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GOP Boss Wants Trump to Shut up on Birther Claims
U.S. News ^ | 04/13/2011 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 04/13/2011 2:18:04 PM PDT by Smokeyblue

Newly-installed Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has a message for Donald Trump and other so-called "birthers": Shut up!

Priebus, who's starting to score some fundraising and organizational victories inside GOP HQ, having taken over for controversial former Chairman Michael Steele, says the debate over President Obama's birthplace and whether he can be president is a huge distraction away from the party's effort to fight Democratic spending and tax plans.

In an interview, we asked if he, like Trump, is a birther. "I'm not," says Priebus. "I believe that the president was born in Hawaii." [Read 10 things you didn't know about Reince Priebus.]

SNIP

"I think that the entire issue gets me off track to what I really need to focus on which is how to beat him [Obama]," says Priebus. "And the reason I need to beat him is not because I'm the chairman of the RNC, or because I view this as some partisan endeavor that I'm on. I'm truly concerned about the future direction of our country. I'm very concerned about America. I'm concerned about the idea of America," says Priebus. "Look," he adds of Obama. "He's driving our country off a fiscal cliff, that's what he's doing."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; birthertrump; certifigate; gop; gopsuicide; naturalborncitizen; priebus4obamacare; priebus4romney; priebus4romneycare; reincepriebus; republican; rinos; trump
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To: Tempest
"Obama is going to win in 2012. Because the GOP are basically clones."

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This is pretty obvious. The group of people elected in 2010 have already caved.

We are finding out now from the CBO that the "deal" Boehner got does not even add up to $1 Billion in cuts.

Pathetic cowards.

61 posted on 04/13/2011 2:43:37 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: MrB
Republican Chairman Reince Priebus

Reince? Priebus?

If you do a search, you can find a site that will pronounce that for you.

Uh...No thanks...There are enough obnoxious, freakish names to deal with already.

62 posted on 04/13/2011 2:44:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Smokeyblue

hey preebus...why don’t YOU shut up. This is a free country remember? Donald Trump speaks and people listen. Why are you so afraid for him to speak? You don’t tell anyone to SHUT UP unless you are ready to be told the same yourself. We KNOW Donald Trump we DON’T KNOW YOU!


63 posted on 04/13/2011 2:45:19 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: al baby

Must be one of them new-fangled autos that run on reindeer piss.


64 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:09 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: al baby
What the hell is a Reince Priebus?

It's a hybrid car from an alternative universe. Reince is the color.

65 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:14 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Smokeyblue

maybe he wants to hear it from his own mouth that he wasn’t born here. we have it on tape.


66 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:31 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Smokeyblue

Yo, Reince!

When the “party-across-the-aisle” made an issue of Bush43’s supposed AWOL records, where were the equivalent calls for understanding and agreement that the issue was not really important?

Hmmmm?


67 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:41 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: 95B30

Flashback! And a good idea!

http://youtu.be/sS6deQnbg9o


68 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:41 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: LouAvul

I think Priebus just did! He certainly reminded me! And that’s what I told the RNC fund-raiser who phoned me recently soliciting a contribution. I told her no more money for RINOs! I’ll contribute directly to the campaigns of REAL CONSERVATIVE AMERICAN PATRIOTS!


69 posted on 04/13/2011 2:46:59 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Smokeyblue

Some foreigner tells an American to shut up.

OMG, give me a break.


70 posted on 04/13/2011 2:47:12 PM PDT by dforest
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To: al baby

Reince Priebus... next generation of “green” cars that run on hot air.


71 posted on 04/13/2011 2:47:12 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: yldstrk

Because the Republicans are in it neck deep.

EXACTLY!

Look at every post on this thread; people who get it.

Virtually every out-spoken defender of Barack Obama's background is a Washington DC insider.

At this time why is Mr Priebus so concerned about what Donald Trump talks about?

72 posted on 04/13/2011 2:47:14 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Smokeyblue
It seems the "Stupid Party" is intent on continuing with it's customary tone deaf ways.

Pretty soon they'll be better known as the "Third Party".

73 posted on 04/13/2011 2:47:48 PM PDT by Gritty (Republicans who abandon principle for success invariably end up with neither-Bob Lonsberry)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"What the hell is a Reince Priebus?" It's an Albanian made economy car. Kind of like a Yugo but with lower quality control standards.

LMAO

74 posted on 04/13/2011 2:47:48 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Smokeyblue

In less than a year the new GOP boss is going to come hat-in-hand begging to TEA party getherings.

So STFU Ritz. (please tell me your nickname is really ‘Bud’ or something)


75 posted on 04/13/2011 2:48:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (this adminsitration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!!)
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To: Smokeyblue

Recall Priebus.


76 posted on 04/13/2011 2:48:46 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (2012 - End of an error)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Tea Party is going to be very popular if the Republicans keep this up.

BTW, I think the name “Birthers” needs to change to a more positive word..., “Constitutionalists”. It positive and not derogatory.


77 posted on 04/13/2011 2:49:54 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Smokeyblue

ping...for later reading...


78 posted on 04/13/2011 2:49:54 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Smokeyblue

Priebus: “I believe that the president was born in Hawaii.”

Hey, Reince, I may BELIEVE the moon is made out of green cheese but without proof it doesn’t mean anything.

Send me the proof upon which you are basing your belief that JugEars was born in Hawaii and then I may believe it, too.


79 posted on 04/13/2011 2:49:54 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Smokeyblue
"he interned for the NAACP legal defense fund in Los Angeles"

How on Earth did he get that gig?

80 posted on 04/13/2011 2:50:10 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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