Again, relax.  We're going to take care of this.  We were going to have to take care of it anyway.  The fact that McCain even made it through the primaries is proof enough that we let things go to hell.  We got sloppy, we did the work to get the GOP to the majority position, but we forgot our own philosophical teachings.  We let the sons of bitches go, assuming that because they spoke the language of a conservative that we could trust them to take care of things in DC.  We forgot mantra about the corrosive nature of government and government power, and before we knew it, our shiny new majority was looking like a rusted out AMC Rambler. 

So now we're going to have to begin the restoration project.  It's going to take a lot of work, and a lot of time, but we're going to have fun doing it.  It is going to take massive efforts both within the GOP power structure and outside of it.  It isn't going to happen overnight.  It might not happen in 2010 and 2012.  It may take a decade or more. 

All that said, it isn't enough to simply take back the GOP, we have to take back the culture too.  Conservatism will have to get creative, build new culture, and bring back lost arts and style.  We have to take back the education system.  We've got a lot of work ahead of us, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.