The overturning rate on sotomayor’s decisons are what, about 40%? Ahh well. If she’s right only 60% of the time, she’s doing well for a democrat. I’m not sure how to square the circle of her racist and bigoted statements, but hey! If obama says she’s cool, then who’s to argue?
Observe the relentless progression of vital US check/balance institutions to the socialist left:
Congress: CHECK
POTUS: CHECK
SOTUS: en route to CHECK
America is in big trouble, kids. I hope they can reclaim their country from the insane left, but it’s going to be their toughest internal fight.
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
As kahane wrote, the Democratic Party has become ‘a criminal organization masquerading as a political party’.
The Alinski doctrine in full swing with Barry. The golden boy has learn his master well.
Scary part is that maybe 20% of the US population has any grasp on the significance of what is happening to their country right now.
Ironic that today’s clothing fashion is retro 1960’s…Politically, the radicals of the 60’s seem to have also taken centre stage in a sense.
Poor America. From valiant beacon of liberty to spoiled ignoramus.
Judge Sotomayor was chosen on the basis of race and gender politics as are all other appointments in all other areas to come. One group will always be left out and guess which group that is. Correct
That National Journal link gives excellent insight into “judiciary politics” and the mindset of Sotomayor regarding her own Solomonic status.
Strange; but this quote comes to mind:
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. ”
Can anyone say Impeach?
Kate has shown great talent in connecting the dots with these stories.
Coincidentally, earlier today I posted on that with my take, titled, in the usual no-punches-pulled, fight-fire-with-fire style of Yours Truly: Sotomayor-Aligned Racists Attack Discrimination Victim http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/07/sotomayor-aligned-racists-attack.html
As for the Left’s stormtrooping against Joe the Plumber, well, it’s par for the course. Anyone, no matter who, who rises to public prominence, who represents an inconvenient threat to the Left’s growing vise-grip on everything in sight, will bring about the wrath of the Left-wing Brownshirt Forces.
This is why we must fight back by calling a spade a spade, by pointing rude fingers at the destructive Leftist (and the not-so-leftist, but still-on-their-side, like RINOs and other so-called “moderates”) badasses who need to be publicly indicated and widely condemned.
MHB, Sotomayor’s overturn rate is actually around 60%.
WHen does Barry Owe do business? He is always flying around the world speechifying.
He tours like a super rock star, as if he was POTW. His handlers keep him out of town so they can get down to “business”.
Tyrants don’t have proscriptions today along with throwing people of a Tarpian rock as the Romans. Than stick there heads on the city walls on a pole. No, the totalitarians call Photographers, than an army of lawyers to dig up dirt along with Ad agencies, enabled by a fawning MSM in thrall to the entitled.
To utterly exterminate any opposition by degradation. True or false, it makes no matter to these leeches.
Look how Obama became a Senator. He didn’t even have an opponent after disqualifying them all.
Look at Palin‘s treatment. This is more than a pattern. With this radical administration. People destroying by death of reputation, or verity of any individual that tires to overtake the Obama’s lies, as a matter of policy. He cannot stand anyone to disagree with hiself or his dogma. His first instinct is to crush them legally, than in the public arena.
JMO
His first instinct is to crush them legally, than in the public arena.
Revnant Dream, first comes the legal crushing of dissidents. Later… who knows? Anything’s possible, we know full well… and that’s frightening.
Next thing you know, Obama will grow a narrow mustache, to add yet another parallel with his historical/ideological predecessors…
Those who would crush us in the name of Obama, we must fight fire with equivalent fire, and stop pulling our punches in submission to the Old Media and to Leftist pressure. If we cower today, they’ll take everything away tomorrow.
Ever since my starting commenting and blogging in the blogosphere in 2005, I’ve been consistent in this position, because I’ve long known about the nature of the Left, their tactics, etc., and have always said we must fight the whole thing as if a war, countering their tactics with equal and opposite tactics. And we must be preemptive. And we must develop superior strategies and tactics against theirs (the Left is lazy, and seems to recycle worn-out tactics a lot, so we can use this to our advantage by simply being better).
Kate’s quite moderate, it seems, compared to me. That’s ok, but the stakes are so high that we’ve all got to land our punches all the time, and make the punches stagger or knock out the Left, otherwise they’ll knock us out, like they knocked out the wimpy McCain and chickeny GOP elitists.
Thank goodness for Harper, who understands that if he plays Mr. Nice Guy all the time, the Liberals will destroy him. So far, he’s fended them off and preempted them quite well, considering all the circumstances.
I wonder if they will go broke before the Obama gang can inflict any mortal wounds.
I doubt the Chines will take IOU’s, even if they have Barry’s picture on them.
Going back to “this”, and the comment about Graydon
Carter. Now there’s a real beaut; and he’s Canadian, don’t you know? And I’m not sure who does that wave of his, but I’m sure they’re very close. I don’t know how he got to be editor of Vanity Fair, … I take that back; it’s pretty obvious really.
Wondering if Sarah Palin has decided to fight the loopy Left from the outside rather than within the political arena?
She’s unlikely to sit in silence and brood about the extreme abuse she has taken.
The left are much more inflexible ideologues than conservatives, they will eat politically one of their own pack rather than admit their policies and platforms are wrong. As shown in Pelosi’s actions toward Democrat defectors on the the ACES Climate and Energy Bill.
Their weak spot is this, “the reason plan A did not work was because it was not big enough or did not cost enough”. The Son of Stimzilla talk is all the proof you need to know how to beat them.
Just keep hammering away at their fiscal policies and they will keep responding with more proposed spending.
That will sink them, Americans are not even 10% as stupid as the left would have you believe, and they are fiscally right of center, socially left of center when taken as a entire group. The left refuses to accept that fact, they are so far left they cannot even see the middle anymore and that disconnect will be their downfall.
The actually feel is you give working people $20 a month, extend the rest more unemployment benefits that they will be content. They are so wrong, Americans do not want welfare they want to work, and the best way to get them to work is by making sure the energy systems in USA are designed and upgraded to minimize the cost of energy, not maximize it.
Lefties seem to forget that energy = productivity, the lower the input cost of energy the lower the cost of goods become and the more competitive the manufacturers and even service industries become. The Developed Countries became rich due to the fact they are good at producing massive amounts of low cost energy.
Additionally their tactics wear thin quickly, the constant snippy snarkness and “to cute by far” dodges has already started to wear on the media.
The political climate is changing and it is not CO2 driven.
Illiquid Assets
**Lefties seem to forget that energy = productivity, the lower the input cost of energy the lower the cost of goods become and the more competitive the manufacturers and even service industries become. The Developed Countries became rich due to the fact they are good at producing massive amounts of low cost energy.**
WRONG!!!!!
Lefties are more than aware of this. The reason for the CO2 Cap and Tax Bill is to cripple our productivity and transfer OUR hardwarned wealth to others….BAMBAM blurted that out to “Joe the Plumber”……wern’tcha listnin??????
I’d consider turning the Lefties tactics against them, but then I wouldn’t be able to shave in the morning.
Sabers at dawn, that I could do. That’s what I’d be doing if I were Frank or Joe. Perfectly safe too, none of the craven MSM scum would ever show up.
jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right; its like theoretical physics the way space bends and turns in on itself. travel in a ‘straight’ line in any direction and you wind up where you started. but you people are to blind to see the ‘forest’.
The overturn rate on decisions she has made that have reached the supreme court is 100%.
The attack on ricci brings to mind this: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html
Let’s hope there may be moments like this at the hearings.
Curious George…
You miss the primary point made here….
There is a double standard enforced by the media.
Here in Canada….the MSM attacks Harper and the CPC for free or with taxpayer dollars but should the CPC pay for an ad it is styled as an attack ad by that same LIBRANO media…
“Hidden Agenda…”
or
“Just Visiting…..”
this crap is not going to be fixed without a violent backlash. the ballot box has been stolen and the whole process corrupted. words are just words with no power.
The point is targetting individuals. Control through ridicule and investigation. Why would anyone want to step into this arena be it political or a court challenge (ala Ricci)?
Might I refer everyone to the radically extreme Communist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”? http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8925/alinsky.htm
This is what the Left is doing!
Examples:
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
I believe Rule 12 is the one Watcher was referring to.
curious_george said: “jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right;”
Sorry dude, but when a judge gets overturned in a case like Frank Ricci’s and then the judge’s whole political party and the MSM comes after Ricci? That’s ok?
The whole MSM goes after Joe the plumber for ASKING OBAMA A QUESTION? And government workers break the law to give up his tax returns and other private information? That’s ok?
That’s corruption of the deepest, blackest kind my friend, and it p1sses me off. You can’t let stuff like that pass.
Sabers. At dawn. Or at noon, if dawn’s too early for their dissipated, pasty little selves. Revival of the Code Duello would have a salutary effect on public discourse in the USA, and here too.
Reading this week’s Macleans’ article about the continuing ascension of China made me think of the damage done to the US and the West by its leftists like Franks, Clinton, Gordon Brown, Strong and now Obama. Weakening the education system with its socialist bent, turning our countries into nanny states and financial messes, destroying our economic strength and opening the door to our demise and freedom. Our professional elitist political class has done this and we as citizens through apathy and indifference have allowed this to happen.
I had a discussion last night with one of my son’s friends who is the last years of her PHD in History. I was stunned to listen to her views on how “government” was the answer to all our problems. Of course the irony of being downwind from the Toronto CUPE strikers and our obscene garbage dumps didn’t seem to faze her.
jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right… ~ curious_george at 12:18 AM
Extreme lefties have consistently used vitriol and hostility to push the sociological pendulum to its current extreme position, so your hypocrisy is somewhat curious – george. Extreme circumstances require extreme measures! Sabers. At dawn. Or at noon, if dawn’s too early for their dissipated, pasty little selves. ~ The Phantom at July 12, 2009 8:44 AM
Could I hold your coat for you Phantom?
“Of course, you realize this means war.”
-Bugs Bunny
This isn’t a Left/Right thing its an Artificial/Reality thing. When most of the voters out there think that milk comes from the store and not the udder of a cow, or eggs come from a store not the back end of a chicken or bread comes from a store not the dusty field the wheat grew in people will vote with unreal expectations. No longer is money an expression of the results of hard work its now something that government can just cause to exist. Don’t go frothing at the mouth at Owe, Pealosi, Fwank etc. They were ELECTED!!!! Until there is some way we can inject reality into the electorates lives we will continue to have unreal expectations masquerading as politicians.
Make the other side live by their own book or rules. Also known as the double standard.
Instructive reading for Mr Harper who is also faced with we’re right so the end justifies the means campaign. Witness Wafergate.
The left in Canada, however, has the same problem as their American compatriots (except they’re out of power, without access to the treasury, that is). The people, such as they are with less than 60% voter turnout, are wary of tax and spend policies and politicians (except in a recession of course).
Steven Harper still represents the best bet for enough Canadians to keep him in minority power. Coming soon, though, the right again eats their own, as Harper is outsted by Ontario (who doesn’t really like him anyway) for failing to achieve majority government.
Pure laine conservative should be careful what they wish for. Oh well, he’s too liberal anyway. Ignatieff is a way better liberal, eh?
No need glasnost. None of the pusillanimous little pencil necks would show up even to test the steel of the 50+ year old, short-winded, out of shape Phantom. We’ll share coffee and reflect on the lack of guts in the younger generation of Lefties.
Just the fact of being called out to put up or shut up might have a salutary effect. Much less gratuitous B.S. if they have to admit their abject cowardice in public.
I’d love to see gasbag Bawny Fwank deflated like that, I really would. I’d be -awesome-.
Canadian Sentenal: thanks for your list of “rules”. In an earlier post I asked if another area of the radical agenda could be organized (anti corporate activism). I have heard hints of some of these rules from starry-eyed lefties who sought to get me on board.
This is a type of terrorism. It’s known as Political Terrorism. http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/1996/1996_10_Politics_Reason.html
Canadian Sentinel at July 12, 2009 8:28 AM
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Well put. The whole post.
chicanery at that level of the justice branch is disappointing to the bone; unfortunately, it is not the first time in history humans have seen this kind of behaviour. never a dull moment.
the good news is that on the eve of the nomination – her goofy stance and left wing tactics are plain to see.
May I suggest a way for conservatives to beat the members of the leftist kook-a-brain trust that beat Palin into submission? Get more Sarah Palins involved in politics. Many more to spread the hate thin – there’s only so many soundbites that can be broadcast in a day.
There’s nothing the left is afraid of more than empowered politically ambitious family loving women. It is the destruction of the family unit that is the ultimate goal. Once that’s gone, big bro. can come out of the shadows.
The smug left media has always given the left wing a free ride … shame, one day (sadly, years from now) they are going to wake up and know that they were complicit in the destruction of the west. I’m pretty sure they’d rather us all wake up in Burka’s than admit they are giving away the keys to the kingdom.
“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Now they are going after Cheney. They have to, since Obama’s numbers are going down, and Cheney’s are going up. They will do it as surely as day follows night. Once somebody’s playbook is known, though, it can be countered. The “west coast offense” used to be feared, now Mark Tressman is coaching in the CFL.
The overturning rate on sotomayor’s decisons are what, about 40%? Ahh well. If she’s right only 60% of the time, she’s doing well for a democrat. I’m not sure how to square the circle of her racist and bigoted statements, but hey! If obama says she’s cool, then who’s to argue?
Observe the relentless progression of vital US check/balance institutions to the socialist left:
Congress: CHECK
POTUS: CHECK
SOTUS: en route to CHECK
America is in big trouble, kids. I hope they can reclaim their country from the insane left, but it’s going to be their toughest internal fight.
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
The left in one shot: http://onefoggy.tripod.com/images/weasel.jpg
As kahane wrote, the Democratic Party has become ‘a criminal organization masquerading as a political party’.
The Alinski doctrine in full swing with Barry. The golden boy has learn his master well.
Scary part is that maybe 20% of the US population has any grasp on the significance of what is happening to their country right now.
Ironic that today’s clothing fashion is retro 1960’s…Politically, the radicals of the 60’s seem to have also taken centre stage in a sense.
Poor America. From valiant beacon of liberty to spoiled ignoramus.
Judge Sotomayor was chosen on the basis of race and gender politics as are all other appointments in all other areas to come. One group will always be left out and guess which group that is. Correct
That National Journal link gives excellent insight into “judiciary politics” and the mindset of Sotomayor regarding her own Solomonic status.
Strange; but this quote comes to mind:
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. ”
Can anyone say Impeach?
Kate has shown great talent in connecting the dots with these stories.
Coincidentally, earlier today I posted on that with my take, titled, in the usual no-punches-pulled, fight-fire-with-fire style of Yours Truly:
Sotomayor-Aligned Racists Attack Discrimination Victim
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/07/sotomayor-aligned-racists-attack.html
As for the Left’s stormtrooping against Joe the Plumber, well, it’s par for the course. Anyone, no matter who, who rises to public prominence, who represents an inconvenient threat to the Left’s growing vise-grip on everything in sight, will bring about the wrath of the Left-wing Brownshirt Forces.
This is why we must fight back by calling a spade a spade, by pointing rude fingers at the destructive Leftist (and the not-so-leftist, but still-on-their-side, like RINOs and other so-called “moderates”) badasses who need to be publicly indicated and widely condemned.
MHB, Sotomayor’s overturn rate is actually around 60%.
WHen does Barry Owe do business? He is always flying around the world speechifying.
He tours like a super rock star, as if he was POTW. His handlers keep him out of town so they can get down to “business”.
Tyrants don’t have proscriptions today along with throwing people of a Tarpian rock as the Romans. Than stick there heads on the city walls on a pole. No, the totalitarians call Photographers, than an army of lawyers to dig up dirt along with Ad agencies, enabled by a fawning MSM in thrall to the entitled.
To utterly exterminate any opposition by degradation. True or false, it makes no matter to these leeches.
Look how Obama became a Senator. He didn’t even have an opponent after disqualifying them all.
Look at Palin‘s treatment. This is more than a pattern. With this radical administration. People destroying by death of reputation, or verity of any individual that tires to overtake the Obama’s lies, as a matter of policy. He cannot stand anyone to disagree with hiself or his dogma. His first instinct is to crush them legally, than in the public arena.
JMO
His first instinct is to crush them legally, than in the public arena.
Revnant Dream, first comes the legal crushing of dissidents. Later… who knows? Anything’s possible, we know full well… and that’s frightening.
Next thing you know, Obama will grow a narrow mustache, to add yet another parallel with his historical/ideological predecessors…
Those who would crush us in the name of Obama, we must fight fire with equivalent fire, and stop pulling our punches in submission to the Old Media and to Leftist pressure. If we cower today, they’ll take everything away tomorrow.
Ever since my starting commenting and blogging in the blogosphere in 2005, I’ve been consistent in this position, because I’ve long known about the nature of the Left, their tactics, etc., and have always said we must fight the whole thing as if a war, countering their tactics with equal and opposite tactics. And we must be preemptive. And we must develop superior strategies and tactics against theirs (the Left is lazy, and seems to recycle worn-out tactics a lot, so we can use this to our advantage by simply being better).
Kate’s quite moderate, it seems, compared to me. That’s ok, but the stakes are so high that we’ve all got to land our punches all the time, and make the punches stagger or knock out the Left, otherwise they’ll knock us out, like they knocked out the wimpy McCain and chickeny GOP elitists.
Thank goodness for Harper, who understands that if he plays Mr. Nice Guy all the time, the Liberals will destroy him. So far, he’s fended them off and preempted them quite well, considering all the circumstances.
I wonder if they will go broke before the Obama gang can inflict any mortal wounds.
I doubt the Chines will take IOU’s, even if they have Barry’s picture on them.
Going back to “this”, and the comment about Graydon
Carter. Now there’s a real beaut; and he’s Canadian, don’t you know? And I’m not sure who does that wave of his, but I’m sure they’re very close. I don’t know how he got to be editor of Vanity Fair, … I take that back; it’s pretty obvious really.
Wondering if Sarah Palin has decided to fight the loopy Left from the outside rather than within the political arena?
She’s unlikely to sit in silence and brood about the extreme abuse she has taken.
The left are much more inflexible ideologues than conservatives, they will eat politically one of their own pack rather than admit their policies and platforms are wrong. As shown in Pelosi’s actions toward Democrat defectors on the the ACES Climate and Energy Bill.
Their weak spot is this, “the reason plan A did not work was because it was not big enough or did not cost enough”. The Son of Stimzilla talk is all the proof you need to know how to beat them.
Just keep hammering away at their fiscal policies and they will keep responding with more proposed spending.
That will sink them, Americans are not even 10% as stupid as the left would have you believe, and they are fiscally right of center, socially left of center when taken as a entire group. The left refuses to accept that fact, they are so far left they cannot even see the middle anymore and that disconnect will be their downfall.
The actually feel is you give working people $20 a month, extend the rest more unemployment benefits that they will be content. They are so wrong, Americans do not want welfare they want to work, and the best way to get them to work is by making sure the energy systems in USA are designed and upgraded to minimize the cost of energy, not maximize it.
Lefties seem to forget that energy = productivity, the lower the input cost of energy the lower the cost of goods become and the more competitive the manufacturers and even service industries become. The Developed Countries became rich due to the fact they are good at producing massive amounts of low cost energy.
Additionally their tactics wear thin quickly, the constant snippy snarkness and “to cute by far” dodges has already started to wear on the media.
The political climate is changing and it is not CO2 driven.
Illiquid Assets
**Lefties seem to forget that energy = productivity, the lower the input cost of energy the lower the cost of goods become and the more competitive the manufacturers and even service industries become. The Developed Countries became rich due to the fact they are good at producing massive amounts of low cost energy.**
WRONG!!!!!
Lefties are more than aware of this. The reason for the CO2 Cap and Tax Bill is to cripple our productivity and transfer OUR hardwarned wealth to others….BAMBAM blurted that out to “Joe the Plumber”……wern’tcha listnin??????
I’d consider turning the Lefties tactics against them, but then I wouldn’t be able to shave in the morning.
Sabers at dawn, that I could do. That’s what I’d be doing if I were Frank or Joe. Perfectly safe too, none of the craven MSM scum would ever show up.
jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right; its like theoretical physics the way space bends and turns in on itself. travel in a ‘straight’ line in any direction and you wind up where you started. but you people are to blind to see the ‘forest’.
The overturn rate on decisions she has made that have reached the supreme court is 100%.
The attack on ricci brings to mind this:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html
Let’s hope there may be moments like this at the hearings.
Curious George…
You miss the primary point made here….
There is a double standard enforced by the media.
Here in Canada….the MSM attacks Harper and the CPC for free or with taxpayer dollars but should the CPC pay for an ad it is styled as an attack ad by that same LIBRANO media…
“Hidden Agenda…”
or
“Just Visiting…..”
speaking of the political spectrum:
http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/80000/8000/600/288676/288676.full.gif
this crap is not going to be fixed without a violent backlash. the ballot box has been stolen and the whole process corrupted. words are just words with no power.
The point is targetting individuals. Control through ridicule and investigation. Why would anyone want to step into this arena be it political or a court challenge (ala Ricci)?
Might I refer everyone to the radically extreme Communist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”?
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8925/alinsky.htm
This is what the Left is doing!
Examples:
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
I believe Rule 12 is the one Watcher was referring to.
curious_george said: “jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right;”
Sorry dude, but when a judge gets overturned in a case like Frank Ricci’s and then the judge’s whole political party and the MSM comes after Ricci? That’s ok?
The whole MSM goes after Joe the plumber for ASKING OBAMA A QUESTION? And government workers break the law to give up his tax returns and other private information? That’s ok?
That’s corruption of the deepest, blackest kind my friend, and it p1sses me off. You can’t let stuff like that pass.
Sabers. At dawn. Or at noon, if dawn’s too early for their dissipated, pasty little selves. Revival of the Code Duello would have a salutary effect on public discourse in the USA, and here too.
Reading this week’s Macleans’ article about the continuing ascension of China made me think of the damage done to the US and the West by its leftists like Franks, Clinton, Gordon Brown, Strong and now Obama. Weakening the education system with its socialist bent, turning our countries into nanny states and financial messes, destroying our economic strength and opening the door to our demise and freedom. Our professional elitist political class has done this and we as citizens through apathy and indifference have allowed this to happen.
I had a discussion last night with one of my son’s friends who is the last years of her PHD in History. I was stunned to listen to her views on how “government” was the answer to all our problems. Of course the irony of being downwind from the Toronto CUPE strikers and our obscene garbage dumps didn’t seem to faze her.
jeezuz people. listen to yourselves. the vitriol, the hostility, the proof that extreme left = extreme right… ~ curious_george at 12:18 AM
Extreme lefties have consistently used vitriol and hostility to push the sociological pendulum to its current extreme position, so your hypocrisy is somewhat curious – george.
Extreme circumstances require extreme measures!
Sabers. At dawn. Or at noon, if dawn’s too early for their dissipated, pasty little selves. ~ The Phantom at July 12, 2009 8:44 AM
Could I hold your coat for you Phantom?
“Of course, you realize this means war.”
-Bugs Bunny
This isn’t a Left/Right thing its an Artificial/Reality thing. When most of the voters out there think that milk comes from the store and not the udder of a cow, or eggs come from a store not the back end of a chicken or bread comes from a store not the dusty field the wheat grew in people will vote with unreal expectations. No longer is money an expression of the results of hard work its now something that government can just cause to exist. Don’t go frothing at the mouth at Owe, Pealosi, Fwank etc. They were ELECTED!!!! Until there is some way we can inject reality into the electorates lives we will continue to have unreal expectations masquerading as politicians.
Make the other side live by their own book or rules. Also known as the double standard.
Instructive reading for Mr Harper who is also faced with we’re right so the end justifies the means campaign. Witness Wafergate.
The left in Canada, however, has the same problem as their American compatriots (except they’re out of power, without access to the treasury, that is). The people, such as they are with less than 60% voter turnout, are wary of tax and spend policies and politicians (except in a recession of course).
Steven Harper still represents the best bet for enough Canadians to keep him in minority power. Coming soon, though, the right again eats their own, as Harper is outsted by Ontario (who doesn’t really like him anyway) for failing to achieve majority government.
Pure laine conservative should be careful what they wish for. Oh well, he’s too liberal anyway. Ignatieff is a way better liberal, eh?
No need glasnost. None of the pusillanimous little pencil necks would show up even to test the steel of the 50+ year old, short-winded, out of shape Phantom. We’ll share coffee and reflect on the lack of guts in the younger generation of Lefties.
Just the fact of being called out to put up or shut up might have a salutary effect. Much less gratuitous B.S. if they have to admit their abject cowardice in public.
I’d love to see gasbag Bawny Fwank deflated like that, I really would. I’d be -awesome-.
Canadian Sentenal: thanks for your list of “rules”. In an earlier post I asked if another area of the radical agenda could be organized (anti corporate activism). I have heard hints of some of these rules from starry-eyed lefties who sought to get me on board.
This is a type of terrorism. It’s known as Political Terrorism.
http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/1996/1996_10_Politics_Reason.html
Canadian Sentinel at July 12, 2009 8:28 AM
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Well put. The whole post.
chicanery at that level of the justice branch is disappointing to the bone; unfortunately, it is not the first time in history humans have seen this kind of behaviour. never a dull moment.
the good news is that on the eve of the nomination – her goofy stance and left wing tactics are plain to see.
May I suggest a way for conservatives to beat the members of the leftist kook-a-brain trust that beat Palin into submission? Get more Sarah Palins involved in politics. Many more to spread the hate thin – there’s only so many soundbites that can be broadcast in a day.
There’s nothing the left is afraid of more than empowered politically ambitious family loving women. It is the destruction of the family unit that is the ultimate goal. Once that’s gone, big bro. can come out of the shadows.
The smug left media has always given the left wing a free ride … shame, one day (sadly, years from now) they are going to wake up and know that they were complicit in the destruction of the west. I’m pretty sure they’d rather us all wake up in Burka’s than admit they are giving away the keys to the kingdom.
“RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Now they are going after Cheney. They have to, since Obama’s numbers are going down, and Cheney’s are going up. They will do it as surely as day follows night. Once somebody’s playbook is known, though, it can be countered. The “west coast offense” used to be feared, now Mark Tressman is coaching in the CFL.