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Priebus Will Announce Bid To Seek Re-Election As RNC Leader [Hell, NO!]
WashingtonTimes ^ | November 16, 2012 | Ralph Z. Hallow

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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To: fortheDeclaration
Tell me how he was responsible for this crushing defeat? He as been there for less than 2 years. The die was already cast, what was he supposed to do? This is why we are losing. The left is determined and never waivers, they just keep on coming. They have the rest of us in panic mode, by design. It isn't Preibus’s fault it's our fault that things are the what they are. Did you want Preibus to be typing the words into Mitt's teleprompter? I understand the fear and panic, but geez. DO you really think a change in the RNC chairman is going to make things better? Maybe Boehner and the boys can pick the next one.
21 posted on 11/16/2012 12:06:48 AM PST by usnadad
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To: Steelfish

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.


22 posted on 11/16/2012 12:08:53 AM PST by DemforBush (100% Ex-Democrat.)
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To: rfp1234

Indeed.


23 posted on 11/16/2012 12:14:56 AM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: usnadad

Come on, he is the one in charge and the RNC did a terrible job of getting out the vote!


24 posted on 11/16/2012 12:18:15 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Steelfish

ALLEN WEST!


25 posted on 11/16/2012 12:25:00 AM PST by tsowellfan (Allen West for Speaker!)
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To: Steelfish

NEWT!


26 posted on 11/16/2012 12:28:46 AM PST by douginthearmy
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To: usnadad
No one here really has the brain capacity to slow down and think rationally. It's much easier to shout 'off with their heads' across the internets.

On the other hand, these same voices are impotent and are a good slip-and-fall away from life in a nursing home.

27 posted on 11/16/2012 12:30:15 AM PST by 92nina
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To: Steelfish

The Republicans ran a bad campaign. Didn’t this guy oversee all that?


28 posted on 11/16/2012 12:42:28 AM PST by Best and Brightest
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To: Nifster
He loses and wants another run at it???

But, but, he tried so hard./s

29 posted on 11/16/2012 1:05:49 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: 92nina
No one here really has the brain capacity to slow down and think rationally.

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?

30 posted on 11/16/2012 1:17:06 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: Steelfish
They need someone like a Newt, Palin or a Governor Walker. Someone that can bring excitement; who has logic like Thomas Sowell. A young Clint Eastwood. A conservative Country Western singer that the masses love. Time to think out of the box. Get hip, GOP-not same ole safe spokesperson. This guy was behind Romney the entire way. When we called his office, he was always saying, it would be Romney. Please, not him again.
31 posted on 11/16/2012 1:17:32 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. As another FR member says..Obamas are living in gangster paradise.)
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To: sourcery

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.


32 posted on 11/16/2012 1:22:39 AM PST by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Christie at the beach

Two words:
Justin Bieber.


33 posted on 11/16/2012 1:22:47 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: JohnG45
Do you realize that you included yourself in that comment?

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.

34 posted on 11/16/2012 1:33:09 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
He's Canadian and a little jerk..
35 posted on 11/16/2012 1:33:47 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. As another FR member says..Obamas are living in gangster paradise.)
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To: Christie at the beach

Hell, we should run him for President.


36 posted on 11/16/2012 1:36:00 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

We’ll get you to run instead :)


37 posted on 11/16/2012 1:37:38 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. As another FR member says..Obamas are living in gangster paradise.)
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To: Steelfish

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.


38 posted on 11/16/2012 1:40:09 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 48 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: Christie at the beach
He's Canadian and a little jerk.

Bryan Adams and Michael J. Fox simultaneously raised their heads, just now, and asked: "Huh? Someone say my name -- ?" ;)

39 posted on 11/16/2012 1:41:37 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: DemforBush
It’s not impossible we could get someone a whole lot worse.

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.

40 posted on 11/16/2012 1:51:57 AM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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