The NYT on Jim Greer’s campaign for RNC chairman: "…On the side of change, James Greer, the Republican chairman in Florida, is campaigning to lead the national committee by calling for a thorough overhaul of the party’s national image.

“It is 2008, not 1980,” Mr. Greer said. “The first message has to be, ‘I want to listen more than I want to talk. As a voter, what is the Republican Party doing right and what it doing wrong?’ ”

Mr. Greer emphasized his efforts to recruit members of minorities, warning that the party’s white reputation circumscribed its prospects. “I have said since I became chairman of the Florida Republican Party that the party needs to focus on Hispanic voters and African-American voters,” he said. “It is the future of the Republican Party.”