In the past week, Newt Gingrich has lost his embedded print reporters, and received more press for his free-verse zoo tweets than anything related to his presidential campaign.
Nonetheless, Gingrich will soldier on, albeit with fewer soldiers: spokesman R. C. Hammond announced today that the Gingrich campaign was cutting about one-third of its staff and replacing manager Michael Krull with Gingrich aide Vince Haley.
These staff-slimming moves are rare admissions of political reality from Gingrich, who ordinarly paries questions about his failing campaign with instances of delusional hubris. Gingrich has not won a primary since South Carolina, losing all of the southern primaries that he himself said were so crucial to his campaign, and his campaign is $1.5 million in debt with little cash on hand.
The Gingrich strategy is now based on a brokered convention, in which a divided Republican party turns to Gingrich as its savior, as it did once in the early 90s. Needless to say, this is less likely than America colonizing space. In the meantime, Gingrich continues to swipe the occasional vote from Rick Santorum, who has emerged as the only plausible challenger to Mitt Romney; by hurting Santorum, Gingrich is paradoxically hindering chances of a contested or brokered convention. All this means the only thing Gingrich accomplishes by staying in the race is harming the Republican party, and the only person he's helping is himself.
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