{"id":10040,"date":"2011-06-09T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:03:21","slug":"gingrich-campaign-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10040\/gingrich-campaign-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Campaign on Life Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 With the news that Newt Gingrich\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/gingrich-senior-aides-resign\/2011\/06\/09\/AGN77VNH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">entire senior campaign staff resigned en masse<\/a> this morning, some are speculating that the fallout \u2013 and newly freed staff \u2013 will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2011\/06\/09\/will_newt_gingrichs_demise_be_rick_perrys_rise_110152.html\" target=\"_blank\">benefit the rumored Rick Perry for President campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prognostications about the future aside, Gingrich\u2019s present is spectacularly unclear.\u00a0 Where does he go from here?\u00a0 So far, the most memorable moments from Newt\u2019s 2012 odyssey are calling a sensible Medicare reform \u201cright wing social engineering,\u201d an epic press release, a half-a-million-dollar credit line at Tiffany\u2019s, and now this.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>One thing\u2019s for sure: Newt needs to find some way to bounce back, if only for his personal future as a pundit, speaker, and idea factory. \u00a0If this mass resignation is the final entry of his presidential campaign, it will be awhile before anyone wants to pony up big bucks to get advice from a guy who couldn\u2019t manage a single week of sustained success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 With the news that Newt Gingrich\u2019s entire senior campaign staff resigned en masse this morning, some are speculating that the fallout \u2013 and newly freed staff \u2013 will benefit the rumored Rick Perry for President campaign. Prognostications about the future aside, Gingrich\u2019s present is spectacularly unclear.\u00a0 Where does he go from here?\u00a0 So far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,235,869,802,838],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-medicare","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-paul-ryan","tag-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10043,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10040\/revisions\/10043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}