Well, I'm not jumping ship yet because I regard the DNC as the shark in the water over the railing.
The biggest change is a beginning of change away from a "high central" federal control to more respect for state-determination, state level determinations. Which is a good thing (we really need to get the Supreme Court away from making legislation and back to ensuring Constitutional respect, and the Democrats are fighting that change tooth and nail, to put it mildly and any Democrat control will again set the S.C. back to legislating from the bench via extremely liberal perspectives).
Thus, if the Republican control has accomplished anything of value, it's that we'll have two more S.C. moderates in place by 2008 and hopefully, some sort of change to the U.N., if only to identify more clearly the dishonesty there.
It's gotten to where either party has to boil everything down to some centrist jello that everyone will still barely agree upon and we're left with not so much innovation and leadership as a group in D.C. who, who...who disappoint me with every passing day.
I can't stand the idea of Hillary Clinton with Bill back in the White House becaus as bad as things are now, they'll be far worse if she lands there in 2008. However, we need a strong RNC candidate and soon. Frist is out, McCain is out, Rice is not likely to win over Hillary (so is not a good candidate to my view for many reasons and not because she isn't capable but because she won't win over Hillary if they run against one another)...so we need someone and soon to disallow this maudlin defeatism from setting in. I feel it beginning to, is my point, among conservatives, largely based upon a lot of disappointments about the immigration issues.