Proverbs 26:4-5 gives us the blueprint for dealing with fools.
Don’t argue with them in their folly, ie, don’t accept their premises and argue based on those premises, or you’ll be just as foolish as they,
but answer to their premises, showing them the folly of those premises, or else the fool will remain wise in his own eyes.
The GOP would be in far better shape if King Solomon were their ‘Architect’ rather than Karl Rove.