It's been nearly a year since Democrat Barack Obama beat Republican John McCain for the presidency and the Grand Old Party has made a handful of attempts to give itself a makeover. All have stagnated. Now, the fractured party finds itself trying to regroup as the 2010 election cycle nears. "The party is sort of in warlord status -- where different people are leading different fiefdoms, different warring armies that are frequently at war with each other," says author John Avlon.