i followed you to the breakfast and covered the nrsc. you seem to like your job and seemed to make gains this fall. do you want to be chairman again next cycle? is that something you want to do? >> well, it depends on my colleagues who make that choice, not me. >> would you put fours forward? -- would you put yourself forward? >> my attitude is i volume tird for this job not because of the glamour and all the excitement. >> you get to be on c-span. >> but because it's a job that needed to be done. i come from a state, texas, that is one of the important states when it comes to fund raising for republican causes. we have a little bit of wind at our back. i am open to the possibility. i really think we need to focus on november the second, then we can have the conversation. we will talk about what makes sense for our conference. >> correct me if i am wrong. i think the last person to chair it twice in a row was minority leader mitch mcconnell. correct? >> i think you may be right. >> do you have future ambitions to possibly one day be the

when i got to the chairmanship of the nrsc in january of 2009, we came off a very bad election. republicans were demoralized. i had a hard time getting people to see me much less to agree to run for office. over time things got better. i got encouraged candidates to get into some of these race. then as circumstances changed a lot more people got in these races and we had competitive primaries. i think the tea party movement is a positive development. republicans have always considered our party to be a bottom-up party, not a top-down party. and i respect the selection of republican primary voters wherever they are to choose the candidate. and then, we will support that candidate and hopefully win that seat in november. but it has been an unusual election year. i don't think i'm the only one to make that obs vasion. this has been a dynamic year, a lot of changes, a lot of unique circumstances. and that's just part of it. >> talk about it being the tea party being a pozz give pact. but at the same time there has been instances where, for example, alaska tea party folks are paintin