I agree. You can, however, use some of tactics that the other side uses and still walk the high road.
One that I would agree to use is attack, attack, attack. Not smear, defame, sling mud, etc but if you have to go on the defensive you have lost much of your momentum.
The left does this ALONG with smearing, etc.
I want to get my licks in too.
I don't think we're ever going to best them at their own game, though. It's like thinking that the "saving graces of western materialism" are going to change the hearts or minds of militant atheists.
I just don't see how you rationalize compromising the truth so as to deliver it in incremental portions. It seems the most utterly self-defeating tack I could possibly imagine taking.
I also wish to avoid anything resembling an apology or shame over my acceptance of the Scientifically Proven Fact that every human life begins at conception or the moral truth that taking an innocent human life is always evil.
When the left elects their representatives based on the stated Personal Convictions of the man or woman regarding abortion, the environment, gay rights, nuclear power, etc. etc. they rightfully expect and consistently receive votes that comport perfectly as promised.
It's the right who elects "pro-lifers" who perpetually cite "political realities", their need to appeal to women in order to get re-elected or the fact that -- horrors! -- Gore might get some good press coverage from the liberal media to EXCUSE their perpetual failure to vote in accordance with the personal convictions by which we decided to vote for them.
Something's not quite right here.
Until we get that much straightened out ... until we have a leadership willing to emulate the Left's Litmus Tests and lockstep voting and CONSISTENCY, I see no reason to dumb down the rank and file.