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Some members of Congress say that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen should
Exactly , there are a million ads that can be made if we had an opposition party , how about DHS Director Jeh Johnson when asked about Kate Steinle replying ‘Who?’
That, too.
That seems acceptably dirty to me. :)
How can we tie in the complicit media, too?
When we were little, sometimes our Dad would amuse us by chasing us around the house. One memorable evening he caught my sister, and as we all giggled hysterically, he held her over the garbage disposal and turned it on.
“Whaddya say, Andy?” he asked my brother, “Should I put her in head first or feet first?”
Andy, suddenly silent and solemn, finally replied, “Put her down feet first. So she can wave goodbye.”
DIY it. Don’t wait for the consultants to make ads for it. We will all be in the ground before that sort of thing happens.
Because Planned Parenthood is profiting off of the dismembered corpses of babies and should be de-funded immediately.
Double-post.
The scary thing is that so many Democrats applaud the idea of using the IRS and other federal agencies to attack their political opponents. I wonder if their reactions to ads highlighting this practice – now common under the Obama administration – would help drive centrist voters toward the GOP even more than the ads themselves.
IIRC large numbers of black babies are among the abortion statistics. If Planned Parenthood is involved in that, how do they square that with ‘black lives matter’?
Sounds like it would be decisive and JEB would not approve of that.
PP…”Black Abortion$ Matter”
Some terms, for proper labeling:
The Baby-grinding industry
Liver-peddlers
Kidney pushers
Tax thugs
Revenue spies
I’m honored. :-)
Which is exactly the reason we won’t out left the left. They’ll say “this man is stomping his boot on the faces of gay people!” or “this man shot a majestic lion!” or “binders full of women! BINDERS!”
Our version is “this man may or may not have perjured himself!”
P.S.: Binders full of women is playing in the shallow end of the pool to boot
I’m sorry I didn’t mean to be overly sarcastic or critical in tone.
It is true however that you’ll need to make things personal and emotional. Then you’ll have to find the point where any further action is morally repugnant and then go way further.
The problem conservative “radicals” have is the same problem republican establishment types have. “Well at the end of the day we still have to work with these people so lets find a compromise where everyone can be happy.” Radicals just don’t think that way.
I have no suggestions because it’s probably not CoC compliant.
Because this party, the GOP, is led by a bunch of DC Establishment pansies who pee down their leg at the sight of their own shadow, that’s why. The fact that we lose to these people is beyond me. They are vile, petty, and down right stupid and yet we can’t manage to muster enough courage to attack them with the same determination that they demonstrate toward us.
I don’t want to work with these people. I want to hear these people howl in anguish as they see the greatness of the United States unleashed upon the globe due to a restoration of our Constitutional Republic. I want them defeated, shattered, and ready to throw themselves out of windows.
No we need to ensure that the American People start viewing the Democrat Party as the Party of baby killing, Mullah loving, pederasts.
Well if we wanted to go full Alinsky then one of his rules is to attack the person not the institution.
A strange philosophy for one who hopes to persuade people in a representative democracy.
You aren’t going to persuade them. Look it, if you can’t get the Dems to, at the very least express some level of shock about the Planned Parenthood butchery, what makes you think you are going to be able to persuade them on something like entitlement reform or environmental issues? You are going to have to defeat these people, period.
Yes, that is exactly what we need to do. Look, it’s pretty obvious that the way we have been going about it is not working. Now it’s time to take the gloves off. It’s time to make them feel the burn of their own tactics.
Reagan managed it.
So the problem with Alynski is not his tactics but rather his aims? So Obama should be applauded when he uses alynskite tactics because it is the most effective means to achieve his aims?
Yeah and he did so by attacking the Left, not mimicking them. If you think that Reagan ran around talking about how he wasn’t an “angry” conservative or how he was a “compassionate” conservative, they you are fooling yourself.
Doesn’t sound like he is being cuddly to the Left here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbroTjVm8Bw
No, jeez don’t be so obtuse. What Rules of Conservative Radicals calls for is that we start fighting fire with fire. They use tactics that depends on lies and slander amplified by a complicit media. What is more true, that the GOP is a bunch of racists or that the Democrat Party supports baby butchers? That the GOP is actively hostile to homosexuals or that the Democrat Party is actively hostile to religious expression in the public sphere? We need to start using the weaponry of rhetoric in the same way that they have employed it against us, and, as an added bonus, our rhetoric will be true while theirs is false.
I guess he swayed the Reagan Democrats by telling them how stupid and destructive they were.
You said to make them feel the burn of their own tactics. In a post named after a book by Saul Alynski. Don’t lambaste me for taking the plain meaning of your works. Write better.
Also – please stop needlessly insulting me. It’s petty and in no way furthers productive discussion.
Good point. how ’bout we defund them and make them the face of the Democratic Party?