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Shake-ups with Fred Thompson’s campaign staff?
The rumors are all over the place about ‘high-level’ departures supposedly happening with Team Fred. Chris Cillizza with the Washington Post’s “Fix” blog has the details:
Rumors are flying about more senior level departures from the unofficial presidential campaign of former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).
But The Fix can knock down one of the major ones: Mary Matalin, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime Republican political operative, is staying put.
Reached in Croatia (are we good or what?), Matalin said she chats daily with the Thompson organization and remains 100 percent on board.
Our sense of the ongoing Thompson staff shuffle is that it is teetering on the brink of becoming just plain bad news. The sharks are circling and whispers about the too-prominent role of Thompson’s wife — Jeri — are everywhere. With news of every departure, the story tilts away from Thompson’s best interests.
The audience for this story remains largely confined within the Beltway for the moment, which is good for Thompson. But staff stirrings can lead to stories about disorganization, unhappiness and general disorder, and that is a narrative that does Thompson’s “campaign” no good, especially as he prepares to launch his bid formally sometime in the next month or so.
The LAT has more on the staff moves being made in the Thompson camp, but one of them should be especially alarming to anyone who opposed the immigration reform bill:
Replacing [acting campaign manager Tom] Collamore will be Randy Enright, who has served as Florida regional political director for the Republican National Committee, and Spencer Abraham, the former senator who lost his bid for re-election in 2000 to Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
Free Republic has a brief piece on why picking Abraham was not the smartest move Thompson’s made right here before he gets ready to ‘officially’ launch his campaign. Thompson himself has a mixed record on the illegal immigration issue.
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First, given Jeri’s expertise and Fred’s nontraditional campaign, there’s no question Jeri has a considerable advantage of both perspective and insight over any campaign “professional” you care to mention. ( Consider any election in the past twenty years. )
AND Abraham isn’t running, Fred is, and he’s made his position on illegal aliens well known to any reasonable person that has actually bothered to look for it. ( Besides, if Abraham proves himself an idiot, Jeri will cut him off at the knees…It was nice to have a real First Lady in Laura and it will also be nice to have a strong and politically wise one without the manipulations and abuse of power we’ve seen before. )
Unlike other candidates, Fred has proven he understands when circumstances change and where mistakes were made…a very refreshing and welcome change from the egotistical elitists.
I was an early supporter of Fred Thompson. Here come the but—I was quite involved in a campaign for a congressman that almost foundered due to the interference of his wife. She was a nice lady but for a large number of reasons caused staffers and volunteers to weigh their decision to continue working for the candidate whom they loved and respected. The campaign manager finally got through to the candidate and his spouse in time to get things back on track. I know that the media and others who tend to benefit from this type of dissention are hyping the heck out of maybe nothing but any further support or donation from me will depend on a clear presentation of the Thompson platform and my confidence that his campaign is well run. However this turns out, I will vote Republican regardless of who wins the primary.