why does this have to be some secret plot? It’s not like the Cain thing where it’s a total surprise and the accusers had to be found out.
Everyone knows about Marianne Gingrich. She’s given interviews before. they know her name and her # and where she lives.
No one needs Axelrod to pull off some scheme. ABC just had to call her up and ask.
Not to mention probably 97% of Newt’s supporters knew this would eventually get ugly, and got behind him because taking down zero is the goal here.
No traction, IMO.
” why does this have to be some secret plot?” <<<
Marianne the Vicious is not a secret plot. You are absolutely correct. The marvel here is the superb, meticulous timing of all this, three days before the ballot. Marianne the Vicious has been sitting on “GO” for years, but to make her story catch fire someone had to time its perfect release to a national audience. Marianne didn’t force this timing. ABC didn’t force this timing it seems to me, or else they wouldn’t have been said to be in a “civil war” over it and when to release it. So SOMEBODY with power DID. Someone said go see Marianne, and go national with what she has to say, NOW, when it counts.