{"id":5157,"date":"2022-04-24T05:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2022-04-24T06:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T12:31:15","slug":"principles-are-for-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5157","title":{"rendered":"Principles are for losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"f9r78-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"f9r78-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f9r78-0-0\">Principles are only worth sticking to if your opponent is also principled. Republicans keep forgetting the old truism that the aggressor makes the rules. Democrats are the aggressors and they are utterly UNPRINCIPLED.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"5nt7i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5nt7i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5nt7i-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"3bl9n-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3bl9n-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3bl9n-0-0\">So Republicans should be fighting like Sherman Marching to the Sea. Not losing with honor and their principles intact. That just makes you losers and nobody will remember your principles.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"4kppu-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"4kppu-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4kppu-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"tloa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"tloa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"tloa-0-0\">*****<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"a79fr-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"a79fr-0-0\">When the Left burned cities, 99% got a slap on the wrist and rarely jail time. Cons go wandering around the capital and they get a vast panoply of human rights violations against them. Obama was the most corrupt administration in recent history except Biden. But they don\u2019t get investigated. Cons get dragged out of their house in the middle of the night by SWAT teams and shown off to the media over obscure regulations. Trump was investigated repeatedly and illegally for things that were never even CONSIDERED worthy of investigation in previous administrations.\u2026<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"d6jcf-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"csome-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"csome-0-0\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"d6jcf-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"d6jcf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d6jcf-0-0\">Nobody has been afraid of the Republicans in my LIFETIME. Lois Lerner can laugh at a congressional committee the Republicans are running and gets away with it. Strosz can smirk and preen. Bureaucrats and businessmen flat out lie to Republican leadership and nothing happens.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"d5ph4-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"d5ph4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d5ph4-0-0\">But they don\u2019t do that to Democrats. Why?<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"d5ph4-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"d5ph4-0-0\">Because if you do, the Left will kill you. They will f\u2019ing DESTROY YOU.\u2026<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"co9k7-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"ep1i-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ep1i-0-0\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"co9k7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"co9k7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"co9k7-0-0\">So why doesn\u2019t the Right (metaphorically) kill people who disrespect their leadership? Why do the bureaucrats and businesses think they can screw over the Right but not the Left?<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"co9k7-0-1\">*<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"6u4s4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6u4s4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6u4s4-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"4vr6p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"4vr6p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4vr6p-0-0\">PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"6lt2a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6lt2a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6lt2a-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"ep1i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ep1i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ep1i-0-0\">The PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! crowd has been a Conservative Surrender Chorus for as long as I can remember.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"drh3t-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"drh3t-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"drh3t-0-0\">A guest post by John Ringo. Read the whole thing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"ne2d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"ne2d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ne2d-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8rdb4\" data-offset-key=\"5tss9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"5tss9-0-0\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2022\/04\/23\/principles-are-a-grand-thing-a-guest-post-by-john-ringo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Principles Are A Grand Thing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principles are only worth sticking to if your opponent is also principled. Republicans keep forgetting the old truism that the aggressor makes the rules. Democrats are the aggressors and they are utterly UNPRINCIPLED. \u00a0 So Republicans should be fighting like Sherman Marching to the Sea. Not losing with honor and their principles intact. That just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Principles are for losers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,125,46,69,85,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-morality","category-democrats","category-gop-rinos","category-idiots-politicians","category-politics","category-war-on-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}