Dr. Melissa, this one is easy. I assume you meant your question to be rhetorical, yet I think there is something insidious in how few people know who the chair of the RNC is.

The chair of the Republican National Committee is the face of the RNC. That is, the chair of the RNC is the face of the RNC to the people that it serves – career Republicans, backroom staffers, or someone else. Because as a registered Republican, the RNC sure hasn’t felt like served me any time since getting Pres. George Bush, Sr. elected. The first time I felt the RNC seriously failed me, my hopes, and my values, was in the way they abandoned Pres. Gerald Ford in his bid for re-election. And I am not impressed at how the Republican party has served anyone in local or Congressional races, either.

So Mr. Duncan may be doing a fantastic job, his legacy sure reaches down through the generations. But I abhor the closed, secret, self-serving organization that calls itself the Republican National Committe that he has been “the face of”. Perhaps the RNC will reform, and end the era of closed, back-room politics.