Posted on 03/04/2009 8:18:53 AM PST by andrew roman
If tugging on Superman’s cape and spitting into the wind are no-nos, then messing around with Rush Limbaugh – while donning the apocryphal moniker of conservative - is sheer blockheadedness. Time and time again, counterfeit conservatism is reconstituted in the columns and commentaries of convoluted right-leaning hyper-intellectuals - David Brooks, Ross Douthat and Chris Buckley come to mind - while attempting to reinvent the movement in order to set themselves apart from the pack.
All the while, conservatives such as me are derided and repudiated as being too narrow-minded, out-of-touch and parochial.
Reconstructing conservatism into a more media-friendly animal, i.e. making it palatable to the Left, while infusing it with an Upper West Side sensibility, complete with nuance and compromised core values, is the goal of these new rightists - and be damned those still clinging to the dinosaur that is musty old one-dimensional Reagan conservatism.
And if the transformation (or rebirth) can be accomplished by going after the most well-known conservative of them all, Rush Limbaugh, it's bound to garner some extra invites to the best social functions on the East Coast.
Granted, Rush Limbaugh needs no one – least of all me, an unknown, small-potatoes blogger fortunate to scratch out a few hundred hits a day – to defend him or come to his rescue. If there is anyone in the Land of Conservatism who has weathered more storms and has withstood more personal attacks from the outraged cackling masses on the left (and now, some on the right), it is he. Indeed, if anyone can stand up for himself, it is El Rushbo.
Rather, I'd like to take a moment and comment on a much talked about column published on Monday by faux conservative, David Frum.
(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...
Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush!
"FRUM HERE TO NOWHERE - GOING AFTER LIMBAUGH"
"David Frum"
Every conservative needs to be familiar with Alinsky’s rules for radicals. It is Obama’s playbook:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html
Note especially 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.
Obama is using this rule when he is going after Rush Limbaugh and Jim Cramer.
Good article Roman! I did not bother to read Frum’s Rush piece, so thanks for the update. Frum is a Faux Con....I think he has a mangina.
Anyone who ever tried to mess over Rush always ended up with a poopbomb going off as if supernaturally in their hands. Clinton was always SO funny whenever he attacked Rush. It was as if the Lord were taking care of Rush when he wasn’t looking; sort of like the Road Runner and Wiley Coyote. Rush just kept minding his own business and toodling along, doing his own thing, while Clinton just kept attacking him and stepping in deeper and deeper, blathering on, finally having to backtrack and ending up looking like old Ned in the First Reader.
0bama’s intimidation tactics have just begun. Wait until his Civilian Defense Force shows up at your door and demands to know if you have any right-wing literature or why you may have spoken out against “The One”.
Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."
Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (LatterRain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
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A Landslide Mandate For Change
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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