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If it helps the GOP to regain the Senate and hold the House, the benefit that ensues is worth the cost.

Hmmm. How much cost are you willing to incure for political advantage?

We're no longer viewed as anti-education. Now its time to reshape the debate on our terms and say OK if we're going to have a federal role in education at all, lets demand real accountability from our schools. We've already signed onto the federal presence in education, which has historically been a state and local responsibility, so we might as well take the next step and differentiate ourselves from the Rats by making it clear we're not just here to provide handouts from Washington. We want states and local communities to be partners not just recipients of federal aid and that means taking responsibility to ensure our kids learn their ABC's and become prepared to become patriotic, moral, and productive members of our society.

The justices that a GOP and Blue Dog Senate could confirm would buy a generation of preservation of our sacred Constitution. That alone is worth a Normandy Beach.

The NEA gains temporarily. School teachers tend to side with the GOP on most issues except for school vouchers. Parents involved with their local schools will get behind the President. Now the GOP needs to get behind him as well on this and broadcast this achievement during this year's campaign.

I am for vouchers but vouchers and homeschooling will survive and continue to evolve to provide a better alternative.