Frederica, I am being prescriptive in the book. But it’s also the case that I’m interested in starting a conversation. I don’t see that the two conflict. “This is where I think we’ve gone wrong, this is what I think we should do to rectify it, what do you think?” Why is it so difficult to hold a civil conversation about these things? The title was supposed to be kind of tongue in cheek — the book clearly doesn’t offer a Ten Point Plan for Saving the GOP, and doesn’t aspire to. I thought the spirit of the title would lead people to conclude that I was being pretty freewheeling … but that might be one reason why the subtitle is going to change for the paperback edition.
