Mehlman elected RNC chair
Reuters:
Ken Mehlman, President Bush's re-election campaign manager, took over on Wednesday as chairman of the Republican National Committee with the aim to now build a "durable Republican majority."
On the eve of Bush's inauguration for a second four-year term, RNC members accepted the president's recommendation and unanimously elected the 38-year-old grass-roots strategist as their chair.
"We stand at a moment of tremendous opportunity," Mehlman told about 160 national committee members after outgoing Chairman Ed Gillespie handed him the gavel.
Noting Bush was the first president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 to be re-elected while his party expanded its majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress, Mehlman said, "Our president has, for this historic moment, a bold agenda."
Mr. Mehlman is one of the sharpest political tacks in America. His election as RNC chairman should thrill GOP partisans. Meanwhile, defeated presidential candidate and renown screamer Howard Dean is reportedly the front-runner for the job of DNC chairman.
Mr. Mehlman selected a pro-choice woman, Jo Ann Davidson of Ohio, as his vice chair; she was confirmed unanimously by the Republican National Committee. Whoever becomes DNC chair, what are the odds of the "diversity" obsessed Democrats installing a pro-life man or woman as their vice chair?