Oh, and one more thing:

This election, and your win in many places, was NOT a mandate for your policies, but rather the citizenry making the best  least bad choice from a pool of bad ones. You didn't win so much as they lost.

No one wants "DNC lite" here, we want conservative leaders. Please Please please don't think that you have to appease your opponents, nor their followers. You won because you weren't them, so don't be like them after the election.

Stand for something...don't disappoint your constituents.