text: Nice summary of GOP accomplishments over the yeas Cynthia.  The decline of the GOP started when Lingle became Hawaii State Chair and transformed  the party into her own personal support group.  During her embarrassing rule as Governor the GOP continued to lose many valuable members and the heavy financial supporters it has aways enjoyed.  The GOP has never recovered and is shunned by many formal GOP supporters as a huge waste of money, time and effort.  Bottom line is that until the local GOP cleans house and elects new non-Lingle leadership not much will change.  So sad that we have fallen so far....