GOP heavyweights are holding their nose and reluctantly beginning to coalesce around presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. But Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has a message for Romney: “Not so fast!”
In a recent CNN interview, Priebus said that he and the party at large have not yet made an official endorsement of Romney and would not even consider doing so until after this Tuesday’s primary. But when asked by CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin why the party needed to wait to endorse, noting that the numbers aren’t exactly favorable to a Gingrich revival, much less a first-time Ron Paul surge, Priebus replied “Out of respect and deference to Congressman Paul and Newt Gingrich.”
Priebus also declined a proposal to ask the Gingrich and Paul campaigns to step aside for Romney in the interest of party unity. “I don’t think I would ever do that,” he replied, to which Yellin retorted, “Why? You’re the party leader.”
“It’s up to our primary voters to help them and others make the decisions as to whether or not they want to stay in the race or not,” he said, adding that he thought the approach was most respectful to voters who “are tired of folks in Washington telling them what they should do.”
Lol. Priebus has been given his orders. The GOP *establishment knows darn well VERY FEW Repub voters are actually excited about Romney. Even more troubling, GOP elites know that a rather sizeable percentage of hard-right *base* voters are absolutely REPULSED by Romney.The establishment succeeded in defeating the *base* for their choice for the nomnination. However, the establishment knows they can't gloat. They've got to APPEAR to the *base* as being "fair and impartial"..so the RNC will hold off just a little while longer before making its "Official" endorsement of Romney. And the *base* is supposed to be fooled by all this. What a party…lol…smh.