Here's a nifty plan. Declare you're running for President, embroil yourself in some rough news cycles, get glitter thrown all over you and your bubbleheaded wife at a book signing, and then take off on a two-week Mediterranean yachting vacation — near the end of a fundraising quarter, no less.
Sound stupid? It is. Which maybe is why the whole Gingrich campaign team has just resigned.
There are several excellent aspects to this story. One is that it gives journalists the opportunity to use the elegant French phrase en masse. (Best use of "en masse" in rhyme has to be Alan Jay Lerner's, who paired it with: "A large Wagnerian mother, with a voice that shatters glass." Newt is kinda Wagnerian, himself.)
Another is that it sets off renewed feverish speculation about the crazy right-wing secessionist from Texas. Dave Carney, one of the Gingrich resignees, is a Rick Perry guy. But — oh, no, he protests. The Gingrich "en masse mess" has nothing to do with Perry's Presidential ambitions.
We cats are still wondering how a guy who threatened his state's secession after 600,000 Americans died 150 years ago to keep Texas in the union thinks that he deserves to live in the White House. But never mind. For now, we'll just say this: If you believe Dave Carney, then you believe John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate because she was, indeed, the second-most-qualified person in the nation to be President.
(PHOTO: Seabourn Cruises. Newt is somewhere on deck, sunbathing — instead of dialing for dollars so he can pay his campaign staff.)
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