First, the one group with absolutely no control is the Republican National Committee led by Michael Steele. He can’t even control his own mouth. He told the truth twice, and has paid a heavy price for it. No one sends Steele money anymore, not even for those alleged occasional Los Angeles bondage club visits. Never mind winning elections.
Ann Wagner, one of six candidates seeking the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, is promising not to support Chairman Michael Steele under any circumstance if she happens to come up short in her bid to lead the organization.
The former Missouri GOP Chairwoman and onetime Ambassador to Luxembourg told CNN that she will “absolutely not” endorse Steele or tell her supporters to do so if she fails to make it to the final round of what is likely to be a multi-ballot election come January.
The most recent RNC election, in January 2009, lasted through six rounds of balloting before Steele was declared the winner. Along the way, the losers cut deals and endorsed candidates who were perceived to have momentum.
Wagner called on her rivals not to back Steele if history begins to repeat itself. “I would ask any of the candidates out there to not to move any of their support to Michael Steele, regardless of the outcome of any one individual,” she said.
While affirming that she is “in the race to win it,” Wagner said numerous committee members have, in the course of their conversations, asked her not to back Steele if she fails to advance to the late stages of the election.
“I have made that commitment to many of the men and women who have asked me that,” Wagner said. “They want a new direction, a new leadership. That’s my commitment.”
Steele and Wagner are running against Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, former RNC Political Director Gentry Collins, Michigan committeeman Saul Anuzis, and former Bush administration official Maria Cino.
Also Monday, Wagner picked up the backing of two West Virginia committee members – Jim Reed and Donna Lou Gosney, meaning she can now officially be nominated for the chairmanship.
Each state is represented on the RNC by three people: the state GOP chair and two national committee members. To stand for the chairmanship, a candidate must count on two-thirds support from three different states. Wagner has now crossed that crucial threshold in West Virginia, Tennessee and her home state of Missouri.
Cino also earned a burst of momentum over the weekend by announcing endorsements from New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox, Delaware committeewoman Priscilla Rakestraw and Minnesota committeewoman Evie Axdahl. The RNC members are the first to publicly line up behind Cino.
Here’s something to think about. The republicans just won a huge victory and cleaned the democrats clocks yet the
republicans are dissatisfied with the RNC leadership and will most likely replace Steel as chairman. On the other hand the democrats are replacing Nobody and changing Nothing.
Do democrats ever learn anything from the hardships life sends their way?
Many people consider the Republicans a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has poured umpty-three million dollars into the 2010 midterms. Who controls the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? The ownership seems split between China and Dubai, with a minority share in the hands of multinational oil, banking and chemical corporations.
But the ownership shares fluctuate as the sellout price of the GOP varies according to the latest polls. And think of the foreign currency exchange headaches – do you buy a Republican senator in euros or yen?
Some loyal American groups, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, are trying to compete with the foreigners.
Crossroads has tossed umpty-FOUR million dollars into the kitty in its bid to buy the GOP, and feels it should be considered – at the very least – the management team controlling the Republican Party on behalf of the Chinese.
Oh, but the Kochs, the Texas oil zillionaires, beg to differ. Having bought out rights to the Tea Party from Dick Armey and the Washington lobbyists who founded it, the Kochs and their group, Americans For Prosperity, have thrown their hat in the ring.
They argue quite persuasively that without the Tea Party, there would be no Republican Party, so all bids to buy GOP senators and congressman should be channeled through their Texas headquarters.
The truth is, the Republican Party is a big tent party. There is room for every billionaire bummed out by a pesky safety regulation, every billionaire xenophobe, and every billionaire tax cheat.
There just isn’t any room for regular everyday republicans but keep that a secret because thats just one of many things they don’t know.
The state of ignorant bliss that the average republican lives in is amazing and the people who pull the strings at the GOP make Bernie Madoff look like a kid with a bicycle and a newspaper route. Year after year the republican party delivers nothing but talk to the GOP masses who remain fat, dumb and happy while huge tax breaks go to the wealthy and business operates with no regulation.
I’ll predict here that the big boys will be sorry they created the tea party and woke this sleeping dog. Once these zombie republicans start to think there will be many old time leaders left bleeding on the side of the road, and thats a GOOD THING. The destruction of the republican party has begun.
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