http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmsp…
So CQ Politics has the scoop that John Cornyn will be the next head of the NRSC. Sure has big shoes to fill after Liddy Dole and John Ensign’s sterling performances – if he only hemorrhages 5 seats it’ll be a major coup for the GOP.
This move shouldn’t come as a surprise as the two names previously mentioned for the seat were Cornyn and Norm Coleman, and Coleman’s too busy gaming the recount in Minnesota to focus on recruiting and fundraising for candidates across the nation quite yet.
John Ensign was quoted by the Politico in July:
They both would be very strong candidates,” Ensign said. “Cornyn brings Texas, but Coleman brings a national fundraising list and the Jewish fundraising base. They’ll both be good candidates.
http://www.politico.com/news/s…
Disregarding his Tommy Thompsonesque gaffe assuming Jewish people are inherently wealthy… it’s clear that the Republican Party would have liked to expand its fundraising base and electoral appeal beyond the South. You know, to actually combat the meme that they’re precipitously becoming a regional party?
But instead they get Cornyn, a Texan, Bush’s #1 lackey in the senate. Correct me if I’m wrong, but he’s never seemed like the most politically savvy guy in their caucus.
Quite auspiciously for us, this follows the news that Pete Sessions (R-TX) is Boehner’s pick to chair the NRCC. There’s only so much milkshake in Texas to go around, and it looks like the campaign wings of the GOP are going to be fighting over it, exhausting each other’s resources.
So, looking forward to 2010, it’s hard to predict what headwinds or tail winds the national mood will throw our candidates. But the way things look, we have reason to be hopeful that we at least won’t be outmaneuvered or out-fundraised.