In other RNC chair news, Curly Haugland, an RNC member from North Dakota and former North Dakota Republican Party chairman, is arguing that Michael Steele ought to withdraw from the race because he is not in fact a current member of the Republican National Committee.

“In my estimation, 168 committed members of the Republican National Committee are a powerful army of qualified advocates for Republican principles; certainly much more threatening to the Democrats than one celebrity spokesman,” he writes.

That argument might carry more weight if the 168 committed members of the RNC hadn’t just come off two straight abysmal electoral drubbings. Also, the last time somebody made the “celebrity” charge against an African-American who gives a good speech, the impact turned out to be pretty short-lived…