After being roundly defeated in last year's elections, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is set to use 2009 as a rebuilding year. It started out strong with the election of its first black chairman, Michael Steele. But that appointment has become a distraction from the work at hand as the new chairman made a series of missteps, including squaring off with conservative untouchables Rush Limbaugh and abortion.
Like any organization in transition – political or not – the RNC is suffering an ...