He Fights

Back when there were 16 or 17 candidates in the primaries, I said then that he was the only one that would be willing to fight on their (Left) level.
 
Back when there were 16 or 17 candidates in the primaries, I said then that he was the only one that would be willing to fight on their (Left) level.

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I started to consider Trump a viable candidate when I started noticing how he played the media time and again during the campaign. The genius of his genius is that almost none of his opponents have yet realized how badly they've been played and how much more they're going to get played.

I love it
 
If you take any time at all to listen to current newscasts by CNN/NBC et al., you'll see that they really think they have him on the ropes and are rubbing their proverbial hands in anticipatory glee.
 
If you take any time at all to listen to current newscasts by CNN/NBC et al., you'll see that they really think they have him on the ropes and are rubbing their proverbial hands in anticipatory glee.

I know, and I laugh my ass off every time. Like I said, they don't know they got played and have no idea how bad they're going to get played.
 
After the Battle of Shiloh, which Grant nearly lost on the first day, Pennsylvania politician Alexander McClure visited the White House. Not always the most reliable witness, McClure later wrote:

“I appealed to Lincoln for his own sake to remove Grant at once, and, in giving my reasons for it, I simply voiced the admittedly overwhelming protest from the loyal people of the land against Grant’s continuance in command. I could form no judgment during the conversation as to what effect my arguments had upon him beyond the fact that he was greatly distressed at this new complication. When I had said everything that could be said from my standpoint, we lapsed into silence. Lincoln remained silent for what seemed a very long time. He then gathered himself up in his chair and said in a tone of earnestness that I shall never forget: ‘I can’t spare this man; he fights.'”


Grant was not elegant, flamboyant, nor genius......what he did was focus on a strategic goal and never fall off the path to getting there.

Sometimes determination is enough.

After the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5-6, President Lincoln awaited news from General Grant. A New York Tribune reporter brought a report and a personal message from General Grant: “He told me I was to tell you, Mr. President, that there would be no turning back.” President Lincoln was so frustrated by Union generals who had turned back that he kissed the Tribune reporter.


Focus on the goal.
 
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