Effective use of information flow is the most potent and effective political tool from now onward. The Internet can be used as movies and speeches were used to direct Germans during the 1930s and as newspapers have effectively done world wide for over 150 years.

The Republican message is the American message. However, without complete dissemination, Republicans will continue to be pilloried, blamed for problems, and lose power. The Republican message must be known and understood before voters can vote Republicans into offices.

Three areas of health care require change. Reform of these three areas, along with adjustments in other operating areas and reduction of waste, fraud, and abuse will ensure affordability and availability of health care.

The three areas in need of immediate reform are:

--  Lawsuit (tort) reform:  Patients should have the right to sue health care providers when they have been wronged. However rational liability limits and consistent liability standards will reduce insurance premiums for health providers as well as patients.

--  Insurance portability:  Each citizen should be able to change jobs and/or locations and continue with the policy he has. When desired, each individual should be able to switch among competing insurance carriers. Several insurance companies should be competing for customers across multiple states. This will provide each insurance provider with large pools of insured individuals of all ages and health conditions, thereby setting up for expanded coverage of people with pre-existing conditions. Large pools of insured people of all health conditions will reduce everyone's premiums because there will be more individuals paying their fair share into the premium pools.

--  Insurance availability for people with preexisting diseases:  People who have ongoing and long-term health care needs should be covered at reasonable rates in order that health care may be provided to the sick of all ages and conditions. Rates will decline with larger pools of individuals covered by competing insurance providers.

Republicans must stop escalating these two issues to the presidential level.

Republicans will never win the presidency until these two issues are eliminated from the debate of genuinely relevant presidential issues. These issues are highly emotional and religiously-oriented. They distract an electorate already confused by too many scientific topics that are beyond most people's understanding. The science and morality of these are more clearly debated when removed from the presidential context.

"The first is that conservative Republicans -- relieved of the burden of George Bush -- are revived and resurgent. Their morale is unusually high because they’ve rediscovered something they’d forgotten: the nationwide support that flows to them when they stand on conservative principles. Opposition to the over-porked (even by Washington standards) so-called “stimulus” rests on those principles, and their political gain is both natural and inevitable."

Cartoon by Brett Noel 

"We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms," said Solomon Yue, an Oregon member and co-sponsor of a resolution that criticizes the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Republican National Committee Vice Chairman James Bopp Jr. wrote the resolution and asked the rest of the 168 voting members to sign it.

"The resolution also opposes President-elect Obama's proposed public works program and supports conservative alternatives," while encouraging the RNC "to engage in vigorous public policy debates consistent with our party platform," said Mr. Bopp, a leading attorney for pro-life groups who has also challenged the campaign finance legislation that Mr. Bush signed.

Jobs were not lost because of NAFTA. Actually NAFTA prevented the loss of even more jobs to other nations. NAFTA reduced tariffs between North American nations. That allowed for immediate adjustments in the labor cost relationships between NA nations. Many low-level -- less-desirable -- jobs left the US as manufacturing jobs were shuffled to other nations with lower labor costs charged by lower skilled workers.

As Americans' skill levels increase through basic education and re-training, and as technology introduces more complex, lower-cost manufacturing jobs, skilled Americans will be eligible for hire as manufacturers move plant and equipment back to the US.

Also, today's increasing energy costs make transporting manufactured goods from foreign nations to US consumers more costly. Therefore, high energy costs will force US manufacturers and foreign manufacturers to locate new and relocate facilities back in the US. With this move back to the US, skilled US workers will be in more demand.

After national standards of excellence are formally established to ensure maximization of each student's learning and achievement, local school systems should meet these standards.

Parents should have the choice to send their children to schools based upon the students' ability to satisfy grade achievement tests.

Curriculum should include reading, writing, arithmetic, English, science, history, literature, and physical activities. There should be a focus on US history including study of the US Constitution and how it has provided the basis for building the greatest nation in history and what its tenets mean to each American today.