Ten For 10

This is what the GOP needs:

Here’s the problem: Republicans are winning right now just because they are not Democrats. That won’t help us though, long term.

At some point we are going to have to have ideas. People forget, though, that the Contract With America did not come about until the end of the 1994 campaign season. It was the summer of 1994 and it did not get traction until after Labor Day in 1994.

Laura Ingraham is being pre-emptive. She has come up with a fantastic idea: Ten For 10. Ten For 10 is about ten ideas to run with for taking back Congress in 2010.

Congressman Tom Price, Michael Williams, Marco Rubio, Michelle Malkin, and others have signed on.

The ideas are:

1. A taxpayer bill of rights
2. End taxpayer funded abortions
3. Secure and defend the border
4. Support a strong dollar
5. Empower American businesses
6. Defend America
7. End Statism
8. End generational theft
9. Restore justice
10. Make America energy independent

For more information, to get details on each of the ten ideas, and to sign the petition, go here.

I’ve signed. You should too.

This is key. The progress the Right has seen over the past few months is simply the blowback reaction to the Left's radical attempts to re-make America into their version of a Statist paradise. If we're going to really make the gains we need in order to save this nation from the Obama tailspin, we need to have a concrete plan for moving forward. It's one thing to be a half-hearted alternative, which is what the GOP has been over the past few years. What's critical is to become the full-bore, pedal-to-the-medal alternative that the country desperately wants and needs.

Ingraham's idea is basically the new Contract With America, and it is an excellent start on that pro-active alternative. If the Right can build a consistent platform around these principles, we'll present a stark difference at the next election, and that's the recipe for victory.

There's my two cents.