Beastie Boy wonders "How many failures can we stand??? Peter, thank you for reminding me as to how far we have strayed from our principles under the auspices of King George II." Parenthetically, Beastie Boy cited my passage about judges and astutely inquires why the legal fiction of absolute immunity still exists. If there is anything so damningly unconstitutional is that judges and prosecutors remain immune from accountability. (And I thank for the writer for correcting a misspelling my word checker missed).

And to my paraphrasing Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s famed Conscience speech concerning the "Four Horsemen of Calumny: Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear" Beastie Boy’s response was "Swiftboat! The [GOP] has been running on high-octane fear for the past three cycles. * * * Republican leaders are . . sociopaths [who] can't talk issues, because [they] screwed things up so bad that there is nothing [ ] to offer real people." 

Other readers focused on the need to rebuild the GOP’s traditional principles. An email from Charles F Schanie, PhD provides "Ten Tenets is a stunningly profound distillation of what we should aspire to in US governance. I loved it. I'm circulating it within my email network and asking them to pass it along; I think it's that important. * * * I personally believe [Republicans] have strayed in many ways relative to [the] Ten Tenets . . . However, I [ ] believe that in the interest of consolidating and expanding conservative influence we have to continue to publish and promote our beliefs and ideals. Your piece, notwithstanding that it is labeled ‘Republican,’ is simply one of the best synopses I've seen of conservative principles."

Fred writes: "Thank you for writing something that can be used as a defense for those of us truly in the trenches of the culture war and standing up for what we believe in: True Freedom and the Tenets of the Republican Party." Killer pauses to compliment me (or to be sarcastic). "I would like to say ‘Thank You.’ * * * You could have raked over dead bones, but you chose higher ground."

In all, most of the readers implicitly concur with what my fellow Co-Trustee, Fred Hess, labels as the Republican’s "branding" crisis. This appears to be the underlying fundamental expressed post after post, or as LL in La. who sums up what everyone is thinking: "Help, please! Does anyone have the address for the RNC? I’d like to forward them a copy of [Happy 154th Birthday GOP - the 10 Tenets of the Republican Party] ‘cause I'm pretty sure they lost theirs. Or their minds . . . whatever . . ."