[Sacajaweau]

Wonder how many books are on that bus??

[fightinJAG]

Not nearly as many as Newt and his wife have been carting around to sell at every stop. Oh, and Newt sells DVDs, too!

From HERE:

Experienced campaign strategists cannot recall a top-tier contender devoting so much time to pitching products while seeking the White House. Mitt Romney, who also has a book out, has never sold it while stumping, his campaign said. President Obama, a best-selling author in 2007, did not incorporate sales events into campaign appearances, according to a spokesman for his re-election committee.

Mr. Gingrich’s devotion to book-selling, Republican strategists said, raises questions about the propriety of a candidate who is generating personal income while seeking the White House, as well as whether he is making the optimum use of limited campaign time.

Mr. Gingrich said that book sales, far from a distraction, effectively conveyed his views and values. They are “the cultural wing of what we’re doing,” he said in an interview. “I am a cultural teacher, with a political campaign to change a government. And that’s how I see myself.”

Mr. Gingrich, who now holds strong leads in the latest polls in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, may be having the last laugh after a mutiny by staff members this spring who complained about his preference for selling books and DVDs of movies he makes with his wife, Callista, over meeting with voters.

“A Nation Like No Other,” published in June, is Mr. Gingrich’s 16th nonfiction title. It has sold 15,000 hardcover copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Mrs. Gingrich, also an author, sells an illustrated children’s book, “Sweet Land of Liberty,” about Ellis the Elephant, at campaign events. Although some buyers are under the impression that sales of their books, like T-shirts or coffee mugs, support the campaign, the proceeds go to the Gingriches personally, even as the campaign is scrambling to pay off debt and raise enough money to run an ambitious national operation.

People who are seriously considering someone for president of the United States, I’m not sure they see that the process should be financially beneficial to the candidate,” said Jim Dyke, a former executive for the Republican National Committee. “I don’t know that it presents a presidential feeling to be there pushing your own book.”

Steve Schmidt, who managed Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid, said Mr. McCain never sold books while campaigning. But “we live in a new age,” he said, one where Mr. Gingrich’s sales efforts are consistent with how he leveraged his political capital to start businesses after quitting the House, consulting for nearly $2 million for Freddie Mac, for example.

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And don't forget this "bestseller" by the Missus!

[fightinJAG]

Not nearly as many as Newt and his wife have been carting around to sell at every stop. Oh, and Newt sells DVDs, too!

From HERE:

Experienced campaign strategists cannot recall a top-tier contender devoting so much time to pitching products while seeking the White House. Mitt Romney, who also has a book out, has never sold it while stumping, his campaign said. President Obama, a best-selling author in 2007, did not incorporate sales events into campaign appearances, according to a spokesman for his re-election committee.

Mr. Gingrich’s devotion to book-selling, Republican strategists said, raises questions about the propriety of a candidate who is generating personal income while seeking the White House, as well as whether he is making the optimum use of limited campaign time.

Mr. Gingrich said that book sales, far from a distraction, effectively conveyed his views and values. They are “the cultural wing of what we’re doing,” he said in an interview. “I am a cultural teacher, with a political campaign to change a government. And that’s how I see myself.”

Mr. Gingrich, who now holds strong leads in the latest polls in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, may be having the last laugh after a mutiny by staff members this spring who complained about his preference for selling books and DVDs of movies he makes with his wife, Callista, over meeting with voters.

“A Nation Like No Other,” published in June, is Mr. Gingrich’s 16th nonfiction title. It has sold 15,000 hardcover copies, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Mrs. Gingrich, also an author, sells an illustrated children’s book, “Sweet Land of Liberty,” about Ellis the Elephant, at campaign events. Although some buyers are under the impression that sales of their books, like T-shirts or coffee mugs, support the campaign, the proceeds go to the Gingriches personally, even as the campaign is scrambling to pay off debt and raise enough money to run an ambitious national operation.

People who are seriously considering someone for president of the United States, I’m not sure they see that the process should be financially beneficial to the candidate,” said Jim Dyke, a former executive for the Republican National Committee. “I don’t know that it presents a presidential feeling to be there pushing your own book.”

Steve Schmidt, who managed Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid, said Mr. McCain never sold books while campaigning. But “we live in a new age,” he said, one where Mr. Gingrich’s sales efforts are consistent with how he leveraged his political capital to start businesses after quitting the House, consulting for nearly $2 million for Freddie Mac, for example.

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And don't forget this "bestseller" by the Missus!