17-10-2008, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by AntRobertson  Quote:
Originally Posted by attaboy You'll have to elaborate. I didn't ignore the previous posts. I said Rove is an example of Republicans catching on and catching up. People on the right are reading books about leftist political strategy by guys like Saul Alinsky. People are beginning to understand how the leftists are playing the game. What's the matter with Democrats? They are getting a dose of their own medicine.
Mayor Daley of Chicago helped to get Jack Kennedy elected president via voter fraud. That's a fact in the history books. It's got to be on a grand scale and obvious to all for a stain like that to be acknowledged. I mean who wants it on their city's public record of achievements? | A Republican President has been in office for the last 8yrs, during which time elections were 'won' by any number of dubious and outright nefarious tactics. During this entire period the Democrats have bemoaned their inability or unwillingness to adopt or adapt to such tactics - Kerry's defeat in '04 has in a large part been laid at the feet of his failure to respond soon enough to the 'Swfit Boat' attacks; what does that tell you when a concerted campaign of lies and distortions is the defining measure in an election?
To suggest that Republicans are somehow only now catching onto Democrat tactics is taking quite some liberty and a rewriting and revisionism of recent history. And that, in a nutshell, was my original point; the seemingly innate ability of Republicans to conveniently 'forget' or ignore. One example of this is the current gnashing of teeth or voter fraud in the upcoming election. To this point it's not bothered them much has it. | Broad general statements and sneaky qualifers, Ant. Have you ever heard of "borking"? It predates swiftboating by 20 years. Quote: |
Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically. . . . This little creep, where did he come from?"[3] Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation fights in Supreme Court history.
| A sample of Senator Ted Kennedy borking Bork at the Senate confirmation hearings: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution."
Yep, Kennedy calls Bork a racist, a savage and a cretin during confirmation hearings. Another Senator (I couldn't find his quote) said Bork was "creepy" when referring to Bork's looks. Bork is not the most handsome of men. He has been compared to Jabba the Hutt.
I don't know of any books by rightist political strategists with titles like Rules for Radicals or Reveille for Radicals. There is The Prince.
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