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Liddy Dole would no longer be the NRSC chairman and from here on in we should make it clear that we will no longer tolerate ineptitude being no bar to the continuation of tenure. Traditions that become harmful should be eliminated when necessary; a vote of confidence in the NRSC and NRCC chairmen after one year into their tenure may be something to look in to, not after they have been a disaster in both recruiting and running the campaigns.

We should start hunting for the best replacements for retiring Republican Senators ASAP i.e. Wayne Allard (R-CO) and Primary challengers for inexcusably weak sisters. We should start preparing our best candidates to take out Democrat Senators in Red states i.e. Baucus, Landrien, Pryor, Johnson and Rockefeller. And ... we should find challengers for those who simply deserve a tough race; i.e. Durbin and Harkin. We should be ready to compete for every marginal House district and every single Red district that has a Democrat representing it.

The Directors should (if I may humbly suggest) start a Nominations page where Redstaters can submit the names of local politicians, Republican activists or just plain good people who they think can run for any race, whether local, state or Federal and win it for the GOP and Conservatism and make us even more strongly the Party of Reagan.

We should have a new dedication to establishing a feedback mechanism for our Republican representatives in Congress to let them know when they're doing well or not so well. Today, they still look to the newspapers and hear that when they pass tax cuts, they're being "extremists." When they vote for spending cuts, they're being "heartless." When they oppose racial preferences, they're being "racists." When they insist on curbing illegal immigration, they're being "anti-immigrant." When they vote to ban partial birth abortions, they're being "misogynists." When they agitate for school choice, they're "destroying public education." When they fight to prevent the complete decoupling of marriage from parenthood and child raising, they're being "homophobic."

Make no mistake, the bias, partisanship and partiality shown by the Press in this cycle is just the emerging tip of the iceberg - some are already far too gone that they are nothing more than 527s in everything but name i.e. the New York Times. They've declared war and are so full of themselves they think they can launch missiles at us at will and we lack the courage to even acknowledge it. That we cannot face the American people and declare war right back because they can get the American people to dismiss us as lunatics for pointing out the obvious. We need to prove them wrong.

They need to be challenged and expect to be challenged again and again. They need to learn that every single act of misinformation and bias would be loudly noted and highlighted by the new and official GOP. They need to understand that their credibility is no longer a certain thing, that they can and they will lose it until they learn honesty and fairness. Maybe then we'll see the New York Times hire one Republican for every three reporters they put in their newrooms, as opposed to one for every fifty as they do now.

There was a time when there was nothing we could do. But today we have talk radio, we have the Internet (with video even!) and should we one day have someone big (hint: Dick Cheney) publicly unsheathe the sword against the most egregiously biased of our "objective" Fourth Estate institutions, we'll be able to make sure that they know that following the advice of Left-wing editorial pages in order to win "moderate" accolades is the road to ruin.

The GOP in Ohio was praised to the skies by the Ohio Press the more they abandoned what made them Republicans and as a result, the incompatible mish-mash of Leftist and Conservative policy has led the state into a mess and rendered their Governor the most unpopular Chief Executive in the nation.

The GOP in Florida on the other hand is the subject of constant curses and jeers in that state's Fourth Estate. But Florida's economic growth, crime reduction, education, taxation and employment numbers are the envy of the nation and their legislature and Governor are among the most popular, and the party continues to grow stronger.

Conservatism/Reagan-Republicanism wins each and every single time it is presented in comparison to Leftist-Liberalism. Let us make sure that from now on, that this choice is made clear to the American people each and every single time, the First Tuesday, after the First Monday comes in November.

But that would be for after tomorrow. We've got work to do today.

Vote and get everybody you know out to vote. And vote REPUBLICAN!