Why I'm Running for RNC Chairman (Saul Anuzis)

His Blog/Twitter/emails ^ | 11/12/2010 | Saul Anuzis

[MaggieCarta]

...Now we turn our attention to 2012. America must elect a new President. It is that hope, that necessity, that challenge, that draws me to announce my candidacy for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.

I don’t take lightly the fact that I am challenging a friend and colleague for the Chairmanship. When Michael was elected Chairman, I was the only candidate who stepped forward to attend the next morning’s RNC breakfast meeting, agreed to join the transition team, and later took on several roles as a team player on the RNC…and have attended every meeting since.

Given my involvement and efforts to help over the past two years, it was not an easy decision for me to seek the post. As someone who believes in loyalty, my natural instinct would be to sit this out. But the simple fact is that the overriding challenge we face is winning back the Presidency in 2012 and we will not accomplish that objective unless there is dramatic change in the way the RNC does business.

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...Of course I will be happy to discuss politics and elections with the media, but I won’t be competing with valuable airtime from the men and women on our ticket. Instead, I will work with our elected leaders around the country to give them maximum exposure and guarantee a consistent message that leads us to victory.

(snip)

My agenda is very straightforward. I have no interest in running for office. I won’t be writing a book. It is not my goal to be famous....

[chicagolady]

Michael Steele supports Amnesty, where does Saul Stand?

[hosepipe]

The RNC is obsolete... The TpCaucus is now driving..
The TpC is getting stronger the RNC is getting weaker..

Actually political partys themselves are obsolete..
The TpCaucus is the cutting edge of american political evolution...

[hosepipe]

The TpCaucus are the ones we've been waiting for..
The ones that trump political parties.. it will eventually evolve into sub-caucus's..

[MaggieCarta]

Michael Steele supports Amnesty, where does Saul Stand?

Excellent question. I'm sorry, I don't have an excellent answer at this time, though.

[CedarDave]

Your thread was first! But they aren’t dups — yours addresses more specifics.

[MaggieCarta]

Anuzis:
Chairman Steele’s record speaks for itself. He has his way of doing things. I have mine.

:) This, I think, is what they call a "classic understatement."

[MinuteGal]

Never mind. My sense of humor is sometimes off-beat.

Leni

[MaggieCarta]

Plus, we have cripplecreek’s hilarious Dumas comment on this thread....

[MaggieCarta]

Ok. I can be rather dense sometimes. It’s all the translating I have to do from Brit/Canadian/American speak that really does it, I think...maybe...

[GOP Poet]

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[pudge]

I got it Leni! Pretty clever and made me smile.

[MaggieCarta]

I expect the next RNC chair will be an establishment RINO promoted by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie who will crap all over the Tea Party and tear the GOP apart.

I honestly don't know. We should find out soon enough, I suppose.

[Admin Moderator]

Different stories, different sources.
One in GOP Club, one in News.

We will leave them both up.

Thanks.

[MaggieCarta]

Ok, thanks very much.

[MinuteGal]

Well, I don't get it and I wrote it!

(....just kiddin'...I think....)

Leni

[RushLake]

Your relatives in Michigan seem to have advised you correctly. Anuszis led the MIaGOP for several years and his accomplishments here were miniscule. For every win that the GOP had in Michigan during his tenure, there were several losses. Anuszis failed to develop any plan or make any serious effort to take out our two Marxist senators and failed to mount any serious threat to the regime of Clueless Jenny Granholm.

Maggie Carta is a nice person and I mean her no disrespect for her position on this guy.

[grellis]

If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.

[grellis]

JMO...regardless of his conservative creds, no matter how nice a guy he is, Anuzis was an absolutely dismal failure as chair of MIGOP and should not be considered to head up the national committee, not under any circumstances. Like I said, just my opinion...but he was chair when a fleet of candidates duked it out in the 7th Congressional primary a few short years ago, giving us the RINO Schwartz for two years...and the state remained staunchly and inexplicably blue during his tenure, in spite of our economy being strangled by Granholm...

He has to shoulder some of the blame for these failures. I'm astonished that he would seek the bigger chair.

[magslinger]

Do you know what happened to that Catholic college Mr Anuzis was going to start? IIRC that was his reason for stepping down as chairman of MIGOP.

He always seemed to be a nice guy to me. A little too nice, he could have used a healthy dose of "here I am, take me or leave me" a la RR or Chuck Heston.

I remember when he was chairman of MIGOP he was on a morning radio show where he would debate Mark Brewer, the DNC chair. I mentioned having heard him and he asked me if he sounded annoying. I didn't figure out what he was asking until the next week I heard them. What he was actually asking was "I don't sound annoying like Mark Brewer, do I"?

He didn't, but I never got a chance to get back to him on that.

[MaggieCarta]

Do you know what happened to that Catholic college Mr Anuzis was going to start? IIRC that was his reason for stepping down as chairman of MIGOP.

You know more than I about this, magslinger. I know there was supposed to be a new Catholic college in K'zoo, but I haven't a clue as to whether he was involved in that one. Or even whether that college has been built yet. Sorry.

He always seemed to be a nice guy to me. A little too nice, he could have used a healthy dose of "here I am, take me or leave me" a la RR or Chuck Heston.

Yes, "nice" isn't always best, if by "nice" you mean, "I'm a doormat".

...he asked me if he sounded annoying. I didn't figure out what he was asking until the next week I heard them. What he was actually asking was "I don't sound annoying like Mark Brewer, do I"?

He didn't, but I never got a chance to get back to him on that.

Finally saw Anuzis on Fox News last night (working just eats into one's productive television time) He didn't sound annoying to me, either.