“The Democrats’ Pickett’s Charge”
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What a GREAT analogy:
“Pickett’s Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade’s Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Its futility was predicted by the charge’s commander, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the Southern war effort never fully recovered psychologically. The farthest point reached by the attack has been referred to as the high-water mark of the Confederacy.
Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repulsed with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day battle and Lee’s campaign into Pennsylvania.”
Calling this “Pickett’s Charge” give’s the Obama Pel Reiden team way to much credit! These fellow travellers deserve not comparison to whom came on top of Traveller, but rather to what Traveller left beneath him; and their troops deserve none of the honor of Pickett’s men. Pickett’s charge was an anomaly, a rare mistaken order by Robert E. Lee, yet was carried out honorably by those so ordered, in the best tradition of Western warfare. This is no anomaly. Better to call it the Democrats’ “Banzai Charge,” as it employs their usual desperation tactic in search of their usual red targets! Fortunately the proper model for conservatives against such tactics is having his story retold Sunday on HBO’s “Pacific” series, John Basilone on Guadalcanal. Keep firing gang, from every position you can find, and don’t let up! One man CAN make a difference!