None of the GOP presidential candidates is "breaking out."

In fact, the race is actually becoming more crowded as Mike Huckabee joins the top tier of Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain.

But I'll let you in on a little secret.

I know how one of these candidates – or maybe even one of those not in the top tier – could distinguish himself sufficiently from the pack to energize the Republican base.

And, guess what? It won't cost them a dime – not for the advice I am about to impart and not to put the winning program into place.

You see, I still believe it's about ideas.

I think Ronald Reagan's campaigns, essentially, were about ideas. He was a slick package, no question about it. He was the whole enchilada. But, without the ideas, Ronald Reagan would have looked like an empty suit up there on the stage.

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So what are these big ideas?

My campaign stump speech would incorporate the following:

• The day I take office, I will declare a national day of prayer and fasting for the future of our country. We live in dangerous times – with challenges at home and abroad. I want to ensure that we make every effort to beseech the God of the universe to bestow his blessings and favor upon us. This would be in the great tradition of other early American presidents who recognized we must humble ourselves before the Almighty. And, you know what? I would mean it.

• On my second day in office, while breaking my fast that morning, I would begin implementing my bully-pulpit plan to dismantle the Internal Revenue Service and eliminate the income tax forevermore. How do you think that would play in Peoria?

• On my third day in office, I would not just begin my fight against all unconstitutional efforts to restrict firearms in America, I would urge Americans to arm themselves – because it's the right thing to do. There would be no better anti-crime program, no better anti-terrorist program and anti-tyranny program, than a heavily armed civilian population.

• I'd explain that on my fourth day in office, I would make sure the executive branch of government was doing everything in its power to erect the border fence. I would explain that there would be no discussion by the White House about any amnesty plans or guest worker programs until the border fence was complete and Americans had confidence that we knew who was entering our country.

• On the fifth day, we'd begin exploring all the ways we would begin enforcing our immigration laws inside our borders – with employer sanctions and attacking sanctuary cities and challenging court rulings on anchor babies and taking the fight to illegal alien gangs like MS-13.

• On the sixth day, I'd talk directly to the American people, explaining how they'd been lied to, deceived into believing government was their friend. I'd tell them their hope is in God as well as freedom, self-reliance and personal responsibility.

• On the seventh day, I would rest.

• On the eighth day, I'd begin my assault on all wealth redistribution programs of the federal government. I might not be able to eliminate them all – but I'd give it my best shot.

• On the ninth day, I'd ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire from her seat on the Supreme Court so I could nominate a strict constructionist justice who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, that illegitimate piece of judicial activist legislation.

I could go on, as I'm sure you've guessed. I could lay out an agenda for all 1,461 days of my first term. But you get the idea. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think a majority of Americans would respond favorably to those kinds of bold plans.

I think it just might be the key to a Republican breakout candidacy.

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