Shooting the Messenger , even one who spins the story their way- DBM is only a small part of the what should be done. In my opinion the reason the Republicans lost are many and have little to do with the DBM.
Tom Delay here in my area made a personal decision to get out too late. This decision lead to this Republican seat going to a Democrat. In two years this seat will revert to a Republican.
As a whole the Republicans, both in the Senate and in the House did very little to give many people a reason to vote for them. The expansion of government with new entitlements, no restraint on spending, Kennedy/Bush education reform, Feingold/McCain free speech limitation legislation is a short list of why many people did not show up to vote.
The bright spot was the Supreme Court nominations that we did get. And the Tex cuts in 2002/2003.
The Republicans will need to be on the offensive, they will need to give people a reason to vote for them. I am looking for the following
1. Lower Taxes
2. Smaller government
Yeah the DBM who spent all their time screaming "the GOP sucks" had nothing to do with the lost. It was all the "Conservative Media" who spent all their time screaming "Yeah the GOP does suck" that is to blame.
Pretty tough to win a battle when 40% of your squad spends all it's time shooting it's own team in the back
Why don't you go ask the Democrats you dogmatic 100%ers helped elect, with your "my way or the highway" thinking, what they are going to do about your two agenda items. Bush and the GOP gave you the largest taxcuts of your life and you fired them for it. Go ask the Democrats what they are going to do about those taxcuts.