Read something today on American Thinker about how they are helpless to deal with the Tea Partiers because we don't have a leader, per see. The Alinsky techniques don't work against a genuine mass grassroots uprising, because they can't "isolate, personalize, freeze" a particular individual. "Individuals hurt, institutions not so much."
Well...a couple of individuals just made an institution -- ACORN -- hurt very badly.
The Rulebook's rules aren't working.
We are now post-Alinsky
Good observation!