Losers

This comment, from Atrios, got me thinking:

House rejects constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. I've been getting a bit confused about the politics of this stuff. Yes I know it allows them to claim that about of Democrats love the gay even more than they love the terrorist, or something, but at some point I have to believe that failing to actually win on any of this stuff has to make them look like a bunch of losers.

Losing is part of the strategy, in a perverse kind of way. You have to remember that the victim mantra is a keystone of the Christianist strategy -- it's a vast conspiracy by everyone but them to destroy America. If they don't lose on things like this, then how can there be an evil cabal out to subvert our values? That's why they take on these hopeless agendas.