Comment: Makes perfect sense but extremely difficult to accomplish when the party has been infiltrated by democrats to ensure that there can be no future opposition by eliminating step 1.  In fact, the exact opposite of your suggested first step has been happening ever since the likes of Rohlfing/Hellreich/Fukumoto have been at the helm.  Seems as though the objective has been to get Republicans OUT of office.  I think the point of the piece is that Step 1 needs to be "install motivated and effective party leadership" that will even think about establishing and adhering to a platform that has any substance before you can recruit viable candidates.