Steele Rules Out 2012 White House Run

[brooklynite]

Source: ABC News

"Come on, don't ask me that," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said when presented with the inevitable question about his 2012 intentions and if his political aspirations included running for the White House next time around.

Half-way through his term as chairman of the Republican Party and wrapping up the RNC's annual winter meeting here at a beachside resort in President Obama's home state, Michael Steele clearly sees himself bringing a different style of leadership to a GOP in transition.

"In all honest-to-good seriousness, that is such silly Washington talk. It's just not even on my mind," Steele said about a possible presidential run.

"Let me tell you where my head and heart are," Steele added. "I'm a guy who thought it important to say, 'Put me in coach.' And when I help the party return to a governing majority, a stronger GOP, a party that really understands what it's about and what it believes in and is willing every day to go out there and fight for it."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-michael-steele-rules-out-2012-presidential-race/story?id=9709101

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Be still, my beating heart. Some reporters have way to much free time on their hands...

[av8rdave]

1. I was sorta hoping he'd run. He would be SUCH a viable candidate!

:sarcasm:

[Arkana]

2. Damn.

That would have been entertaining.

[onehandle]

3. Phew! I was really worried.

Must I really add the sarcasm tag?

[T Wolf]

4. Now I have no idea who I want in the WH. Mikey was such an inspiration, and a credit to his

owners.

[hlthe2b]

5. Good Lord.. How man clowns are required to pack the field

of RETHUG hopefuls? Seems like they've already filled the circus quota.

[Blue Owl]

6. Honest Injun I'm not running

n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

7. 'Put me in, Coach'

I bet Coach has a permanently dented forehead from all the times Steele has triggered a facepalm.

[livetohike]

8. I thought this might be from The Onion at first

:rofl:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Republicans should be lining up to declare non-candidacy

it's sort of a poor man's exploratory committee. Say you're not running, and hope somebody says "say it ain't so, joe"

:hi:

[tabasco]

10. Best laugh I've had all day.

Really.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Color me bummed.

That would have been priceless.

[jenmito]

12. I never thought he'd run. He'd never get the teabaggers. n/t

[Number23]

13. NOOOOOOO!!!!

[O is 44]

14. Thanks for clearing....

that up Steele we were all waiting with bated breath. NOT!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. Uh....thanks for that, Mike?

Was somebody encouraging him to run?

I hear Rip Torn's available...

[NatBurner]

15. yeah, we're all real shocked mike

Cuz u were a virtual shoo-in

[No Elephants]

16. That's about as significant as my ruling out running in 2012.

Besides, Obama ruled out running for 2008 and promised Oprah on national TV that, if and when he did decide to run, he would announce on her show. (Well, she asked him if he would announce on her show and he answered something like, "You know I can't refuse you anything.")


Can you guess what happened?

[olegramps]

17. The man is pathetically stupid.

He doesn't realize that he is nothing more than a pawn that is being used by a party that is totally ruled by the wealthiest 1% of white American males. He is their token Negro who has been bought and paid for. He is just like his fellow working-class white pawns who assist in the their own economic suicide.

[tanyev]

18. What a coincidence! I've ruled out trying to get on an Olympic team.

:rofl:

[Brewman_Jax]

19. I'm shocked!

I was so looking forward to it. After all, he sounds so--intelligent--as he reads the scripts by his handlers.

:sarcasm: :rofl:

[Jennicut]

20. But he would have made it interesting...I mean, where will the laughs come from now?

[yellowcanine]

21. File this one in the "No shit" folder. I, Yellowcanine, rule out a 2012 run for President.

[Lord Helmet]

22. Also: Rip Torn rules out 2012 White House run.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FfetiF7C9vo/R5QrGU9F4bI/AAAAAAAADSs/DHFpdBgMxkI/S760/Rip+Torn.JPG

[salguine]

24. "Karl from 'Sling Blade' rules out White House run!"

[WI_DEM]

25. Really? who thought he was going to run?