“I want to look at the choices,” DeMint told “Fox News Sunday” when asked if he would support Steele. “Frankly, I think where we lost a few Senate seats our ground game was not as strong as it could have been. We were actually out-manned on the ground, and going into 2012 we need a really strong leader for the Republican Party to match the get-out-the-vote [efforts] that we saw from the Obama machine last time. So I appreciate Michael Steele’s service but I am looking for some alternatives right now. I haven’t decided who I would support. But we need a strong national Republican organization to help organize the energy of the Tea Parties and the other citizen activism that we are seeing out there right now. We need to make sure we have a lot of boots on the ground.”
DeMint: Maybe it’s time to consider a new RNC chairman
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