Posted on 11/03/2006 4:05:52 PM PST by fideist
I live in Wheaton, Illinois, a very conservative Evangelical community. I got a politcal flyer today purporting to be the Faith and Family Values Report, but it is nothing but trashing Republicans.
It is OBVIOUSLY from the Democrats, trying to suppress the Evangelical vote.
I was wondering how I was going to upload this for all the Freepers to see? But the RATs saved me the trouble! If you go to the URL above you will see EXACTLY what they sent to me and all the other conservative Evangelicals!
Too bad there is no contact info. Any guesses how they would answer on same-sex marriage?
The Dems are disgusting.
Democrats Now the Party of Faith and Family Values?
No. Next question?
That's it, I'm voting for them. < /S >
http://www.stealthpacs.org/profile.cfm?Org_ID=38
http://www.public-i.org/527/profile.aspx?act=dir&id=369&cycle=2004&sub=1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713429/posts
MICHAEL LUX Michael Lux is the co-founder and CEO of Progressive Strategies, L.L.C., a political consulting firm focused on strategic consulting for non-profits, PACs, and progressive donors. Since starting the company, Lux has launched a number of important new projects, including American Family Voices, an issue advocacy group working on pocketbook issues for American families, and the Progressive Donor Network, which works to coordinate a network of individual donors, issue advocacy groups, and top flight political consultants and strategists. Lux's recent projects have garnered a great deal of media coverage and have been extremely effective. Frequent attacks by Rush Limbaugh and an expose by William Buckley's National Review magazine only offer validation to his cause. In addition to those projects, Lux serves on the boards of several important organizations, including the Arca Foundation, the Proteus Fund, 21st Century Democrats, Progressive Majority, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, and the Clinton-Gore alumni association. In the late 1990's, Lux was Senior Vice President for Political Action at People For the American Way (PFAW), and the PFAW Foundation. He oversaw lobbying and legal advocacy, field operations, state and regional offices, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. He was also responsible for coalition building with other organizations and interest groups. He continues to serve as treasurer for PFAW Voters Alliance, a state and federal PAC launched in 1998. Before joining People For the American Way, Lux served at the White House from January 1993 to mid-1995 as a Special Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, where his role on health care and budget issues involved working closely with a wide range of constituency groups including labor, seniors, churches, disability groups, businesses, health care providers, trial lawyers, consumer groups and farm groups. Prior to his service at the White House, Lux was Constituency Director on both the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and the presidential transition. Lux was also on the senior staff for the Biden and Simon campaigns in the 1988 cycle. Lux has a diverse background in the consulting, labor and consumer advocacy world. He was a partner and cofounder of the Chicago-based political consulting firm, Strategy Group. He was Executive Vice President, PAC director and chief lobbyist for the Iowa AFL-CIO in the early 1990s. During his tenure as Executive Director of the Iowa Citizen Action Network, Lux doubled the organization's annual budget from $500,000 in 1984 to almost $1 million in 1987 while raising the organization's membership from 30,000 to 75,000. His first organizing job was as a VISTA volunteer working with moderate income family farmers in southeast Nebraska.
So he's a Clinton-Gore, people for the American way guy.
And I can say with certainty that God is not a Republican or a Democrat. However, with equal certainty, I can say the devil is a Democrat.
Obvious sarcasm here
Moral Absolutes later ping. Sub-category "Faux Religion".
Yep, I'm sure God is all for pulling babies from wombs piece by piece, men marrying each other and allowing evil to control the planet... Lots of values there, but not a family value in sight.
It's one of Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals, it's what the Dems have been using extensively in this campaign. This tactic is the fourth rule.
Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. In the world of give and take, tactics is the art of how to take and how to give. Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.
For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people's organization, you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show your power. Second the ears; if your organization is small in numbers, then...conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does. Third, the nose; if your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics:
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
The sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.
The seventh rule is: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment...
The eighth rule: Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
The ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative...
The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. you cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying "You're right--we don't know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us."
The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
In conflict tactics there are certain rules that the organizer should always regard as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and "frozen." By this I mean that in a complex, interrelated, urban society, it becomes increasingly difficult to single out who is to blame for any particular evil. There is a constant, and somewhat legitimate, passing of the buck....
It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target....
One of the criteria in picking your target is the target's vulnerability--where do you have the power to start? Furthermore, the target can always say, "Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?" When you "freeze the target," you disregard these arguments and, for the moment, all others to blame.
Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all of the "others" come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target.
The other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract such as a community's segregated practices or a major corporation or City Hall. It is not possible to develop the necessary hostility against, say, City Hall, which after all is a concrete, physical, inanimate structure, or against a corporation, which has no soul or identity, or a public school administration, which again is an inanimate system.
[He says your target should be a person in the organization you are opposing; a face within the opposition for you to focus on; it must be someone with power within the organization, like the CEO, school superintendent, governor, or something like that.]
Unfortunate that both parties are resorting to underhanded mailings an ads like these to try to suppress votes from the other side. Just try not to be fooled, and if you receive something that looks suspicious, toss it.
Just wait until after the election when the New York Times,
Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, ad infinitum, begin writing how the GOP abandoned poor congressman Foley. He will become the raison d'etre of the left. They will need to repair their relationships with the gay community, after they used Foley so harshly.
I just want to hear them say, "I love Jesus! He is my hero!" I wonder when that will come.
Yeah, he is probably a Constitionalist, but they have 0 chance of becoming a national party anytime soon.
I got mine in the mail today (day before election.) Really looks phony. I mean REALLY phony. The flyer contains a web address www.faithandfamilyvalues.org
The website just is a copy of the same junk. My guess is that the link will be broken on Wednesday. Any guesses as to who really paid for the mailer?
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