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Bay Takes Bite Out of Rudy: Can't Believe a Word The Man Says
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/13/2007 5:29:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Assembling a panel to discuss how the presidential contenders' marital histories may affect their candidacies, "Today" resorted to one of its favorite tricks this morning: match a loyal Dem with a renegade former Republican. Former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers was matched with Bay Buchanan, who served as her brother Pat's campaign manager when he left the GOP and ran against George W. Bush as a third-party candidate in 2000.

The strategy paid dividends from NBC's perspective, as two of the roughest shots at the Republicans were taken by Bay. Consider these two bombs Bay dropped.

Regarding Rudy: "If they [responding to a question about Rudy] will treat their wives this way, with such disregard, their children, allow this kind of marriage to collapse in a public way, the voters don't have a prayer of a chance. You can't believe a word the man says."

Regarding Newt: "His first marriage, divorce, is going to be very critical, he delivered the divorce papers to his wife who was in a hospital bed being diagnosed with breast cancer. I can't find a lot of women who are going to vote for a man who did something like that."

View video here.Not that Bay was alone. Meredith aunched an anti-Rudy bomb of her own. Here's Vieira's comment-in-the-guise-of-a-question that elicted Bay's answer set forth above: "If Giuliani can't keep his family together, how will he keep the country together?"

That's odd. When Bill Clinton was lying to his family, to the country and while under oath about his extramarital activities, wasn't the official Dem/MSM line that "lying about sex doesn't count"? But suddenly, in MSM eyes, a man's marital peccadilloes call into his question his fitness to lead. Let's see, what's changed?

Aside: Bay did also speculate as to whether Bill Clinton could keep himself "clean" over the course of the campaign, and how new "bimbo eruptions" could hurt Hillary's chances. She pointed out that Dems have been thinking the same thing. We know that Chris Matthews has worried long and hard along those lines.Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baybuchanan; duncanhunter; giuliani; meredithvieira; newt
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To: Mr. Lucky

Another Freeper than needs a lesson in history.


21 posted on 03/13/2007 7:11:21 AM PDT by Afronaut (Supporting Republican Liberals is the Undeniable End to Freedom)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well that does it! I'm still not supporting Giuliani.

/Salute

22 posted on 03/13/2007 7:16:13 AM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: MSF BU
Why are buying into the Rudy bashing stories being spoon fed to us from the DNC/ Media outlets.
Why are falling for the same strategy being coordinated by the Clintons and there comrades in the media .

Have you notice there are NO stories about dis grunted Dems and Hillary bashing pieces involving her relatives ?
You are being played like a Harp by the media and Clintonites .
Or you could be a DU pest here to stir the Rudy bashing since he is a threat.
23 posted on 03/13/2007 7:38:11 AM PDT by BurtSB (the price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
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To: BurtSB
No, I'm making the same points that I would have made about Gerald Ford in 1976 or John Anderson/Howard Baker/George Bush in 1980. No conspiracy here pal.

In the case of Newt or Rudy, the deplorable manner that they treated their first wives is enough to cause many to question their basic decency. Personally, I think the extent that Mitt/Newt/Rudy went to avoid any type of military service calls into question their suitability to be commander in chief.

24 posted on 03/13/2007 7:43:59 AM PDT by MSF BU
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To: Mr. Lucky

I wasn't really concerned with politics back then. I started to become a Regan fan when he shot down the flight controllers union. To answer your question, I would have had the same concern.


25 posted on 03/13/2007 8:01:21 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: showme_the_Glory
I had that concern: that Ronald Reagan was maybe an actor playing the role of a conservative much the way Jack Benny played the role of a skinflint. Retrospectively, President Reagan was a great President, even if he rarely attended church and one or two of his kids were embarrassments.

Mayor Guiliani isn't my first choice, nor my second, as the Republican presidential candidate, but I would support him in the blink of an eye over anyone the Democraps have offered up.

27 posted on 03/13/2007 8:09:47 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Likewise, Even though it makes me sick that the GOP can't/won't get behind a conservative, and Rudy is definitely not one, I will still vote straight Republican.


28 posted on 03/13/2007 8:16:29 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"If they [responding to a question about Rudy] will treat their wives this way, with such disregard, their children, allow this kind of marriage to collapse in a public way, the voters don't have a prayer of a chance. You can't believe a word the man says."

Why someone like Cal Thomas can't figure that out is mindboggling...

29 posted on 03/13/2007 11:56:55 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: BurtSB
Why are buying into the Rudy bashing stories being spoon fed to us from the DNC/ Media outlets. Why are falling for the same strategy being coordinated by the Clintons and there comrades in the media .

Okay...which stories are untrue? The adulterous affair or the two divorces. Straighten me out about Rudy.

30 posted on 03/13/2007 2:51:21 PM PDT by TradicalRC ("...this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever..."-Pope St. Pius V)
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To: twonie

Doesn't make any difference to me.

This is the Presidency we're talking about, not Sec'y/Homeland Security.

Rudy's not a conservative, and hasn't yet appointed a conservative judge.

No problem to judge him by his POLITICAL actions--we don't need to go any further.

Same-o re McPain and Romney, no matter the machinations of the East Coast Establishment Pubbies.

They're all losers.


31 posted on 03/13/2007 5:50:52 PM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This wouldn't be news if Bay's last name was Smith or Johnson.
32 posted on 03/13/2007 5:54:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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To: DonnerT

No, he was divorced in 1985, but I have found no hints of scandal so far.


33 posted on 03/13/2007 9:04:58 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Thompson/Watts in 2008!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The real point is that Today presents a false balance on its panels; a true Dem like Myers versus "balanced" with someone like Bay who is not a Republican and who was as critical of Republicans as Myers!


34 posted on 03/14/2007 3:17:12 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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