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Trumping Hillary
American Thinker ^ | January 3, 2016 | Clarice Feldman

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; clinton; election2016; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; jamestaranto; newyork; saulalinsky; trump
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To: Kaslin

The man with the moxie to take on the Clinton’s at their own game is the one I want representing us as POTUS.


21 posted on 01/03/2016 1:18:30 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: Kaslin

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22 posted on 01/03/2016 1:32:22 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: Main Street

Does anyone remember how Bill Clinton high-tailed it to Bangkok after the tidal wave? I don’t remember any public appearances ,, I think he spent at least a month there ...


23 posted on 01/03/2016 1:48:51 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Money buys silence.

Going to prison for 10+ years isn’t for Billionaires and ex-presidents and well known Jewish Lawyers.

That’s for people selling loosies cigarettes. That or getting choked to death.


24 posted on 01/03/2016 3:55:57 PM PST by Fhios (How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
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To: Aria
The man with the moxie to take on the Clinton’s at their own game is the one I want representing us as POTUS.

But the Cruzers tell us Teddy Boy, the polite Hahvud master debater, will crush Hellry.

25 posted on 01/03/2016 4:01:57 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: newfreep

I just don’t see Cruz as alpha male enough to crush the witch. It just doesn’t play out for me.


26 posted on 01/03/2016 4:11:28 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: Aria

Exactly! He lacks the street dog fight that Trump has in spades. In that area, Cruz is no different than Romney.

In addition, I have serious concerns about his Pathway Amnesty and signing Corker/Iran Nukes bill.

Either he’s extraordinarily stupid and naive or was bought and paid for his votes and pushing amnesty.


27 posted on 01/03/2016 4:19:29 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: newfreep

I agree....you said it better than I did. :-)


28 posted on 01/03/2016 4:21:02 PM PST by Aria (Abortion = murder, the taking of a human life.)
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To: lapsus calami
The Clintoon gang marched straight into another Trump trap. They along with a bunch of others don't seem to comprehend that the game has changed radically. This ain't the 1990's or something. They're plodding along with moldy strategies that aren't applicable anymore

What we have here is a Yuge Paradigm Shift

29 posted on 01/04/2016 6:25:14 PM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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To: newfreep
Exactly! He lacks the street dog fight that Trump has in spades. In that area, Cruz is no different than Romney.

In addition, I have serious concerns about his Pathway Amnesty and signing Corker/Iran Nukes bill

....and Mrs. Cruz working in the upper levels at Goldman-Sachs

30 posted on 01/04/2016 6:32:52 PM PST by spokeshave (Happy Christmas and a New Year that Trumps all.)
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