An e-mail:

If the GOP wants to reclaim the mantle of a party that actually represents conservatives, rather than just being the least bad option next to the Democrats in most parts of the country (I say this from Minnesota, which occasionally produces quality third-party candidates like Tim Penny), they should take your observations and go national with them. Produce genuinely enthusiastic candidates who believe what they say.
I contributed $100 to Mr Brown, and I will continue to contribute . . . but to candidates, not to parties. The national machinery of the GOP has produced some truly appalling candidates recently, but if people who think they can change things come out swinging like Scott Brown . . . well, it’d be nice to have something to vote for again, rather than just being sure that the current plans of the Democrats will bankrupt and destroy the America I want to live in.