Continuing good numbers for the GOP: an opportunity not a guarantee.

As summer’s heat brings dehydration to so many riparian landscapes the catastrophic reality of the "change" for which they voted in 2006 and 2008. The Obama Labor/Socialist/Democrat agenda is therapeutically baking America’s delusion producing symptoms of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) out of the body politic. With its improved lucidity the body politic is, in turn, returning to the party of reality and reason, the GOP.

Rasmussen reported yesterday that Republicans are leading Democrats in eight of the ten regularly polled issues. A thorough review of Rasmussen’s various internal questions provides even better news for pachyderms everywhere.

Perhaps most telling are Rasmussen’s latest ideologically self-identification numbers. Late last month, Gallup disclosed more than forty percent of all American voters consider themselves to be ideologically “conservative”. Yesterday’s Rasmussen report corroborates Gallup’s findings. Rasmussen shows 54% of the voters think the average L/S/D congressman is more liberal than are they, the average voter, while only 36% think the average Republican is more conservative that are they, the average voter. Numbers like that are powerful indicia of a growing public realization that conservative and Republican solutions, based on the traditional engines of individual and social success, create the greatest opportunity for the greatest good for the greatest number of people, as imperfect as we may be.

Rasmussen and Gallup’s data echoes Democrat uber-pollster Doug Schoen’s statements that non-party voters are trending “functional” Republican. As the public experiences the cost and risk associated with its generational flirtation with liberal fantasy it realizes how utterly misled it has been by a liberal press devoted to destroying a Republican president and a Republican president unwilling to fight back. So now the public realizes that turning the country over to L/S/D madness doesn’t solve its problems, it only worsens them.

Americans are willing to give us another look. Americans want conservative solutions. Product interest, however, is insufficient to assure product purchase. If we are going to win we have to provide those solutions in a credible way to a frustrated and suspicious electorate.

Republicans are, indeed, engaged in a major identity crisis. We had better find the right product before we worry about the salesman.