Jim Geraghty

National Review Online

June 10, 2011

Just checked in with three GOP consultants, all of whom have been in the campaign business a while and none of whom are yet affiliated with a 2012 presidential campaign, about today’s mass exodus of staffers from Team Newt.

GOP Consultant One: “Knew this was coming . . . I bet Perry is in this thing sooner rather than later — these guys aren’t jumping off without somewhere else to land.”

GOP Consultant Two: “Knowing all those guys, they are neither impetuous not impulsive. I also have never seen a two-week vacation two weeks after entering [the race]; I took that as portentous.”

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