Newt Gingrich is toast!

First my Video:

Newt Gingrich’s top staff quit en masse Thursday, throwing into question whether his already troubled presidential campaign can continue.

Two sources close to the situation confirmed that campaign manager Rob Johnson, strategists Sam Dawson and Dave Carney, spokesman Rick Tyler, and consultants Katon Dawson in South Carolina and Craig Schoenfeld in Iowa have all quit to protest what one called a “different vision” for the campaign.

In a statement on Facebook following the stunning news, Gingrich said he would stay in the race.

“I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring,” he wrote.

But with his entire command leaving at once, that task will be considerably more difficult.

The mass resignation was, one source said, “a team decision.”

“The professional team came to the realization that the direction of the campaign they sought and Newt vision for campaign were incompatible,” said Carney.

Gingrich was intent on using technology and standing out at debates to get traction while his advisers believed he needed to run a campaign that incorporated both traditional, grassroots techniques as well as new ideas.

“We felt like he’d be better off if he had the opportunity to procede with his vision and how he wants to do things,” said a source.

via Newt Gingrich advisers resign en masse – Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman – POLITICO.com.

It is not only those guys, his Iowa crew just quit as well:

Newt Gingrich’s entire team of paid Iowa campaign staff, as well as his national spokesman and senior aides in New Hampshire and South Carolina, have resigned en masse, a staffer told The Des Moines Register.

“You have to be able to raise money to run a campaign and you have to invest time in fundraising and to campaign here in the state and I did not have the confidence that was going to be happening,” said Craig Schoenfeld, the Iowa executive director of Newt 2012.

“I’ve seen the schedule for June and July going into the straw poll. It’s clear there wasn’t a path to success,” he said.

The departures immediately raised questions about the future of Gingrich’s candidacy. The Georgia Republican, a former speaker of the U.S. House, announced via an online video on May 21 that he’s seeking the Republican nomination.

Shortly before 3 p.m. today, Gingrich posted this message on his Facebook page: “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring. The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles.”

But there’s no one left in Iowa to organize for him.

Sounds like this guy just might be toast. There are reports that Texas Governor Rick Perry might be wanting to run; that would be, I think, helpful. Although, in some quarters, Perry is considered an extremist on the right. But, what I have seen of him, does not bear that out. Although, I will confess, his whining about Obama not coming to Texas did not make him look to good.

Needless to say; this is all going to be very interesting to cover here in the coming months.