Well said. I don't agree with all of it, but it shows we're already trying to learn from our mistakes. Will the candidates in 2008 listen? We're in exactly the place we were before Reagan's 1980 victory. All we need now is, um, Reagan.
Well we would do better to articulate a platform such as Newt did in 1994 and before. Waiting for another RR could be a long time. He left us a blueprint for connecting to people, we just need to follow it.
What would Reagan have done with today's media? Well, first I can remember RR having weekly if not daily press conferences where he would meet liberal press members head on. He had a way of letting the liberals choose the place and time of a fight and then he would turn the tables on them.
McCain on the other hand smiles, nods his head in lemming fashion when he is under the media spotlight. He waffles on issues or becomes muddled e.g. "well we will have to take another look at that particular issue and the set of circumstances blah blah blab..."