Did I hear Newt correctly. Did he say the debate when Romney did his best and was coached by this paticular guy, now RONMEY HAS FIRED THE GUY?
That's correct. The debate coach was getting attention by the press and credit for Romney's good performance in the two FL debates. That ticked the campaign off, they told the guy to maintain a low profile but when the press continued to run stories about him, he was fired with the explanation that the good performance was all Mitten's doing.
Yeppers, fired him after 2 days (the guy took attention away from Romney)
Excerpt: "O’Donnell’s understanding was that, following the Florida primary this past Tuesday, he would be tendered a formal offer to advise Romney on debates going forward.
And several sources in and close to the Romney camp said there had been deep consternation internally over the press O’Donnell received and the pre-emptive, how-we-did-it Times story, which quoted Romney adviser Russ Schriefer among others.
The piece, said one campaign insider, made the candidate himself “seem like an afterthought in reviving his own campaign.”
The campaign held a conference call this week, multiple sources said, in which a clear message was delivered — Romney pulled himself back from the brink after South Carolina, and no one else did it for him.
Romney made his feelings jarringly clear when he was asked about the Times story in an interview Monday on the “Today” show.
“I think you can expect advisers to think that the work of advisers is very, very important, but frankly, I think if you’re to go back and look at where the sentiment changed, it was with the debates,” Romney told Matt Lauer."
WILLARD- THE MAGIC NEVER STOPS...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72433.html