Posted on 12/06/2010 1:30:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin is turning down a Tea Party request to seek the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.
"I respect the desire to have someone in charge of the RNC who understands the wishes of the conservative grassroots and understands that power resides with the people and not the vested interests in D.C.," Palin said in a statement provided to CNN. "However, the primary role of the RNC chair seems be that of fundraiser-in-chief, and there are others who would probably be much more comfortable asking people for money than I would be, and they would definitely enjoy it more."
Palin was asked to serve as chairman in a letter from the group Tea Party Nation, which sponsored a national Tea Party Convention last February. She was the headline speaker at that event.
Despite sporadic online chatter about drafting her for the job, the prospect of Palin serving as RNC chairman - with its day-to-day rigors of managing the committee's 168 members - was never a workable one.
Though Palin has raised millions for her political action committee, most of it has come in through small donations via the internet. The job of the RNC's next chairman, meanwhile, will be to spend countless hours on the phone raising money from the kind of high-dollar donors who stopped giving to the committee under the leadership of Michael Steele....
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The job won’t fit Mitt’s new image: mussed hair, jeans, dented truck.
I’d say Huck, but he just took on a huge home mortgage. RNC job doesn’t pay enough for him.
A lot of the good folks here at FR who were pushing for Palin as RNC Chairman were ardent Palin supporters who thought she would really kick ass in the job.
However, leave it to the Palinista Paranoia Patrol to conclude that those FReepers were RINO trolls and Romneybots - and also to see a RINO conspiracy in the Tea Party request.
LOL. Agree.
No. The Chairman probably has very little power over its operations. It would continue to back RINO’s over conservatives and that would be detrimental to Palin if its her.
Nothing short of the White House, Madam President.
Smart lady (but we knew that). She can be more effective right where she is.
Sarah Palin has a full time position currently building her personal political credos while under assault by Democrats, and their RINO counterparts in the Republican Party, and you think she should take a position in the RNC that would put her further in focus under the critical eye of such unforgiving enemies including not only the aforementioned, but the entire of the MSM as well.
I think you need to rethink if you are a friend of Sarah Palin’s efforts for the future.
I was NOT one of the people pushing for her to be RNC Chairman.
I have NEVER pushed for her to be RNC Chairman.
Yes it’s funny how there is the them against the world mentality. Lots of name calling from them too, such a shame to see this many people who end up acting like people on the left who supported Hussein so viciously. It’s sad that I thought only the left had people that far off the deep end.
“However, leave it to the Palinista Paranoia Patrol to conclude.....”
and I’m NOT “Palinista Paranoia Patrol” either, so if you aren’t one of those pushing for her to give up her freedom to manuever politically as she must by becoming the fixed center of a bullseye as RNC Chair, then why the assault on those of us you addressed?
It probably would have been best to say nothing.
You forgot: “...washing dishes...”
Perhaps you're right. :(
Good for Sarah!
This is what I think.
Those in the Tea Party who made the request were sincere. They wanted her to take over the position because they felt she would do a better job than the incumbent.
She declined because she doesn’t want the job.
That’s all.
i call them sexist pigs...
But you are incorrect to suggest that most pushing for Sarah to be the RNC head were her supporters on FR.....it was actually Mitt supporters or the anybody but Sarah crowd.
Of course they ‘were’ trying to sideline her. But she’s not going to pull a Hillary and settle for the sideline. Sarah’s too smart for that.
What a great answer she gave. Lordy, I love that woman.
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