Posted on 06/09/2011 1:58:21 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Gingrich 2012 campaign manager Rob Johnson quit along with top strategists Sam Dawson and Dave Carney, and spokesman Rick Tyler quit as well. Meanwhile consultants Katon Dawson in South Carolina and Craig Schoenfeld in Iowa tendered their resignations as well. They quit because they wanted to promote what they told Politico would be a “different vision” for the campaign.
.....Conservative and mainstream media reporters speculated and provided considerable evidence that Perry is likely to benefit form the departures and that he is closer to declaring he will run for the Republican nomination than ever before — even though he has leaned against it in the past.
Jim Geraghty of National Review cited three separate GOP consultant familiar with Perry’s intentions as signaling his is inching closer to running.
“Knew this was coming… I bet Perry is in this thing sooner rather than later – these guys aren’t jumping off without somewhere else to land,” one said.
Another added, “Gingrich was clearly melting down, and Perry is clearly gearing up, so it was time for the switcheroo.”
“He thinks there is a void [in the current field of candidates], and that he might be uniquely positioned to fill that void,” said one Perry confidant who talked to the governor last week, according to the Wall St. Journal.
Perry has pleased pro-life advocates in Texas many times with signing pro-life legislation — most recently signing an ultrasound bill allowing women to see them before an abortion and hopefully changing their minds on it. He has been strongly supported by pro-life groups. Perry supported or signed into law the Women’s Right to Know Act and the Prenatal Protection Act in 2003, parental consent law in 2005, and funding for alternatives to abortions in 2007 and 2009.
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They see his campaign as terminally ill, and so are looking to find another that is more attractive.
Bye Bye Newt.
I saw a Republican strategist on Cavuto and she was saying that the scuttlebutt had been that the aides were all getting very frustrated with Gingrich and that he would not listen to their advice. She mentioned the vacation that he is currently on.
More at the article:
“....Gingrich has responded via a post on his Facebook wall: “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring. The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles.”
The resignations are a surprise because Dawson and Tyler have advised for Gingrich for years and Johnson, who ran the gubernatorial campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was seen as a sign the campaign was moving forward....”
Local news here in Austin reporting Perry getting lots of *prodding* from people outside of Texas to run.
He was quite surprised by it.
Talking to family and friends about the possibility.
Yeah I thought it a bit odd that a mass withdrawal from Newt’s campaign is paired with a story about Texan Perry’s possible entrance into the race.
So I should read between lines and deduce that all the Gingrich folks are going over to Perry?
I’ve thought Gingrich was dead meat for a while....does the fact that everyone on his campaign is quitting make it semi-official?
Like Romney or Perry.
Or too bad.
Like Trump.
Palin 2012.
Get Your GRRRR On.
Cheers!
Gingrich only announced his candidacy for the publicity it would bring to him.
Ronald Reagan?
What were the alternative choices?
If nothing else, Rick is a lot easier on the eye.
Off topic, but what are your feelings about Perry?
Laura Skelding/Austin American-Statesman
Eddie Deen Catering employee Edgar Sanchez drags a giant
skillet into place in preparation for the barbecue
dinner to follow today's inaguration of Gov. Rick Perry
and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst at the Capitol in Austin.
Perry has flaws, and his endorsing Rudy was an absurd thing for a Texas governor to do. Nevertheless, he is something of a conservative with some RINO tendencies. Currently, Perry is trending strongly to the right. He isn’t my first, second, or third choice, but he is better than Romney, Gingrich, and Pawlenty.
02/03/2009 Governor Sarah Palin endorses Governor Rick Perry
" AUSTIN – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed Rick Perry for re-election, calling him the "true conservative" in a primary election showdown with fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Palin, who electrified the GOP base as the party's vice presidential nominee last year, has strong support among the party's social conservatives. Her endorsement appeared aimed at undercutting Hutchison's appeal with GOP women. Both groups will be important in picking the party's nominee in next year's GOP primary.
In a letter to "Texas Republican women" distributed by the Perry campaign, Palin touts the Texas governor's conservative credentials.
"He walks the walk of a true conservative. And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns," she said.
Palin cited one of the Perry campaign's top issues – opposition to federal financial bailouts. And she singled out Perry's opposition to abortion rights.
"Not every child is born into ideal circumstances, but every life is sacred," Palin said in the mail appeal. "Rick Perry knows this – it is at the core of his being."......
Yes, Perry is a rino, but he has the best Texas hair since Farrah.
Yup, another Texas Bush (”a turd by another name would stink as bad”...more appropriate in this case than the original about a rose).
What I found most interesting was that Rick Tyler also left. He has been with Newt for a very long time. He and I traded several e-mails when Newt was trying to defend his Scozofava endorsenment.
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