If we are not prepared to get down and fight fire with fire, do our own ballot harvesting, intense voter turnout efforts, volunteer phone banks and door to door to get our side to go down and vote, and more importantly, turn those completed ballots back in, we lose.
It also helps to get candidates that tell it like it is, unashamed to be conservative and outspoken, and not wishy washy hold back because they are afraid to alienate and lose votes.