Well, as a conservative living in California, I'm not at all sure I am a part of a major party anymore. I don't know when it happened, but I think Al Davis now runs the GOP in CA.....
"JUST WIN BABY!"
Giving up too easily is a Conservative flaw. Right flight is what lost academia, labor, the bureaucracy (big or small) to the Left.
"JUST WIN BABY!"
Yes, in politics, first you win. If you don't win, then the other guy does and you get more frustrated and everybody gets screwed.