Norm Coleman next job after he gets unelected

A rumor came out today that Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) is in the running to lead the National Republican Senate Committee. It'd be the perfect job for him once he's out of the Senate. He's being considered for 2010, so he'll have a year to contemplate why he lost and what lessons can be learned from all the Republican defeats to come in 2008.

Although the job is typically reserved for the party’s more conservative lawmakers, Senate Republicans appear likely to enlist a moderate-minded colleague to head up their campaign committee next cycle — a move that could prove either devastating or brilliant for a party in transition.

Sens. Norm Coleman (Minn.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.) have quietly emerged as the Senate GOP’s leading contenders to chair the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2010. Both Coleman and Corker are viewed as ambitious team players who have proved to be strong fundraisers for the party, but neither has the reputation of a partisan bomb-thrower that typically characterizes an NRSC chairman.

Both men have been known to break ranks with their leadership at times, and have even billed themselves as Senators who are more focused on accomplishments than inter-party bickering. Corker ran and won in 2006 by appealing to independents, while Coleman is looking to do much of the same as he fights to win a second term next November.
Coleman, Corker in Line to Head NRSC
December 18, 2007
By Erin P. Billings
Roll Call (subscription only)

What's that you say? Norm would have to stay in the Senate to be considered for the job? So sad.