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Conservatives are not happy to merely “win.” We want to first win the battle of ideals, which we believe we can do and which will then translate into election victories, and then we want to govern. Because our form of governance is what it will take to reverse course and keep our nation from crashing headlong into the fiscal abyss or becoming the Soviet Union but with better condos.

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This just sounds backwards and naive. Winning means being able to implement ideals..merely "win" is an admission they can't win simply by those ideals - they have to actually be able to win and take over to govern. That means playing by the rules not simply knowing they're right and expecting LIV to catch on

From the article:

2. The Tea Party faction, meanwhile, has been criticized by everybody, really, but the most harsh critiques has come from the Establishment GOP and Consultant Class. Their beef? Tea Party faithful are essentially being too conservative – too much so for pragmatic, practical and political purposes, but also too much so to win elections.

Wrong.

The Tea Party is properly criticized because of its inflated sense of its own political power and because Tea Partiers can't be trusted*...even by other Tea Partiers.

* See: Kelly Ayotte and Marco Rubio