Who would be the person with a proven track record?
In my mind Hong Kong Haley was the best chief, but now he's too busy. Nicholson was no great shakes. I'm open to ideas, I just don't know who would be a slam-dunk.
Doesn't matter much now.
I really don't know. Haley Barbour was good. Mehlman seems to have been good on a nuts-and-bolts level, but not ideologically. As far as I can tell, there is a severe leadership vacuum, and talent vacuum, at the higher levels of the GOP right now. I think our position is as bad as it's been since the late '70s, at least.