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December 16, 2007

How long must you wander in the political wilderness?

"Know thy enemy" - Sun Tzu (roughly translated).

The British lost the war with the fledgling colonies not because they had an inferior military - they had the larger, better trained, better armed force - but because they arrogantly underestimated the rag-tag colonial forces time after time. In short, they failed to know their enemy and paid a high price for it.

Democrats have been regularly losing to a numerically inferior force (GOP) for years now and for the same basic reason as the British lost to our forebears. We've seen it right here on the blog on the whole "HR2" issue.

Faced with tangible evidence from a conservative website demonstrating how a particular type of political "trap" works, we've seen several individuals glibly insist that their political enemy meant something other than what the linked site unequivocably demonstrates that they meant.

That attitude is guaranteed to produce more defeats unless or until the numerical advantage is great enough to compensate for such arrogance.

Posted by Kevin at December 16, 2007 09:08 AM