Michael Steele Isn't Going Quietly

Earlier this week, Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins resigned and wrote a scathing letter about the RNC’s poor fundraising performance in the 2010 cycle. Now, Steele’s written a letter saying that the RNC under his tenure saved the Republican party from a “potentially ruinous third-party movement.”

“While President Obama and the Washington crowd treated the Tea Party with disdain or condescension, the RNC accorded them respect,” wrote Steele, who doesn’t acknowledge the RNC’s financial backing of liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava over conservative Doug Hoffman.