[pushforbush]

"Longstreet is a very good fighter when he gets in position and gets everything ready, but he is so slow.” General Robert E. Lee after the battle of Gettysburg. I think Karl Rove's great grandfather was the staff aide to Longstreet.

You can wait so long to get ready and be accurate that the time to act passes.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Even in war (a very different enterprise than electoral politics), you wouldn't want your generals spending all their time reacting to what the enemy is doing -- perhaps you would find their time better spent in trying to accomplish your own side's objectives.

[macbee]

Don't get me started about Longstreet's so-called "slowness." The man was a superb strategist and an excellent leader. If Lee had followed his advice about relieving Vicksburg, the Civil War might have ended very differently. Fortunately for the Army of the Potomac, Lee chose to go after the North in a grand offensive and Gettysburg was the result.

We are equally fortunate that the Dems appear to have adopted an offensive strategy which relies on a co-opted MSM which cannot seem to get its storylines straight. I hope the GOP, like Longstreet at the Wilderness, can "roll up their flank like a wet blanket."