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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.

Now you're making my point. That's why the Right (I won't say "conservatives" because that term is losing meaning) needs people such as myself who don't mind getting down and dirty with the Left.

You mention principles. Okay, then. Fine. But principles have no legs nor arms of their own. They sound good and puff up the chest with pride. Then what?

Worshipping principle is like a near-death starving man admiring a dinner plate. No matter how pretty it is, it won't do him any good unless he takes the action of eating it, correct? Even if he has no eating utensils and will look like a slob while eating!

If your enemy is shooting at you with an AR-15, yet you insist on firing back with a BB gun due to vaguely defined "principle," then you deserve what happens to you for being stupid.

That was a rhetorical "you," so you know.

I understand the 'rhetorical you,' and you will not find me too lightly-armed for most gun battles (although my .50-cal purchases have been delayed for economic reasons...)

Be that as it may, conservatives (the Right) have one major difficulty, and it's really only one: they will not lie like hell (and I hope you don't either.)

The Left constructs "needs"/"Crises" based on lies--and proceeds to attempt solutions which empower the Gummint. The Right sees the "crises" as the ever-growing and stultifying hand of Gummint (in most cases,) and has failed to construct the language necessary to eradicate the problem. For practical purposes, there's only one reason: the "right" on which we rely for solutions are GUMMINT-dependent, too. They rather like being in a position where they are looked upon as Roman pro-consuls, having petitioners and rent-seekers at their doorstep and at their beck and call.

Thus, the problem may, in the end, NOT be soluble, and no amount of street-fighting skills can be applied which will solve it.