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Texas GOP set to defy RNC on early primary

“  The chairman of the Texas Republican Party will try to jump his state ahead of other less-conservative states in the 2012 presidential-nomination contest, The Washington Times has learned. "We are more likely to get a Ronald Reagan than a John McCain to head our national ticket if we have a February primary," Texas Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri told The Times, thumbing his nose at a just-concluded vote by the 168-member RNC to penalize any state that schedules its presidential nominating contest before April 2012. The four exceptions are Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. [Full] ”

If we want states to thumb noses at over-reaching federal law, this is a good baby step.  And a good one.  Here's a sign of GOP squalor,  however.  “ Meanwhile, Republicans desperate to head off a second term for RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele  ...  a highlight of the (recent RNC) meeting was his smothering opponents' hopes of embarrassing him with a no-confidence vote. ” Desperate?  Yes. But what's the problem?  I would think Steele's ouster a foregone conclusion.   His allies in the GOP are the braniacs who allowed the New York Times, and democrat cross-voters in the primaries to shackle us with John McCain.  Any resurgence of GOP prospects this fall are entirely due to Tea Partiers, not, no, despite Michael Steele's GOP.