Reliable Indicator: Senior Rats Fleeing the Ship

Bloomberg:

Another top aide resigned from Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson's campaign, as the former Tennessee senator made his White House bid official.

Mark Corallo, who resigned yesterday, according to a campaign official, was one of the first people to join Thompson. Corallo served as a spokesman and early strategist. Thompson formally declared his candidacy in a video posted on his Web site just after midnight today.

Corallo's resignation follows the departure of spokesman Jim Mills and comes just days after Thompson's communications director and another spokeswoman left the campaign. Thompson in recent months also lost acting campaign manager Tom Collamore and several other aides.

"There appears to be something dysfunctional inside the Thompson campaign,'' said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "He has been hemorrhaging staff pretty consistently without any explanation.''

Corallo is one of my favorite people, because by following him I can always tell where the scumbag Republicans are throwing their support. Now that he's quit Thompson's campaign, we'll have to see if he lands elsewhere or goes back into lobbying.