Report: GOP offers RNC chairmanship to Michael Steele
posted at 12:52 am on November 10, 2006 by Allahpundit
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[L]ast night, Republican officials told The Times that Mr. Steele, who lost his bid for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, has been sought out to succeed Mr. Mehlman as national party chairman. Those Republican officials said Mr. Steele had not made a decision whether to take the post, as of last night.
Other Republican Party officials said some Republican National Committee (RNC) members, including state party chairmen, have mounted a move to have Mr. Steele succeed Mr. Mehlman.
But they said that President Bush’s political adviser Karl Rove, who is Mr. Mehlman’s mentor, would rather see Mr. Steele serve in the president’s Cabinet, perhaps as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. These officials said no one has actually offered Mr. Steele either the RNC post or a Cabinet post.
Steele spokesman Doug Heye said last night that “I don’t know of any conversations that Lt. Gov. Steele has had on this topic, but I can tell you that there are many people who have said he would be an ideal candidate, based on the race he ran this year.”
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So we’re taking advise from the guy who couldn’t get the job done and didn’t last 24 months in the job?
He and Steele are both from Maryland which is probably why he made the recommendation. Again, I like Steele, but I simply don’t believe he’s the right guy for the this job at this time.
db on November 10, 2006 at 5:05 PM
So glad that idiot grebrook left this post.
hillbillyjim thanks for responding to that dumasses comments about the election results. I was sleeping at 4:00am in IL.
InstantNemesis on November 10, 2006 at 5:24 PM
If you think that Mehlman wasn’t the one who didn’t get the job done the last 24 months then you either haven’t been paying attention or haven’t learned anything from what happened Tuesday.
I’d love to know how or why you think any RNC chairman could have overcome the legislative ineptitude and political tin ear of congressional Republicans in the last 2 years.
thirteen28 on November 10, 2006 at 6:11 PM
Let me restate since there is no edit function:
If you think that Mehlman was the one who didn’t get the job done the last 24 months then you either haven’t been paying attention or haven’t learned anything from what happened Tuesday.
thirteen28 on November 10, 2006 at 6:30 PM
thirteen28, there is plenty of blame to go around, but I was not impressed by the job done by Mehlman. Haley Barbour - now there was a great chairman.
DannoJyd on November 10, 2006 at 6:42 PM
Danno, a serious problem in ‘06 was this: Every candidate and campaign operative has a distinctive style of campaigning. Team Bush have run four campaigns in a row — 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006. Their 2006 strategy was essentially to repeat the ‘02 and ‘04 campaign: Vote Republican, or the terrorists will win.
The Democrats had seen this game plan before, and finally figured out a way to beat it. By the time Team Bush understood what was happening, it was too late to recover.
Think about the great Oklahoma wishbone offense of the late 1960s and ’70s: The Sooners racked up victory after victory with that run-oriented, ball-control style of play. It was widely imitated and other teams (including Bear Bryant’s great Crimson Tide teams of the ’70s) also had success with it. But by the mid-1980s, Miami and other teams developed sophisticated high-scoring pass-oriented offenses that made the old wishbone offense obsolete.
Mehlman is not personally responsible for everything that went wrong in ‘06. But the GOP campaign style has become predictable. A price was paid for that on 11/7, and there will be consequences.
Ali-Bubba on November 10, 2006 at 9:23 PM
I think Michael Steele is a good and wise choice for RNC chair at this time. Among the reasons:
1. It sends a message that the party doesn’t accept Tuesday’s results as a referendum in favor of liberalism, by showing trust in a man who has proven himself to be a true conservative.
2. Lt. Governor wasn’t Steele’s first job, he has a clue. This man has wit, intellect, and savvy. There’s no way a position like this will be “over his head”.
3. It means absolutely nothing to me that he’s black. It means everything to me that he has displayed outstanding character, integrity, and honor during this campaign, characteristics missing among the RINOs.
4. This man just ran a great campaign in MARYLAND, of all places. He’s fearless regarding his politics. If he knows he has support, there should never be a reason for him to back down.
Steele can have a strong positive impact on the national party, at the time it is needed most. My only question is, would President Bush want a REAL conservative around right now, when he’s finally got a group of folks in power that will help him craft an amnesty?
Freelancer on November 10, 2006 at 10:42 PM
I’m mostly apathetic to the Democratic wins in the house and senate. However, I was really bummed whe I learned Steele lost his race. He is an impressive guy and I hope he can make something good out of his loss. Maybe being RNC chair is better than if he won.
Gyro on November 11, 2006 at 12:49 AM
Left-liberal control of Europe is reportedly shaping up as deadly to left-liberal Europeans, and all others. Having majorities in the House and Senate is probably likewise a defeat for Democrats, not just everyone else. So if anyone wishes to taunt Grebrook well, taunt him with the common disaster.
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Kralizec on November 11, 2006 at 1:31 PM
Honestly, I didn’t even know the name of the prior RNC Chairman. Hopefully Steele will reinvigorate the conservative base and get things going our way again in “08.
Yakko77 on November 11, 2006 at 1:51 PM
Good post, and I do not refute a thing you say, but it is my opinion that we have a group of cut-and-run conservatives who did us a disservice by staying home because no one bothered to kiss their arse, and the wishy washy independants fell for the rants of the BDS crowd.
Conservative Democrat. I still cannot believe that anyone fell for that crap, and recognize that conservatism remains in the forefront of political ideologies. If our republicans had run on hard core conservative issues we might not have lost so many seats.
There will indeed be a price to be paid, and I hope that those who allowed the extremist party to gain power enjoy footing the bill.
DannoJyd on November 11, 2006 at 2:41 PM
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