{"id":1747165,"date":"2022-11-21T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747165"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:32:31","slug":"losing-is-not-winning-no-matter-what-the-medias-favorite-conservatives-keep-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/losing-is-not-winning-no-matter-what-the-medias-favorite-conservatives-keep-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Is Not Winning, No Matter What The Media\u2019s Favorite \u2018Conservatives\u2019 Keep Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flosing-is-not-winning-no-matter-what-the-medias-favorite-conservatives-keep-saying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>There\u2019s a certain type of scam that takes place on the political right that\u2019s far worse than anything the Trump grifters have done. Because rather than just duping innocent voters out of their money, it comes with the added offense of convincing them that political defeat is preferable to tangible policy victories.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually all of the Never Trump people are guilty of perpetuating the scam, most recently David French, who wrote Monday in The New York Times that the pro-life movement may have achieved its greatest victory to date with the Supreme Court overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but that, <em>ACK-SHOO-UH-LEE<\/em>, the success was really a defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine. After decades of grinding work at every level of government, pro-lifers \u2014 French claims to be one \u2014 saw all of it come to fruition with a court, created in their image, delivering the hopes and dreams that many thought were unachievable. And then French kicks down the wall like the Kool-Aid Man declaring, \u201cNo, no, no, this is all wrong! By winning we actually lost!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not an exaggeration of his position. \u201cIf you reject Donald Trump, you reject the chance to nominate and confirm judges who could overturn Roe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/21\/opinion\/midterms-abortion-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote French<\/a>. \u201cEmbrace him and you empower a hateful man, and hateful men can do great harm. When faced with that dilemma, I chose to reject Mr. Trump \u2014 and not because I wavered one inch from my pro-life convictions. I rejected him because of those convictions. I rejected him because a Catholic taught this lifelong Protestant what a culture of life truly meant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See? By opposing Trump, and thus opting to forfeit potential Supreme Court picks that could overturn <em>Roe<\/em>, French won by losing. French was simply too pro-life to support a president who could deliver a pro-life win.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord Almighty: <em>David French, here is what you have been praying for.<\/em> <em>Give thanks and rejoic<\/em>e<em>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>French:<em> I\u2019m gonna have to pass, God. There\u2019s definitely a better way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>French then walks away with his head held high, bragging in The New York Times about how he just got morally richer by turning down a gift from Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You see this victory-via-failure scam among the media\u2019s favorite \u201cconservatives\u201d all the time. To wit, former Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, now at The New York Times, has an uninterrupted pattern of spending two years declaring every Democrat policy proposal to be a clear failure, then right before an election, explaining to readers that Republicans deserve to lose. He has done this since at least 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/17\/opinion\/joe-biden-conservative-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled himself<\/a> a \u201cBiden conservative,\u201d which allowed him to uphold his \u201cprinciples\u201d at the expense of his \u201cpolitics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hillary-the-conservative-hope-1462833870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016<\/a>, he wrote that \u201cthe best hope for what\u2019s left of a serious conservative movement in America is the election in November of a Democratic president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/lets-elect-hillary-now-1450742854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015<\/a>, he wrote an open letter to \u201cfellow conservatives,\u201d advising they all \u201cfast-forward past that sinking October feeling when we belatedly realize we\u2019re going to lose \u2014 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see this victory-via-failure scam among the media&#8217;s favorite &#8216;conservatives&#8217; all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1747168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}