[SmoothTalker]

"I guess he can be GOP chair as an active senator?"

Sounds like it would be tough to find the time to do both. Are they sure this isn't the campaign chair? We need someone to replace Dole.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

He shouldn't even be that.

[Redbob]

"We need someone to replace Dole."

Someone to replace Dole

You could do that with a crash-test dummy.

And he'd probably do it better.
A crash-test dummy would have been sense than to go to wall for Lincoln Chafee and Snarlin' Arlen.