If Spence manages a good campaign, then he has the right man for the job, no? If he hired Spence as a mid-east and immigration policy consultant, then perhaps you would have a beef.
"Personnel is policy" is catchy, and might belong in a fortune cookie somewhere. Nevertheless in the real world where the rest of us live, getting the right people in the right seats on the bus is what managing a performing organization is all about.
I find it hard to fathom how Abraham is going to run "a new kind of campaign". He's a quintessential insider with few ties to the conservative base. If Fred thinks that he can act like Bush and take for granted all those who got him into the position he is now in so he can focus on the "middle", he will not be successful. He's had a chance to bring conservatives screaming and marching in his behalf, instead he appears to be making decisions based on the old, tired campaign paradigms. I believe Fred is the only chance to unite Republicans and defeat the Democrats. He will not do this, however, by running a status quo campaign with political retreads with discarded 910 outlooks.