Principled conservatives blind and foolish enough to keep playing their rigged game are the losers. If it were just a matter of wins and losses in the political horse race, I frankly wouldn’t care. But the things Phyllis Schlafly and others like her have battled for all their lives are vital to the survival and perpetuation of our constitution of liberty. They are vital to the hopes of decent people throughout the world. Such people want just, decent self-government, secure from the might-makes-right depredations of elitist gangsters, whatever religious or ideological pose they use to beatify their crimes.