Reince Priebus: There Will Be War
I'm mostly holding off on posting on the RNC race until January and most of it will likely be done at Big Government. But this via Jim Hoft deserves a quick mention for now.
Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this. Is this really teh(sic) person who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years?
I get it. It's a law firm. He's only one partner yadda yadda. But his dissembling on the Stimulus issue was bad enough. Now we learn his firm's stance on Obamacare is bad, not to mention his personally taking part in an eminent domain lawsuit – on the wrong side for a principled conservative. Then there's his internship with the NAACP after law school. Everyone knows the politics of the NAACP. Add to that, the dude is only 38 years old and none of this stuff was a lifetime ago. For the most part, we're talking the last 10 – 12 years. You don't get from the Leftist NAACP to the RNC in that kind of time frame and have much credibility as a conservative, especially with all this other intervening crap.
Politically speaking, these days, people don't care how well you might talk the talk if you haven't walked the walk.
I also get the politics of the committee and how a guy like Priebus can make a lot of fast friends, especially as he was in Steele's small inner circle. That provided leverage, which ultimately he has turned into support for him, now. But if you're paying attention to the optics of this and mindful of the mood of the base – this is starting to look like a potential disaster in the making.
A bad choice will only inflame tensions between the RNC and the base while they're already at an all time high. The RNC needs to turn a page. The base quite clearly demonstrated that to the entire GOP in 2010. Right now, the leading contender is looking very much like just more of the same. And that ain't gonna cut it, not now. No way, no how.
Given the political mood of the base and the country these days, if the committee goofs this up … there will be war and it won't be pretty, let alone productive for the GOP.
I personally think Steele has Priebus splitting the vote on the first ballot to take out the BETTER candidates. I don’t think you go from kissing in a tree to hating the guy you sucked up to for two years in a blink of an eye!
This is just the kind of crap progressives do. Infiltrate the enemy, and kill it from within. Yeah, I went there.
Oh, well, if they think Steele had trouble bringing in cash just put this jerkwad in charge.
Cino is no prize either. She appears to be another ‘beltway’ Republican who’s connections and years hanging around the RNC seem to be her biggest attributes.
WE DON’T NEED THESE PEOPLE LEADING THE RNC THE NEXT 2 YEARS PEOPLE.
Either one of these two RINO’S get’s the chairmanship and you can bet a third party will be attempted and then guess what? Obama for another 4 and maybe worse after.
Right now even Steele looks more conservative than these two.
It matters not what leader these Whigs pick.
I believe Steele is running because it is very possible that Republicans will wake up and discover that he is the better choice. (Priebus. Isn’t that a hybrid mass transit vehicle?)
Now if Palin would just cut the GOP umbilical cord completely and run independent, we Tea Party conservatives would have something to hope for. The chances of my voting Republican in 2012 have never been lower.
The more I see Hannity fawning every day over Bush, Gingrich and the other Assistant Democrats on his show, the angrier I get.
Phil unfortunatly at this time that would prove a disaster to go third party is bad idea usually. This is why were taking the Gop BACK.
I second the notion that going 3rd-party would hand the election to the donks.
And, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Sarah Palin ain’t runnin’ for president. Had she any further political ambitions, she would not have resigned as governor.
“I voted for Kodos” and I’ll do so again, on the contrary, that’s exactly why she will run,
Ace had Priebus as a Barbour fave with Walker, Johnson and Ryan seconding. Rumourmongering has seemed less believable, Walker is in bed with Barbour.
“Now if Palin would just cut the GOP umbilical cord”
With the lawn jockey Lenin campaigning on his return, everyone with a pulse is running in 2012. If she thinks she can raise 10 figures she should run Indie and skip the primaries. Huck, Mitt and Newt deserve empty assembly halls.
A third party run for Palin, gary?
I can’t get by the name of the guy.
It is going to be more problem for the Republican Party. It look like all these candidates are RINO. We need a real true conservative leader of the Republican Party. We need to get rid of these RINOS and the Republican Party need a clean house.
Xiaoding: “It matters not what leader these Whigs pick.”
I’m with Xiaoding on that.
It’s all inside baseball, and anyone calling for a an outsider or radical shakeup at the RNC is whistling into the wind since only insiders get to vote for the position.
Nope. The best any conservative can hope for is that a conservative with inside credentials and proven fundraising capability is elected.
I personally won’t donate to the RNC anymore. Jim DeMint has a website for Conservatives, I will donate there and to candidates of choice. I think the Republican party should be left to die. I think it’s time to dump them and form the Conservative, Constitutional or Founding Party. I know that Mark Levin thinks we should take back the Republican Party but I think it’s so infiltrated with socialists that I don’t know if it’s possible. It’s tainted and I think they should be starved financially. They can’t be trusted anymore. Just look what they did recently. They sign a pledge and then they work with the impostor marxist Soetoro for new spending. They and the CPUSA are one of the same.
None of these people will resurrect the RNC. They’ve been inside so long that they think nominating someone who can at best court the big money donors to run candidates against their own base is a good idea.