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This is a loose historical analogy:

The Dems are like the Roman legions.
They fought with a hive-mind mentality.
There were no "single soldiers".
All of them were were trained to consider themselves personally unimportant and only part of greater unstoppable whole.
The Celts, OTOH, were fiercely autonomous.
Each Clan was a "kingdom" unto itself, only loosely joined to other Clans by culture, language, shared beliefs and blood ties.
The Romans conquered them because the Celts could not shake off their ideas of "honor" and "single combat" with the enemy.
Their "freestyle" battle techniques could not withstand the relentless surge of legions of single-minded Roman automatons.

Historians credit the defeat of Gaul by Caesar to the Celt's inability to unite under a single flag, as it were.
The very individuality and self-reliance that made them such a magnificent culture was their undoing, ultimately.

They simply could not put aside internecine rivalries long enough to form a cohesive front against the tide of a focused horde of single-minded invaders.

Conservatives are like that.
We put great stock in fighting fair, never cheating to achieve a goal, standing up for ourselves rather than leaving our defense to the socialist nanny-state.

The very principles that make us "better" also make us vulnerable to an "enemy" who has no principles and who will do *anything* to conquer us.

Having said that, I have no idea how to unite conservatives into a front that will pay off in the long run.
Too many of us have "issues" that cause us to stay home on election day rather than vote with an eye to the "in the long run" future.

Long ago the Dems that controlled my state were decent, conservative people.
Slowly and without anyone noticing, they began to be replaced by pure Socialist scum.
Still, my state went "Dem" in every election, out of sheer habit and loyalty to a party that really existed no more.

The Dems were smart that way.
Elect a "dixiecrat" this time, a more liberal one next, and so on and so on until the changeover was complete.

I detest RINOS and my governor is one...but...he sets the precedent for a more conservative RINO next time, and so on and so on until hopefully, we get a -real- conservative governor.

That is the big picture I look at when I vote for a less-than-perfect conservative and it's my only hope for the long run.

Sorry this is so long and meandering but this is what I think has to happen, nationwide.
We'll have to learn to use their own tactics to beat them.

Dems never "fight fair" and would elect the Devil himself if he ran with a (D) by his name.
We're gonna lose the whole country unless we all realize that and respond aggressively and cohesively.

A lion may be the "noble king of beasts" yet a horde of tiny hive-mind army ants can bring it down.

"Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future."
-- Ronald Wilson Reagan

Despite my quarrels with domestic Bush policy, there is no way I can let the 'Rats win by voting a third party. United we stand, divided we fall. Winning the war is more important than winning the battle. It took 70 years of the "New Deal" to get here. Repealing it overnight won't be possible. I'd rather chip away till it crumbles, and not allow the 'Rats to make it petrified.