My original questions was...

"How do the Republicans return to a position where they have a reasonable chance at getting 50% of the vote plus 1? How do we return our democracy to a system with a legitimate two-party choice?"

So far our colleagues here say "yes we can" (that was Obama's line, wasn't it?), but with no suggestion of how that might happen. In fact some of us don't even believe that the electorate is moving away from the GOP's values. If we can't believe anything written or broadcast by the media, or any of the polling done by any source (who has a longer or better track record than Gallup?), then how do we reach that conclusion? I hope the answer isn't because Rush, Glenn, Sean or Bill say so. That just might be relying on a fact source that is tilted as far to the right as much of the media is tilted to the left.

Based on what we're seeing from the "leadership" of the GOP and the RNC, if we're all going to have blind expectations that a re-balancing of political power is "just going to happen", true conservatives are likely to be badly disappointed...in my opinion anyway. If Republicans believe that a continuation of the policy of disagreeing with almost any idea or legislation put forth by the other political party without presenting a legitimate and appealing alternative will work, again I think disappointment will result. It might even be worse if the disagreement is communicated in a disagreeable way by disagreeable people.

Politics succeeds based on the use of business principles, whether they be advertising, promotion, financing, planning, communicating or even using techniques such as those authored by Saul Alinsky back in the 1930's for energizing the electorate. Election watchers are pretty unanimous in saying that the use of all those skills were a big part of President Obama's success in winning the election. I've never known business objectives to be achieved without a plan and without good management--and in the case of politics, good candidates. Reliance on blind faith doesn't work.

So, I ask my original question again...

How do the Republicans return to a position where they have a reasonable chance at getting 50% of the vote plus 1?

The answer to the question might have a lot to do with how Republicans actually interact with their friends, neighbors, elected officials and even party leadership in coming months and years.