NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/January 28, 2008 Issue (on newsstands Monday, Ja...( COVER: The Party's Over (p. 22)...),Health

COVER: "The Party's Over" (p. 22). Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes that President Bush has left the GOP in a precarious state. But the party's candidates can learn much from his failures. "It is too late to reinvent the party's core beliefs," writes Thomas. "But the GOP candidates can embark on a more humble mission: to show, in effect, some humility. By examining Bush's hubris, his almost willful disregard for annoying counterarguments, the Republican candidates can demonstrate a greater level of critical open- mindedness and self-awareness -- they can show that they are not deluded by wishful thinking and Manichaean narratives." With White House Correspondent Holly Bailey, National Correspondent Suzanne Smalley, Washington Correspondent Pat Wingert and Correspondent Sarah Elkins.
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LIVING POLITICS: "Homeward Bound" (p. 27). Senior Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that the presidential candidates blew through Las Vegas "like conventioneers" in search of the big score in the Nevada caucuses. But as "one of America's fastest growing metro areas, Las Vegas is now also the leader in mortgage foreclosures. A city built on faith in luck suddenly feels a little scared, as the dream of cheap loans for homes vanishes for the hotel employees who comprise the aspiring middle class," he writes. Yet, the question remains "who has the right cards to deal with it?"

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POLITICS: "How My Party Lost Its Way" (p. 28). "A dispirited Republican Party struggles to find its post-Bush path," Michael Gerson, the former senior adviser to President Bush and speechwriter, writes in a guest essay. "In early 2008
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