Posted on 10/02/2010 7:29:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Exclusive: Gibbs eyed for DNC chair By: Mike Allen October 2, 2010 09:41 AM EDT
Democratic insiders are taking the temperature of some top party donors about the possibility of naming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs as chairman of the Democratic National Committee heading into President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, senior officials tell POLITICO.
Under the scenario being tested, Tim Kaine, the current DNC chairman and former governor of Virginia, would be named to a top administration post, perhaps in the Cabinet, the officials said.
Donors’ response has been positive, according to people who have been consulted.
Gibbs, one of the president’s closest confidants, already had been planning to leave the podium next year, perhaps to become a White House senior adviser.
Gibbs joined Obama in April 2004, as communications director for his U.S. Senate race, and later was his Senate communications director. Gibbs was communications director of Obama’s presidential campaign before becoming “senior strategist for communications and message” during the general election.
The logic for a Chairman Gibbs, according to one official: It would “put the Obama imprimatur on the DNC, once and for all,” and install a “great partisan fighter” as the face of the national party for the reelection campaign. “It’s a brilliant idea if he ends up deciding he wants to do it,” said one official who has been consulted.
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In other words, Another Top Administration Official is looking to put distance between himself and the Great American Failure.
Reminds me of Michael Moore’s pointers to the Obama administration-!
Gibbs has the qualifications Obama craves.... he will do or say whatever he is told to do or say.
Rick Sanchez as White House Press Secretary? LMAO - It keeps getting better and better. Bloomberg at Treasury, Kaine at some TBA cabinet post, Gibbs as DNC Chair, and Sanchez as Press Secretary. Maybe they'll assign Debbie Stabenow as his new Economics advisor.
Brilliant!
It’s not just “rich donors” who want this.
This is King Hussein’s move; that’s why this is being floated.
King Hussein wants one of his loyalists at the DNC. And Gibbs is his choice.
Brilliant. Go Barry!
Oh, yes! Please, please...Beltway Bobby as DNC chair is a sweet thought.
World Class Clowns one in all.
Denial of reality.
Oh please, please, please...please put Gibbs in there.
Chris Matthews!!! Perfect!!! ROTFLMAO!!!
LOL!!!!All I can say is bring it on!
What? Cindy Sheehan, Markos Moulitsas, Cynthia McKinney and Michael Moore are too busy?
Great idea! He can do for the whole Democrat party what he did for Obama!
Well, he’s an accomplished liar, so he should fit right in.
Please. Can he be worse than Howard Dean? Yes!!
I vote for Gibbs to become DNC chair!
I’ll vote 10 times for Gibbs.
ROFL This is hilarious! I hope they do. The Dem party is a joke anyway and this would just be the icing on the cake.
Hmmmmm, *popcorn graphic*
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