Too many Republicans are said to be reluctant to criticize a leader of their own party for engaging in behavior they rightly would excoriate any Democrat for perpetrating.
Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps told the BBC's Sunday Politics in November that targeting these seat would be "very important" for the party as would engaging in "pavement politics" in local communities.
It is not at all unusual today for the company to take ownership for only a part of the overall process, while engaging a toller to perform one part of a process and another third party to package and ship the product.
Like Lee, Park is a member of South Korea's main conservative party, but she has promised to find a middle ground by re-engaging Pyongyang through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue.
For instance, when the US reacted to North Korea's 2006 nuclear and ICBM tests by reinstating the six-party talks in the hopes of appeasing Pyongyang, Iran learned that by exhibiting an interest in engaging the US on its uranium enrichment program it could gain valuable time.