Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) Chair Jim Greer continues his meteoric rise within the ranks of Der Party by being named to the Republican National Committee’s Rules Committee, the usual quote-mark-impaired press release announced.

No less of a light than RNC Chair Michael Steele offered the gregarious Greer a carefully worded congrats:

“Through his outstanding success in the private sector and during his tenure at the helm of Republican Party of Florida and on the Republican National Committee, Chairman Greer has proven himself to be visionary leader, earning the respect of his colleagues and fostering an environment that couples ambitious goals with a strategic plan of action,” said RNC Chairman Michael Steele. “I am confident that Chairman Greer will be a great asset to our leadership team as we work to build this great party.” (emphasis added to jibe with the headline)

Greer earned his ‘bones’ with the recent purge of Libertarians from the RPOF.

“Fostering an environment that couples ambitious goals with a strategic plan of action” just sounds ominous to me.

Seems Greer has a knack for making rules and enforcing them, though, from the recent purge of Libertarians from the party through manipulation of the RPOF’s Grievance Committee to his actual career, which the release describes this way:

A lifelong Republican, Chairman Greer served multiple terms in local government and worked as the President and Chief Executive Officer of a national regulatory compliance company he founded in Central Florida.

Hmmm, regulatory compliance …. Sounds like Greer’s just the guy for the RNC Rules Committee, which does this:

The RNC Rules Committee is a Standing Committee comprised of one member of the Republican National Committee from each state. The Committee is the primary body responsible for the governance of the RNC. The Rules Committee is responsible for reviewing the rules of the Republican Party and proposing recommendations to Chairman Steele as needed.

There’s no doubt that Greer runs a tight ship in the Florida Republican Party. He’s fond of pointing out that under his reign, not one state GOP congressional seat was lost in 2008, and indeed the party picked up one state congressional seat. Though I’m not so sure that’s attributable to Greer’s leadership as much as it is to gerrymandering and the fossilization of the Florida legislature. Hey, he delivered the Florida statehouse, it wasn’t his fault the state went blue for Obama.

But if the RNC wants a guy who will set the rules and enforce the rules, they’ve picked a tenacious bulldog in Jim Greer. And rules are important to a party that is hemorrhaging members but at the same time wants to maintain purity — hence the purge of the Libertarians whereby Greer earned his “bones” and received a national post as a reward.

And to show the rulesmeister’s softer side, the press release mentioned some personal details about the Greer family:

Chairman Greer and his wife Lisa Michelle reside in Oviedo with their four children, Hunter, Amber, Austin, and Aidan.

‘Nuff said.