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Honestly, who cares what the Republican party says, just look at what they do:

Campaign Finance "Reform" (anti First Amendment)
Huge expansion of Medi-fraud "entitlements"
No Child Left Behind (read: Kissing Kennedy's Behind)
Complete inability to stand-up for conservative judicial nominees

I submit that it is time for the RNC to prove to conservatives that they are still represented under the "big tent." It is not the job of conservatives to prove that they are deserving of representation.

Is President Bush going to veto anything? Is he going to propose cuts in spending next year? That is where the proof in the pudding is in all this nonsense.

What size will the budget be next year in non-defense spending? Will it be bigger or smaller?

So this is the whole snatch victory from the jaws of defeat bit. Look for the sake of actually being in power, the GOP cannot under any logical, rational circumstances just shut down spending without damage to the cause.

You are dealing with 40+ years of social rearing by the demos who have grown up at least 2 generations of a population that expects the government to provide for them in some way. You have to slowly take them off that behavior.

Medicare is something that is pushed and loved by the older generation, the best you can do at this time is to slow down the growth while working behind the scenes to roll it back, the same for child education, thats another loser issue if you just slash and burn in one swoop that can come back to haunt the GOP, that has to be slowly taken away.

This is politics, I have gotten far more from the GOP(tax cuts, enviro wacko laws roll back for example) that I realize the GOP has to pick and join when to move the agenda than just lose the advantage to make some in the party totally happy. This is not just a 4 year fight, this is going to be ongoing decades long fight.