Posted on 12/25/2008 8:14:53 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Members of the Republican National Committee will be voting for a new Chairman at the end of January. Vote on your preferred candidate and, if you'd like, submit a comment below. Your comment will be automatically emailed to your state RNC representatives to let them know who you'd like to lead the party!
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2000 and 2004 there was a woman from the south - she was her State’s Republican chairperson. TN or Georgia, maybe. She was very well spoken and savvy! If I remember correctly, she had a young child.
I have expected to see more of her ...... anyone know who I mean?
Thanks, I do appreciate this response. I will look into this gentleman. I really believe the republican party needs a true conservative at its helm.
Duncan Hunter!
Alright, I cast my vote for Mr. Blackwell.
I did background reading on Blackwell and he appears to be a solid conservative. But I don’t think that’s enough.
Something needs to be added to the last sentence of post #20, that an RNC leader must also be a brilliant strategist and tactician in campaigns. Gingrich and Delay are proven in these.
I was told that Delay needs to lay low and not be high profile. If he is cleared soon of all the crap allegations thrown at him, then IMO he should lead the party.
Gingrich absolitely must be given an influential position. He is too brilliant a politician to not have executive power in the GOP.
Ping!
my only reservation with steele is that there are people with better leadership creds
anyone of color
*typical pc freeper reply
I like Newt Gingrich! He is an Idea Man! He can come up with all sort of ideas to energize the party to new heights!
I know many of you say he has too many baggages! He admitted that and asked for forgiveness from you and most importantly from GOD!
He wants to help the party!
I am nervous about Steele! His color makes no difference to me but his views on several things bother me! He is more of a RINO than he is a Conservative!
I will confess that I know very little or none about Ken Blackwell!
I have been in several Congressional Campaigns so I do have some experiences! I also have an intimate relationship with the shower stall after each campaign with all that money that flowed under the table! Talk about greed and money and women! Ugh!
We need a Chairman who will communicate! By email! Somebody who knows how to use the Internet for raising cash, communicate with the members, plan, breathes fire, etc.
If not Newt, who else?
My two cents from a beaten-up party pusher!
Anyone who supports enforcement of our borders...
A: Society should draw lines. What do you need an assault weapon for, if you're going hunting? That's overkill. But I don't think that means you go to a total ban for those who want to use gun for skeet shooting or hunting or things like that. (Source: Washington Post interview Oct 16, 2006)
He’s a bit weak on illegal immigration, too. I don’t know that he’s for Roe v. Wade, though. The quote that he believes we should follow the law for now seems to be out of context. I think AA is institutional discrimination, particularly with the election of a black president. He no doubt owes his presidency in large part to AA. If this is the real Michael Steele, then count me out.
Either Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell as RNC Chairperson well be fine by me, IMHO. But, no matter who ends up winning, the entire Republican Party must seriously and successfully become a conservative political party for always, and the entire Republican Party must also seriously and successfully end all non-conservative Republicanism for always!
I was shocked Anuzis got in this, what a joke.
And Mike Duncan as well. Chosen by Bush and presided over 2008? No thanks.
Jim Greer is close to Crist and doesn’t have a website listed so he can go to hell. ;)
Saltman from the Duckapee camp? No thanks.
Steele would a good faceman but that’s not what this job is about. He’s mentioned the fauxcon rat problem. I’m not sure he’s conservative enough on economic matters for my liking. I’d like he or Ehrlich to run for MD Governor.
Dawson sounds very impressive with the fund raising. I especially like he started out his political life as a Republican.
Blackwell has a good record and mentions a “50-state strategy”.
I hope Dawson or Blackwell get it.
It’s amazing how gullible people are. Here they ask you for your opinion but the “fix” is already in. The sheeple will actually give their advice and opinions thinking they will be considered but don’t even suspect that the selection has already been made.
The Republicans don’t want a conservative leader, they want a “yes” man and a “can do” slickster and huckster to magically create a screen of conservatism to fool those who think they will actually heed the wishes of their voting base.
When term limits are accepted and career politicians are no longer sucking our freedoms away to engorge their personal egos, wealth and power; only then will they listen to the voters.
I hope to live long enough to see the day that Newt Gingrich's name never comes up for such a position. Newt is a self-obsessed has-been who has consistently bad-decisioned himself out of options until he is now reduced to playing a conservative whenever the MSM's central casting needs one.
(He's equally adept at portraying a "moderate Republican," and can do a pretty good Democrat when he gives it the old college try.)
Just because he once had a plan that worked until he screwed it up does not make him the greatest political genius of all time. His name even coming up speaks volumes not just about the lack of depth on the GOP bench, it also demonstrates that when new talent does show up, the old guard is right there to fire torpedoes at it.
If he was so brilliant, so concerned about conservatism, and so concerned about others, then he'd already be working his ass off behind the scenes instead of constantly grandstanding and dropping coy little hints about office that would be more appropriate for a political debutante than a D.C. spinster.
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I rather like the Palin/Nugent in 2012 idea... that might get guys like myself back in the party. More of the same old hacks isn't going to bring ANYONE in.
Mr. niteowl77
I hope so...he’d get my vote!
Chip Saltsman is from Nashville and is only 6 years older than I am, but the Nashville he grew up in vs. the one I did is far apart (he went to the best schools, I got stuck in the $hit). More from the upper crust West Nashville Republican set, and I’m the multicultural, transient, high-crime, working-class Antioch Republican set (although I personally am none of those 4 descriptions, the area is). They don’t get us (or just ignore us), and we don’t fit in with them. A lot of those same types were more than happy to overwhelmingly support the far-left rodent, Karl “Marx” Dean that won for Mayor because he was “one of them” (well, married one of them). Bob Clement got us great unwashed to vote for him as the more moderate candidate. They considered him uncouth.
Saltsman was Chairman of the state party at a time when our ex-RINO Governor was still in office (the only time I ever voted Democrat for Governor since he was to the right of the RINO) and he was called “Frist’s Secret Weapon” (which was a joke, since we all know how effective he was - and he was not a fighting Antioch Republican, but a tea and crumpets West Nashville/Belle Meade Republican). When he went to Huckster, that pretty much solidified my opinion of him as unacceptable for the post.
I think he’d go to work for any “R” as long as they paid his salary, no matter how liberal. It’s too bad Chip never did something about the dreadful situation with the local Davidson County GOP, which is almost non-existent as an organization (like the MA GOP).
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