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Related: About this forumHAS GOP QUIT ON MITT?
Romney might face the same indignity -- abandonment -- as the last Republican to challenge an incumbent, Bob DoleBY STEVE KORNACKI
On Sundays Meet the Press, David Brooks and Joe Scarborough took turns criticizing Mitt Romneys messaging and strategy. Bay Buchanan, who has emerged as one of the Romney teams most public faces, responded by insisting that her campaign is well-positioned to win:
We are in a dead heat. Nationally, we have two polls showing a dead heat, a tie. And the momentum is ours. You see that the presidents numbers have come down. Mitt Romneys numbers are coming up.
Its hardly novel for a campaign to play dumb in the face of discouraging news about its prospects for victory. But as the frustration and panic of conservative opinion leaders grows, the Romney campaign has an extra incentive to try to look like a winner. Over the next few weeks, Republican campaign committees, outside money groups, fund-raisers, and down-ballot candidates will make bottom-line judgments about Romneys standing that will affect how they allocate their money and how they treat Romney in their messaging.
The risks for Romney are two-fold. One is the simple appearance problem. Its one thing for the other party to claim that a presidential candidate is flailing and running a poor campaign; thats standard fare. Its different, and more problematic, when the media and political world joins in this conclusion something that Romney has been dealing with for the past few weeks. And its even worse when the candidates own party joins the chorus, as is also the case for Romney now.
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http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/mitt_and_the_threat_of_abandonment/
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HAS GOP QUIT ON MITT? (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2012
OP
The question is. has anyone ever seen her and her "brother" in the same room together? nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Sep 2012
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. "Bay" Buchanan?
What is it with these names??
Track, Trig, Tagg, Preibus, and ..Bay?
jpbollma
(552 posts)2. I thought the same thing
it must be a rich snob thing.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)4. Her name is Angela Marie Buchanan, Bay is a nickname like 'Mitt'
Also like Mitt, she's a Mormon, she converted from RCC to LDS....
TroyD
(4,551 posts)5. She's Pat Buchanan's sister
And she's almost as crazy.
Bake
(21,977 posts)6. She bays like a dog?
Just askin' ...
Bake
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)8. The question is. has anyone ever seen her and her "brother" in the same room together? nt
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)3. She did this same routine for McCain, which did not help...
She vanishes between elections, sells her services to candidates, bleats for them, then vanishes again. She is not and has never been elected to anything.
Bay Buchanan is a convert to Mormonism, while her brother Pat remains Roman Catholic.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)7. She provides a useful service to the GOP when Mary Matalin can no longer
keep a straight face. She is of no political consequence other than she looks a lot like Pat Buchanan, and probably likes the extra cash. But she can get a few headlines and distract the opponents for a bit.