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Is it not wishful thinking you might win the lottery one day? Is it not wishful thinking that we might get a non-establishment standard bearer?

It is not wishful thinking that talking about it and acting on it will result in one never having the chance to happen?

I would say that at one time “wishful thinking” was the same thing that our founding fathers had only to start with.

Or maybe you would consider the actions of Admiral Farragut started as wishful thinking.

On August 5, 1864, Farragut won a great victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay. Mobile, Alabama, was then the Confederacy’s last major open port on the Gulf of Mexico. The bay was heavily mined (tethered naval mines were then known as “torpedoes”). Farragut ordered his fleet to charge the bay. When the monitor USS Tecumseh struck a mine and sank, the others began to pull back.

Farragut could see the ships pulling back from his high perch, where he was lashed to the rigging of his flagship, USS Hartford.

“What’s the trouble?”, he shouted through a trumpet to USS Brooklyn.

“Torpedoes”, was the shouted reply.

“Damn the torpedoes.”, said Farragut, “Four bells, Captain Drayton, go ahead. Jouett, full speed.” The bulk of the fleet succeeded in entering the bay.

Farragut triumphed over the opposition of heavy batteries in Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines to defeat the squadron of Admiral Franklin Buchanan.