[Virginia Ridgerunner]

If you paid very close attention to her doings on the 2010 campaign trails, disregard a mis- or mal-endorsement here and there and every step she took, every move she made, could be construed as a splendid audition for succeeding the dubious Mr. Steele. She has organisational skills to burn; she has a way of negotiating the political backrooms and backwaters; and, she has a positive nose for political horse flesh. Marry those to her ability---at least, not being an officially declared candidate herself---to stay on or within firm reach of message, and you have everything Steele is not but the GOP needs, and none too soon. She would make (will make?) a splendid RNC chair.

The problem is that the RNC does not operate that way, and Sarah Palin is NOT going to move all the way from Wasilla, Alaska just to submit herself to the whims of the Beltway RINO establishment, which serves as the RNC's Board of Directors.

[BluesDuke]

The problem is that the RNC does not operate that way, and Sarah Palin is NOT going to move all the way from Wasilla, Alaska just to submit herself to the whims of the Beltway RINO establishment, which serves as the RNC's Board of Directors.

Why not? From what I've seen, a) the way the RNC is operating isn't exactly doing the GOP any big favours these days (and there's been rumbling enough about trying to nudge Mr. Steele out of the chair); and, most important, b) the lady isn't exactly averse to ambling on down from Wasilla, Alaska to slay dragons otherwise. She just might like a challenge like that. And she'd have an awful lot of rank and file to back her up on it, wouldn't she?