Posted on 11/11/2008 2:05:16 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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."
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Er... winning is when your candidate actually gets elected to public office...
Why can't the Republican party find leaders with an IQ above 80?
Brown, purple or green, we need to find a leader that will help us win. Get with the times and quit shaving your head. I’m not going to live in the next Soviet Union. Chocolate Gorbechov has free reign and will use people who prefer other white people as a boogeyman to help destroy this country.
Again, get with the times. We need leaders of all colors.
I am so tired of people searching for the “perfect” conservative. The fact is no one will be perfect. Reagan, even went off the conservative reservation a few times. I saw people all through out the GOP primary bash every front runner for not being good enough. The end result was we got stuck with McCain. So just stop searching for the perfect person. Stop finding qoutes and then bashing them by saying hes not a Conservative. Steele and Newt are conservatives both are not perfect but they are by far good enough.
Newt shows his political savvy once again...he knows this is the right course of action. Good show.
Gingrich should run again somewhere for Congress or the Senate....
of all the conservative tenets, it is becoming more clear to me that we must be FISCAL conservatives first.....when the country is well run, social conservatives flourish...imo....we can manage a skilled military, and we can maintain infrastructure, and the almighty safety net...
we must stop spending ourselves into oblivion.....
this is what scares me a little about the Sarah Palin for 2012....we must stop building her up to be perfect because she won't be perfect.....instead, we should support her because she has MOST of the things we want to see, not ALL.....
one little word from her and some here will be dissing her....not me....but I know some will....
there are NO perfect candidates......so lets grow up a bit on that one...
Steele is a good Republican for the state of Maryland, but I’m not sure based on comments he made about the Bush Administration or Rumsfeld that he could be labeled the “full spectrum conservative”. Go back to his Meet the Press debate with Ben Cardin. I have the sinking suspicion that had Steele won that Senate race, he would be referred on this site to other RINO’s like Lindsey Graham, Snowe, Collins, Coleman, etc.The only reason Steele came as close as he did in the Senate race (a race the Democrat ought to win by double digits, especially in 2006) was because he received a higher share of the black vote than most Republicans running for statewide office in Maryland. Cardin would have won in a landslide against a white Republican that year.
Nothing like a healthy dose of hyperbole to assert you are the only true conservative in the U.S.
“The contract was great made sense and was easy to understand —the voters were not aware of it and that is not the reason for the 94 GOP routing the democrats”
if they didn’t know in 94, they certainly did in 96
“Steele is a moderate and not nearly as steel minded.”
but he’s black. That’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it?
Nobody will be impressed by pandering. Mccain tried to pander to hispanics and Palin to women and that sure didn’t work.
Count me out.
Respectfully,
ITV
“this is what scares me a little about the Sarah Palin for 2012....we must stop building her up to be perfect because she won’t be perfect.....instead, we should support her because she has MOST of the things we want to see, not ALL.....”
people were excited by Palin because she was such a breath of fresh air compared to McCain. But on her own? I really really don’t know. We need the strongest person we can get because defeating Obama is just too important.
yes but on the other hand newt has his own issues
Excellent point.
I remember the frustration with open primaries.
First act of the new chair should be to do what can be done to end this suicidal practice.
Yet another narcissist.
Where is the real America anymore? I’m beginning to wonder! I used to think we had an inner core, a “sleeping giant”. The only trouble is, where is it? It came alive after 9/11; but seems to have gone back to sleep, with drugs, or it’s dead!
If it’s not asleep or dead, where is it? It certainly seems to have disappeared last week! As I said, in my own opinion, I think it’s been drugged back to sleep, or it’s dead! If 20% of conservatives voted for Obama, more than 50% of the nation in general put him in the WH, then maybe that vast, silent majority doesn’t exist anymore. Either it’s gone back to sleep, or been drugged! Worse still, nobody can explain why they voted that way!
I can realize why maybe Republicans have lost their soul. Maybe we got fat and lazy with power. But not all of them! That doesn’t explain some of the wooly-headed reasoning of why they chose a far-left man like Obama at a time where we seem to be still in danger as a nation.
Or is it because so many people don’t see the danger, or just don’t care, that they could vote for someone like that! We are safer in many ways, so maybe we did something right. But we are not out of the woods yet! We’re not out of danger enough to be fooling around with ideologies! I don’t know. But if that (now mythical)silent majority or sleeping giant exists, then where is it now? Where was it on election day? It either doesn’t exist anymore, or it went left-wing! Hopefully, we will find out soon. Also hopefully, it can be awakened again before it’s too late!
I never said was the only true Conservative in the US. I said that Palin and Steele are not Conservative, and I am right.
Prove them by their records, and you will see.
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