[lonestar]

The RNC chair is not a path to the Oval Office.

IIRC, GHWB was RNC chair...early on.

[Non-Sequitur]

IIRC, GHWB was RNC chair...early on.

So was Bob Dole. So where Clayton Yeutter, Lee Atwater, Mary Louise Smith, Haney Barbour, Marc Racicot, Jim Nicholson, and a whole host of others. None has used the RNC chairmanship as a springboard to the presidency.