There will be insights and opinions coming from all corners of the GOP about just what exactly the next step should be for the party of Lincoln.  We’re not smart enough to know yet, so we’ll just keep reading and sharing, reading and sharing.  From a column in SeattlePI written by the Republican Secretary of State of Washington, Sam Reed:

In the aftermath of the Obama Tsunami, Republicans at the state and national level are digging out and correctly spending some quality time analyzing what happened and how to move forward with rethinking, rebranding and repositioning for the days to come.

As one of two statewide Republican elected officials left standing (the estimable Attorney General Rob McKenna is the other), my hope for our Grand Old Party is that party elders, activists and donors resist the ultimately self-defeating instinct to move toward narrow ideological dogma, negativism and unhelpful government-is-bad rhetoric.

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