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  • Rules for Conservatives – a Conservative response to Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Tools’

    05/22/2009 10:12:37 AM PDT · by JGalt2009 · 18 replies · 1,986+ views
    May 22, 2009 | Jon Galt
    'Rules' for ConservativesThese 'rules' have a three-fold purpose – to illustrate the hideous and mean-spirited tactics of the Statists, have fun ridiculing them and put forward some Conservative “Stratergeries” to use back at them. Saul ‘Lewinsky’ uses the term “enemy” in referring to their political opposition, speaking volumes on the mindset of the radical left. Instead of being fair and open-minded, with only ‘good intentions’, this is how they really see the opposition. Numbered 1 through 13, there are really only about half that number, being just the same tired ideas repeated a few times. Half the list drones on...
  • Defeating Political Ridicule

    05/17/2009 1:24:30 AM PDT · by neverdem · 38 replies · 1,817+ views
    American Thinker ^ | May 15, 2009 | Kyle-Anne Shiver
    The fourth rule of tactics:  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. The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule:  Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.  It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule.  Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.  - Saul Alinsky; Rules for Radicals; 1971; p. 128 Now, I'm not certain whether Bill O'Reilly is pulling our leg here, as he ruminates over whether...