That plan may have been popular with Republicans but for the rest of the country it was pure poison, as townhall meeting reoccurred only with the elderly screaming hate at Republicans this time. Still this is a hell of a blow for Newt.A number of senior aides have resigned from the presidential campaign team of Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The news will hit Mr Gingrich's hopes of being the Republican nominee to challenge Barack Obama in 2012.
His campaign got off to a halting start when he criticised a plan popular among Republicans to slash and privatise a healthcare programme for the elderly.
Staff were also reportedly concerned after he took a recent holiday cruise.
Mr Gingrich's campaign manager Rob Johnson and his entire senior staff, including strategists in early primary election states, quit on Thursday.
"When the campaign and the candidate disagree on the path, they've got to part ways," said Rick Tyler a longtime Gingrich spokesman, was quoted by the Washington Post newspaper as saying.
With the Republican primary campaign beginning to take shape, the lack of a core team could seriously hinder Mr Gingrich's chances at winning the Republican nomination, analysts say.
Mr Gingrich remained widely respected in the party for leading congressional Republicans out of 40 years in opposition in 1994, although he lost the speaker's gavel in 1998 after the party took significant losses.
After launching his White House bid in May, he quickly drew heavy criticism from virtually the entire national Republican establishment for criticising a Republican congressman's proposal to overhaul the popular Medicare healthcare programme.
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Newt's infamous for burning through staff. After a couple of decades of politics I'm sure only the fact that humans breed allows him to find any new staff at all and most of them are likely to be a bit on the blind fanatic side. And now he goes and abandons the sacred cow. Admittedly its a sacred cow of electoral poison, but the problems with hardliners is that being reasonable isn't part of their trait set.
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A blow to the Newt can only be a good thing. This is a man who's most recent press release refers to liberals as "The Literati". Yes, you read that correctly.
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It was a compliment.Comrade Tortoise wrote:A blow to the Newt can only be a good thing. This is a man who's most recent press release refers to liberals as "The Literati". Yes, you read that correctly.
And so, of course, not true.Cookie for the reference.
Anyway, Newt doesn't have much of a chance whether for the nomination or the general election (I hope
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