If McCain loses the election...

[cannonia]

Think of it this way.  If voters associated Republicans with smaller government, good government, and shared cultural values in 2006, would they have lost so badly?

Instead, they associated Republicans with big government, corruption, sex scandals, and lying through their teeth.

If the incumbents had cared more about ideology than lining their pockets and amassing power, they would have done better.  In that sense, being more conservative would have helped them tremendously.

[cannonia]

they will call Bush a liberal even tho he was a radical conservative and say how it ruined their party image, just throw him under the bus.

Bush burned the tattered remnants of the Contract with America and went on a big-government spending spree.  Some of us Republicans actually worry about a McCain administration being a "third Bush term," and we certainly don't mean it in the same way as the left.

[cannonia]

The Gop is in serious need of rebuild.

They need to get younger and get rid of the neocons.

Appeal to Blacks , Latinos and others instead of Joe the plumbers and Todd Palins of the world

Bush got 45% of the Latino vote and 12% of the black vote back in 2000.. they were on the right track then.  It somehow got lost in 2004 iam guessing with calling everybody anti American stuff which stems from the far right hopping on the 9/11 wagon. Since it won them victory in 2004 they figured it was the way to go.   

Dismiss my point of view on this if you please, but if the Mexican vote and black vote overwhelm McCain this election that will be the sign that I was right.

You can't win elections losing a vote 99%- 1%

So, go whole-hog social conservative and get rid of that pesky fiscal wing of the party?

Huckabee, here we come!