On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer decided to attack the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, instead of waiting for reinforcements.\u00a0 He was killed, along with 265 troops in about an hour.\u00a0 The next day, when General Terry arrived with reinforcements, the Indians took one look and decided to leave.\u00a0 Custer had accomplished nothing.\u00a0 It was a stark reminder that suicidal attacks seldom win wars, but they almost always destroy the attackers.<\/p>\n
The Republican campaign has disintegrated into a poorly written soap opera.\u00a0 In an act of absolute desperation, Newt Gingrich is now comparing Romney, unfavorably, with just about every despicable person on earth.\u00a0 He would have us believe that Romney is an anti-religion, left-wing, pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-tax liberal.\u00a0 Now Romney is not my candidate of choice, but this is ridiculous.\u00a0 Keep in mind that just four years ago, Romney was the conservative alternative to McCain.\u00a0 He has flip-flopped more than his share, but he is a far cry from a hard core liberal.<\/p>\n
The real problem is that Romney had a ton of money available to assault Gingrich, and he had even more ammunition, most of which is at least somewhat true.\u00a0 Gingrich has now gone over the edge blaming all his problems on the \u201cRepublican establishment.\u201d\u00a0 That is nonsense.\u00a0 The vast majority of Gingrich\u2019s problems were self-inflicted.\u00a0 There is no conspiracy against Gingrich; there just are a lot of Republicans who are very concerned with regard to his qualifications to be President.\u00a0 Frankly, his performance lately lends credibility to their concerns.<\/p>\n
Gingrich is acting like a spoiled child.\u00a0 I understand why he is angry.\u00a0 He has been running for President, and failing, since the mid 90\u2019s, Gingrich believes he was gifted by God to be President of the United States, and he is angry that his destiny has been thwarted by mere mortals.\u00a0 The man with a life-long, well-earned reputation for skewering opponents also has the thinnest skin in politics.\u00a0 The problem is that we simply cannot have a President who is so self-centered and who has such\u00a0lack of control over his emotions.<\/p>\n
In my opinion the Tea Party is going to take a big hit on this.\u00a0 Some of the Tea Party organizations jumped on the Gingrich bandwagon only to watch him head for the rocks at full speed.\u00a0 This failed to save Gingrich, but it managed to alienate Romney.\u00a0 Now we are at serious risk of nominating a candidate that the Tea Party openly tried to torpedo.\u00a0 That is hardly the way to win friends and influence people.<\/p>\n
If the polls are right, Gingrich is going to get walloped in Florida today.\u00a0 This reminds me of Custer\u2019s last stand.\u00a0 Custer went down in history as a hero, but in reality he just killed everyone around him.<\/p>\n
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On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer decided to attack the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, instead of waiting for reinforcements.\u00a0 He was killed, along with 265 troops in about an hour.\u00a0 The next day, when General … Continue reading