Ted’s campaign reminds me of the Army of Northern Virginia’s final and long drawn out defeat. After the high water mark at Gettysburg, Lee fought a series of battles colloquially known as the Overland and Richmond-Petersburg campaigns. While Lee was able to inflict serious casualties on Grant in many of these battles, the ultimate outcome was never in doubt, culminating in the Appomatox Campaign, whereby Lee kept trying to flee the inevitable with the hopes of escaping Grant and joining up with General Johnston in a final attempt to defeat both Sherman and Grant as a sort of Hail Mary.
Ted is there now. He keeps ceding ground, NY, the Northeastern states and has chosen to make a final stand in Indiana. His ultimate hope is to join with the GOPe forces at the convention and try to deny Trump the nomination. Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable or realistic? No. The outcome is not in doubt, just the means as to how Cruz will meet his ultimate demise.
I love your analogy. Lived for a while in Hopewell Va and visited the Petersburg Battlefield . There is a beautiful chapel built by the Daughters of the Confederacy in Petersburg called Blandford Chapel. The stained glass was done by Louis Tiffany.
But the point is the battle was basically trench warfare...the biggest disaster for the North was the Crater where they used Pennslyvania coal miners to dig under the Southern Lines...but when they blew the crater there was no plan “B” and the soldiers ran across the open crater an were mowed down by the boys in Gray.
Thats Ted....going to get hosed in the Hoosier state...but if he is defeated will he do a LEE and run to another state or say...shoot this is not working...
My inner Civil War nerd absolutely loved that post.
Excellent analogy. I just finished Jean Edward Smith’s bio of Grant and that is precisely what this is like. You started to wonder, in March of 1865, what the hell RE Lee was thinking? He wasn’t going to win, just cost more lives.