Being part of an effort that fails does not make you a loser; it makes you a competitor. What makes you a loser is curling up into the fetal position at a time of adversity. The only thing that would ever define anyone as a loser is to quit before it is over.
Steve Schmidt, the not-exactly-clueless campaign manager for John McCain, in an article on time.com citing the Washington Post of 10-26-2008.
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