The Republican bullpen.

There's been quite a few impressive ideas coming out of the Republican Governor's conference this week. A lot of talk about the elections and even more talk about the future. It's almost refreshing to here a Republican admit that the party has practically gone out of its way to turn away women, younger voters, people of color, blue collar workers, people with advanced degrees...am I missing anyone? The growing sentiment seems to be that a national party cannot simply represent white males south of I -70 and I'm interested to see how the GOP will rework their message to be more inclusive. The landscape is shifting beneath their feet and they need to move with it.

Pawlenty, Jindal and Sanford--all apparently lacking in what it takes to be a strong vice presidential candidate--had different takes on the problems with the party and different solutions. However, they all seem to be focused on both policy and the political process. Palin was another story. She seemed to talk the most but say the least. It's a shame--there are some strong Republican women out there but this year it seemed to be nothing but Dole, Bachmann and Palin talking about godlessness, rooting out the anti-Americans, and shoes. Come on people--can't we do better than this?