The thing is, David, it worked for them. The libs have mastered the art of carping and complaining and taking potshots at everything they disagreed with, and guess what? It worked. They now own the WH, Congress, and much of the court system.
Republicans seem determined to refuse to learn about PR and how to sway public opnion. Your highbrow, Buckely-esque, "reasoned discourse" approach is never going to cut it with the American Idol majority, and you will continue to fail.
Oh...but we, the moral ones, are expected to play by the proper rules of etiquette, play nice and stay in the fence, while the commies cavort with crooks and play without even a pretense of anything called honor. They attack Palin's every breath and that of her children, slaughtering us at every turn and moving the country further and further toward complete loss of freedom with each new generation of brainwashed youth.
"Unfortunately the matter did not end in honourable battle, but left a stain on [their] bravery. They captured many of the “soldiers, fair-haired women, little boys, servants, kerne, horseboys, and herdsmen,” making of them “one universal litter of slaughter, butchering both prisoners and cattle.”