I don't like crybabies who continue to allow #3:
3. Conservatives should do this within the GOP, but not allow the GOP to bully usTo go unnoticed.
Number 3 is the most important in my view.
Follow through with that, and the other two become much easier to deal with.
The media has already engrained in the public perception that Conservatives are cold, heartless, right winged radicals. It's up to Conservatives to define who they are. Not liberals.
Conservatives seem to believe they had control of the GOP and somehow lost it thanks to "RINOs" in 2006. As long as they continue to misidentify the reasons why Republicans didn't win big, not much will change.