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Saul Alinsky ~~ Rules for Radicals

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.


1 posted on 03/02/2009 9:27:45 PM PST by STARWISE
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2 posted on 03/02/2009 9:29:06 PM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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The GOP can choose to panic and say “No, no, he’s not our real voice! Why would you say such a thing?” or they can start growing a backbone and calling out the WH on this crap.

Were I running the GOP I would use your quotations from Rules for Radicals. I would use them again and again and again, and come right out and compare Obama’s moves with that of the Soviets, without blinking or hedging when the worms from the MSM ask “Are you REALLY calling the president of the United States a communist?” and respond “I am merely showing the American people the facts. Unlike the president, we don’t try to tell people what to think.”


3 posted on 03/02/2009 9:30:58 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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UH...I think he might regret doing that....making Rush the face of the Republican party.....Rush has an ARMY of conservatives.....


4 posted on 03/02/2009 9:31:04 PM PST by goodnesswins (Conservative and fighting for freedom and liberty....whether you like it or not.)
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Barack Obama's push: Make Rush Limbaugh appear to be the face of the GOP

So what!?! We could do worse.

Obama, Axelrod, and Emanuel are incompetent clowns. They are trashing the economy so fast that everyone's heads are spinning. Once the people get over from being punch drunk by dummy Obama, they will all want to follow Rush.

5 posted on 03/02/2009 9:33:25 PM PST by GinaLolaB (=^..^=)
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To: STARWISE

This is a perfect strategy for them. All of that pent up BDS has to be transferred somewhere.


6 posted on 03/02/2009 9:34:08 PM PST by rom (Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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Rush beats the HELL out of Obama speaking for us!

Hey Rahm.... Piss off, you are GOING to fail. Get used to the idea now. It will make the end easier for you.


9 posted on 03/02/2009 9:35:29 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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I hate it when the MSM keeps recycling the same story over and over. It’s like I got it the first 10,000 times. Jerks.


12 posted on 03/02/2009 9:36:25 PM PST by exist
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Republicans and Limbaugh need to point out that the stock market has tanked since Obama’s election. People are getting laid off every day. It is unfortunate that ObamaCarter, the king of the misery index, would rather spend his time taking stupid political cheap shots at Limbaugh rather than fixing the economy.


15 posted on 03/02/2009 9:37:48 PM PST by Rosemont
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White House is trying to delegitimize their opposition and interfere with the message. Meanwhile many Americans wonder WTF is the White House engaged in these games with the country in such a precarious spot.


16 posted on 03/02/2009 9:39:43 PM PST by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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These are great tactics for a rabble-rousing activist but Obama hasn’t got it through his pretty head that he’s now the chief executive and the buck now stops with him.


20 posted on 03/02/2009 9:44:24 PM PST by sinanju
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Zero is going after a private citizen. Why? Because that private citizen is rallying the country against his socialist policies. And he can't tolerate opposition.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

21 posted on 03/02/2009 9:44:30 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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This is a stupid move by Obama. politicians are accountable Radio personalities aren’t Rush has a lot lore leeway if he plays it smart.


22 posted on 03/02/2009 9:44:34 PM PST by Tempest (There's a storm coming...)
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Make Rush Limbaugh appear to be the face of the GOP

Oh, dont throw us into that briar patch!

27 posted on 03/02/2009 9:48:49 PM PST by lowbridge ("a little state control wouldn't hurt anybody" - Jerry Brown on the First Amendment)
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So I can have Boehner, McCain, and Specter as the faces of the Republican party or I can have Rush? Gee, that’s an easy choice! Go Rush! The “go along, get along” crowd is what got us into this mess. Heck with that, it’s time to get in their face.


28 posted on 03/02/2009 9:49:19 PM PST by Reagan is King (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)
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"I think it would be charitable to say he doubled down on what he said in January in wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country," Gibbs said.

Gibbs...you deceitful fungus.

That aside, when Marxist Obama works to associate Rush w the GOP, it inevitably invites a comparison between the two.

I get a chuckle when El Rushbo makes a bid deal out of never using a 'prompter, contrasting himself with Marxist Obama who can't even make offhand remarks at a rodeo without one.

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How should Rush respond? By politely suggesting a debate, of course.

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31 posted on 03/02/2009 9:52:51 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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The Obama White House has begun advancing an aggressive political strategy: convincing the country that the real power behind the Republican Party is not the GOP leaders in Congress or at the Republican National Committee, but rather provocative radio talk show king Rush Limbaugh.

This strategy will be as successful as Dan Quayle socking it to Murphy Brown.

34 posted on 03/02/2009 9:57:57 PM PST by Polybius
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I don’t know how many of you heard Rush today.....he talked about how all of what Obomba was doing is hurting our country....I could hear the tears in his words....he was genuinely reflecting what we are all feeling....this country is being attacked by force....from within....THIS IS WAR....21st Century warfare....and we’d better be prepared to fight it THEIR way....like some say...with Alinsky tactics....and with finding other ways to educate the masses....and whatever methods are required.


39 posted on 03/02/2009 10:05:06 PM PST by goodnesswins (Conservative and fighting for freedom and liberty....whether you like it or not.)
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Right back at 'em

Here's the face of the Democrat Party


GEORGE SOROS

george-sorosCurrently, Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush’s bid for re-election in 2004. He supported Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

40 posted on 03/02/2009 10:05:24 PM PST by Syncro (Play by the rules and you're gonna miss all the fun--Jacky Don Tucker (Toby Keith)
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How about just agreeing with them when they say that Limbaugh is the face of the GOP?

OK, he's the face of the GOP.

And Soros is the face of the DOPe. (Democrat Obama Part e)

43 posted on 03/02/2009 10:09:36 PM PST by Syncro (Play by the rules and you're gonna miss all the fun--Jacky Don Tucker (Toby Keith)
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What an amazing age we live in. The President of the United States of America attacking a PRIVATE CITIZEN because he disagrees with what the The President of the United States of America is doing with his economic policies.

And now, the same President of the United States of America, is releasing secret memos his predecessor wrote while protecting the country from terrorists as well as compromising our Missile Defense Shield to work a backroom deal with the Kremlin to TRY to rein in Iran.

Yep, the Ineligible Illegal Alien Anchor Baby President of the United States of America is doing a bang up job.

44 posted on 03/02/2009 10:10:10 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obamunism, the fatal cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome.)
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