Alex Castellanos, who was hired late last year by the RNC to help reform Chairman Michael Steele’s image, said on CNN moments ago that he thinks “a change in leadership” would be good for the RNC.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer introduced Castellanos as an “unpaid adviser to the RNC” — though Castellanos corrected him at the end of the interview, saying, “I’ve lost my ability to be of service, I think, to the RNC” and “I’ve stepped away from the RNC.”
Castellanos described Steele as “a tremendously talented man,” but also said the RNC chair has “lost the support of two important constituencies in the Republican Party.” First, Castellanos said, are elected GOPers on Capitol Hill.
But “more importantly, he’s lost the support of a lot of our major donors. The donors who provide the money, the lifeblood, the oxygen that the Republican Party needs to succeed on its mission to take back control of the House.”
Right now, I don’t think that you’re seeing a lot of that money that is frozen — is not coming into the party. Perhaps a change in leadership would thaw that and allow that support to flow.
“I think that a change in direction now, at this point, would do the party good,” Castellanos said.
He continued: “We can’t have one hand at the RNC tied behind our back.”
We still have seven months to go to pull our act together. Should we suffer through seven months as we are? Or do we in fact need to make a change now? I think a change at this moment would be a good thing.
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