Tony snow has never run for an elected office. He should not attempt to do, starting at the top! That is considered very bad bad form and I doubt that he even wants to do so.
And as you said, he is doing yeoman's work, where he is.
Washington? Adams?
Sure, that's reductio ad absurdum, but what is/should there be an "American Political Class"?
On this here Rudy thread, I say NO.