There is a saying I heard once and I’ll paraphrase it. It goes, “If you opponent is beating himself up, don’t get in the way.”

Now isn’t necessarily the time for the GOP to attack the Dems…they’re beating themselves up pretty well themselves…and the Tea Parties are doing even better with far more credibility than the Democrats…besides…we’ve played the “Vote for the Republicans because we’re not the Democrats” game for 4 years and lost with it…

What the Republican Party needs now is to decide what it stands for…what principles it will advance…and what is it’s very reason for being….and then it needs to communicate it to the young and old alike! right now they’re doing NOTHING and it drives me nuts!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

You jogged a memory: I did explain that because of the loss of power the Republicans have a corresponding loss of funds, up to a point.

But one of the boys asked how much does it cost just to have counter-arguments against NObama’s Hell-th Care Plan on a good website.

Their main point (2 girls and 4 boys talented) was that worrying about the MSM was last century. Internet/high-tech methods of getting the message out should be the GOP’s main concern, and they thought it would not be expensive.

Personally I have no idea, but I would think they are right: hosting a crappy webpage probably costs the same as a good one.

I am a “both-and” kind of person: this should not be an either-or proposition. And with NObama’s numbers tanking, this is a good opportunity to show people that a Conservative message is coming from the Republicans, rather than one of compromise with liberals.

I think one of the reasons for the rage we’re seeing at the Tea Party rallies and town halls is as much about what the Republicans are not doing as it is at what the Democrats are doing…

What I see is an electorate standing around saying:

“The Democrats want to do what?”….
“Who’s going to stop them?”….
“Where are the Republicans?”…
“Didn’t they go along with TARP and the Stimulous?”
“Well we can’t trust or rely on them to stop anything so we’d better damn well do it ourselves!”

Just a little time advertising what we stand for and why we even exist as a party would go a long way to winning a majority for us in 2010!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

If the point is that the time isn’t yet here to get too much involved as a party in countering the Democrats’ health delivery mistakes. Let the grass roots run with it for a while.

Certainly, it’s too early to be setting out alternatives plans.

That’s how it ought to be. Our politicians need to keep their powder dry until the general election campaign. But activists like us, and like Sarah Palin, can stir up interest in ideas now. We can find out what’s good and what’s bad, and then the politicans can use that information next summer and fall.