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DEL.ICIO.USThe Bushies swing to Mitt Romney
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Mitt Romney week, at least in the South.
A day after a key South Carolina operative, Warren Tompkins, joined his team, Romney’s Commonwealth PAC announced that Eric Tanenblatt, senior managing director at McKenna, Long & Aldridge and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s former chief of staff, will head up Romney’s finance team in Georgia.
And quite a team: Nancy Coverdell, wife of the late Sen. Paul Coverdell; Fred Cooper, the general chairman for Bush ’08; James Edenfield, CEO of American Software and Joe Rogers Jr., CEO of Waffle House.
That list leaves out a ton of party positions this group has held. The bottom line is that this is a big chunk of the core Bush crowd in Georgia, going back to before the elder Bush became Bush 41.
It’s not a total sweep. We have it on good authority that state GOP chairman Alex Pointevint will eventually pledge his personal allegiance to Sen. John McCain. But Romney has put down a big footprint.
We’re told it’s only coincidence these announcements are coming just as Sen. Bill Frist takes his cards off the table. But it’s not irrelevant. Frist is a Southerner closely allied to Bush, and at one time he was thought to have an inside track on the Southern Bushies. Romney’s moving fast to put himself in the same position.
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By centrist
November 29, 2006 7:55 PM | Link to this
The more Romney courts the neocons, the closer we come to a campaign by and for the Southern Baptist Convention— again. From the look of the midterms, folks around the nation are more than a little sick of the Southern theocracy. Keep it up, guys, and you’ll find yourself marginalized in an irrelevant corner you’ve carved out just for yourselves.