Let whoever said the GOP has no message or plan heading into the final weeks of the election season be damned. They have a plan alright. And no, it's not this cheap strip of single-ply toilet paper that Reince Priebus distributed last week. It is not Reince Priebus's list of such specific agenda items as "have big economy good" and "more Constitution." No one -- no one -- cared about that. The real message, the real plan, is four-pronged, a bit hazy, dumb, yeah, sure, but artistic and masterful all the same.
The GOP's strategy for the last month of the campaign is Ebola, Secret Service, ISIS, and the Border. You take any combination of these disparate news events, connect them or don't as you see fit, and somehow distill your concoction into an argument for why more Republicans should serve in the United States Senate.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a frequently fatal disease and one person in the United States has died from it. ISIS is a terrorist group controlling a piece of territory along the Iraq and Syrian border. The Secret Service is the agency that protects the president and his family and has suffered a couple of lapses. The border between Mexico in the United States is an international border that people sneak across sometimes.