You can't do the first without doing the second. Partisanship doesn't have to be about "just win, baby", but losing gains you nothing. At some point, you have to engage in the fight if you want to achieve anything. The election win isn't the victory in politics. The victory comes with what you can do once you've won.
Says the partisan, comfortable in the womb.
Partisanship doesn't have to be about "just win, baby"
Only a partisan would assume his audience a fool. Even FO wasn't that clumsy.
The victory comes with what you can do once you've won.
Indeed. Republicans can thank conservatives that the Austrian, the mayor and the Mormon aren't going to be unleash on an unsuspecting populas at the national level.