Gingrich knows the way to South Carolina's heart. He became the favorite in the South Carolina primary the second he played the race card on Fox news reporter, Juan Williams, in the GOP candidates debate on Tuesday. That moment fed his surge, and propelled him to a big victory today.
South Carolina was the first state to leave the union after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Anti-union fervor was highest in the Palmetto State. It fired the first shot in the civil war, and never quite accepted defeat. Voting for Gingrich is its most recent "up yours" statement to the rest of America.
The people who rallied to Gingrich in South Carolina were those hit hardest by the recession. The well-to-do voted for Romney. Their party has nothing for them but they haven't figured that out yet.
Sherman was a deeply conservative man who never won a big battle and whose men specialized in digging up gardens looking for people's silverware and making off with their livestock. Also came close to surrendering to Joe Johnston. Might want to reconsider that one.
Posted by: Hypatia | January 25, 2012 at 03:52 PM
Disagree on Sherman. He never came close to surrendering to Joe Johnston. Why would you surrender to someone you were consistently out-manuevering?
Secondly, say what you want about him, but Sherman is the only civil war commander, with the possible exception of Grant, who understood what we now call modern warfare.
The Confederates would have been better off, incidently, if they'd stuck with the defensive-minded Johnston instead of going with that yahoo, John Bell Hood.
Posted by: John Petty | January 27, 2012 at 09:33 AM