Nobody said it was a surprise--though the majority of your whole staff does not usually desert you en masse. McCain had to fire most of his at one point due to financial reasons.   But refusing as a group to follow your chosen candidate, due to your perception that he doesn't really know how to run a campaign--now, that is actual news.

Anybody who saw the "non-candidates debate" on SNL earlier this year was given a preview of this--Gingrich, offered the chance to leave before the debate started, did so.

It's of course totally impossible that there is an element of schadenfreude-- (which we really should learn how to spell, since it's such a useful word in a campaign season)-- in our perception of Mr. Gingrich's travails.