As Cain Promotes His Management Skills, Ex-Aides Tell of Campaign in Chaos

This is amazing. That Herman Cain is the front runner for the GOP nomination is amazing. I take nothing from his success, but his campaign strategy is one for the ages. I hate to see him making a mockery of this process. Instead of studying Sarah Palin's 'On the Art of Branding', he needs to be reading up on foreign and domestic policies.

If Herman Cain feels his management skills are up to any challenge, some of his former staff members think he should have started with the disorder in his own campaign.

Mr. Cain has hardly shown up in New Hampshire and Iowa, they said, spending the bulk of his time on a book tour through the South. He occasionally mishandled potential big donors or ignored real voters. His campaign churned through the small staff; last week, his campaign announced the appointment of the veteran campaigner Steve Grubbs, his third Iowa leader in four months.

Even bumper stickers have been hard to come by.

And then there was that e-mail to the staff about traveling in a car with Mr. Cain: “Do not speak to him unless you are spoken to,” the memo said.

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