Will Reince Priebus Surge To The RNC Chairmanship?

[steve2470]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/will-reince-priebus-surge-to-the-rnc-chairmanship-tomorrow.php?ref=tn

The Republican National Committee is set to meet Friday to elect its chairman -- and from the looks of things, incumbent RNC Chair Michael Steele's history of gaffes, combined with the party's recent financial problems, will doom him at the vote. But can Wisconsin GOP Chair Reince Priebus, the frontrunner headed into the vote, seal things up?

In the latest count from National Journal, Priebus has 40 committed votes, Steele 17 -- a truly awful place for an incumbent to be -- former Missouri GOP chair Ann Wagner 15, former Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis 14, and former Deputy RNC chair Maria Cino 12.

This is not to say that Priebus has it locked up -- far from it, when one takes into account that the single largest group are the 70 committee members who have not publicly declared a choice. As a percentage, then, Priebus is at 24%, Steele at only 10%, Wagner 9%, Anuzis 8%, and Cino 7%, with "uncommitted" in the lead at 42%.

There are a total of 168 RNC members, and the contest could go for multiple rounds of balloting until one candidates gets the magic number of 85 for a majority. There is no forcible cutoff of lower candidates, but their voters tend to fall away -- and the candidates themselves drop out -- once the initial votes are cast and it becomes clear which candidates cannot win. (Steele won the 2009 race on the sixth ballot, out of a field of five candidates.)

[DCKit]

1. The name sounds like a clinical reference to a female body part. nt

[Ken Burch]

2. Who the heck names their kid "Reince"?

(btw...if that person does win, is the name pronounced "rinse"? it'd set up some great jokes if it was.)

[Canuckistanian]

3. I once had Reince Priebus. Very painful.

There a cream you can get from the pharmacist, works wonders.

[tanyev]

4. I see his name and my brain thinks Prince Rebus. I don't know why.

[charlie]

5. He's perfect

Ignorant and gaffe-prone, the norm for GOP luminaries nowadays. In a discussion about Osama bin Laden, he iterated 3 times Obama should be executed:

"Feingold had mentioned that he thought that it would be good if we captured Obama in the battlefield setting and that he suffered the quote-unquote ultimate punishment there," Priebus told reporters while attempting to explain that Sen. Feingold (D-Wis.) was "out of the mainstream" because of his opposition to using capital punishment -- even on Osama bin Laden -- as a tool of the American criminal justice system.

"I find this point that he's made to be completely disgusting. I think it's offensive to the people of Wisconsin, I hope he has an explanation as to why he thinks Obama ought not to be executed and why he thinks we ought to bring Osama bin Laden to the United States that he should be captured alive and actually have a trial," Priebus said later.

Probed by reporters on how Republican Senate candidate Ron Johnson would feel on these issues, Priebus surmised that he would also favor the execution of "Obama."...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/reince-priebus-obama-osama_n_753338.html

[lame54]

6. time to play the jumble

[demwing]

7. Sounds like the name name of a villain

from a cheap Sci fi book - "Reince Priebus, Scourge of the Intergalactic Confederation"

[steve2470]

8. lol in real life at that one ! nt