Tony Snow Will Hit the Road for the GOP

I think this is a good idea:

White House press secretary Tony Snow is taking his gift of gab across the country in the coming weeks to raise money for Republican candidates, an unusual task for the president's top spokesman.

On the job just four months, the former Fox News commentator is in-demand on the GOP circuit. He said he decided to help maintain the party's majority in Congress after some consideration of his proper role - and that doesn't include a lot of red meat rhetoric like some speakers offer at partisan events.

"They asked, and I thought about it a lot and we went back and forth," Snow said. "It's one of those things where I certainly want to help the president. But you have to make sure it's a fine line, and that's why I don't want to get into opponent bashing.

"The approach I'm going to take is not going to be one of going out and whacking Democrats by name, but straightforward comments about what the president has accomplished," Snow said.

Tony is excellent on the stump, and has proven to be a valuble tool of the president's communication staff. Getting him out there will probably make the press mad (not to mention the Dems), but hey, it's the press that's supposed to be nonpartisan, not the press secretary.