If the GOP is ever going to make a comeback as an electoral force, it’s got to refine its message and discard the accretions that make moderates run from it. The GOP should be the party of minimum government, maximum personal freedom, combined with the proud defense of American exceptionalism and soveriegnty. Period. Divisive social issues should not be in the platform except to say that they are best left to state and local governments that are closest to the governed.