That’s the image the GOP is struggling to overcome. Politico:

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor — the man Democrats dubbed “Dr. No” — is taking great pains these days to prove he has a raft of ideas of his own.

Stung by the Democratic barbs, the House’s No. 2 Republican is unveiling a “Solutions Center” on the Web to address simple questions Americans are asking themselves in the face of economic calamity: “How will I keep my job?” … “How will I keep my house?” … “How will I grow my savings?”

The goal is to answer the questions with Republican proposals that contrast starkly with legislation offered by President Barack Obama and his congressional allies.

Cantor told Politico that Republicans “need to work to make sure the message gets out.” The message may not “yet have been delivered,” but he and his fellow House Republicans will “continue to work at that.”

David Winston, a GOP pollster who monitors the environment for House Republicans explains: “What this Republican leadership is trying to do is define what the choice is. If Republicans are defining what their policies are, they will fare better than if they go up against Obama as a personality test.”

Although some have immediately criticized the site (interestingly enough not its ideas as much as its design and apparent focus on the “haves” rather than the “have-nots” [memo to Jill: there are more haves than have-nots]), I have to say it looks reasonable (its content). Considering the site launched today, that is.

The layout is fairly simple: four questions most Americans worry about are asked (“how will I keep my job?”; “how should we use taxpayer money?”; “how will I grow my savings?”; “how will I keep my house?). When you click on the – yes, quite ugly even cartoonish (change the frigging design immediately – it doesn’t even almost look professional) – icon, you’re taken to a different page where the economic plan of House Republicans on this specific subject is summarized. If you want to read more, you can click on the “read more” button which takes you to a more extensive and detailed PDF file.

Again: Not bad. Not bad at all.

They will have to find some way, however, to get voters to visit the site. As of yet, the only people who visit it are bloggers like myself. They’ll have to get the word out. Cantor should go on TV, radio shows, Internet talk shows, talk to bloggers and print media journalists, etc. The GOP has ideas. It has just not succeeded in sharing them with the public at large.