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...derives great personal satisfaction from his position on that snow-white pedestal of self-defined moral purity.

A self defeating curse too many FReepers suffer from.

Tactics the science of securing an objective set by a strategy.

Strategy the overall planning for achieving a goal.

We win wars because we remember what the goal is and use every tactic possible to achieve it. We want to end abortion (goal/objective). We will seek to defund abortion mills (tactic) in the process making it harder to find a place to get an abortion (strategy). While the purists fight for the "perfect" solution to end abortion (our common goal) their tactic of not supporting small strategic steps because they aren't "perfect" causes nothing to happen and the pro-abortion forces continue to win.

We see this problem in resolving illegal immigration, fiscal issues and foreign policy. In a nutshell pursuit of the perfect kills the good tactical move.

I believe that when legal abortion is finally gone from the United States, it will be as a result on incremental victories.

At that time, those who sat on the sidelines and rejected every incremental step will be correctly seen to be complicit in the deaths of many of the unborn.

Your argument falls apart in light of the fact that the compromised tactics you’re defending simply don’t work. We have about forty years worth of proof of that.

You reap what you sow. It’s always been true, and it always will be.

A lot of what you get here on FR is the people who believe that they have to prove their conservative bona fides by staking out an absolutist position on their pet issue(s) and castigating as THE ENEMY everyone who is not in 100.00000% agreement.

It's the biggest problem FR has in my opinion.