Posted on 01/03/2016 10:40:21 AM PST by Kaslin
You must concede this about Donald Trump: He does keep his enemies and opponents rocking back on their heels. He does it, as the Wall street Journal's sage James Taranto, observes, by following the very Saul Alinsky tactics that so impressed Hillary as a Wellesley undergrad.
This week he made clear that if Hillary was going to charge him with being part of the "war on women" (the successor, I take it, to her historic "vast right wing conspiracy"), he was going to attack her as an enabler and defender of a serial sexual predator -- her husband.
Now, he is accusing Mr. Clinton's defender in chief of being a moralistic hypocrite, applying to her rivals (including Trump) standards from which she excuses her husband. The current kerfuffle is only incidentally about Mr. Clinton at all.It's a textbook example of Saul Alinsky's fourth tactical rule: "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." (That is as true of feminism as of Christianity.)
And Trump is perfectly situated to level this attack, for precisely the reasons some Chozicks imagine otherwise. He himself is a voluptuary, not a moralist, which immunizes him through pure logic against any accusation of hypocrisy. As a practical matter, his tabloid lifestyle inoculates him against inquisitions into his private life of the sort that snared Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston during the Clinton impeachment. It all reminds us of a now-quaint anecdote in Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals":
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Here comes another Donald tweet:
Donald J. Trump â€@realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago
Hillary Clinton lied last week when she said ISIS made a D.T. video. The video that ISIS made was about her husband being a degenerate.
LOVE IT!!! Donald is a straight shooter and hold nothing back.
Great read. And it’s gonna be fun to watch it play out.
He’s employing the exact tactics that McCain and Romney assiduously avoided, leading to their losses.
Great Article.
Finally, somebody besides the conservatives are talking about the “serial abuser”, Bill Clinton.
Keep DIRT-X-POTUS42 in his hidey-hole!
Bubba doesn’t want to be PIAPS’ consort; he’d rather be hanging out on Pervert Island with his fellow rapists than having to live in the WH for another four years.
Trump: “Alinsky you magnificent bastard, I’ve read your book”.
And unless I missed it, the article didn’t even touch on him palling around with pedophile predator Jeffrey Epstein on his jet and island.
Has Clinton ever tried to explain that one away, or has the media just agreed not to ask him?
I noticed when Monica Lewinsky spoke out against the Clintons a couple of years ago, the media doing reports on that acted like the Clintons inhabited a parallel universe. Lewinsky criticized them and said she was speaking out since Hillary might run again, but there was no mention even of anything like “we reached out to the Clintons for comment...”
It was like the media wanted to pretend it was all old news and didn’t want to viewers mulling on the words “the Clintons had no comment” or “Hillary Clinton’s campaign didn’t get back to us.”
That type of response would indicate a fear of commenting, and the media is obliged to help the Clintons avoid leaving that impression.
Bill Clinton should be as reluctant to show his face by now on a public stage as Anthony Weiner. It’s almost hard to believe that the Clintons could go back to the White House, with all their scandals, along with Huma with her husband and conflicts of interest, and then there’s the in-laws, namely Chelsea’s father-in-law. There’s probably a lot more too.
Reported on Full Measure that he would be appearing in New Hamster tomorrow.
I saw that. We’ll see how much of “I did not. have. sexual relations with that woman” Bill shows up - the “morally outraged” one.
Those cards are yet to be played. But they're in his [Trumps] considerably strong hand in this game. Trump no doubt is holding some powerful Trump cards. Please excuse the obvious.
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. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Even though William Jefferson Clinton raped those underage sex slaves repeatedly outside the USA he can be easily prosecuted.. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7153&context=jclc
The media forgot that they’re not dealing with Bob Dole, John McCain or Mittens - but the rest of us knew that a long time ago, hence, the smile on our faces.
It's not his face that Weiner got in trouble for showing, but his namesake body part.
Likewise, Bill Clinton's troubles did not revolve around his grin, but what he pressured women to do to *his* body part.
Trump needs to send his best investigators, find these underage girls Bill Clinton had sexual relations with. Get the information back to the USA. This would be the torpedo to sink Hillary’s ship.
No doubt Hillary’s enabling ways of her domestic rapist will haunt her !
Trump has taken Hilary’s last bullet.....
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