While conservatives have lost in America, the center-right is winning elsewhere, the GOP -- and the American conservative movement -- must look at these wins for the ideas and solutions we need to find electoral success in 2010 and 2012.

In my travels as a representative to our sister parties, I have marveled at the success of conservatives in countries that we often view as left-of-center.

Canada re-elected its center-right government, under Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in recent weeks and the right is about to knock off the socialist prime minister in New Zealand. In Britain, the Tories are poised to return to power after a transformation under David Cameron's leadership. Republicans can also look to Sweden for ideas from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's governing center-right coalition.

Sure there may be differences in the blend of conservatism in each of these countries, but there are important lessons that must be learned if the Republicans want to return from the wilderness within the next decade.

Conservatism isn't dead, and the United States is still a center-right country, however, it's a country that wants new ideas. Republicans cannot expect to win by reusing the talking points of 30 years ago.

Tomorrow's Republican leaders must take our core principles -- the principles of Ronald Reagan -- and apply them to the challenges of the 21st Century.

As Cameron has said, "Freedom is our mission now, as it always has been. But it is not a mission at all, simply an exercise in nostalgia, unless we apply it to the reality of people's lives today."

The Republicans have to be able to explain their vision for America in a way that connects with the modern concerns of voters across the country and not just in a few regions.