STEELE NEEDS A JOB BUT WHEN HE APPROACHES THE BUSH REGIME THEY SUGGEST HE GET INTO SHOW BIZ

Don't think Rove forgot that Michael Steele shunned Bush during his Senate run or that he likened the Republican "R" to Hawthorne's concept of a scarlet letter. So, although Republicans are giving him high grades for... something (oh, I know, he cheated the way they all do, proving that's he is after all one of them, even if he is of a darker hue). Anyway, when Republicans make a heroic stand in a political battle and do the right thing for their party they are often rewarded with some kind of sinecure. Even that whacko Alan Keyes was given the ambassadorship to... some island somewhere? (Definitely not a real country; but he calls himself "Ambassador.")

But when Steele, a man of no accomplishments whatsoever, except being an articulate African-American who buys into-- for whatever reason-- all the GOP bullshit, went to the White House for a gig, he was reminded about why they call it the "White" House. Rove had someone tell him "a high-ranking post in the administration's last two years would curb his independence and cramp his style. Instead, they advised, he could be 'a black Rush Limbaugh.'" (Does that mean they're going to give Ken Hamblin a job in the Regime?)


Earlier he had been passed over as the replacement to recently outed Ken Mehlman as RNC head. Rove felt a Hispanic might help staunch the catastrophic Republican slide in the Latino community, knowing full well that African-Americans are too savvy to ever vote in real numbers for Republicans anyway.