It should begin by focusing on small government, national defense and personal responsibility; after that all the other stuff ~ abortion, family values, 2nd amendment, fair taxes ~ can fall in line.
While I don’t believe that any Pubbie could have won this time out, we might have been better off if we had had a candidate who could punch back on the border, climate change and small government.
I think it’s going to be tough getting back into the driver seat. We have to have an awesome, well funded candidate and Barack has to really screw up.
Ah,...actually he’s already scoring in that area.
Being in power is bad for your popularity :)
The simple fact is that the Dems have almost total control now of national political and fiscal direction. That means that when things go wrong they have to shoulder all of the blame for it. And things are going to go wrong.