{"id":12932,"date":"2012-02-06T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2012-02-06T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T01:02:19","slug":"tea-party-gingrich-backer-%e2%80%98campaign-is-a-disaster%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12932\/tea-party-gingrich-backer-%e2%80%98campaign-is-a-disaster%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Gingrich Backer: \u2018Campaign is a Disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <em>Politico<\/em>, I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/judsonphillips.com\/an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich\/\" target=\"_blank\">open letter to Newt Gingrich<\/a> from Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips.\u00a0 Phillips, a Gingrich supporter since last fall, thinks Newt\u2019s Florida primary loss to Romney can be explained by a damning lack of organization:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your campaign is sinking faster than an Italian Cruise ship. I don\u2019t know if anyone is telling you what is going on in your campaign but right now it is a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was in Florida with the Tea Party Express tour. At the events, other campaigns had surrogates. By default, I became yours. I did not mind, but your campaign should have had someone there. While I was at the events in Florida, Romney supporters were there with signs, Ron Paul supporters with signs and Rick Santorum supporters with signs. Your supporters were there. They asked me for signs.<\/p>\n<p>Because there was no one from your campaign attending, there were no signs to give.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, Newt has been a congressman and a consultant, not a CEO.\u00a0 He resigned his speakership under after a failed coup.\u00a0 His network of business ventures are built around getting people to imagine fundamental changes that win the future.\u00a0 I\u2019m a fan of some of his ideas, and I envy his ability to frame an issue around core conservative themes.\u00a0 That said, if a presidential campaign operation is any indication of how well a candidate manages an important enterprise, I\u2019m afraid we\u2019re left to conclude that Newt Gingrich is not up the job of running the White House, let alone a campaign against Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Politico, I came across this open letter to Newt Gingrich from Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips.\u00a0 Phillips, a Gingrich supporter since last fall, thinks Newt\u2019s Florida primary loss to Romney can be explained by a damning lack of organization: Your campaign is sinking faster than an Italian Cruise ship. I don\u2019t know [&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":[2033,143,1193,869,28],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","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=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}