WTF?

[heidi]

From today's AP, probably only of interest to Floridians and Republicans:

Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, the first-term lawmaker who previously served in President Bush's Cabinet, will assume the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, GOP officials said Monday.

Martinez, 60, will replace current chairman Ken Mehlman, who will leave the post in January at the end of his two-year term, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a formal announcement.

Martinez will remain in the Senate. Mike Duncan, the RNC's current general counsel and a former party treasurer, will run the day-to-day operations at the party's Capitol Hill headquarters.

So he's staying in the senate? And I guess he'll either be a figurehead senator or a figurehead RNC chair?

Either this is how they screw with Florida to bitch us out for Gov-Elect Charlie's diss of Bush the day before the election, or this is how GOP officials totally decimate the viability of the RNC.

Seems stupid, one way or another.

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[misscake]

Hmm... so much for Michael Steele's bid for the job.

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Six months in, Mel decides he can't do both, and resigns his Senate seat. At which point Crist makes an appointment and fills the seat with...wait for it...Katherine Harris.

And Wonkette has all the material they need through 2008.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Nah, they all hate her. But Jeb? What if Charlie replaces Mel with Jeb?

He's out of a job come January. Maybe that's the quid pro quo from Charlie skipping George's pensacola rally?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Am going through old LJ posts in search of something and look what I found! I just had to comment to remind you...

Boy, I whiffed on that one, didn't I?

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

But then, I wouldn't have guessed that Crist would go into freefall in the GOP primary, either...the older i get, the better I *used* to be ;]

[hedwig-snowy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure they're smart enough to work out the devious plans you've come up with. I tend to think that Karl looked at the Hispanic numbers and believes that Mel will help them there.

Any idea if this has ever happened before? A sitting Senator as head of a political National Committee?

They like it over on Kos, but the Con blogs aren't happy. Odd, I thought if GWB told them to jump off a bridge, they would... Guess the election was the last straw.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/13/173752/28

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