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Bay Buchanan Joins Tom Tancredo Campaign
Newsmax.com ^

Posted on 03/26/2007 9:18:15 PM PDT by Valin

CNN commentator Bay Buchanan said Monday she will temporarily oversee the presidential campaign of Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo and has resigned from the cable network. Buchanan said she will function as campaign manager until someone is appointed to that job.

Tancredo said last week he had not yet formally decided whether to run. "I'm certainly encouraging it," Buchanan said. She said she expects Tancredo to formally announce his plans in the next week or so.

Tancredo, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, has described himself as an alternative for GOP voters unhappy with other Republicans. He has staked out conservative positions on social issues, opposing abortion rights, gay marriage and federal financing of embryonic stem cell research.

Tancredo has conceded he is an underdog, but Buchanan said his campaign was a serious bid for the presidency and not merely an attempt to force the hands of better-known GOP candidates on immigration. "I believe Tom Tancredo can beat the top three and that's what our campaign plan is," Buchanan said, citing Arizona Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Buchanan managed the three presidential campaigns of her brother, conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan, in 1992, 1996 and 2000. She is chairwoman of Team America, a political action group Tancredo founded to advocate for tougher border security. A CNN spokeswoman did not immediately return a telephone call for comment.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baybuchanan; tomtancredo

1 posted on 03/26/2007 9:18:18 PM PDT by Valin
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To: Valin

I think Tom means well, but I won't be supporting him the primaries.


2 posted on 03/26/2007 9:19:28 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson)
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To: Valin

Well that's the end of Tom then. Bay is good and always on point but she does grate after a while.

Maybe the issue (and border) can be won yet still.


3 posted on 03/26/2007 9:19:39 PM PDT by romanesq
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To: Valin

Bay Buchanon is on CNN? Is she supposed to be the "high profile conservative" on that network now that Novak is gone?


4 posted on 03/26/2007 9:24:27 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Run Fred run.)
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To: Valin

I worked for Bay in the late 1980s and she was a very energetic go-getter and one of the smartest women I have ever met. I have much respect and admiration for Bay.


5 posted on 03/26/2007 9:25:00 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Valin

I like Bay but she brings along all her brothers baggage.


6 posted on 03/26/2007 9:33:43 PM PDT by Lacey13
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To: Rick_Michael

I gave him a small donation a few weeks ago, but no more.

I usually don't pay much attention to endorsements, but some are the kiss of death.

I hope Fred Thompson gets moving on actually running.

Hunter?

Certainly none of the Prestitute's Big Three.


7 posted on 03/26/2007 9:37:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Rick_Michael
Make him Homeland Security Secretary in a Thompson administration.
8 posted on 03/26/2007 10:13:53 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: Valin

Kiss of Death. Sorry, Tom.


9 posted on 03/27/2007 5:52:09 AM PDT by twonie (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT '08. THERE - A COMMITMENT OUT LOUD.)
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To: twonie

Did he ever have a chance?


10 posted on 03/27/2007 7:28:26 AM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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