Anti-Alinksy Genius from Recovering Liberal

Attention Culture Warriors!

Tactical Rule: Do not try to counter Saul Alinsky tactics by using those same tactics on liberals. It is a cosmic cancellation.

Geek Analogy: In Star Wars, it was a core value of the Jedi knights not to indulge in the more showy and demonstrative uses of the Force. Choking people, throwing lightening bolts around, and other wiz bang grandstanding was known to pull the good guys down a slippery slope to the dark side. The cautionary tale amongst Jedi masters was that to use the tools of the dark side was to give the dark side a foothold on your soul.

Conservative Application: For example, Alinsky encourages the use of ridicule. Do not try to ridicule a liberal. Their existence is ridicule enough when juxtaposed next to Truth. When a conservative tries ridicule it never works right.

Tactical Options: Please read this from self-described, "recovering liberal", Robin of Berkley, for some great ideas on what TO do... and of course, May the Force be with you : )

Creepy thought...

Here's a scary scenario to put in your stereo:

What will Obama resort to if he sees that the 2010 and 2012 elections are lost causes for him and his cartel?

Please visit your local doomsday supply shop and start thinking of how you will respond to something "very distracting".

Just sayin'...

Word to the Wise (even latinas)

Good news! EVERYONE on the democratic side of the aisle is on the defense. They are in chaos about the plummeting poll numbers of Obama, they are petrified of meeting with their constituents, they are resorting to name-calling, and generally falling all over themselves.

Now is the time to stay cool and keep the pressure on. Now is NOT the time to get cocky, succumb to delusions of granduer, or get mean. Saul Alinsky taught all these people well. If we do not indulge our outrage and do not play into their stereotypes, America will emerge stronger.

Anti-Alinsky Stuff

Democrats are feeling the heat at their town hall meetings and don't like it.

They don't like to debate and they don't like getting yelled at. One of the very few tools they have in their aging Alinsky toolbox is to unleash continuous name-calling of their opponents. To this, conservatives must find video like the one posted here...

Plus, I am sure there are even better ones out there. The key strategy is to not let them off the hook with their feigned indignance over being not liked (even though Nancy Pelosi "doesn't care).

Sorry, guys, the people are not happy and that does not make them wrong.

Two Gems: Game Changing Elements Hidden Within

Americans are on to Leftists... http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/prager072109.php3

Ex-liberal woman decides that men are not obsolete... http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/are_men_obsolete.html

Capture the messages inherent in these articles. Allow them to change you first. Internalize them. Meditate on them. The "so what" will come to you.

Enjoy!

Key Platform and Media Concepts for 2010 and 2012

Here are some critical touchpoints for candidates, fundraisers, advisors, volunteers, media reps, etc. in the 2010/2012 battlefields:

1. America is fallible, but good. Our contributions to the world are unequivocally important and positive. Can we get better? Yes, but we need to make the good better, not make the good different.

2. Leadership is not arrogance. Arrogance is an attitude not a behavior. Asking cruel regimes to treat their people well is not arrogance. Insisting that democracy is the best option is not arrogance.

3. Robust security is not something that our enemies get to have an opinion on (or to help plan). Our allies must demonstrate a tangible commitment to our ideals, otherwise, they are not our allies. Our enemies must demonstrate caution. Period.

4. Health care is for doctors and patients.

5. A government cannot provide for every need of every person without becoming tyrannical. This is historical fact, not prophetic intuition.

6. When a company or business fails, another will fill the void with innovation in price and product. The government is not required to intervene, otherwise... see #5

7. Every citizen must operate from a transcendent and humane ethic. A people without a gentle, disciplined internal locus of control will bring down on themselves a clumsy and cruel external control. If we cannot be good, we cannot be free.

8. The second amendment is sacred, it is the hidden guarantor of the other amendments. It cannot be restricted, deconstructed, or minimized without dire consequence. The violence problem in America is not about hardware. A million guns in the hands of a good person threaten no one. A butter knife in the hand of an evil person is a threat to everyone.

9. Faith informs politics. Jesus does not have a political party. I'll only mention this once for the good of the order. This is not about compromise, but let's watch the vibe.

10. The education of our children must be public, not secular. It must teach history as it is, not as communist, secular-revisionists wish it were. The fact that a teacher brought me a public school text book that omitted Christian text from the Mayflower Compact is a threat to national security. If we are not honest with our children, they will perish in the face of even a moderately educated enemy. Martin Luther King Jr. and recycling do not make up a sufficiently robust curriculum. But, neo-cons be warned, increasing testing standards alone, without changing content, is an exercise in futility.

Good luck to you all!

Seth