Conservatives are like the British in the American Revolution who preferred to fight out in the open. Liberals fight like the American country fighters, who fought behind cover, ambushed and bushwhacked. Conservatives prefer to be honorable victims, and then complain about the unfair playing field while their country dies a slow death.
I hear you - I guess when we tell everyone how we lost, we can claim we lost "honorably". Some seem to overlook that if you are fighting evil, you have to be able to present even more force than evil does if you are to destroy it. Our Party is becoming "too principled" to actually engage in an actual conflict and win - once our "sensibilities" take a hit, we resort to vociferous rants and cease any counter-hostilities. Instead of taking the street fight to them, we claim to be above such shenanigans and cross our arms, tap out toes, and wait for them to become just as "civilized". The fact that "PCism" has taken such a strong root in the Nation backs this up - we have allowed ourselves to become emasculated and seem to buy more into the deal than those who put the gears in motion.