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Frank Luntz , opinion writer in the WASHINGTON POST, wrote an article on January 11th in which he offered advice to the Republican Party.

What I take away from Mr. Luntz’s article is that if the Republicans simply craft their message better, they will have a better chance of connecting with the American people. It’s the communications thing, according to Luntz. Calling a cesspool the flower bed of the future still does not make it smell any better at the moment.  And this is the problem with Mr. Luntz’s advice to Republicans. Every solution offered by the Republicans for the nation’s problems are the ultimate, be-all-end-all solution. The world stops. Reduce the debt, reduce the size of government, shut-down the American-Mexican border, dismantle the social safety net and America’s problems will magically disappear. There is this wonderful, mysterious element of a democracy that keeps track of such pie-in-the-sky ideology and appropriately dismisses it. What the Republican Party needs to do is come back to America!  We’re waiting for you.