Now Sarah Palin likes Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele. Her new found political romance with Steele couldn't have come at a more needed time for the beleaguered chairman. Steele's shoot-from-the-lip media grandstanding, gaffes, fundraising shenanigans, profligate spending, and put down of the Afghan war have driven nearly every faction of the GOP from mainstream traditionalists to ultra-conservatives bonkers. The screams for his head reached a near tipping point a few months back. But with the crucial mid-terms bearing down, Obama's plunge in the polls, and a string of Palin successes backing bizarre, underdog, insurgent candidates, Steele got a reprieve.
Palin extended that reprieve with her shout out to him on Fox News. She'll headline two fundraising rallies with him this month. So why the sudden political love fest with Steele? Well for one, Steele has been more than willing, no eager, to play ball with her. He's done it in two ways. Outside of Palin, he's the loudest and most visible national figure that's been willing to sing the praises of any one that carries the Tea Party imprimatur-- Sharon Angle, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell, and Rand Paul. It doesn't matter how wacky, way out, or silly they look and sound. They're Tea Party. They won primaries, and they beat down the GOP establishment. One or more of them will likely flame out in November. But that doesn't much matter. For the moment at least they've rocked the GOP mainstream, and fired up the loathe Obama grassroots crowd.
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