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Newt Gingrich’s Campaign Fundraisers Quit
The AP reports that Newt Gingrich’s two top fundraisers have quit and the campaign is $1 million in debt.
Apart from this now going down as one of the worst, most incompetent campaigns ever, many Democrats, Republicans and independents who don’t like Gingrich’s demagogic style of politics can’t help but thinking it’s a bit of poetic justice. On the other hand, you would think that Gingrich as a political pro would be humiliated — but he’s beyond humiliation.
The question now becomes: when Gingrich withdraws, what candidate will get his endorsement and his .5 Gingrich voters?
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7 Responses to “Newt Gingrich’s Campaign Fundraisers Quit”
Isn’t Gingrich (or his campaign) more like the size of a lifeboat or a raft? Caption: “Thinks he’s [it's] an ocean liner.”
Good one DLS
This should be the end of it. He was not running to be president he was running to make money and feed his overinflated ego. I guess that the money part of it is over.
Yes, Ron, and until he screwed up as badly as he did, I believe he’d do it well enough to intimidate Sarah Palin into not doing it herself.
(Plus, he could have gotten the VP slot or a Cabinet or other top federal position in a GOP administration were the GOP to win.)
Now, in addition to the credit line(s) at Tiffany’s, we know about big spending. Was donor or other campaign money spent on himself and his wife? Hmmm.
Sarah Palin is doing the same thing only she is doing it much better. Palin has no desire for a “real job”. She too just wants to make money and feed her ego. Of course the difference is she doesn’t look like a troll and a few people actually like her so she can pull it off.
Ron, Palin has yet to announce her candidacy. (NOTE: Ailes has let go every other Republican permitted on Fox as commentators, to run for the Presidency even only possibly [Huckabee], but Palin has not been let go. Why not? Does Ailes know something about Palin we don’t, yet?) Admittedly, it’s ridiculously early, more than six months before the start of 2012, but the earlier-trend exists, and once many other Republicans announced or began posturing or face-and-ass-saving (“exploring” the idea of a candidacy first), that’s when the campaign really started. Palin has been out of it.
(WARNING — Lawyer-politician-style very long sentence ahead! You can hear this for real on C-SPAN and it will drive you crazy.)
[grin]
I believe that with this total disaster for Gingrich, who obviously was going to do this to get exposure and boost his book sales and his speaking (and speaking fee) opportunities — who was more of a serious candidate than Palin ever would be, no doubt at the very front to settle for VP or a Cabinet or similar post, which also no doubt others may have as their main, not just fall-back, strategy, a disaster we all would expect of Palin, who’s not as serious as Gingrich (and who wouldn’t be naturally ready for another top position), combined with the serious first debate performance of Michele Bachmann (no matter what you think of her politics themselves), which displaces Palin as the preeminent GOP female politician known, including now for the 2012 campaign, has pretty much made Palin’s possible campaign attempt (primarily if not exclusively for fame and fortune, though I doubt she would even do as well as oft-repelling Gingrich in this regard) much less likely now, and may indeed have moved her to reconsider running, if she ever really wanted to run before Gingrich’s collapse.
(All at regular volume, without ever gasping for breath!)
You can hear that style of lawyer-politician competing to construct and say the longest sentences on C-SPAN, not the same words that I used in my previous sentence I had a lot of fun with.
Hey, Ron, did you see on Fox, ever (if you did so as an experiment with toxic substances, a clinical or “laboratory” or “knew your enemy” exercise), Gingrich’s appearances with his “sweet Grandpa harmless smile” facial expression? His team likely worked with him on that.