Replies

"Personalize it"
Saul Alinsky's rules of power tactics, excerpted from his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals"

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2. Never go outside the experience of your people.

3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.

4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.

5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8. Keep the pressure on.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/page/2/

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Sounds like Hillary's golden rule. In fact, this rule sounds like the principle on which all Democrats live, and use as their main way of campaigning. All Ridicule, and no substance.

Some people might be willing to gloss over her 1971 summer internship for Communist Party USA lawyer Robert Treuhaft as a "college flirtation" with Communism. It was quite a change from her membership in the Young Republicans in 1965. It certainly seems more than a passing interest, though, when you examine her 1969 Wellesley College senior thesis, which praised Saul Alinsky, a Marxist activist who advocated lying low, hiding one's true agenda, getting into the system, gaining power and then striking to bring the system down. Regarding attacking the positions of one's opponents, Alinsky said, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Sounds pretty much like her entire political career so far.

I knew someone would post "the list". I liked the last part of the article, the author was trying to slam the Swift Boaters, but actually, it just points out the total disconnect that Hillary Clinton will face with the general public.

"Turning to an expert at using Alinsky's tactic -- picking a target, freezing it, personalizing it and polarizing it -- Chris Lacivita can also envision such an ad.

Lacivita co-produced the "Swift Boat" ads in the 2004 presidential race questioning Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam service. He told MSNBC.com that no fact from a candidate's life is too old for negative advertising.

"I think the last election cycle proved that there's no statute of limitations," said the Republican political consultant. "What someone did or said 35 years ago is certainly fair game, especially if you're running for president of the United States.

"I have not read her research paper. Though I can assure you that I will very soon," Lacivita added with a laugh.

He began to brainstorm what such an ad might look like:

"You have to make it relevant to world events today.

"Maybe you look at the contrast. What year did Hillary write this paper? 1969.

"And where was John McCain in 1969? A POW in Vietnam."

And that my friends, is all she wrote, lol.

Hillary's career goal has always been and is to "actualize" Alinsky's rules of power politics.

It's interesting that husband Bill kept a stack of Witman's Leaves of Grass in the Oval Office closet to give out to his many women....in addition to wife Hillary, who was furious when she learned that he had ALSO given a copy to Monica.