Romney Nabs (a) Buchanan Endorsement
EmailMitt Romney has picked up Buchanan’s endorsement: Bay Buchanan.
The Republican television commentator, who was treasurer in Ronald Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 campaigns, as well as campaign manager in her brother Pat’s three attempts for the White House, threw her support behind Romney this morning. “If Americans want a real conservative in the White House, they need to look no farther than Mitt Romney,” said Bay Buchanan in a statement provided to ABC News.
Buchanan is a name that means something in New Hampshire. Pat Buchanan won the 1996 GOP primary here. And it might be that it is with the blue-collar Buchanan voters where Rick Santorum will find his greatest appeal. The timing of this announcement–just as Santorum is trying to make inroads in the Granite State–seems designed to thwart Santorum’s outreach, or at least needle it a little bit.
Bay Buchanan also backed Romney in 2008.
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Not only is Santorum no John F. Kennedy, he is also not Pat Buchanan when it comes to connecting in New Hampshire, where Pat got his upset victory in their 1996 primary.
Buchanan is personably likeable and the more so the more one gets to know him and thus overlook some of his frailties with a none-of-us-are-perfect dismissal. Santorum is not likeable to start with and as Mrs. Rockefeller was reported to have said of the Republican candidate for the presidency, Tom Dewey, “To fully dislike Tom Dewey you have got to know him well.”
The exact words and attribution were to be variously remembered, but the sentiment remained undisputed. The same general antipathy has been concluded by nice people that have had more than enough unpleasant encounter with Rick Santorum. There is some dispute however whether the dog growled and bit Santorum or if he growled and bit the dog.
Posted by: Sam Osborne | January 7, 2012, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
Big woop. Romney and Santorum are both very robotic liars who spew nonsense and extremist venom. None of it is true, none of it is worthwhile and none of it good for this country. Too many people do not fit into the square pegs that the GOP wants to put people into.
Posted by: Vicki | January 7, 2012, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm