Winning is really losing in MileHiLand, I take it?
Where did I say that? But you you were mistaken, the AWB did not go away because of any courageous consevatives standing on principal. I went away because conservatives, who were the minority, had the foresight at least slip in an escape hatch.
Yes the result was nice, even nicer when congress has simply do do nothing. But if that is your stradegy for future issues, well good luck.