My first principle is to deal with reality.
I thought you said your first principle was winning?
Of course I don't know how reality figures into the idea that advancing a Conservative agenda requires voting for and pushing a lifelong NYC liberal Democrat with no principles except being able to tweet nasties to those who diss him.
That reality is if you lose elections, you gain no power to implement small, limited government.
Yeah... and we've seen the 'reality' of what happens when Republicans win elections. Same Socialist shit, rebranded and retooled because the GOP thinks themselves better managers of Statism.
If this is what we get when Republicans 'win' elections, they might as well keep losing them for all the difference it ultimately makes.