Apocryphal Napoleon Maxim as GOP strategy

As a college history major and a lifelong historiophile, to coin a phrase, I'm a firm believer in the analysis of history to understand the present and to predict the future.

For this to be effective, the first step of that is an accurate understanding of history. To truly learn from what has happened in the past, a  student of history must be true to the events as they occurred. With the Internet, it is easy to quickly come to the assumption that Ben Franklin was correct when he said, "Everything on the Internet is true." If we believe that Ben Franklin made such statement, we can  become comfortable with what George Orwell predicted. A government-run Department of History would actually exist and rewrite past events for the people to be better able to comply with Big Brother's vision.

The latest incarnation of this Big Brother method of doing politics is the GOP's great claim to following a supposedly Napoleonic maxim. The saying goes "Never get in the way of an enemy who is  destroying himself."The first step is to question whether this statement was ever made by Napoleon.

While I am not sitting in a library filled with source materials on Napoleon, this sounds like a preposterous quote. One writer attempted to trace the history of this alleged quote. His attempt is at http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/06/never-interfere/. I will not vouch for his analysis, but his methodology is more sound than the Republicans quoting Franklin about the Internet. I have not independently investigated. For the sake of discussion, let us assume that his analysis is correct. If he is correct, what does this tell us about the GOP's political strategy?

According to this revised quotation, Napoleon was only in favor of allowing the enemy to make one tactical error. Napoleon then was ready, willing, and able to seize the initiative on the battlefield to begin his counterattack. To suggest that Napoleon was in favor of a strategy of strategic inaction is to fail to understand the Napoleon entirely. Napoleon was renowned for his aggressiveness and willingness to attack. In fact that willingness is part of his self-destruction when he pursued a land war in Russia going into the winter.

The only way Napoleon would be willing to show patience was a matter of tactical patience. He would not give up strategic initiative.

What can the GOP learn from this proper analysis of history, assuming my sources are correct? 

The opportunity to turn tactical patients into a strategic initiative has arrived. We should be looking at the opportunity to overcome Obamacare through aggressive strategic counter-response.

The GOP needs to avoid making the classic Democrat mistake of purposefully misunderstanding history and its lessons.