In the long run Bill, it's still best to explain what your values are, promote them and implement them.
If we don't talk about fiscal conservancy who will? If we don't impose fiscal conservancy who will? If we don't promote these things, how can we stand up on election day and say that we are any different than the democrats? And if we can't proclaim the issues that are ours, on what basis do we seek to win elections?
Two Democrats won election today claiming to be fiscal conservatives. They are two tax and spend democrats, but our people haven't promoted or implemented fiscal conservancy, so the democrats were able to lie and win.
This is but one example of why it is so vitally important to stick to our values, promote our values and implement those values.
Spending...
Land grabs...
Non enforcement of our nation's laws...
Ignorance of Constitutional issues...
Transfers of our top secrets to China...
The dismantling of our military...
The adoption of one military theater level or readiness...
I could go on, but we have utterly failed on these vitally important issues. How then can we claim to be better than democrats on them. We open the door, and they claim these issues as their own and the public is completely baffled as to who is telling the truth.
We have essentially committed political suicide, as it applies to our core values. We're going to pay for this.
We lost two state houses today. What will we lose next fall? If we don't get our act together, we could lose one hell of a lot, and it won't be because we didn't unify behind bad anti-conservative policies.