Team Romney 'Fine' With Second Place? Team Huckabee Laughs.

Friday, November 30, 2007

MIKE HUCKABEE, MITT ROMNEY

Fresh in the e-mailbox from Joe Carter of Team Huckabee:

There's been a lot of buzz lately about "managing expectations" going into Iowa. I'm not sure about the other campaigns, but here at the Huckabee camp we expect to win - just as we expect to win the nomination and the general election. Apparantly, not everyone feels the same.
Jennifer Rubin from the American Spectator Blog quotes an interesting tidbit from the LA Times: "But in a sure sign of concern, the Romney camp has begun to raise the prospect of a second-place Iowa finish, insisting it would not hurt his chances in the contests that follow. 'It would be nice if Romney won,' said Doug Gross, an attorney overseeing Romney's Iowa campaign. 'If he finishes in the top two, he's fine.'"
Fine with second in Iowa? The Romney campaign dumped about $7 million into Iowa while we've spent, approximately, $327.00. Maybe they are satisfied with second but as fiscal conservatives we expect to get our money's worth.

*Ahem* — from a letter to supporters about that Chuck Norris ad: "The media buy we put behind the ad is $60,000. A small amount targeted towards key areas of Iowa." Still way less than Romney, but...

I noticed that Carter's e-mail lists six news items, but jumps from item number One to item number Three. So confident that they won't finish second, the Huckabee campaign doesn't even use the number two!

(UPDATE: Carter, as funny as his boss, responds, "Gov. Huckabee is so superstitious that he removed all the two buttons from our computers. (Which, by the way, makes it difficult to send emails.))

Having picked on Huckabee a bit, I think a second-place finish for Romney would spur comparisons to this year's New York Mets collapse.

11/30 11:36 AM Share