This is an exciting time to be a Republican, and we have an awesome task ahead of us. The American people have given us a “second chance.” That opportunity brings with it huge responsibilities and challenges. Now we turn our attention to 2012. America must elect a new president. It is that hope, that necessity, that challenge, that draws me to run for Chairman of the Republican National Committee. (more)
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele stunned the political world during a conference call earlier this week when he announced he would seek a second term as party chair. Most assumed his low-key request for a call with committee members signaled his intention to subtly retract his name from consideration following what has been a tumultuous reign. But Steele, ever the enigma, declared he would not go quietly into the good night. Although he admitted that “mistakes had been made,” he insisted he was the man to continue to lead the party. (more)
It’s inevitable. A new party is forming. (more)
Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins resigned from his post Tuesday morning with a stinging indictment of Chairman Michael Steele’s two-year tenure at the committee. (more)
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has fired the committee’s finance director, RNC spokesman Doug Heye confirmed to The Daily Caller. (more)
In a speech Wednesday night at the George Washington University, Howard Dean told College Democrats that “the Tea Party is about a generation who grew up in an America where everyone looked like them” and implied that the movement is hostile to President Obama because of his race. (more)
Nevada Senator Harry Reid’s recent gaffe isn’t the first time that Republicans have tried to recreate the Lott controversy and bring down a Democrat. In February 2005, then-Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean joked that Republicans couldn’t fill a room with non-white members “unless they invited the hotel staff in.” Mississippi Republicans sprang to action, sending their African-American leadership out to demand Dean’s resignation. “Ask the Democratic party do the same thing to Dean that Republicans and other Democrats did to Senator Lott,” said Charles Evers, an African-American GOP activist and veteran of the Civil Rights movement. (more)
