“Yeah, we’d probably be smart to follow Mitt’s example just give up on all that patriotic, constitutional, pro-America stuff. Much easier to stop fighting with the left, and figure out how to beat them at their own agenda.
What a winning strategy!”
While I certainly understand the desire to fight on principle, fighting when you don’t have any power is generally futile and tends to make things that much worse.
The Dems learned that lesson and behaved very carefully in 2007 and 2008 when they ran Congress, but Bush was still president. Not a peep about Amnesty or Health Care back then, or anything else that would make them look extreme. Better to hold quiet until they got their dictator elected - and they did. They were not about to blow the 2008 presidential election by acting on principal. It seems Romney’s campaign understands that also.
Tell that to the barefoot, freezing farmers, who defeated the world's most powerful empire and founded America.
Today, we Americans who believe in the principles the Founding Generation fought and died for, are far better positioned to restore what they sacrificed so much to build. We are the majority in this fight, despite the current roll call in Congress.
To assume that we have "no power" is simply ignoring reality. We most definitely DO have the power, but we're foolishly entrusting a man who bears no resemblance to us, to do our bidding, once elected.
The political reality is that he will control a full third of the government, and will have major influence over another third, even if it's mostly comprised of Republicans. In effect, the political dynamics that are killing the nation now, will remain exactly as they are, and so will the political agenda.