Goes To Twelve: Maybe Not Fair, But You know I'm Right

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Maybe Not Fair, But You know I'm Right

I am in 'the home office', two rooms and a hallway away from the TV.

On the TV, HRC is speaking to supporters in Texas.

Her Voice Is Awful.

Like, makes you long for Al Gore awful.

In 2000 someone I knew reviewed their choice of Bush over Gore and said 'Can you imagine listenong to him day in and day out?'

I observed that this was not exactly a compelling or mature point upon which to make your choice but I didn't do it with much ferver because I knew that she had a point.

He was, (and still is) unsufferable.

So is Kerry.

And So is HRC.

And Mike Dukakis for that matter.

This is how we lose.

We choose people even I don't want to listen too. People that live up to every Limbaugh-drawn sketch of 'Liberal Elite' (meaning Condesending Effete Eastern Twit) Can you imagine playing basketball with any of those folks?

Bill Had it. Reagan Had it. Carter didn't need it in '76 and didn't have it in '80. We made sure that neither Bush needed it.

Do You Want To Win?

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Alinsky's Rules For Radicals

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents 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.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Goes To Twelve

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Maybe Not Fair, But You know I'm Right

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