Some thoughts:
Rule 4: Make opponents 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.”
Or than communists can live up to communism. It's the specifics that make them into fools and hypocrites. Our side is using this rule to destroy Obama Death Care. Just keep asking the question: will Members of Congress and the President be signing up for Obama Death Care? Why can't voters and taxpayers sign up for the plan the National Democrats in Congress get?
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Listened to Paul Shanklin's latest bit on Rush's show?
How 'bout this:
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
I'm thinking of the folks who chased Queen Hillary's Health Care Express bus out of every town it showed up in, back in 1994. I'm sure there's fun to be had now, or will be.
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Tell that to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
'Nuff said.
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Look at the reaction of the National Democrats to the threat of the real story of Obama's BC coming out.
Look at their reaction to the threat posed by a Sarah Palin candidacy in 2012. 'Nuff said.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
We've gotta work more on this one.
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
Oh, just watch us. Heh heh.
