How To Lose Elections

Lorie Byrd has a Townhall column up that gives a clear primer on how to lose elections. Read it and see if any of it sounds familiar.

1. Instead of taking positive action and doing the hard work necessary to elect strong conservative candidates in the primaries, whine about how the Republicans aren’t any better than the Democrats. It is sure as heck a lot easier to whine than to make phone calls, stuff envelopes and knock on doors for conservative candidates.

2. After a primary candidate is chosen (without any help from you), forget about how many more positions on issues you and the GOP candidate share, and forget how far left their Democratic opponent is, and instead work against the Republican in the general election (or withhold support from them) to “send a message.”

3. Instead of disagreeing in a civil manner over various issues with those in the party, get emotional and accuse those on your side of being mean doodyheads. (If anyone doubts this is going on, I will gladly share evidence of it with you, but will admit that generally a word worse than “doodyhead” is employed.)

4. Bask in the misery of another loss and instead of working to get conservative Republicans elected in 2010, try to pull as many others as possible into your negative state of being.

Number three is one that is really easy to fall into, BTW. Go over and read it all, though. Lorie makes a lot of sense. The media is holding early coronations for certeain familiar Democrats and publishing obituaries for the Republicans in an effort to cast a pall of inevitablity over 2008. Do you really want to do what the media is cheering for? Or would you rather fight?