Posted on 02/27/2015 4:58:20 AM PST by cotton1706
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Some among the GOP base may decry an “establishment” takeover of the party’s nomination process, but Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says his political machine is a crucial part of a path to Republican victory in 2016.
“We cannot be a candidate-crazy party,” Priebus told reporters in a meeting Thursday. “We also need the mechanics.”
Speaking to reporters during the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, Priebus touted himself and the RNC as handling the “boring stuff” that’s key to getting a campaign off the ground — and helping a Republican candidate actually be successful.
From controlling the forums in which Republican hopefuls will debate one another in the primaries — keeping the “nefarious” Chris Matthews from putting candidates on the spot — to finding and promoting party advocates “who don’t look like me,” the RNC’s work is critical to the 2016 race, Priebus said.
Responding to charges that the RNC is about “establishment control” over the nomination process, Priebus said, “It is about control — do you want the liberal media to control the process, or do you want the party whose nominee it’s going to be to control it?”
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Don’t worry, it’s just a small brain cancer in the Republican party. We can ignore it.
We have met the enemy, and it’s our own party.
The natives are restless.
The purpose of the Republican Party is to prevent a REAL opposition part from arising.
The GOP-e selected the last two presidential candidates.
It worked out so well that they’re insisting on doing it again.
How about closed primaries, Reince, you freaking dolt?
If there is another establishment candidate from the RNC, Hillary will take the WH. It will simply be a repeat of 2012. Conservatives will not submit to this crap any longer and it is nothing more than concession to leftist ideals either way.
Dole, Bush II, McCain, Romney.
That's four.
BINGO
The Cheap Labor Express has paid for an amnesty candidate and the RNC intends to deliver.
Jebbie and Rinse should not even be at CPAC.
I hate to break it to Reince but the last time I looked the liberal media already does control it the nomination; thanks in no small part to RINO idiots like him.
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