenty tax cut, the cost would be a whopping $5.8 trillion. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center puts the number even higher: at $11.6 trillion compared to current law, as the Pawlenty campaign also assumes.
Middle-class to pay for his massive tax cuts for the wealthy : – Taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million would enjoy an average cut in personal income taxes of $288,822, a 41.4 percent cut.
– Taxpayers with incomes in excess of $10 million would enjoy an average cut in personal income taxes of $2.4 million, a 46.3 percent cut.
– The cost of the personal income tax cuts just for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million would be $141.8 billion.
Pawlenty’s Fantasy Economic Plan :
This plan isn’t optimistic. It isn’t a bit vague. It’s a joke. And I don’t know which is worse: The thought that Pawlenty knows that and went forward with this pandering, fantasy-based proposal anyway, or the thought that he doesn’t know it, and he really thinks this could work.
Minnesotans who have heard GINO Pawlenty (Governor In Name Only) before … they remember his 21st Century Tax Reform Commission which was established to improve Minnesota business competitiveness … they remember Pawlenty asking all state agencies to submit budgets cutting expense 5% which equated to $2 billion … in the end, GINO Pawlenty never acted on the Tax Reform (it could not be paid for) and left the state with a budget shortfall in excess of $5 Billion.
All that said, soon-to-be-President Pawlenty knows voters are more concerned with not having their taxes raised that they do not notice that he is giving greater tax breaks to his wealthy supporters.
It seems quite clear that some people [mostly men] who reach high office lose all sense of why they were sent to DC. They assume a high brow attitude that they alone are the most important reason that they are there.
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