Any Republican presidential candidate that publically announces his intention to limit the size of government and the reach of government bureaucracy  and does it consistently throughout the 2008 election cycle will win in the general election.  Don't get me wrong.  National security, immigration, the economy and health care will still be predominent issues.  However, the viablility of all these issues is directly tied to how we budget the everyday operations of the federal government.

For the past seventy years we have had the Democrats set the tone and direction of the federal governments spending habits.  Republicans from Nixon to George Bush 43 have only been able to make slight corrections to the course this country has been following.  We as conservatives have to more completely wrest control of the nation's "rudder" from the Democrat policy machine led by the drive-by media as Rush Limbaugh calls it.

All Republican candidates from the congressional on up the the presidential have to start setting the agenda in this much needed discussion with the American people.  No longer must we acquiesce to the news media's questioning and policy direction.  When asked another inane question about global warming we need to counter with questions and answers of our own regarding real issues and solutions.  Anyone with half a brain realizes that we cannot do anything to significantly affect global warming, but we can develop the energy resources and technology we have to make them function more efficiently and with less pollution.

The drive-by's may not like it and may even cut conservatives off for a short time but if we act in concert in this way they will have to adjust their tactics.  This will give us the momentum to turn the tables on the liberals for the attention of the vast majority of the American public.  The conservative principal of limited government is a winning argument and must be advanced for the sake of this country's future.  Limiting the influence of the national news media should be the first goal of the Republicans in the grand stategery [sic] of taking control of our government for the next seventy years.