Tag: Reince Priebus
GOP Dubious of Obama’s Intentions
I don’t believe a thing he says.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, in a CNN interview, on President Obama urging compromise.
Why Hillary Clinton Is Bad at Politics, According to Reince Priebus
You look at her book rollout — it was a disaster. She talks off the cuff; it doesn’t work. She makes one mistake after the next.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by The Hill, arguing that Hillary Clinton isn’t good at politics.
Priebus Thinks Clinton Won’t Run
Given the month she just had, I doubt whether or not she will run for president in 2016.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by Newsmax, on the possibility Hillary Clinton will make another White House run.
Republicans Are Starting to Sound Cocky
I think we’re in for a tsunami election.
— RNC Chairman Reince Preibus, quoted by TPM.
Citizens Untied: NBC, CNN Getting Millions in Free Publicity for Their Hillary Bios from an Unlikely Source – RNC Chair Reince Priebus
Just 32 months after the Republican majority on the Supreme Court struck down campaign laws could that had prevented Citizens United, an anti-Clinton lobbying group, from airing a 2002 propaganda hit piece against then-Sen. Hillary Clinton — and just nine months after a campaign in which the Citizen United ruling helped the Republican National Committee and others raise millions of dollars for Mitt Romney’s failed presidential bid — the RNC has executed a dramatic 180-degree reversal on its position against censoring Hillary Clinton film bios.
To put it another way, Republicans were against censoring Hillary biopics before they were for censoring them.
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus Does Not Care for the Word ‘Tolerance’
I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’ I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that can go the other direction.
– GOP Chairman Reince Priebus of Wisconsin, speaking to the hate-promoting Christian Broadcasting Network.
Republican National Committee Meets in the Heart of Hollywood But Can’t Drum up GOP Stars to Lend Youth-Oriented Buzz to the Event
The Republican National Committee is holding its spring meeting this week in a hotel in the heart of Hollywood. As these sorts of events go, this one has generated more speculation about the GOP’s rationale for choosing to meet in a place that is home to an industry Republicans revile, and vice versa, than it has actual news coverage on local outlets.
So what was RNC Chairman Reince Priebus thinking when he decided to hold his spring meeting behind enemy lines?
The answer comes from Beltway insider Politico.com, which notes that a key criticism in the Republican National Committee’s aptly nicknamed 2012 election “autopsy” report released last month was that the “party is seen as old and detached from pop culture.” To counter this, the autopsy committee recommended that the GOP “establish an RNC Celebrity Task Force of personalities in the entertainment industry to host events for the RNC and allow donors to participate in entertainment events as a way to attract younger voters.”
Preibus’ decision to hold the meeting in Hollywood appears to have been the first step in the party’s celebrity outreach — and, if so, this first step has clearly been an abysmal, even laughable failure, so much so that Priebus is now denying that reaching out to celebrities had anything to do with his choice of Hollywood as the meeting site.
National Republicans to Hold Spring Meeting Behind Enemy Lines – in Hollywood
Here’s one for the WTF file: The Republican National Committee is holding its spring meeting in Hollywood, of all places, next week. It is a mystery why Chairman Reince Priebus would choose Hollywood, one of the GOP’s favorite punching bags, as the site of their meeting, especially since it is situated in a state where there is not a single elected GOP state official, where Democrats hold veto-proof majorities in both houses of the legislature and where Republican voter registration has cratered to 29 percent, the lowest it’s been since the 19th century:
