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The Problem Was the Wife (Callista Gingrich)
The Weekly Standard ^ | June 9, 2011 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 06/09/2011 5:39:33 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate’s wife since 2000.

The euphemism offered by departing staffers was they disagreed with Gingrich’s “strategy” for the campaign. Indeed, they did disagree. But it was a strategy – a part-time campaign, in effect – that Gingrich’s wife favored.

Several aides, including campaign manager Rob Johnson, met with Gingrich on Thursday morning and told him of the senior staff’s unanimous decision to quit. Gingrich later put out a statement saying he was staying in the race.

The last straw for the campaign staff was Gingrich’s decision to go on a two-week cruise in the Mediterranean, from which he returned on Tuesday. His advisers urged him not to go and take so much time from a campaign that was already in trouble. But his wife wanted him to go and she won the argument.

As a result, the morale of the Gingrich staff fell sharply. And fundraising declined as well with Gingrich absent from the day-to-day media coverage of the campaign.

While Gingrich was away, his aides talked among themselves about the course of the campaign. They wanted him to commit to seeking the Republican nomination on a full-time basis, including time spent in personal fundraising by Gingrich himself. Gingrich balked at this. His wife wanted him to pursue the presidency at less strenuous clip.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; callista; callistagingrich; gingrich; gingrich2012; newt; newtgingrich; noot
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1 posted on 06/09/2011 5:39:40 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that his wife has significant negatives and influence over him. I’m not surprised by today’s announcement.


2 posted on 06/09/2011 5:42:21 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’d say the problem, as always, was Newt’s mouth.


3 posted on 06/09/2011 5:44:33 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Bingo!


4 posted on 06/09/2011 5:44:39 PM PDT by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Newt Gingrich’s staff divorced him while his campaign was on its deathbed. He got Newt Gingriched. @RexHuppke


5 posted on 06/09/2011 5:45:01 PM PDT by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’s only in as a spoiler. He’s gone to the dark side. NY23 proved it. He wants to steal conservative votes by people who barely pay attention, from real conservatives, so the Establishment candidate can get in.

He must be stopped.


6 posted on 06/09/2011 5:45:18 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Campaign staffs have a way about “controlling” things ... Sarah Palin, for instance, did not get treated well by McCain’s staff.


7 posted on 06/09/2011 5:45:30 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

She needs to go work for Romney next.


8 posted on 06/09/2011 5:46:26 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Looks like Newt didn’t learn from the Fred Thompson campaign strategy that just waiting for the voters to find you doesn’t really work out.


9 posted on 06/09/2011 5:47:22 PM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’ve been worried about Newt ever since he changed his name to “Callista and I.”


10 posted on 06/09/2011 5:47:22 PM PDT by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Rush said from the beginning that he didn’t think that Gingrich was seriously pursuing the presidency, that he had some other agenda in mind, like a permanent seat on some think tank, like the Aspen Institute.


11 posted on 06/09/2011 5:48:12 PM PDT by Eva
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To: skeptoid

I don’t care where you’re from, that’s funny!


12 posted on 06/09/2011 5:49:30 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: skeptoid

Now that’s some funny stuff


13 posted on 06/09/2011 5:49:57 PM PDT by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Evidently, according to various unnamed insiders, she gave them the STARE!


14 posted on 06/09/2011 5:50:26 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: skeptoid

Holy smokes.


15 posted on 06/09/2011 5:52:03 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: newheart

Well put! I’ve thought the same thing.
“Callista and I” = “Hey, see what a loyal family man I am (now)”

He took it way overboard. No cruise pun intended.


16 posted on 06/09/2011 5:53:41 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: skeptoid

Lol! I’d be afraid to tell cross Mrs. Newt, too!

Just damn!


17 posted on 06/09/2011 5:54:30 PM PDT by derllak
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To: newheart

LOL! I was thinking the same thing!

It’s nice to acknowledge one’s spouse from time to time, I suppose, but seriously: what other candidate talks like that? Do ‘Callista and I’ plan to share the Oval Office?


18 posted on 06/09/2011 5:54:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: SpaceBar

I stole it from a guy who stole it from someone else.


19 posted on 06/09/2011 5:54:36 PM PDT by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He went on a two-week cruise? I never even noticed he was gone.

Actually, he probably did better than usual, since he wasn’t around to put his foot in it.


20 posted on 06/09/2011 5:56:42 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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