[rdb3]

And if conservatives learned the same lesson, we would be farther ahead right now.

Politically speaking, conservatives are just plum dumb. I'm talking about the officials and the grassroots. They're stupid, and they more often than not fail to put their money where their mouths are.

[ninenot]

I dunno about "dumb."

In front of me is an old saying: "Guile must wear clothes, but truth goes naked." (Scots proverb.)

Conservatives have only the naked truth. The libs have a well-dressed, ah, whore--which is attractive to many.

We can't "dress up" for the game.

OTOH, it is true that conservatives are not go-for-the-throat street-fighters. Perhaps they have too many principles to act in the same fashion as do the Libs.