Want something worse than re-electing Obama? Well, here it is.............

Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, floated the idea of running again for the RNC chairman position on Sunday.

Asked directly if he would run again on C-Span, Steele said, "It's not a bad idea. I can go shake up the house a little bit more, what do you think?"

Asked when he would announce a decision to run, Steele said, "Oh, I've got time for that."

A lib's best dreams would materialize.

Over stating things, although I do consider Steele to be suboptimal for the job.

I believe that his problems were threefold: He was too much of an activist for the Rockefeller-Ford-Eisenhower old guard; Not enough of of an activist for the fire eaters who were to become in part the organizational backbone of the tea party; Widely viewed as an affirmative action pick.

Normally, the NY Conservative Party gives their line to the Republican. They refused to do so with Scozzafava because she was strongly pro-abortion. And FWIW she was also corrupt and further to the left than the Democrat.

As for getting behind your own party’s candidate, that wasn’t too far from the time when the Republican Establishment betrayed the winner of the Republican primary in Alaska, and instead basically let the current Senator Lisa Murky from Alaska run again after having lost the primary—winning because of corrupt support from the national party.

Return of the Corrupt Bastard’s Club in Alaska, after they had been shoveled out and several of them jailed after Sarah Palin won the governorship.

Steele was only one of those involved. Another was Newt Gingrich, who went out of his way to support Dede—presumably so he could get back into the good graces of Steele and the GOPe.

I used to work in NY, and lived there for quite a while. The chief purpose of the Conservative Party was to hold the NY GOP’s noses to the grindstone, especially on the right to life. As long as they did the minimum, the Conservatives would give them their line. Dede did not meet the minimum.

I think there were questions about it. I don’t remember the exact details, but something about not having signed up in time to qualify for a write-in line on the ballot. Anyway, the responsible official in Alaska decided that it was OK.

But the real problem was that the party didn’t back the winner who was running as a Republican. Lisa Murkowski was kept on with her chairmanship of an important committee, giving the impression that she could bring a lot of pork back to Alaska, as her father had earlier. And somebody evidently paid off the Eskimo chiefs, who told their tribal members to vote unanimously for Lisa.

She ran as an Independent, and splits from the party on important votes whenever she feels like it.

You're talking about what the Senate Republicans did ~ not what the Republican party in Alaska did.

I disagreed with them leaving her with seniority and on whatever committees she was on but she may have talents with older men ~ kinda' like that Petraeus girlfriend we've been reading about ~ ability to get under a desk perhaps!

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