RNC Screws Up But Won't Admit To It

Besides blowing about $1,000,000 of RNC supporter’s money, backing a left wing candidate, which nobody from the RNC evidently cared to vet, they now want to fade their heat by chastising Sarah Palin.

Steele's NY-23 screw up paid for another Democrat seat for Obama/Pelosi.

This Republican blunder borders on ineptitude. As rank amateurs you and I could have called the shots better in this race. The Republicans must be able to swallow their pride. When a conservative independent has quadruple the support your ass dragging chump is getting, it's time to go on a quick recruiting trip.

If Steele had listened to Palin, we would be talking NY-23 incumbent Hoffman 2010 and have his vote against ObamaCare now.

If this was a sporting event, player Steele would have the coach all over him, yelling at him to stop pointing fingers, shut up and get his head in the game. But this isn't a game, it's the real deal, we cannot have these kind of screw ups.

Steve
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RNC Chair Michael Steele was in a feisty mood this morning, but the Democrats weren't his only target. How intentional was that message to the Palin wing of the GOP?

My colleague, ABC News' David Chalian has more...

As any party chairman should, RNC Chairman Michael Steele took the opportunity this morning to crow about GOP victories in New Jersey and Virginia.

But he also seemed to deliver a bit of a rebuke to potential 2012 presidential aspirants in his party such as Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and Rick Santorum, all of whom immersed themselves in the NY-23 special House race with their endorsements and support for conservative Doug Hoffman who came up short last night.

"If you don't live in the district, you don't vote there, your opinion doesn't matter very much," Steele said while assessing the intra-party strife that resulted in a Democratic pick up of a seat held by Republicans since the Civil War.

Steele went on to suggest that the process by which DeDe Scozzafava was selected was a flawed one.

"It serves as an important lesson on how we manage an opportunity to win a seat," Steele said. "And how not to mismanage by putting in a botched process."

Steele noted that the Republican Party will have plenty of competitive primaries next year and suggested that is healthy for the party. "Republicans believe in an open vital primary process, we see it playing out in races across the country," he said.

When he was asked to assess the claim made by conservative blogger Erick Erickson at RedState.com -- a grassroots driving force behind Hoffman’s candidacy -- that conservatives scored a victory last night, Chairman Steele could not have disagreed more firmly.

“I don't see a victory in losing seats,” Steele said. “I'm in the business of multiplication and addition. I want more Republicans. I don't buy that we somehow find victory in defeat.”

The RNC chief also predicted that NY-23 will not be in Democratic hands for long.

"We'll get that seat back. I have no doubt about that."

As for those victories in New Jersey and Virginia, Chairman Steele trumpeted the grassroots volunteer effort in both of those states and the critical appeal to independent voters which his Republican candidates won by a 2 to 1 margin over the Democrats.

Steele refuted the notion that the 2009 election was somehow a referendum on President Obama. "I don't think it is so much a referendum on the president,” he said. “It is a check point on the policies."