Palin declines RNC draft effort

CNN's Political Ticker ^ | December 6, 2010 | Peter Hamby, CNN Political Producer

[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....

[SoConPubbie]

Is someone trying to sideline her?

Yes, supporters of every other possible potential 2012 POTUS candidates.

[SoConPubbie]

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.

What's next, are you going to call us all Cultists?

Funny you forgot to mention all the name calling by Palin's detractors here on FreeRepublic to both Sarah and her supporters.

Seems you are lacking a bit in objectivity.

[blarney]

No i’m not missing objectivity I am speaking of what I have seen.

[mrspeelwerneeded]

That seems to bw the effort. I’d rather she make a go of the presidency. She will do damage to Obama and the media with the megaphone of a presidential campaign. She needs to run.

[MortMan]

It would have been a coup on behalf of the establishment, to coopt Palin into representing them instead of her representing conservatives.

[Bigg Red]

I think her answer was both polite and honest.

[SoConPubbie]

No i’m not missing objectivity I am speaking of what I have seen.

Yes you are, either that or you are blind or lying.

[blarney]

Yea, whatever you say. LOL! You obviously want to have some internet pissing contest. I’m not interested.