After the Election Day thumping that the Republican Party received on Tuesday, the dust is beginning to settle.  Unlike the national media and the Democratic pundits back in 1994, we did not have to worry about coaxing people back from the roof as they prepared to jump.  (Note to Democrats - we may have lost the election but we provided an excellent object lesson, that being when you lose accept the blame rather than accuse the other side of cheating)  In my estimation, we are in a good position to fight back and win the majority.  But we must win it for a Republican Party that is carrying the banner of conservatism as its standard.  To these ends I have a few suggestions in terms of platform, candidates, and potential cabinet members.  I will detail these in future blogs so please return to this blog often.  But there is not time to start like the present, so away we go.

Conservatives need to force the RNC to understand that their most successful electoral cycles have been when they are carrying the Conservative standard.  Reagan took the country by storm in 1980 and then proved in 1984 that the message was viable and the concepts worked.  The party abandoned the path during the Bush the Elders presidency and then ran from it in 1992.  Until the revolution of 1994 did they embrace it again only to slowly loose their grip.  And we know what happened on Tuesday.

But some good things happened on Tuesday that we must build on.  First, some of the questionable Republicans (or as Rush calls them, RINOs) were voted out.  Even better news it that the worst of the lot, Lincoln Chafee, has now said that he will probably not return to the Republican Party.  Buh-bye and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The scandals that hurt us must not be tolerated again.  We must not let these people back into the party ala Alcee Hastings for the Dems.

We must also tell the Republicans on the Gang of Fourteen (RINOs in training???) that there time has passed.  And as attractive as Senator McCain is to the 2008 Presidential campaign I can't help seeing this man as the heir to Gerald Ford and not Ronald Reagan.  Senator Lindsay Graham has decided that he wants to be loved by the New York Times and CNN.  Let him leave office gracefully and become the token Republican pundit on CNN that he obviously dreams of being.

My next posting will be my first nail in setting the planks for a winning platform in 2008 and beyond.  I hope you will like what you read and I look forward to hearing from any of you in regards to your thoughts.  As to the moonbats who's idea of thoughtful debate it to call names and give no counterpoints, visit the DailyKos to find all of the liberal succor that you will need.