Michelle Cottle, The Daily Beast: Romney Cuts Loose O'Donnell, Perhaps Out of Ego

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Cottle's column is about Romney getting rid of his debate coach, Brett O'Donnell, which I posted about earlier here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002265618

From the Daily Beast:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/05/romney-cuts-loose-o-donnell-perhaps-out-of-ego.html

For those not obsessively following Romneyworld, O’Donnell is the former Michele Bachmann aide who, in the wake of the congresswoman’s departure, has been unofficially advising Mitt. A former debate coach for the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University (one of the nation’s collegiate-debating powerhouses), O’Donnell was seen as a driving force behind the governor’s transformation in the Florida debates from Gingrich whipping boy to red-hot Alpha Male.

Alas, instead of winning O’Donnell a formal spot in Romney world, his flattering media mentions earned the veteran operative a swift kick in the crotch. As Politico reported Saturday, not one, not two, but three Romney staffers called up O’Donnell post-debate to gripe that he was getting too much attention. In response to a New York Times online article that praised O’Donnell too much for Team Romney’s taste, chief strategist Stuart Stevens instructed O’Donnell to call the reporter and ask that his role be downplayed in the subsequent print version of the story.

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With presidential combatants, a fat ego comes with the territory. What you don’t want is a candidate whose ego is so delicate that it can’t stand the indignity of anyone else getting any credit. That sort of thinking prompts leaders to surround themselves with people whose chief qualification is that they won’t overshadow the principle. Next stop, mediocrity.

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If the Repulican electorate wanted this kind of self-dramatizing nonsense, why bother with uptight, buttoned-down Mitt? They could’ve gone with the puffed-up birthday clown who just endorsed him: The Donald.

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1. Thanks for posting this, its an important story!!!

This should be the talk of the town by Monday, the he likes to fire people, the stupidity of firing a good guy, and the ego issues that run in the family.. Its all there in this one story......OBEY!!!!