Steele running after all?

Here's a stunner: Citing two RNC committee sources, Fox reports Michael Steele will announce tonight he IS running.

Steele is said to be amused by false reports of his retirement and intentionally kept his plans secret for the last month in order to flush out competitors for the post, Fox has learned.

Few committee members believe Steele has enough votes to win. He needs 85 votes of the 168 committee members. The vote takes place at the RNC's Winter Meeting in Washington Jan. 13-15.

This hardly means anything is assured. Politico reported this morning, citing "key supporters" and Steele's lack of a campaign infrastructure, that Steele was unlikely to run.

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Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

Oh GOODEEE...

For some one who suffers from a serious case of hoof & mouth disease this means there will be more gaffes to come! YEAH!

Did anyone think that his conscience would win out over his EGO? lmao

Not to mention that under Steele the RNC is running in the RED?

In a memo sent to vendors Tuesday, the Republican National Committee's chief administrative officer acknowledged that the committee is facing a "cashflow challenge" and that many of those who provided political services to it during the 2010 election would not be paid this week as originally planned.

"We will not be able to pay off the vendors this week," wrote RNC Chief Administrative Officer Boyd Rutherford to Derek Flowers, a member of the RNC's political team, in an email obtained by the Fix. "We will be slow in paying as we are having a cashflow challenge. Everyone will be slow paid until after the first of the year."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

Typical stick it to the little guy... Nice job there Sparky!

2 votes

#1 - Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:39 PM EST

Capt.Smash

Come on RNC you got to keep one brother in the mix! Don't throw the blue muppet guy out!

1 vote

#2 - Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:45 PM EST

Ursula-279622

What, no chance of a fillabuster? If only all votes were this simple!

1 vote

#3 - Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:55 PM EST

Kevin-458252

If the GOTP want to continue on with this self-inflicting gunshot wound of a gaffe machine in Michael Steele, then all I have to say is this: If it's damaging to my rival, SO MUCH THE BETTER!!!!!!