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That year, Yob was the chairman of the credentials committee, and during one of their meetings was invited into a side room into a conference with Rich Bond (then the RNC Chairman) and President Bush.  Bay Buchanan, Pat Buchanan's sister and campaign manager, was expected to be making an appearance at the meeting, and the president had some instructions for what he thought needed to be done.

What Bush wanted Yob to do was to let Buchanan lay out her entire case, put all her cards on the table.  After that, he was to spend the next 5 hours picking apart all of her arguments, and keep her in that room arguing her case for the rest of the afternoon.  And then, at 4 o'clock, he was to give up and let Buchanan have whatever she was still asking for.  She'd take the story back to her people that they'd fought all day with the establishment, and at least got them to give ground on what really mattered.  The story that would go back to the Bush supporters that they'd negotiated all day with the challenger's team, and finally given them their way on some positions that really didn't matter . . . for the good of the party.

I think that there is a lesson taught here that really should have been applied to the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Campaign . . . and the 2012 Republican National Convention (especially when viewed in light of the 1964 campaign).

Sorta sad to now see Ron having to lecture his following to mind their P's and Q's in Tampa, with him on his way to retirement.  But, Ron enabled his Ronulan OCD all-or-nothing turnoff following to overshadow and undermine all of his positives he brought to the table throughout his 25 years in Office.

Due to the short amount of time between the county and state conventions, information packets will NOT be mailed to state convention delegates.  PLEASE DISTRIBUTE all necessary information (forms provided) to convention delegates at your County Convention.  We will email convention information following the county conventions.

Thus says the cover memo of the May 2012 Convention Packet e-mailed out from the Michigan Republican Party, back in March, to the County Chairs & Secretaries.  Of particular interest should be Enclosures 14, 15, and 16:

• Call to the 2012 Congressional District Caucuses
  
• Call to the 2012 Spring State Convention
  
• Tentative State Convention Agenda

Two advisers to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich say he will formally end is campaign next Tuesday and will likely endorse Mitt Romney.

Gingrich had pinned his hopes on a surprise showing in Delaware but fell short.

He had been hinting in recent days that his campaign was nearing an end. His decision to officially shut down the effort comes as Romney has a lock on the GOP nomination.

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Yet again, we need to go back to Yogi Berra . . . and then go below the fold.