I agree we still have to at least fight. I will not be silent, but I consider this like the United States has terminal cancer and you know how you try and fight that and it gets the best of most of them. But I will at least try. Hey, I voted yesterday in NY even though I knew this state was terminal so I did my part.
Hey, here in NM we have a full rat contingent for the house and senate. A lot of Ron Paul supporters went for 0bama (at least here). But all is not lost.
To borrow your cancer analogy, the way to fight it is to kill it (in a philosophical way). We can no longer give liberals and rats any quarter. We always have to feel hungry for it and fight for it. We became complacent and it got us to this point.
So in NY, lets get the rural areas back and work on the urban centers. Let gain majorities in the state legislatures, from which we can begin to change the urban landscape.