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IMO, winning isn't everything. Politics goes in cycles. The pendulum swings one way, and it comes back the other way. Why does it come back?

It comes back, because gravitational pull swings it back.

Folks, I liken a well versed (Conservative) candidate to this gravitational effect. The pendulum will swing to the Democrats, and when they've been revealed for the evil failures they are, it will move the other direction.

How does the public recognize the evil failures? Do they suddenly have a come to Jesus moment by themselves? Do they suddenly understand the Conservative approach without input?

No folks, they grasp Conservative principles, when someone pounds that into them, and then after the Democrats do what the Conservatives predicted they would, people think, "Oh yeah, that (Conservative) guy was right!" We better go the other direction.

Here's the message our side continually misses, election after election after election after election...

Moving left defeats this whole process. If you don't predict honestly what the Leftist policy will do, and you in fact adopt a good portion of it, who alerts the public that there is a better way?

The answer is NOBODY!

We must lose some elections to win them. We must not be afraid to put our principles first.

If we fail to put our principles first, we will defeat ourselves constantly.

Bush, McCain, Romney... how has that worked out for us? Has the Left had their eyes opened even under Obama? No. Why?

Because the GOPe, the RNC, and the Leftist Republican talking heads don't clearly define the alternative to Leftist ideology.

There is is folks. The sure path to victory travels right through the garden of Principled Conservative wisdom.

Run little circles avoiding the garden, and reap nothing but weeds.

Haven't we had enough of the weeds? Support the Conservative. Tell everyone who says otherwise to STFU. Just be sure you have studied the policies of the cadidate before you convince yourself they are Conservative.

Populist sound-bites do not a policy make. The may sound good, they may cheer all of us on, but unless they touch on the specific issue, dismiss them for what they are, practitioners of moke and mirrors.

Yes, some folks professing to be on our side do this too..

” Politics goes in cycles. The pendulum swings one way, and it comes back the other way.”

Not from where I sit. Politics is not a pendulum, it is a ratchet. Tyranny advances, then is slowed. Then tyranny advances some more, before it is slowed again. then it advances some more...

Tyranny is never reversed by the political process. The size, scope, power, and influence of The Collective grows inexorably until it collapses of its own weight or is supplanted by a revolution.

Not pessimism, just simple observation. It’s not what I want, but it is what is.

If we judge political success by the advancement of an Agenda, then the Left is basically undefeated as their agenda of collectivism and cultural marxism has been advancing unhindered for more than a century, slowed only by the Coolidge and Reagan Administrations.