Posted on 09/18/2010 11:37:01 AM PDT by HonestConservative
"The Politics of Character Assassination"
"If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counter side".....Eleventh Rule of Tactics
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it"......Thirteenth Rule of Tactics
The two quotes from above did not come from any brilliant military strategist. They come from the book written by Saul Alinsky entitled, "Rules for Radicals; A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals". This book was written in 1971 by Mr Alinsky, a Chicago native, and has been referred to by many members of the Democrat party, some rather senior. The book's tone is set right from the beginning with its author's acknowledgement to "the first radical known to man", Lucifer.
I truly believe the major story which dominates this election season is that of character assassination. We are seeing less of an ideological debate on the prescient issues affecting our Republic between contenders. This has seemingly been replaced by the ever intensifying 11th and 13th rules from Alinsky's book. The fact that many incumbents are using their vast campaign coffers, not to present their case, but rather to demonize their opponents is becoming more apparent.
I hate to think that Americans are contributing to campaigns to see their hard earned money used in such a petty manner, something this campaign shall never do.
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Excellent.
OK so enough of this one-sided horse$h!t...
How do we apply this to Andrew Cuomo?
Like the tagline.
No need!
Hey smooooooooooth.
Very true, Mr West.
BTTT
Lee Atwater would have known how to deal with these tactics.
The Democrats can't run on their ideology, because they know they'll lose. The only thing they have left is the demonization of their opponents.
Folks who are not Yellow Dog Democrats are gonna get sick of it by the time the election rolls around.
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