We won in spite of Steele, not because of him. He was a pimp for the liberal party establishment. Priebus’s success was in 2010 as chair of the WI GOP, where he did do a good job. He was not able to parlay that success into 2012, given that the party establishment was fine to run a ringer against Zero. He should not have been reelected, though.
Not only that, steele used the position as a self agrandisment and enrichment post.
Living large on the rnc dime