Goes To Twelve: Sarah Sags

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Sarah Sags

Reading the comments on 538 today - BTW, Obama has statiscally greater chance of winning in aLandslide than McCain has of winning at all - I saw this report from Evangelical land

... A few of you might remember me as the guy who was talking about Sun lunch conversation after services at my Baptist Church. Everyone who has been badmouthing Obama was actually shocked how presidential he seemed. It seems the McCain camp really set up an untenable CW in its base, if they actually watch these things.
Not more than 10% of my friends today say that they really are excited about Palin anymore. (ALL of this group loved her when she was announced). Conversation got really quiet and embarrassed when we started talking about her. My favorite quote was "I love Sarah Palin on her social positions, like, marry her level, but oh my gosh, half of us here at this table would be more qualified to be VP." - from a 100% Republican voter. Also, everyone was mad at McCain for his role in the hated bail out. I think that the polls are going to continue their side in this kind of environment. The views I'm reflecting were those held by a crowd of 25ish, with only Republicans and a sprinkling of independents (I am one of those). This is insane. NO ONE would have talked like this about Bush 4 years ago at a lunch of these people.
...The change in this crowd's views in the last 3 weeks has been incredible as the Palin stuff has become to obvious to deny to oneself anymore.

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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

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Sarah Sags

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