David Frum's "Comeback" was the better of the two "GOP renewal" books that came out last year*. Now he is repeating his prescriptions in Newsweek as a reminder that simply opposing Obama will not be enough. 

I would only add that the GOP also needs to renew its public face by bringing in some new people as its preferred representatives. As I said earlier, the GOP has become the party of the sour pussed James Dobson, the cozy Tom DeLay, the baffled Scott McClellan, the fallen Hank Paulson, the spendthrift House and Senate, &c. Many of the true believers from the Gingrich Revolution (Steve Largent, Dick Armey, JC Watts, Newt himself) seemed to fall by the wayside for no particular reason, leading to the ideological drift of the last 8 years. We need to bring those sorts of thinkers and leaders back. 

And, we need to stop putting down Sarah Palin. Whatever limits she may have in her manners or intellect, she is a force of nature politically with all of the best qualities of the GOP philosophy: self-made, entrepreneurial, budget cutting, positive, faith based, etc. Maybe she will never be president, but there is a lot of Howard Dean in her; she represents the Republican wing of the Republican Party. 

* The best of all is "How To Beat the Democrats" by David Horowitz, which came out in 2002, and worked worked for a little while.