Fifth, support the Republican Party and other voices of opposition that provide the kind of information that the mainstream media ignores. You have to put your money where your mouth is to assure that the public gets both sides of the ongoing political controversies.
This contradicts ever so slightly a comment above that says the Republican National Committee didn't send out any literature that clearly articulated much of anything (my words and summary of this point made). Thus I must say that the Republican party put up someone like John McCain as a presidential candidate. Most of us conservatives are still shaking our heads at how this guy won our primary. I have never seen a Republican treat Republicans with such distain and be so very nice and pandering to the Left as McCain is. He is enemy number two. Think McCain Feingold and all the phone numbers these lefties in California have to go harrass supporters of Prop 8. Thank McCain Feingold for that. Those numbers should not be available. But I digress.
Until the Republican Party actually has conservative ideals and puts up candidates that support and commit to following through with those ideals AND can clearly fight for those ideals (against the left when confronted) as well as clearly sell those ideals to the American people as any smart large organization that wants to exist has to do these days.
They are considered the enemy from within. Look at what happened with the spending and all the old guys that are near death that are put up as candidates. It is time to modernize the GOP and go back to its conservative roots--define them--and sell them through the best PR around and also candidates that act as such. Until then. Until I see movement in this direction I will NOT consider the a solution. They are gutless right now and shameful.
Good post and I especially agree with the above.
See post 16. I should have read your comment before I spent time articulating what you just said!