GOP Sekrit Wepuns

Yes, RNC chairman Michael Steele has deployed his new plan to stop Obama and return the Republican party to power: imaginary invisible candidates! Even the Weekly Standard isn't buying it.

The latest in a never-ending series of gaffes from the RNC chairman:

Having already lost control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, the party has been battered in recent months with admissions of infidelity by two prominent party members -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Nevada Sen. John Ensign -- and the surprising announcement by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that she will resign as Alaska's governor at the end of the month.

All three had been viewed as possible GOP presidential candidates in 2012.

Steele on Wednesday brushed off the recent incidents as "old news, old school."

"That's not the generation of candidates I'm trying to groom, he said.

Given that Palin is basically in a statistical tie with Romney and Huckabee for the pole position in the 2012 primary, it's not clear why Steele keeps shooting his mouth off about a favorite among the rank and file, but he'd be well advised to zip it. Also, it would be helpful if Steele could just let us know which candidates he is grooming so that the party can quarantine them in case the stupidity is contagious.

If you've lost Goldfarb and the Weekly Standard there Mike, you've lost the GOP.

Me, I call shenanigans. I think Steele is raising Chia Pets or Pokemon or chinchillas or something in his basement and assuming they'll be ready by 2011. They'd get more votes than Mark Sanford would, I'm thinking.