The military advice given at Bunker Hill and elsewhere “Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes” is an excellent strategy, especially when you have limited firepower and are facing an enemy attacking you at full charge. As this election season approaches, I've often comforted myself by remembering this old tactic: probably that is the strategy of the Democratic Party!
It is a very difficult strategy to implement, however, because it can be ruined by only a few of your own who misjudge the timing. Firing too early wastes ammo and diminishes the advantages of surprise; too late and the enemy will already be upon you.
I apologize for this non-diary, because I don't really have any sources to reference or news to deliver, except one thing: I really do believe that I can see the whites of their eyes now, so why isn't everyone opening fire?
Maybe I'm just one of those who panics and wastes my supplies by firing when the Redstates are still out of range, in a kind of political ejaculatio præcox. But it's Labor Day already: I hope that if we aren't actually firing yet, we at least have our rhetorical muskets packed & primed.
Well, that's enough for that metaphor.*
Happy Labor Day.
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*Actually, it occurs to me that given the distorted use of the Tea Party metaphor by those who would destroy the nation, there are probably any number of Revolutionary War metaphors available to those of us who would save it, and "The Redstates are coming" is certainly an obvious one.