Posted on 11/15/2012 11:06:15 PM PST by Steelfish
Priebus Will Announce Bid To Seek Re-Election As RNC Leader
By Ralph Z. Hallow November 15, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, under fire from some quarters for the failure of the party’s voter-turnout effort on Nov. 6, will inform the RNC’s other 167 members on Friday that he will seek re-election in January, two sources close to the chairman said Thursday.
According to the sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, Mr. Priebus will say Friday during his announcement that 112 fellow RNC members have pledged to support him if he seeks a second two-year term, a number far greater than the needed 85 votes.
As of Thursday evening, The Washington Times had received 51 definite “yes” and four “maybe” replies from RNC members asked if they would vote for him.
An RNC spokesman declined to comment. Mr. Priebus is scheduled to begin an extended vacation on Friday.
Mr. Priebus earned accolades from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and others here for the Republican Governors Association meeting.
Mr. Jindal, the RGA chairman, was asked in an interview whether the Nov. 6 voter-turnout failures in crucial swing states were the fault of the RNC chairman or of Mitt Romney’s campaign and whether he supports Mr. Priebus or someone else for the chairmanship of the party’s national governing body.
“I’m not a voting member of the RNC, but I think Reince has done a great job at the RNC,” Mr. Jindal told The Times. “I don’t think this is one of those things where you point to just one person and say they’re the reason.”
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Well, I honestly have to say I don’t know how I feel on this one.
There is no doubt the GOP did very poorly in 2012. Whether a different guy (or woman) at the helm of the RNC would have made a difference, it’s hard to say. Priebus certainly has been stronger than Michael Steele, in that he was more consistent and far less likely to self-destruct in interviews.
There’s also the question of who we would nominate to replace him. It’s not impossible we could get someone a whole lot worse. Especially if we look solely at rhetoric. Replacing Priebus with the equivalent of a Sharon Angle isn’t going to do the GOP any good.
Indeed.
Come on, he is the one in charge and the RNC did a terrible job of getting out the vote!
ALLEN WEST!
NEWT!
On the other hand, these same voices are impotent and are a good slip-and-fall away from life in a nursing home.
The Republicans ran a bad campaign. Didn’t this guy oversee all that?
But, but, he tried so hard./s
Do you realize that you included yourself in that comment?
It's much easier to shout 'off with their heads' across the internets[sic].
Internets? Geez, how many do we have?
Amen to that.
We need to have a serious search for a conservative candidate. If the Republicans want to run him - fine. If not, we should support him as a third party candidate.
I’d rather lose on a split vote to a third party than to keep losing by voting for a “moderate” on the Republican ticket and still end up with a communist President.
Two words:
Justin Bieber.
Shhhhhhhh. You'll wake the babies. ;)
The people who continually insist we snap-to and accord rapt, respectful fealty to the repeatedly-thumped likes of Reince Priebus and Karl Rove were also, by and large, the ones imbecilically chirruping the praises of "unskewedpolls.com" and Dick Morris this year, as well.
'Nuff Said.
Hell, we should run him for President.
We’ll get you to run instead :)
These folks are almost as full of themselves, as they are full of S.
Time for some Conservative loyalist blood folks. The GOP needs about eight quarts of A positive Grand.
Luke warm buckets of horse sweat need not apply.
Bryan Adams and Michael J. Fox simultaneously raised their heads, just now, and asked: "Huh? Someone say my name -- ?" ;)
We have heard this song before when Romney was put at the head of the ticket. You sure you want to dance to that tune again?
Actually we could not have done worse if we tried.
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