Posted on 01/15/2011 5:55:56 AM PST by markomalley
i guess it was worth bribing steele off... he would have been a real pain in the neck
Who in the private sector would hire such an incompetent fool.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........
It seems deals are standard fare at this event. I guess the question becomes what and to whom did the eventual winner Reince Priebus offer.
All the dealmaking tells us a lot about every one of the candidates and former RNC chairmen (hello, Haley!)—and explains a lot about the caliber and ideology of those elected.
I heard a clip of the new guy Priebus on the radio - don’t know anything about him, or who he is - all I could think of was what a wimpy sounding man. Don’t send your money to the RNC - just put the $$$ with the candidates you like.
Steele’s going to be more harmful as the former chair then he was as the chair. How many weeks from now before he grants an interview during which he discusses how racist the GOP is and how he was never given a chance to succeed because of his skin color. And the press will eat it up!!!!
Hopefully keeping his mouth shut is part of the deal. If he bad mouths the RNC or its members then some nasty little details will come out about how he handled (mishandled) the money.
Money talks. Principles walk.
He does come across as a callow recent grad from the College Republicans. Let’s hope he becomes the un-Steele and stays off the TV.
I still think Anuzis would have been a decent choice.
He himself is very much the RINO but has been pretty good about letting the candidates take the lead in their own campaigns. Here in Michigan he endorsed both RINOs like Upton and staunch conservatives like Walberg equally.
If you look at who we elected in Wisconsin this year, you will see a ‘tea party’ senator in Ron Johnson, two new conservative Congressmen in Ribble and Sean Duffy. Throw in the most conservative Governor in my lifetime in Scott Walker and a switch in the State House and Senate, and I do not think anybody should doubt where Reince’s ideology is. Reince recruited a lot of those conservative candidates that won Wisconsin state House and Senate races this year.
He is not really a Washington DC insider, as evidenced by Boehner endorsing Cino. He will be light years better than Steele, and I think will bring integrity back to the RNC. He is not the most polished TV presence, but have no doubt he is a genuine, midwestern values, hard working outsider.
Not a likely scenario - Lee Atwater has been dead for 20 years.
Give Reince a chance. He is not telegenic, but the RNC does not need a camera whore like Steele. They need an organizing, money raising, candidate recruiting manager who pays attention to detail. Reince will do that.
Accdg to the treasurer’s report, Steele leaves the RNC with about a $20 million deficit.
Steele promised, if reelected, to reduce that to only $10 million by the end of the year.
um... didnt cino lose?
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