Ann Coulter would be good for this job. She has a nasty mouth and is about as stupid as they come. Sarah could be her assistant and they would have trouble getting anything worth hearing out to the public.

I read a Ronald Brownstein column this morning about how badly the Republicans will do in future elections if voting among various minorities continues in the same proportions. The War Room post "No good candidates for RNC chair" made me think the same thing that Brownstein's column did: the Republicans have chosen this path. The main reason latinos are voting against them is that they've chosen to demonize the undocumented. They're losing the college-educated vote because they've embraced ignorance. The African-American vote is probably lost to them for all time because they do nothing but wink about racism. Maybe the party needs to destroy itself in order to make room for a responsible conservative voice. I'll always be a liberal, but it might be nice if American conservatives did something more than babble incoherently.

He'd be perfect .

Timothy Kaine is a plodder but we don't always need charismatic visionaries to administer our lives. He will be heading up a party with a sitting president, which makes him a "Maytag Repairman".

Why don't the Repub's make a clean break of it from the Neocons, the Banking Cartel and the Bush Crime Family who have put their party at the lip of the grave? There's a populist, independent, libertarian constituency out there just waiting for them to return to the responsible party they were from Dewey to Eisenhower.

I don't know much about the other candidates for RNC chair, but I know plenty about Ken Blackwell. I've lived in Ohio almost my entire life and more specifically Cincinnati for the last seven years. Ken Blackwell is very smart. However, the man will also do whatever it takes to get elected. If Republicans are looking for someone to circle the wagons around their staunchly conservative base while alienating the rest of the voters then he is their man. Blackwell is one of the most divisive politicians i've ever followed. If he's elected, you can be sure that Democrats will gain even more seats in the Congressional elections in two years. For that reason, and that reason alone, I say PLEASE ELECT KEN BLACKWELL!

That was my favorite part of their coverage on NPR -- each one testifying to the Republican attendees about how many guns they owned, and spicing up their answers with such juvenalia as "So I'll take you on anytime."

I own a couple of rifles myself but I don't make a fetish of it. That's why I enjoyed Joe Biden's comment during the You Tube Debate when he viewed teh video of a guy cradling an AK-47 and calling it his "baby," Biden said "That guy needs help."

Just nominate a snake, that would work.

Someone once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time. Our Repooplican adversaries would rather win...at any and all costs...rather than work to re-build the country they destroyed by nominating leaders who would continue down the same path of destruction.

They're not only crazy, they're twisted, evil and deceitful, as well. A pox on all their houses.

I live in Cincinnati, where Blackwell hails from. Please tell me what successes he's had?

He was an ineffectual mayor, who flip-flopped from Democrat to Republican when he saw an opening for advancement. Believe it or not, he used to be fairly liberal.

He's a joke here. He was the secretary of state in 2004 when the state had all the polling issues which led to accusations of him stealing the election. That tied with his conflict of interest by being the Bush campaign manager. His office was repeatedly in the courts as he overstepped his authority on more than 1 occasion.

His wife was the superintendent of the city school district while he went around decrying public schools and trying to get more money for charters and vouchers.

Then he ran for governor and was trounced by the Democratic candidate by nearly 25% points. In a state runs about 50/50 by party on most races, he was a joke again.

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Tom would be a great leader for the Republicans. He is mean spirited, flaunts his corruption and has a sneering puss that makes regular folks cringe. Who better to lead the party further out into the desert where all sorts of biblical salvation's await? Their only hope left is divine intervention.

Let's hope they don't draft Harry Reid for the job.

He's been more effective at getting all their legislation passed and giving the Democrats a black eye in the bargain than any two Republicans.

A very wise perspective I once read claimed that as long as we refuse to learn the lessons that life (or the universe, or the collective unconscious, or God, etc.) is trying to teach us, we will keep designing for ourselves the types of experiences that attempt to teach us those lessons, over and over and over again.

Clearly our Republican friends and neighbors have not yet realized that by their actions and their failures to act as needed, they have placed themselves far, far out in the wilderness of human society because of the dysfunctions they share... dysfunctions that result from bad parenting and bad attitudes and bad relationships and make them stubbornly think that those who are more functional are the ones with the problems.

Until they come to discover how far out in the wilderness they've led each other (some of them believing that God was doing the leading while encouraging each other to think that any Christ-like or Mohamed-like compassion or caring God might have been inspiring in them was the work of satan instead)... until they learn to stop trying to build lives in which they're able to accumulate sufficient resources to enable them to maintain the illusion that they don't need to rely on the affection, good will or good wishes of others, they'll just keep finding their way deeper and deeper into that same wilderness.

Who knows, perhaps they'll wake up soon enough to be able to find their way back into the "real world" where the rest of us live. If not, I suspect no one will notice their absence as the rest of us seek to build a world that works for all it's people (who are all God's children) and for the entire creation (even though it's likely to be many billions of years older than some would like to believe).