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RNC: Shared Sacrifice Is BS

RNC chairman Reince Priebus argued on Fox News that Senator Harry Reid is wrong to... more

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RNC: Shared Sacrifice Is BS

RNC chairman Reince Priebus argued on Fox News that Senator Harry Reid is wrong to... more

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Hope Isn't Hiring

The RNC's first 2012 Election Campaign ad... more

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Glad To Know Ya (T-BO) T.H.B

Glad To Know Ya : T-BO : T.H.B : EXCLU : R&B song @THB... more

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Maria Cino surprises everyone

Maria Cino, michael steele, reince priebus, rnc, reince priebus bio, reince priebus... more

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Republican Calls C-SPAN, "I Don't Support Michael Steele Because He's Black." - The Daily Blender

This one pretty much speaks for itself. How can you say you're not going to vote... more

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Palin Declines Tea Party Group's Request To Seek RNC Chairmanship

CNN reported in its 'Political Ticker' blog, "Sarah Palin is turning... more

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Group Offers $100K for Info Leading to Arrest of Karl Rove

A new campaign and website by American Crossroads Watch, an offshoot of Velvet... more

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Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered « OOO

A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com... more

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New RNC Ad: November Starts Now - Hillary Clinton Was Right

New RNC Ad: November Starts Now - Hillary Clinton Was Right... more

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Michael Steele: Mentally Deficient

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has segregated himself from any and all party’s once again. Michale Steele seems to have either forgotten that there was a President before Obama, or that Bush was never President. Steele was caught on video spewing republicanism’s, saying that Afghanistan is “a war of Obama’s choosing”; I didn’t know Obama had the power to send troops while being on the Illinois senate. Steele is also quoted saying “If he’s such a student of history,” Steele said, referring to President Obama, “has he not understood that, you know, that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? Everyone who has tried, over 1,000 years of history, has failed.” I again am astonished that this man is ignoring the fact that, Republican former President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after September 11( I had to explain this just in-case there are more people who forget the past like Steele).

Now the Democrats are jumping all over his words as they should, but shockingly even very prominent conservatives are demanding his immediate resignation.
William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, called Steele’s remarks “an affront, both to the honor of the Republican Party and to the commitment of the soldiers fighting to accomplish the mission they’ve been asked to take on by our elected leaders.” Fellow conservative Erick Erickson had this to say, Steele had “lost all moral authority to lead the GOP.”

Steele is now in full damage control, coming out re-explaining his statements. If you have to re-explain your political standings and true beliefs then your just trying to save face. A party spokesman said that Steele’s comments were in the context of speaking to future candidates and questions on the campaign trail. Steele however separated himself even further from his comments by saying this, Steele called winning the war in Afghanistan “a difficult task,” but “a necessary one.” While also backing it up with this statement, “The stakes are too high for us to accept anything but success in Afghanistan.”

The Director of the RNC has been saying that Steele’s job is intact and that Democrats are misinterpreting his statements. This is just yet another example of the Republican foot in mouth that seems to be running rampant lately. While most Republicans surly believe what Steele has said, they cannot get elected by saying what they truly believe. Of course Republicans are going to back away from him, because they want to get elected off of the less conservative ideals they preach, and once in office force the more extreme views on the public.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rnc-steele-20100703,0,44924.storyRepublican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has segregated himself from any... more

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Steele fires RNC finance director - Jeanne Cummings - POLITICO.com

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Friday fired RNC finance director Rob Bickhart and deputy finance director Debbie LeHardy, both of whom were tied to embarrassing payments made by the party committee.

Bickhart will be replaced by Mary Heitman, a former finance director for the Republican Governors Association. In a statement, obtained by POLITICO, Steele said Heitman's "depth of experience in both the private sector and political field will be a tremendous asset to the RNC."

The departures are the latest in a broad shake-up of the committee since POLITICO disclosed in February a breach between Steele and major Republican donors over the committee's spending on private jets, limousines and other expenses. Their anger was only exacerbated by the disclosure that the RNC – under Bickhart’s authority - had reimbursed a donor for taking a group to Voyeur, a bondage-themed club in West Hollywood.

In the immediate aftermath of the visit, first reported by The Daily Caller, the young aide who directed the RNC’s Young Eagles program for young donors and put in the reimbursement, was fired. Since then, Steele has also replaced his chief of staff, his spokesman, and parted ways with a media consultant who had worked with him in his 2006 Senate race in Maryland.

But Steele's decision to force out a low-level aide rather than Bickhart continued to grate on donors and RNC committee members. Randy Pullen, the RNC treasurer, initiated an audit of the party books that found "no material weaknesses in accounting controls" but several "significant deficiencies."

Specifically, Pullen concluded that Bickhart may never have reviewed the night club reimbursement paperwork — and someone else may have put his signature on the it to authorize the payment. In addition, Pullen noted that the Pennsylvania political consulting firm that Bickhart owns, eCapitol Direct, was on track to collect more than $250,000 for RNC fundraising work that lacked adequate performance standards. "This contract should be cancelled," Pullen wrote.

Beyond the payments to his firm, Bickhart was receiving an annual salary of $196,000, and he was allowed to split his time between the RNC headquarters and his suburban Philadelphia offices, which RNC sources have said resulted in spotty supervision and leadership in the finance department.

Bickhart also had come under fire recently for a fundraising presentation disclosed by POLITICO that outlined the RNC’s plans to capitalize on “fear” of President Barack Obama and that featured images depicting Obama as the Joker from "Batman."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36944.html#ixzz0nJZlfKGMRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Friday fired RNC finance... more

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(VIDEO) Canandian Free Press: Obama IS Ineligible for Office…PROOF of DC Cover-Up…

The certification of constitutional qualification for the office of president DC... more

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Stormy Daniels: Republican Vanguard of Free Market Capitalism

Bondage Gate has some unintended consequences for the RNC. Porn star Stormy Daniels... more

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Ball Gags and Congress: Legislating Morals is Stupid

Tip O'Neill, former Speaker of the House, once said,all politics is local",... more

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Republican National Committee Spent Almost $2,000 At S&M Strip Club

Talk about a grand ol' party! Records show the Republican National Committee... more

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RNC Spent 2K At “Bondage-Themed Nightclub”

POLITICO confirmed the RNC expense by examining the committee’s February FEC filing.

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Dear Suzanne, another letter from the RNC

In the last few months, I've posted some, not all, letters from the RNC and their... more

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RNC caught manufacturing politics of fear

The Republican National Committee (RNC) suffered an embarrassing set back when... more

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Leaked documents reveal GOP plan to use scare tactics to raise money

"National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.

The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.

And the document doesn't shy from making its points graphically. MSNBC showed the images this morning on Morning Joe [See page image above]:

The presentation portrays the Obama administration as "The Evil Empire," includingthe now-infamous image of President Obama made over in the makeup Heath Ledger used in his performance as the Joker in the 2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears as Cruella De Vil from "101 Dalmatians," and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the witless cartoon dog Scooby-Doo. The memo candidly confirms that the aim of such caricature is to amp up "fear" among the GOP's conservative base. The memo also makes fun of major RNC donors, categorizing some as "ego-driven" and easily pacified with "tchochkes" (a Slavic word for toys).

The embrace of harsh rhetoric and the swipes at the large donor set seem to signal the GOP establishment's growing comfort with employing tactics associated with the activist Tea Party movement-and with plying Tea Party sympathizers for cash. Of course, it isn't unusual for parties out of power to court controversy and play with fire to rile up donors and grass-roots activists. The RNC has caught heat for fundraising tactics in the past, most recently when it was caught sending out fake census forms to raise money. And Democrats have shown a demagogic streak in the past, depicting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as Bond-like supervillains and playing up alleged GOP plans to kill Social Security to rally voters behind a popular entitlement program."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1217"National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop... more

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