Never retract. Never explain. Get the job down and let them howl.

That is a quote attributed to 19th century Oxford professor Benjamin Jowett – quite a famous educator in his time. I bring it up because we on our side – the Right side of the political spectrum – need to lay that quote to heart. Why?

Well, the other day Kari Lake made a statement about how the House should annul the 2020 election and install Trump into the White House. I didn’t bother looking deeply into it because such a thing can’t be done and I’ve no time to waste on such things. But lots of people did look into it – naturally ridiculing Lake over it and making a huge fuss out of a few words said by a private citizen on TV. The thing is that huge numbers of people were attacking her from the right.

What possible use is that? What advantage can we possibly gain by joining the Left in attacking one of our own?

Don’t bother telling me that the statement was bad. Of course it was. But where was it handed down from on high that if someone says something ridiculous that everyone has to comment on it? Condemn it? Further: when was the rule established that we have to make sure we condemn any of our own who say or do something stupid? Do the Democrats ever attack their own? Stacy Abrams and her boosters went on for years saying she had won the Georgia gubernatorial race even though it was patently obvious that she hadn’t – and to contrast with Lake, at least in the case of Arizona there remain some very serious questions about whether or not all the GOP ballots were counted and/or whether or not some Democrat ballots were slipped in after the election was over. Abrams lost clearly – and if there was any cheating, it would have been the per-usual cheating Democrats do. So, if anything, Abrams lost by a larger margin than official totals. But, that didn’t stop her, nor her people: claiming for ages that it was fixed and she was the legitimate governor of Georgia. Did you ever hear a single Democrat get out there and ridicule her? Condemn her? Even take mild exception to her position?

No. Not a peep. And to this day Abrams is a highly regarded leader in the Democrat party. Why do we on the Right always participate in Leftist attacks on our own? We do not need to. If one of our commits a crime, you can rely on it that the Establishment will prosecute (and as we see with Trump, even if there isn’t a crime). If one of ours does something immoral, that’s gonna lead the news. So, if one of ours is actually bad, they’re gone. But if one of ours merely says or does something dumb: let them weather the storm. Make a judgement if you want to stand up for them depending on the nature of the mistake…but for goodness sake, don’t help the Democrats destroy them! You don’t have to jump in there. Almost certainly, nobody asked you. And anyone who does ask you is a Democrat operative trying to get GOPers on record condemning a fellow GOPer…simply to make it easier to destroy that GOPer.

If a GOPer/Conservative angers you, here’s an idea: move on. Find a Democrat to attack. Don’t attack the GOPer. That GOPer will be attacked, at length, for actions real and imagined by the regime MSM. Your help is not needed! And nobody cares that you manged to preen yourself on our superior morality by condemning someone on our side.

Unless and until we get to the Democrat level of loyalty to friends and ruthlessness to enemies, we’re simply not going to win.