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Is it possible that the Republicans are intentionally positioning themselves so as to force the Democrats to take the war away from them?
Surely, behind closed doors, even the Republican brass know the war is lost. If this is so, then the only place to go is to damage control. And what could be better damage control than "We would have won, but those rascally defeatist Democrats took control from us using ." At this point, the only question is how far do they go to pretend to be attempting to retain control before handing it over to the Democrats.
Just a thought.