Is Eddie Martin ready to join Team Steelman?

Sarah Steelman is in Washington today, trying to curry the favor of all those DC insiders she hates so much. Last month, those insiders were easy targets, but this week, well... um... she needs their cash.

One stop on her Inside-the-Beltway Tour will be with the Club or Growth, a (very) conservative organization with deep pockets. Steelman clearly needs some fundraising help to take on the Roy Blunt/K-Street juggernaut, and is hoping to demonstrate that she's crazy enough to spend their money.

The Club for Growth doesn't like Roy Blunt's disastrous record on fiscal matters, and isn't shy about demanding ideological purity in Republican candidates. But what otherwise might be an ideological no-brainer is complicated by our own Eddie Martin, who happens to run its Missouri organization. As the former chief of staff to Governor Matt Blunt, Martin is running the daily GOP press assault for the establishment GOP -- which has lined up solidly behind the elder Blunt's campaign. But as a leader in the Club for Growth, he's sworn to ideological purity, consequences be damned.

So what's a right-wing zealot to do? If the Club for Growth picks Steelman, does Martin jump ship and join the Jeff Roe team?  Or will Martin be able to convince the Club for Growth to hold its nose and unenthusiastically support Roy Blunt?