Good riddance.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/13/2010 8:26:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Sources: RNC Chairman Steele to Announce He Won't Run for Second Term
Published December 12, 2010 | FoxNews.com
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is expected to announce he will drop out of the highly contested race to keep his post, multiple RNC sources told FoxNews.com on Sunday.
Fox News has confirmed Steele sent an e-mail to committee members Saturday night with the subject line, “conference call.”
In the note, he asked members to join him "for a private conference call" Monday evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Good riddance.
You forgot to close your sarcasm tag. You can either do it with this at the end of your post:
< /sarcasm>
Or use the abbreviated form:
< /s>
Either way is acceptable.
If you were serious then:
Bartender! I’ll have two of what Owen is having!
Do you think PC will kick in again and a woman will be picked for the job?
I think Steele could have been dealt with administratively..
I find it difficult to believe that his flaws were sooo egregious that the new cycle couldn’t withstand his supposed incompetance.
That said... The chair doesn’t operate in a vacuum... there are plenty overseers. I believe a man or a woman is fully capable for the position.
Yes, we did. Michael Steele was a huge disappointment; too weak as a spokesman for the party, not a Tea Party backer in any sense and definitely not the conservative fighter the office needs. The question now is who will replace Steele? Like many other conservatives, I hope it's not an 'establishment' Republican but I expect it will be. This is just one of the fights Tea Party activists will have to go through if we want to re-gain control of the GOP. Otherwise, we'll be getting the same old RINO candidates and the opportunity for Sarah Palin to secure the 2012 presidential nomination will be diminished. Even if you don't want Palin (I do), having the RNC headed by an establishment-friendly Chairman will make getting any conservative the 2012 presidential nomination an uphill fight, at best and an impossibility, at worst.
I firmly believe the RNC establishment honchos would much rather lose to Obama or another Democrat than lose their grip on the levers of power within the Republican party. The Christine O'Donnell debacle, fueled by the leftmedia, to be sure, but aided by arrogant sneering at O'Donnell from the Republican establishment that ended up delighting the left and helping her opponent, the 'bearded Marxist' to defeat Christine O'Donnell. This rankled a lot of conservatives (Karl Rove can go to you-know-where) and demonstrated that Tea Party activists and sympathizers have few friends at the RNC.
That has to change. This is an opportunity to push for that change but I fear it won't happen. We may get a Chairman that talks the (conservative) talk but I'm concerned that whomever is elected to the position - assuming that Steele is leaving - won't walk the conservative walk and we'll end up with another weak RINO-lover who won't fully support dedicated conservative candidates that want to run on the Republican ticket in their state. That will be a problem. It can be overcome - but it's still a problem when you have the party hierarchy giving lukewarm support or worse, making snarky comments on TV news shows about a particular Republican candidate that happens to be a conservative, then blaming the candidate for losing, as happened with O'Donnell. That is not a blueprint for electoral victory but with the country in such an Obama-orchestrated mess and millions of Americans pissed off at Washington and 'politics-as-usual', even the recalcitrant RNC may just have to defer to the people, for a change. Gee, what a concept.
OH...THANK...GOD!!!!!!!!!!
You just described Reince Priebus, the current chair of the Wisconsin GOP. He embraced the TPM - and Wisconsin had the single biggest flip from blue to red of any state in November.
OH NO!!!
The worst possible news... Steele IS running again...
Good grief....
He will lose, and we will be branded “racists” forever...
Nevermind his many flaws..
Tell me you're kidding.
The RNC did nothing for Scott Brown.
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