Posted on 11/06/2008 7:17:02 PM PST by 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.
LOL!
NO
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
NEWT!
HELL NO!
Newt!
How about Duncan Hunter?????
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.
Newt is throwing his hat into running for it already.
Go Newt!
Here’s a thought...
How about a conservative?
Just my 2 cents...
That’s all we need. Some yankee assed fake Republican.
Just wow.
In other news, the RNC says the battle of Midway does not signal the ascendancy of the aircraft carrier over the battleship....
Drag Haley Barbour’s butt out of Msipi. He was great in that job.
Lurch to the left
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.
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...
NEWT!!! (I Peeked)
It won’t matter unless we can find the next Lee Atwater. The problem isn’t organization, it’s will and focus.
What a dumb idea!
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.
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