Traditional blogiquite suggests that I don’t post on something without adding new information or links. Hooey.
Chris Graham’s post — linked below in John’s post on the battle of New Bern — has the following gem on candidate Zeb Vance.
“He had a charismatic and well-practiced coarseness that made the refined classes quiver and his constituents and soldiers mad with admiration and loyalty…Behind his outward persona he was a shrewd and ambitious politician who lacked nothing in the arts of self-determination and self-promotion.”
This feature is one of several successful political archtypes. Consider presidents Lincoln, Grant, T. Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson. In 2000, John McCain had the lexicon of Vance and connected with voters. The more things change…
