Some lessons from across the pond, via WSJ.com:

Here’s something for the GOP to think about as the party tries to regain power in Washington: Britain’s opposition Conservative Party may have lost three elections in a row, but it hasn’t lost its sense of humor.
At its annual conference in Manchester this week, party activists were selling Gordon Brown’s Porky Pies — a pork pie in English slang being a lie as well as a pie filled with pork. On Tuesday it was small cloth bag with the words “Brown ain’t my bag.” Among the goodies inside was a “make your own Gordon Brown speech fridge magnet,” with words such as “fault” and “incompetent” for Tories to choose from.
Later, Conservatives were handing out “the Labourynth,” a hand game in which a ball is guided through a small maze across a picture of the Labour Party’s rose symbol. On the back are the words: “Can you make your way through Labour’s bureaucratic maze.” Hanging like Soviet style propaganda flags from the roof of the press room are slogans such as “Labour: wasting your money since 1997,” and “Social responsibility, not state control.”