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I'd be most happy to help understand just "who IS the RNC."

Each state elect officers to represent them in the Party (both dims and pubbies), of course the larger the footprint ($$$$) from one state, the seemingly more clout they get.

In some states the "mods" are the ones elected (KS had two of the most liberal male and female reps as our representatives -- we're glad to have ousted them.)

Among the rest of the representatives, you also have the nationally elected officials from that state (that would be your representatives AND senators and depending upon how conservative or liberal they are --- well you get the picture.)

That is why it took so many ballots to get to Michael Steele.

I'd not be feeling so cocky, were I him, as he won based upon so many others in the mix thereby pulling support for the REAL conservative in the pack -- Ken Blackwell, from Ohio, in my opinion.

Another popular candidate was the former chief of Huckabee (probably a good guy but not nearly so conservative as Blackwell) and he drew quite a bit of support, though he was NOT a national name and I'm sure the RINOs demanded that -- ala Michael Steele (thanks in the most part for FOX News.)

OOPS -- forgot to add, by electing Steele, the RNC's "paid leadership" is RINO NOT nearly as conservative as the "unpaid representatives" as not only do you have Steele (a RINO) but also the "permanent staff" who are beltway folk who are always far more liberal than the rest of the country -- they hang out with hill staffers and seem to share the same "group think" that goes on there -- "Big Government is GOOD; Bigger Government is BETTER!

zerosix, This undermining of the party has a lot to do with what I said in a previous post about politicians being masters of deception. For years now we have been hearing politicians refering to themselves as conservatives. They did the research and realized that they needed the conservative voters to win the elections so they all started calling themselves conservatives, and we believed them for the most part.

Since most people are not natural born liars, it is difficult for us to believe that someone could lie to our faces. But that is exactly what the rinos did - they lied to our faces when they called themselves conservative. They used the magic word “conservative” to get in under the radar and they went on to make a mess of the party. It has taken years for us to figure out what was really going on and we are now in the process of sorting out who is for real and who is not.

This is not that different from what happened in the Democrat party. We saw Obama and Hillary acting like they were just regular moderate Democrats when we know that they are both far left. The Democrat voters bought the charade and voted for them. The Democrat voters were deceived and we were as well.