Learn from mistakes

After the Thatcher era and her predecessor John Major, the Conservatives fell from grace and became lost in the wilderness for 10 years. Admittedly the arrival of Tony Blair and the way he shaped the Labour Party, became inspiring and that did not help the Conservatives. But the main reason the Conservatives struggled to find traction with the public was that nobody knew what they stood for. In addition, all they were seen as doing was knocking the opposition.

It is easy to knock the opposition. It is easy to destroy but it takes real a skill to build. I find it extremely painful to watch the Republican Party knock everything that is being done by Obama. Every time I listen to the news in North America, I hear a GOP Member knocking what Obama is doing. And many times it is so weak and unsubstantial that it is embarrassing.

I suppose this is what happens when the Party lacks a Leader, but the Party is starting to be seen as a Party that knows how to oppose, how to pick fault or scaremonger at every opportunity. If there is nothing of substance to be said, then it is better to say nothing than to reduce credibility.

Learn from the mistakes of the Conservatives in United Kingdom and take the time to regroup and decide what you stand for and what the modern world expects of Government and the United States of America. Stop talking as a Party of values when the Party has undermined many of the Christian and moral values of the world. Focus on finding a credible leader and learn how to build quickly before all you can do is destroy or knock down. Credibility will be as important as Strategy. At the moment the GOP has neither.

Good Government requires a credible opposition. If you don't believe me, look again at how much Labour got away with in UK for the years that the Conservatives were lost in the wilderness. Now UK is broken and weak. A massive loss that will take years to recover from.