Mrs. Irey is not an "insider" (which makes her all the more attractive as a candidate, IMO) so will not get much attention from the RNC. At least until she wipes up the floor in her fund raising efforts.
Mind you they had no problem sticking their noses into the primary race in RI and backing the worthless one in OH in his primary. If every Republican Senator would contribute $1000.00 to Diana's campaign she would be in good shape. I know of one that has.
Hey Patrick...I hope you are reading this thread and passing this info along.
the R's try to protect incumbents. if a moderate challenges a conservative incumbent, the party will support the conservative and vice versa and should irey become an incumbent 2 years from now, the party will support her too.
the best example was the party support of bush over mccain in 2000 as bush was the annoited one.
rassmussen has her down by 12 though.
It will be a difficult, but not impossible race to win.