No, the GOP needs to define what it stands for. Is it Reagan or Boehner? Allan West or Lindsay Graham? Lincoln or McCain? (OK, that last one is a lose-lose.)

Establish a charter. Anchor to a set of principles that conservatives can get behind. Ah, but the party won´t do that...it´s far too limiting, dontcha know.

Here´s another thought: as individuals, don´t vote for the party; vote for the person instead. Whether the GOP thrives or disappears doesn´t really matter, does it?

These teams...these parties only exist if we allow them to. When they fail us so miserably as the GOP has, why prop it up? Why try to "bring it back" to something it never was? To heck with it - let it go. Again, vote for the right person who´s running.

The article is primarily about the small and financially incestuous
Republican buddy system of consultants
and advisors who often
over promise and under produce.
Which helped produce the ORCA disaster.
Also the need for a Republican farm system and training academy
to get the best and brightest to run .
In addition , wealthy Republican donors like Sheldon Adelson
should start demanding excellence
and results before donating.
FTA- " And as former GE CEO Jack Welch said, Mitt Romney was perhaps the best presidential hopeful of a lifetime ."
"The nation dangles dangerously from a fiscal cliff not because the GOP is wrong, but because we were outgunned " .

I´ll make it easy for the GOP (RINOs)...

...start your search in the TEA party. And just do what they tell you to do.

1) Been in for over two terms--you´re gone.
2) Go into the Lobbyist bidness after CONgress...watch your back.
3) If in doubt, go home and don´t darken our (America´s) doorstep again in public.

tea party did a helluva job selecting Richard Mourdock in Indiana.

Argggghhhh, it´s getting so old. The GOP needs fresh faces, new talent, new message, etc., etc.

John Boehner has said repeatedly, it´s all about the spending...we can keep spending, spending, spending, spending.

Media reports that the GOP is being obstructionist and that President Obama is Glory personified and we must listen to him b/c his opponents are eeeeeevil.

We don´t need new, new, new...we need an honest media. Until we that, we´re screwed because our message doesn´t stand a chance of getting out.

OH -- and we need actual voting monitors and prosecution for voter fraud. I´m convinced there was a whole helluva lot of it this time around.

My mistake, Boehner has said "we CAN´T keep spending."

I´m with #2. This party needs to dump all those retread consultants who continue to lose elections. When I read that Romney hired all McCain´s boys, I was really disappointed. That is a self important group of limp-d--k, overpaid do nothings if ever such a group decided to get into politics!

The Tea Party did a pretty good job with Rand Paul and a whole bunch of candidates in 2010 and will do so again in 2014. As for 2016, we have a really great bench of conservatives who will take the field and I can´t wait.

OK, Periwinkel...tell us what you really think of those RNC consultants, please?

No. The GOP needs to dissolve, and a new party needs to rise that believes in returning flower to We The People.

Sorry power, not flower.

The GOP is lost. Too many top positions held by progressives... look at the last 3 candidates! No, time to shake things up.

I hope DeMint is working on building a new nation with the states that want to secede. The current system is so broken, we´ll never see a fair election again.

It used to be that they could only steal a couple points; Now they just automatically vote from the SS database, using a program that calculates the # of Barry votes poer district.

Our new nation could be solely based on the constitution, bill of rights & led by Judeo-Christian values. The Free America Nation would not have parties... just elect leaders. Our leaders would be part of the communities, keeping their real job while meeting to address issues as needed.

Who would want to live in this nation? TPers, Libertarians, Independents & Ron Paulites. Focus on freedom. No condemnation for being different & no compensation for being different. Community welfare not nationalized programs. No illegals... No special interest groups... just equal free citizens.

Leaders? DeMint, Rubio, Palin, West, Paul & many more freedom loving patriots.

What the GOP needs is some obscure senator with a couple of tripy autobiographies who looks great on the important shows of the day: The Colbert Report, Dr. Phil, The Joy of Cooking, SportsCenter and Iron Chef. What makes any of you people think the American people care about "the issues". Are you out of your mind?

Yes, its going to be a tough search to match the incompetence of Obama, Hillary, Rice, Holder, etc...