Source to Ambinder: Steele interested in RNC chair
After former Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele lost his U.S. Senate bid, there was speculation that he would become chairman of the Republican National Committee.
But Steele broke one of the cardinal rules of seeking higher office. He said he was interested in the spot. That's a no-no. The job went instead to Kentucky native Mike Duncan.
For Steele, maybe that's a good thing. Duncan could end his two-year tenure watching his party lose the White House and sink further into minority status in the House and Senate.
Steele went on to head GOPAC, the Republican recruitment effort once run by Newt Gingrich. But apparently the former Maryland Republican chairman still harbors hopes for the national position.
As first reported on the blog of the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder and picked up today by the Baltimore Sun's Laura Vozzella, sources say Steele is talking up his candidacy, but this time much more quietly.
