Sununu for RNC Chairman?

Now! Hampshire ^ | 11/06/2008 | Patrick Hynes

[nickcarraway]

John Sununu will no longer be a U.S. Senator come January after having lost his re-election bid against former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen on November 4th. But he might be the Chairman of the Republican National Committee if some of his supporters have anything to say about it.

A group of Republican officials and operatives plan to launch a Draft Sununu for RNC Chairman committee as early as Friday, two Republican sources tell Now! Hampshire. The sources asked to remain anonymous.

The leaders of the effort are not affiliated with the remnants of Sununu’s unsuccessful reelection campaign.

If the plan goes forward it would not be the first time Sununu was pressed into service. He was drafted to run against incumbent Senator Bob Smith in the Republican primary while serving as a congressman in 2002. He won that primary and proceeded to win the senate seat.

Not everyone is sold on the idea, however. One former Republican official familiar with the way chairmen are elected told Now! Hampshire, “It’s f--king crazy. While it would be a brilliant move, there is NO WAY IN HELL that the ‘Members’ will go for someone outside the Committee when we don’t have the White House.”

Republicans will elect a new Chairman of the Republican National Committee in January.

[mathprof]

LOL!

[nuconvert]

NO

[Carley]

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

[CatQuilt]

NEWT!

[perfect_rovian_storm]

HELL NO!

Newt!

[goodnesswins]

How about Duncan Hunter?????

[ABQHispConservative]

Hell no! We need NEW leadership, not the same old. We need a firebrand, someone who takes no prisoners when defining and defending conservatism. We need someone to inspire the base. And especially, we need someone from either the South, West or Southwest, or Alaska. Enough with these East-Coast types.

[diverteach]

Newt is throwing his hat into running for it already.

Go Newt!

[BlueNgold]

Here’s a thought...
How about a conservative?
Just my 2 cents...

[gop4lyf]

That’s all we need. Some yankee assed fake Republican.

[M1911A1]

Just wow.

In other news, the RNC says the battle of Midway does not signal the ascendancy of the aircraft carrier over the battleship....

[csmusaret]

Drag Haley Barbour’s butt out of Msipi. He was great in that job.

[stocksthatgoup]

Lurch to the left

[NavVet]

Surely we’ve learned at least a little something after having our clocks cleaned by an open racist / marxist. You don’t beat the far left by putting up a sort of left candidate.

[BlueNgold]

So we’re supposed to believe that now Newt, who had 2 great years and then fell into the slime of corruption that is D.C. politics, is now going to be above the fray and a principled conservative despite the polls, the lobbyists, and the whining of the liberals?

Pardon me if I am skeptical...

[tubebender]

NEWT!!! (I Peeked)

[steve8714]

It won’t matter unless we can find the next Lee Atwater. The problem isn’t organization, it’s will and focus.

[lonestar]

So he could do for other Repubs what he's done for himself?!

What a dumb idea!

[Terpfen]

Why shaft Barbour with the RNC when he’s a likely 2012 primary candidate?

Newt running the RNC will be great. Get Tom DeLay as the 2012 general candidate’s campaign manager and we’ll win by default after all the libs’ heads explode.

[darkwing104]

We need some who can take on Howard Dean and Rahm Emanuel.

I nominate Triple H.

[BlueNgold]

I’m kind of getting tired of the same old names and faces who’ve sold us down the river for years.

[Terpfen]

Got a link? There are some wackos I want to torture.

[nickcarraway]

You really want the man who saved Clinton to lead the RNC? Look, I am not unforgiving, but Gingrich should NEVER be given leadership in the GOP again. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...

[bigbob]

Tom Delay

[csmusaret]

The media would type till their fingers were bloody stubs. Some of them might not survive. Newt and the Hammer. We need to start a petition.

[Terpfen]

As long as he can raise money for and recruit capable conservatives, who gives a rat’s rear?

[diverteach]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262052

[exit82]

GOP? Sununnu?

Still stuck on stupid.

It’s time for conservatives to move on.A new start. a new party. If Newt wants to come along, fine. But this is not fixable from the inside.

Ask yourself one question: Who is the leader of the Republican Party?

Take your time.

[RushingWater]

Is this the same Sununu that gave us Souter?

[I got the rope]

Tom Delay!

[BlueNgold]

So, we sell our souls for fund raising?
Have we learned nothing?
No thank you.

[nickcarraway]

No, it was his father, Warren Rudman, and McCain.

[Thunder90]

Just say NO to RINO's...

[TheZMan]

I simply don't understand everyone cheering for Newt to lead up the RNC.

Newt is a global warming nutball that needs to go away with all the other RINOs.

For all the cries of cleaning up the republican party and returning it to conservative principles we sure do seem to want to keep this old codger around.

[billorites]

Newt? In a position of responsibility?

That's when I tear up my Pubbie registration card and whiz on Reagan's photo.

Newt is the most unattractive and hideous Republican ever born. He makes Richard Nixon look like John Boy Walton.

Sununu is smart, articulate and has to date managed to keep his trousers zipped.

Good lord, why won't Newt go away?

He's an awful man. His loved ones hate him.

[jmj3jude]

You got to be kidding. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and did I mention absolutely NO!!!!!!!!

[uptoolate]

shhh. I have to be quiet here. If the Fairness Doctrine is implemented, then I nominate Rush, since he'll need sumptin' to do.

[SeafoodGumbo]

Hell no! We need NEW leadership, not the same old. We need a firebrand, someone who takes no prisoners when defining and defending conservatism. We need someone to inspire the base. And especially, we need someone from either the South, West or Southwest, or Alaska. Enough with these East-Coast types.

Thought your comment deserved repeating...a little louder.

[billorites]

"How about a conservative?"

Sorry, you posted to the wrong thread.

We're speculating about Republican chairs.

[tflabo]

Not Sununu...that schlep who was instrumental in giving us David (Weasel) Souter as the stealth Supreme Court justice? He was stealth alright...turned out to be a flaming liberal....(Ruthie Ginzy's errand boy).

No Northeast RINO's as liberals allowed into GOP any more.

[Boiling Pots]

People are cheering for Newt BECAUSE HE IS A WINNER.

He defeated the Democrats in a HUGE way in 1994, remember?

HELLO...is there a more obvious choice?

[Faith]

What you said. :)

[SeafoodGumbo]

[uptoolate]

I believed I whispered.

[Terpfen]

It’s the freaking RNC chairmanship. The entire point is to give money to good candidates. I am not a Gingrich fan, but we could do a hell of a lot worse.

Like Mel Martinez. Remember him?

[nickcarraway]

Gingrich, the guy who saved Bill Clinton and turned him into a hero?

[tubebender]

I’ll put you down for Sunnunu...

[SoCalPol]

global warming nutball

I think you have him mixed up with Bob Barr who is the Global Warmer.

[Boiling Pots]

If 0bama gets into a sex scandal, we will not have Newt leading the charge, OK?