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I agree with everything you wrote. But it doesn’t cancel out what I wrote — that we are already captives of the enemy, politically speaking (and only politically speaking, padre). So conservative strategy must be revised in order to overthrow the chokehold of the present perfumed tyranny. Incrementally, if necessary, such as electing a lefty liberal cultist like Romney instead of bending over for the incumbent.

Except that there are no signs of success using that strategy in the US for returning the country to it's conservative roots.

In fact, the exact opposite approach, whereby conservatives and the GOP, stick to their principles and ethics has almost always been shown to be successful. Reagan is the best example of this approach, the election cycle of 2010 is the next best example, followed by the election cycle of 1994 (Contract With America).

Finally, Karl Rove used your theory last election cycle and lost horribly with his slate of candidates including that horrible candidate Mitt Romney.

You don't win by compromising your ethics and principles, you win by being principled.

Many of you are speaking theoretically about elections, as if a given set of principles are the only correct ones to use at all times. I am speaking about one particular election, the last one, when I say that conservatives should have held their noses and gone out to vote for the admittedly awful candidate, who was nevertheless less awful than the media creation he ran against.

Further, I have been speaking about what conservatives must do now that the conservative side is down for the count, while many of you keep bringing up the past. The past is over; since our nation has never, ever been in our current situation before, examples from the past cannot foretell all that must be done now.

Conservatives need to guard against reactionary emoting instead of looking at the reality on the ground and being ready to respond to the horror that lies before us as need be (and one hopes by divine direction), not according to some preconceived poly-sci formula. That was (and is) Rove's approach; and I agree, it did not work and will not work. He needs to SDSU.