No.
Once burned, twice shy.
Steele is a nonstarter . . . . . . . . but, so is anyone who isn’t a guaranteed, 24kt, dyed in the wool, honest-to-God conservative!
But, the GOP is such a crap organization, they won’t care what their former base thinks.
GO TEA PARTY!!
You simply make the RNC irrelevant to Republican politics and that gets rid of the worst of the GOP-e.