If anyone believes that an open competition among more conservative thinking leadership should not take place for the Chair of the RNC then I'd be led to believe that they'd need to have their head examined.

The floor is wide open.

1.  We are affecting (albeit slowly) the party.  This is not an over night trick, as much as many would like.  Saul is ACTUALLY a good bridge.  He understood the Tea Party BEFORE it was cool.

2.  Its about Money.  LOTS OF MONEY.  There are a lot of 'RINO' big dollar donors out there too.  They consider themselves to be 'moderate' but are actually more of a pragmatic nature. They want to see results, and we may have to move it slowly (in the RIGHT direction of course) so as not to lose them and run the party out of money in a very big upcoming battle.   Some folks are starting to wake up, and we don't want to shock entrenchment of moderate ways.