Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:50:22 AM
No one has learned the lesson that in some states and some districts a conservative can't win and
we are better off with a guy who votes with us sometimes than a guy who never votes with us. Here is
Hugh, today:
"Speaking of the judgment of voters, Loopy Lincoln Chafee is on the ballot today in the Rhode Island Republican primary, and hopefully by this time tomorrow night the voters will have served him notice of his retirement. Vote for Steve Laffey."
Sorta reminds me of John Bell Hood's strategy at the Battle of Franklin. "This army needs discipline, and the best way to discipline it is to kill it off by sending it against an impregnable position." Six Confederate generals died, 8 were wounded, 1 was captured, and Hood's army disintegrated. But it couldn't be all bad, because he got a major army post named after him.
From Wikipedia:
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Battle Cry of Freedom, historian James M. McPherson wrote,
- Having proved even to Hood's satisfaction that they could assault breastworks, the Army of Tennessee had shattered itself beyond the possibility of ever doing so again."