Posted on 11/11/2008 12:12:33 PM PST by SueRae
Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, has decided to run for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee and is in talks with Newt Gingrich to win the former House speaker's endorsement, FOX News learned Tuesday.
Steele declined to comment, but a source close to the situation said Steele would announce his candidacy as early as Thursday.
The source also contradicted a report in Tuesday's Washington Times that Steele and Gingrich were competing for the RNC post.
"There is no fight," the source said. "This tension between Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich is totally fabricated and, in fact, Gingrich and Steele are working together to create a new strategy for the direction of the GOP."
In a statement issued by the former House speaker, Gingrich said he was not interested in seeking the post of Republican Party chairman.
"A number of people have asked me to consider running for Republican National Committee chair. They have been very flattering, and I am very honored by their support," he said.
"However, my job as an American first is to develop a tri-partisan approach to developing solutions for the challenges we face. I use the word tri-partisan to designate the concept of attracting Democrats, Republicans, and independents to solutions that unify most Americans."
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
Steele, working with Gingrich and fred thompson is a good team to get things rolling.
I have been pushing Newt for Party chair.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/newt-gingrich-for-rnc-chair.html
I hope Newt considers taking it.
Steele has supported RINOs that endorsed Obama for crying out loud.
Steele would be perfect...Newt is still too hot...
But you want Newt in on strategy. Steele is fine as the front man. If Steele steers the RNC to affirmative action and Newt steers it toward global warming cap-and-trade, hwever, we’ll have as big of a wreck as Martinez with amnesty.
Steele as RNC chair with Newt behind the scenes. Jindal/Palin 2012.
“But you want Newt in on strategy. Steele is fine as the front man.”
Yes. Exactly...
So has Gingrich. He even supports Pelosi. Probably every loyal Republican has.
But nobody knows who Steele is. He’s only held one major office and has never won an election on his own.
“Steele as RNC chair with Newt behind the scenes. Jindal/Palin 2012.”
OR Palin/Jindal 2012 - He is still VERY young - let’s see what she does in the next four years - I doubt if she will go away...then Jindal is more mature AND experienced for his own run.
For non-Marylanders - this is a good introduction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Steele
Steele’s mother was a widowed laundress who, he stated, worked for minimum wage rather than accept public assistance. Steele grew up in a Democratic household. However, as a young man he switched to the Republican Party.
After joining the Republican Party, Steele became chairman of the Prince George’s County Republican Central Committee. In 1995, the Maryland Republican Party selected him as Maryland State Republican Man of the Year. He worked on several political campaigns, was an Alternate Delegate to the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego and a Delegate to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia that ultimately chose the George W. Bush ticket.
In December 2000, Steele was elected chairman of the Maryland Republican Party,[3] becoming the first African American ever to be elected chairman of any state Republican Party.
“But nobody knows who Steele is. He’s only held one major office and has never won an election on his own.”
Not a big deal for such an inside job...
Jindal’s quicker on his feet. I don’t think he’ll allowed himself to get sucker-punched the way Palin did by the MSM....
Why not Jeb for RNC Chair? He could give interviews for a few years and America would see that he wasn’t W. The Bush name needs some clearing, and only Jeb can do that.
I’m for Newt, just putting this up for discussion.
So now is the time to give him this fairly big-time exposure. We need to groom him for the future. Newt advising behind the scenes.
RINO ALERT!!!
Inspired by a drive to get back to the fundamentals of the Republican Party, Senator John Danforth, Lt. Governor Michael Steele, and Governor Christine Todd Whitman created the political organization the Republican Leadership Council
Obama’s victory showed that the majority of the American people aren’t narrow-minded and don’t object to bi-partisan policy solutions.
I see this election as being more about hope than just change. It was about the hope that we can and should expect more out of our government – an area where Republicans have disappointed, but economic conservatism has not. This election was a clear repudiation of the last eight years. I can’t tell you how many long-time Republicans have been in touch with me to say that they really wanted to vote for McCain, but couldn’t accept the rightward tilt of the campaign, which they had seen too much of during the Bush Administration.
http://www.republican-leadership.com/node/659#comment-133
Thank you to Lt. Gov. Steele
06/23/2008, Submitted by Governor Whitman
It is with fondness and appreciation that the RLC bids farewell to one of our co-chairs, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. Steele will be taking a step back from some of his previous commitments, including the RLC, to focus fully on GOPAC, which he chairs. The RLC is pleased to partner with GOPAC for a number of events and look forward to continuing to work with Steele and his staff on future endeavors. I am personally very grateful for his efforts in helping to get the RLC to where we are today. Best of luck to him and to GOPAC in their very important work.
http://www.republican-leadership.com/taxonomy/term/22
“I use the word tri-partisan to designate the concept of attracting Democrats, Republicans, and independents to solutions that unify most Americans.””
Stupid new words are a no no. Indies aren’t ‘partisans’ anyway.
Good!!!
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